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Wliat to Wear if You
Wish to be in Style
Gossip of the, Seasonable Modes by One Who Knows
What They Are.
VEKYIJODY, by that I
"l mean everybody whostud
yftr)Ttf 'es tne mode from a per
vEJzif sonaj standpoint, must ap-
fc'faffi prove the tailor costume
of the present moment.
pre
lie greatest feature of the summer
( :ilor gowns that attracts instant no
t';e is the lack of the revers that
have so long been a part of -every
modish tailor costume. Now they
are gone, and it is rather with a sigh
of relief that we part with them. It
in just possible that the revived ad
miration for the gently sloping
shoulders of the early Victorian era.
when our tailor modes came to us by
vay of London, a fact that is still
true of tailor modes, has Komethinp
to do with the discarding of the
revers. ,
The newer tailor gowns have
charming little closed front bloused
coats that may be treated either as
a blouse or a coat, according to the
needs of the moment. In this lies a
thrifty advantage that will not be
overlooked by the women who devise
ways of economy. Such a costume
may be worn in the cooler days as a
blouse, while on daj's when Old Sol is
pouring down upon our heads and
sending the mercury clear to the top
of the tube it may be worn with ;.
little lace chemisette front. An
other advantage in the lack of rev
ers. The newer form may, after it
hasbeen discarded as a street dress,
serve quite well as a tailory morn
ing frock for home wear by the adap
tion of the idea of the chemisette
front.
Linens are, of course, among the
favorite materials for summer, and
A COAT AND SKIRT OF LINEN.
some unusually attractive and novel
effects are being produced in it. 1
show one -gown of linen, composed of
a coat and skirt that I am sure might
be well adapted to the needs of many
who are looking for something that
is not too expensive but decidedly
modish.
Another of the illustrations is a
widow's gown fashioned in crape. It
is trimmed with black chiffon em
broideries. The sleeves are of black
chiffon, in double fold, and therefore
not "transparent." The chiffon em
broideries in this gown are but an
other expression of the passion for
manipulation, of material, and our
modistes are getting unusually clever
in the magic maneuverings of chif
fons, or silks, or even velvets into the
semblance of flowers and leaves and
tassel-like appendages.
The other illustration is of a gown
that will serve many practical pur
poses. It is of a light-weight wool
and silk material, though it could be
of canvas or voile quite as well, and
is banded with strips .of plain-face
cloth, and trimmed further with mo
tifs of the same on collar and cuffs.
The hat in the same picture is one of
the fashionable flat shapes of the
summer, and is trimmed with lace
and cherries.
- Crepe de chine is one "of the most
fashionable materials for summer
dresses for smart occasions. Any
quantity of lace may be overlaid or
Inserted, or motifs of the same dain
ty adornment placed at " intervals
are fashionable. Voile, transparent
enough to show the glimmer of a silk
en lining, is another great favorite.
There is a certain dark blue voile," of
t metallic tint, which is worn over
?reen glace with excellent effect. A
delicate pale "yellow voile was laid
, over a brighter yellow glace; the
Dodice was pouched in front, opening
aarrowly over a center vest of plait
ed cream chiffon. The rest of the
Dodice was laid in tucks, divided by
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lines of silk braid in the palest corn
color; and the skirt was -decorated
with tucks and lines of braid" that
continued on, to all appearance, from
those on the corsage. The fact that
there was a junction was concealed
A MODISH MOURNING GOWN IN CREPE.
by a deep belt- of glace stitched many
times, and a postilion basque was
also constructed of the glace, stitch
ed, tucked and striped with braid. A
yoke collar of guipure lace harmon
ized with a strip of similar lace as a
heading to the shaped flounce that
footed the skirt.
Foulard is again worn a good deal,
the satin-faced variety monopolizing
favor. Embroidered lawn is a good
trimming for foulard, but here as
elsewhere lace comes first.
More airy fabrics are used under
various fanciful names. One is be
dight satin crepe de chine, another
crepe mousseline. Many of the finest
silks and satins, too, are used simply
as under-dresses for veiling with net,
silk, muslin or lace. True it is that
this veiling is so diaphanous usually
only one thickness of a very delicate
covering that the lovely material be
neath is no more hidden thereby than
is the cheek of beauty by her light
film of tulle when she walks in the
park. In each case it is not conceal
ment, but enhancement, that is ob
tained. Lace is less used now for the
complete covering of the silk or sat
in gowns than net of the very finest
kind. The best net employed is
called "filet dentelle" that is to say,
GOWN OF FANCY WOOL AND SILK
MIXTURE.
the net groundwork on which lace
motifs might be applique. On this,
for a fine toilette, there is placed em
broidery work in silk, or chiffon and
ribbon applique, or pearls and se
quins are lightly scattered about.
Heavy Gambling.
"I wonder' if Ii"iss Honieleigh was
ever kissed."
"Yes, once. The man was paying an
election bet X. YEvening World.
ARE HAED DRINKERS
Many Congressmen Indulge
Freely in Wet Goods.
Too
Total Abstainers Are Few and Far
Between Interesting Talk with
an Old Washington Hotel
Cleric.
Special Washington Letter.
THAT man is one of our most
valuable guests, although
he only pays $40 per
month, said a hotel clerk, pointing
to one of the older members of the
house of representatives. Continu
ing he said:
"The proprietor was very angry
with me when I told him the low rate
I had made and insisted that I should
change it to $75 per month. I told
him that I knew my business as a
room clerk better than he did. That
man spends upwards of $100 each
month at our bar, buying drinks for
himself and for his friends.
"He is a strange sort of man, and I
knew exactly how to take him when,
he came asking for rates last Novem
ber. I had entertained him at an
other hotel. He is stingy about his
room and board, and stingy about his
clothing, always having a cheap tailor
or buying ready-made clothes but he
is a spendthrift when it comes to
gratifying his appetite for whisky.
Moreover, he wants jolly drinking
fellows around him, and he treats the
crowds, no matter how big they may
be." Then, swelling himself with
pride and conceit, the clerk said:
"There are very few hotel clerks
who have the sense to think of the
bar room and billiard room in mak
ing rates for their guests. I'd rather
take in a drinking man at a low
rate, than a temperance man at h
high rate. There is more profit in
liquor than in food and hence it's
better for the house to have guests
of that sort. The boss realizes that
now, and he lets me make rates to
suit myself for the guests, because I
know all of the congressmen, and
nearly all other public men, and I
know their appetites."
The member of congress who has
the distinction of being pointed out
as a statesman who spends money
enough for whisky every month to
support a small family in luxury has
been sent to the national house of
representatives again and again by
his constitutuents, until he is now
regarded as one of the foremost men
of his party, and his whisky-soaked
brain has had much to do with the
legislation of this republic.
The speaker of the house of repre
sentatives wields more power, in
some respects, than any other man
in our republic. And yet the writer
has seldom seen that power con
ferred upon any man whose brain is
entirely and absolutely free from al
coholic contamination. The growth
of the temperance spirit in our land
will continue until public setatiment
will make ineligible to high office any
man whose thinking machinery is
made abnormal by alcohol.
For a little more than a quarter of
& century the writer has watched na
tional legislation, and in al! of that
time there has been but one chair
man of the committee on vvaj's and
means who was absolutely free from
"SIZED UP" BY THE CLERK.
Alcoholic influence, and that was Nel
son Dingley, of Maine. And yet the
chairman of that committee is the
man upon whom primarily depends
ill legislation concerning the raising
of revenue for the expenses of our
great and growing government.
Speaking out of experience, and out
of the recollections of those who have
been here for half a century, it may
be added that Nelson Dingley was
the only absolutely non-alcoholic
chairman during half, of the years of
the existence of our government.
Of course it would not be right for
the reader to infer that all the other
chairmen were drunkards. On the
contrary, only one of them w-.s given
to excessive use of liquor. BiY. all of
the others used liquor to sorxe de
gree. One of them, a man ir- whom
the people had great confidence and
for whom they developed gre4 affec
tion, never took anything stronger
than wine, and very little f that.
So, .while, it 'would not be right lor
rie to infer that they were all druuk
trds or extremists, it is true that all
of them have at times been some
what influenced by at least a trace
of alcohol.
There are causes for all effects,
here is a reason for the use of whis
ky by statesmen, although there is
no necessity for it. One of the
causes of this condition rests with
the people. They send to congress
the same men too many times. After
four or five years of public service
the representatives begin to thin?
that they have life mortgages on
their positions. They first become in
different, and then independent.
After awhile they form groups of
favored sons. They pat each other
HAVING A HIGH OLD TIME.
on v the back, and walk to the bar to
gether. The man from Massachusetts
meets the man from California, and
they regard each other as special
favorites and great men of their sec
tions. Mutual admiration societies
are formed. Then they join or es
tablish clubs. Thus' they have meet
ing places for all-night drinking
bouts, playing cards for. money like
professional gamblers, and repeating
the performances Sundays, when all
other places are closed by law.
Now that it is time for the people
to choose their candidates for con
gress it might be well for them to in
quire concerning the moral lives of
their representatives. Good and up
right men ought to be kept in con
gress as long as they live, because
the longer they remain the more
capable they become. But the great
and good men are very few. The im
moral are many. They should be
weeded out. ,
Taste of power increases appetite
for position. Members of the house
of representatives all aspire to the
senate. Therein the people make
many mistakes, by sending represent
atives to the senate after they have
been sent to Washington long enough
to contract luxurious habits, as well as
acquaintance with the leading lobby
ists for trusts and corporations. Ro
tation in office is a good thing. Men
who hold office long become shameful
ly indifferent to the rights of their
people.
The personnel of the senate should
be changed oftener. One term of six
years is enough for an ordinary states
man. They who are elected for two
successive terms, making a total of 12
years, are too far removed from the
plain people. Of course, it may be said
of them, as it has been said of the
representatives, the exceptionally able
and good men ought to be kept in po
sition as long as they live, but the
people, should be very sure that their
public servants are wholly worthy be
fore bestowing upon them such hon
ors. Vhat is said of the house of rep
resentatives may also be said of the
senate. There is not a member of
that body who is reputed to be a total
abstainer. Nor is there 'a member
there who has the reputation of being
a lost victim of the demon of the still.
So far as temperance is concerned the
senate has greatly improved during
the past 20 years.
The hotels here are run duringthe
sessions of the congress for the pur
pose of making as much money as pos
sible, just as seaside and mountain re
sorts are managed during the summer
season, and high prices are charged
exorbitant prices. But the better
the spender at the bar, the better the
prices for room and board.
The man who was pointed out as one
who spends upwards of $100 per month
at the bar is. not lonely. There are
others. Every hotel has its coterie of
liberal statesmen who drink or buy
that amount every month. To give
their names would shock the communi
ties at their homes, where they lead
exemplary lives. Bat it must be re
membered that, as the whole country
improves, the representatives of the
people improve. We are going for
ward instead of backward, after all.
SMITH D. FRY.
Of Course It Was.
. Yeast I was in a book store this
morning, and ,saw a copy of a book
called "A Girl's Birthday," just pub
lished. ; - ; "
: Crimsonbeak I suppose it was
marked down? Yonkers Statesman.
Jim Casey's Fourth
The Most Glorious Day in a.
Mountain . Boy's Life.
jlM CASEY had come down from his
mountain home to attend the school
in the village of Clayton, which rest
ed in a lovely valley in West Vir
ginia. . ,- .. .. .
The boys had been talking for weeks
about the approaching Fourth, and the
royal fun they expected to Lave, and the
hpart of .Tim 1 pa rifr? pynpfa n tli- TTo n-a
a tall, awkward lad of 17, whose ' ig
norance of the ways of the village
and general lack of knowledge made
him a butt of . ridicule by his fel
lows, but he was so good natured that this
did not concern him much, as the boys
really liked him, and their practical jokes
were of a harmless kind.
As a special mark of honor and favor,
he wa assigned to the duty of ringirg the
bell of the Baptist church, beginning at the
midnight hour. -
His companions did not think it ni cessarr
to inform him that the sexton, a crusty old
fellow, had refused to permit the bell to
be rung, and that he had promised a thrash
ing to anj one who should ring it.
Following instructions, Jim forced a side
door, and was pulling the bell rope mer
rily, and the loud peals sounded out above
those of the other bells, when he was
seized py the irate guardian of the church,
who cuffed his ears until he heard half a
hundred bells ringing anything but merry
tunes.
He was a brave lad, though, and said not
a word of his punishment as he jcvied the
other boys and followed them about the
dark streets, the silence of which they broke
repeatedly by explosions from the old-fashioned
horse pistols which they carried, and
his joy was nearly complete when one of
his companions permitted him to shoot one,
after it had received six or seven charges of
powder. That the pistol at its discharge
flew backward, narrowly missing the head
of a playmate, and left his fingers in a
sadly benumbed condition for hours after
ward, was reckoned by him as one of the to-be-expected
events of the day, and his laugh
over the niisliap was as hearty as that of
any of his fellows.
There was a procession of "ragamuffins"
Cast It Into a Nearbg Well.
in the afternoon, and the tireless feet of
Jim tramped close behind them all along
the long march. The merry fellows were
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mourned, ana wnen me norses galloped.
Jim ran. They could not get beyond his
close line of vftion.
His joy was complete, when, later on in
the afternoon, the. boys designated him as
i committee of one to gather up all of the
stray barrels and boxes of the village for
the evening's bonfire on the village green.
He had no money to invest in fire-crackers
or other fireworks, but he was privileged to
see the display, and it was his proud dis
tinction to start the fire in the evening
and keep it supplied with fuel.
With glad and bright eyes he watched
the sizzling and popping of the crackers, the
loud hissing and bursting of the rockets, and
chased wildly about after the "devil
dancers."
Merriment was at its height, when cries
of fire were heard. There was but one fire
engine in the village, and this was pumped
by hand. There were no waterworks, and
dependence had to be had upon the wells.
All of the houses were of wood, and a
strong wind prevailing, there was imminent
danger that the entire village would be.
consumed. It was decided that in order to
stay the progress of the flames it would be
accessary to blow up with gunpowder the
church, from which Jim had been forcibly
sxpelled that morning.
The head was removed from a keg of the
explosive, and the same was placed beneath
the doomed edifice.
But a litle later the wind shifted, and it
was no longer thought necessary to destroy
the church. There, however, was the pow
der, likely to explode at any moment from
dying sparks, of which the air was full. Vol
unteers were eagerly called for to remove
the menacing powder, but there was no re
tponse. Presently the matter was brought to the
ittention of Jim, who, without a moment's
hesitation, rushed into the condemned
building, seized the filled keg and ran with it
to a near-by well, into which be cast it, and
the danger was passed. In the short jour
ney he made the air was literally filled with
lying sparks, and it seemed little short
f a miracle-that some one of them did not
reach the exposed powder as he bore it
ftlODg.
Jim was at a loss to understand why ht
should have been made a hero of, or that tbe
aext day the grateful people should have
presented him with a brand-new suit of.
clothes aad a nice little purse of money.' To
him his daring act was but an incident ia
the many of the dar, which he decided ia
Li owa mind to be the greatest and most
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