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FASHIONS
The cloths largely used for fashion
able cloaks are Lyons velvets, satin
matelasses, silk seal plush in four dif
ferent grades, each forty-eight inches
■wide, and Velours dv Nord in six dif
ferent qualities, thirty-two inches
wide.
* * *
Almost without exception, all stylish
evening toilets have trains of various
lengths, appropriate for various tex
tiles, figures and occasions, and in dif
ferent shapes for individual wearers.
There are gored models and others cir
cular in shape, or finished with cir
cular ruffles, skirts frilled about the
hem, flounced to the waist, plaited,
ruched, draped, tabliered, rounded on
the fronts, finished with inserted fan
plaitings of corded or plain or fancy
silk, or cut in squares or sharp points
at the bottom, with a plaited ruffle set
beneath. Trimmings of various kinds
are put on to simulate overskirts both
long and short, and narrow fur, chen
ille bands, and silk cord resembling
braidwork, also silk and velvet-leaf
points and ribbonwork, are used con
stantly by leading tailors and modistes.
* * *
The style still prevails of using black
with color, as, for example, a princesse
dress oft Russian green or plum color,
with trimmings of black fur and pas
sementerie ornaments en applique;
while in contrast to these are costumes
of fine black French broadcloth lined
throughout with red silk, the open
front of the bodice showing a slightly
drooping vest of satin-barred red and
black matelasse.
* * *
"White satin vests, embroidered in
petunia or soft pink or green shadings,
are worn with costumes of royal or
silver-blue Venetian cloth.
* * *
Among the new autumn and winter
fabrics there are a few weaves sub
stantial enough in texture, to afford
sufficient body to the skirt without the
aid of a lining. S"uch skirts have mere
ly a deep outside hem or inner facing,
and are worn over a separate founda
tion skirt that usually matches the
gown. The independent foundation,
which is not meant to take the place
of a petticoat, is made, for walking
skirts, a trifle shorter than the skirt
itself. The majority of skirts, how
ever, are still lined throughout. The
skirts of utility, costumes of substan- j
tial woolens, such as tweed, cloth, |
cheviot, etc., are all made close-fitting
about the top, with a gradual outward
curve on the lower half. When the
basque-bodice is of the same material
as the skirt, and is more or less elab
orately trimmed about the top, it does
not differ from those worn last spring
so as to attract special attention; but
in costumes of cloth, when the basque
is, for example, of dark or black velvet,
they resemble somewhat the "Spen
cers" of other days, from which they
differ merely in the length of skirt.
They are frequently cut in a long, very
deep point, just at the back, and ef
fectively lined with satin or brocade.
The Mary Stuart basque has, in addi
tion, a pointed or heart-shaped yoke
or guimpe of the satin or brocade, with
a satin-lined velvet puff on the shoul
ders. The Louis XIII. Basque-bodice
is also short, and has deeply pointed
skirts front and back. Neither of these
styles is an accurate reproduction of
its historical prototype.
* * •
The new weaves in blue and green
English serge are considered very
stylish for traveling costumes, which,
as a rule, are made with a seven-gored
or five-piece skirt gracefully widening
from the knees down, with 'a very
slight dip at the back; the open jacket
with fronts curving back toward the
hips, and finished with a rounded turn
down, collar and short pointed revers.
* * *
A dainty French plastron is formed
of a double ruffle of mousseline de soie
accordion-pleated, edged with lace. It
begins in a knot of the mousseline at
the throat, and forms t>wo jabots to the
waist line. The collar attached is of
shirred mousseline over satin ribboni,
with a standing and falling in-and-out
frill of the lace, caught in front with
a lace-pin of small French brilliants.
* * *
Get peau de soie for your daughter's
evening dress, and finish the bodice
with little lace-edged ejbow-sleeves,
shirred into little crisp frills up the
outside of the arm. Make over the
gray corded silk with satin ruches by
way of trimming. Line with rose-color.
Use the rose-colored silk skirt for its
lining. Get mousseline de soie or net,
and have the entire trained green silk
evening gown draped with it. As for
the bodice, merely rip the shoulder
seams, add the net or mousseline ends
of the drapery, ahd stitch together
again. Rip the back of the collar-band
and add the drapery in like manner,
and seam up as before.
* * *
One of the very prettiest and most
becomLng of the shorter coats for rath
er fulL figures is made with a closely
{fitted back which is belted. At each
side, just above the hips, the basque
part curves up to the waist, leaving
the fronts free. The upper part over
the bust turns back in graceful-shaped
revers that are notched at the shoulder
seams, leaving a rather broad turn
down collar at the back. A glimpse of
the belt shows just in front where it
holds the soft folds of a plaited vest
striped perpendicularly with narrow
bxaid or velvet ribbon. One of the
jackets imported is made of hussar
bdue double-fared cloth, the reverse
side being artillery-red, which is util
ized for the revers, collar and cuffs.
The white cloth vest is crossed with
very narrow r alternate lines of black
and gold braid.
* * *
Suede-finished, lightweight cashmere
or self-lined taffeta gloves with heavy
silk points are in steady demand just
now. Kid gloves of a reddish Venetian
brown stitched with black or darker
brown, are worn with fashionable
promenade costumes. Parisian women
still give preference to Swedish kid
gloves for most dress occasions, and
almond biscuit and an odd shade much
like deep old-rose, are much favored.
For autumn riding, driving and cycling
buckskin and dogskin gauntlet gloves
are sold in very large quantities, and
for general wear deep shades of ma
hogany, garnet, beetroot red, nasturti
um, golden tan, green and brown. For
evening gloves are tints of rose-heart.
Alderney-cream, cameo, pinkish
mauve, willow-green. sea-gre?n, opal
gray, pink-pearl tints, goldenrod-yel
low, fawn and paler doe colors.
* * *
Capes for cold weather wear are
either in shawipoint or seamless cir
cular shape, and nearly every model is
of three-quarter length. The Princesse
Victoria is the latest design for more
youthful wearers. This has long,
slightly rounded points both front and
back, and is very short on the sides
showing the arms from above the el
bows. It is made of black or rieh
hued velvets, satin matelasse or Vene
tian cloth, braided and edged with a
single medium-wide band of fur.
* * *
Popular fur trimmings are of sable,
mink, or marten tails hanging like
deep fringe from yokes or square
sailor-shaped collars of Lyons velvet
overlaid with silk cord and bead ap
pliques. Other furs of short fleece
seal, otter, plucked beaver, etc.. are
arranged in bands applied in scroll
like curves on black and colored velvet
and cloth costumes. Short, quaint lit
tle French jackets of these furs, also
of' Persian lamb, astrakhan and chin
chilla, are brought out in many of the
shapes popular in cloth, satin or velvet.
CARDINAL SVAMPA.
The Probable Successor to the
Papal Dignities.
While the best wishes of many in
and out of the Catholic Church would
grant long service in the papal chair to
Leo XIII., it must be admitted that he
has not a great time yet to serve, and
it is but natural thait those most inter
ested should be casting about for the
most probable successor.
Cardinal Svampa, Archbishop of Bo
logna, is the person who, in the popu
lar opinion in Italy, will be the suc
cessor to the papal dignities, and it is
said that Pope Leo himself regards him
as the probable man. He has more
than once voiced the sentiment that it
would be Svampa who would succeed
him. St. Malachy, the Irish prelate, in
the twelfth century, made predictions
of those who would succeed to the
chair of Peter. These predictions have
many of them come out accurately. In
these predictions he said a successor
would be called ignis ardens. a burn
ing fire, which is the meaning of the
Italian word Svampa.
Gambling Among English Women.
Of course, for years, it has been a
recognized fact that a certain section
of London well-to-do society folk spend
day after day at each other's houses,
"having a little flutter." beginning with
carefully drawn-down blinds at about
4 in the afternoon, and going on till
midnight. When one pauses to think
on what these women ought to be —and
might be—one is absolutely astounded
at their complete loss, first, of self
respect: second, of the opinion of their
better friends; third, of their self-gov
ernment. The fever often begins in
casual little rounds at a half-penny a
dozen—to develop into the ruin, the
destruction of the victim. It is a uni
versally known thing, that, after win
ning a little, it is very difficult to draw
the line. They do not seem to remem
ber that in winning, they are, especially
on the race-course, taking money from
those who cannot afford to lose —or
who are playing with money that is
not virtually their own. Who has not
seen the horrible flushed faces of the
young girls and women with the con
vulsive twitchings of the facial nerves,
w-hen the horses are flying over the
course at Kempton? And when one
thinks that they are women—those who
have the bringing up of innocent litfle
sons and daughters, one trembles for
their contribution to the men and wom
en of the next generation. They are
THE RECORD-UNION, SACRAMENTO, SUN DAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1898.
throwing away, as worthless, their
great influence for good or evil on the
men in their set, in their sphere; they
are influencing their husbands, broth
ers, cousins, to think that gambling is
the proper thing to do. Talking of
races reminds me that what is done by
the women of the aristocratic classes at
Kempton Park is done sub rosa by their
servants at home.—London Society.
A Remarkable Jewish Woman.
It was seriously proposed in one of
the great Italian papers a short time
ago that a lady should be placed on
the Governor General's council in the
person of Mrs. Solomon Sassoon. This
lady, more fully described in last week's
"Journal," belongs to a weH-known
Jewish firm, the members of which
have not only made their business of
world-wide repute, but have also taken
an active share in the welfare of the
natives at their headquarters in India.
The "London Woman's Signal" says:
"Mrs. Solomon Sassoon is a very re
markable person, and is now the man
aging partner of the business at its
headquarters in Bombay. She is also
the President of various companies, in
which the Sassoons hold the controlling
interest and takes the chair at their
board meetings: in fact, she has in
every respect stepped into the position
of her late husband, who trained her
in commercial life by having her con
stantly with him in his office, and con
sulted her about all matters of impor
tance. At his death in 1894 it was felt
by everybody around her that there
was no person so fit as she to take his
place, and accordingly she stepped intj?
a post of enormous financial impor
tance, and has proved herself perfectly
capable of filling it successfully. She
has never visited Europe, and is a strict
Jewess, following all the ceremonial of
her religion, which her coreligionists in
Europe have so largely abandoned. She
is said to be a lady of dignified pres
ence and an excellent hostess. She
has made a special effort to draw to
gether (he women of different communi
ties In Bombay by her purdah parties."
—Woman's Journal.
HE STOPPED A CARD GAME.
HOW A PIONEER BROUGHT A
POPULIST TO TIME.
An Abraham Lincoln Republican
With a Head Full of Stub
born Facts.
There is an old and well-known hotel
in Sacramento, where pioneers and pol
iticians meet at stated intervals to
while away their evenings over the
green cloth. Sometimes they will sit
for hours, hardly speaking, save in
language that would be purely sym
bolic to the Puritanical. A rap, or a
grunt, or simply, "Pass," will often be
all that breaks the silence for hours.
But there are exceptions to all rules;
and there are times when men's pas
sions and prejudices in politics flame
so high that they depart from their
usual habits. It is so at the Sacra
mento hotel just described—and the
late campaign proved an innovation
that broke up many a game.
One night just before the free men
of California voted down a yellow
journal's candidate for Governor, there
was so much confusion that the oldest
devotee abandoned the game, the deck
was put away, and there was a sort
of free for all political discussion. You
are not to suppose it was a noisy, rat
tle-headed barroom talk (though that
raged everywhere at times), but this
particular talk was among the old men
of the company, the village elders, so
to speak. There was so much human
nature in the discussion that a report
of it may please those who were not
there.
"The poor are getting poorer and the
rich are getting richer," said a cham
pion of fusion, "and there can be no
salvation until the country is under
single tax, and finally pure socialism."
This was the bombshell that set sev
eral old fellows to thinking. One in
particular scratched his head ami
watched the speaker with a burning
eye, until he could hear no longer with
patience, but it was hard for him to
get the fusionist to sand the track and
give anybody else a chance in the dis
cussion.
"Oh, the referendum is the thing for
us!" exclaimed the man who insisted
on monopolizing the conversation.
"What has it ever produced?" asked
the pioneer, when there was a lull in
the talk; but he answered the ques
tion before the Populist had a chance
to interrupt. "Go to Switzerland." he
said, "and you will find a country not
as big as some of our California coun
ties, and what has the referendum
produced? Goat's milk and women fieid
hands. Go there and see."
Then the old card player wound up
the fusionist good and tight on the
wages question, as follows;
"You are as full of wind as a bar
ber's cat." said he, "for wages have
increased 180 per cent, since 1852. and
300 per cent, more people are employed
now than were employed then, thouerh
the population has increased only 70
per cent. More than that, every dollar
now buys more than it did then—nice
of nearly everything that Americans
eat and drink and wear."
"But capitalists don't pay workmen a
fair part of the gains," said the fu
sionist.
"You are dreaming strange dreams."
said the old man. "and your doctrines
have B. C. written all over them. You
are ringing in Coxey's figures on rue,
and the Coxey crowd couldn't tell the
truth if they'd sleep on George Wash
ington's breast for a thousand years.
N< w. the truth is that the competition
of capital with capital has cut down
capital's earnings, so that interest is
lower than in the good old days that
you speak of —which never existed."
"But they ought to pay higher
wages." chirped the fusionist.
"There you go again with your
kindergarten political notions." re
torted th<* old man. "for you don't seem
to understand that w-ages do not de
pend on the caprices of employers.
Wages are a part of the sum left over
after the sale of the product, and unless
there is a large market at a fair mar
gin of profit there is no great gain for
either capital or labor."
The crowd laughed, the pame was
opened again, and the fusionist walked
away, saying to himself. "Who in
thunder was that old guy. I wonder?"
It was an Abraham Lincoln Repub
lican who has a home up in the hills.
He has a mania for and the
census of the United States is his Bi
ble. For twenty years he has studied
every report of the United States La
bor Commissioner, every Coneressional
report or trad o relations and wae;es —
and he might do well if he would start
a training school for stump speaksrw.
Over his desk at home are the follow
in? voiAii
rTRE **OR SOfTALTPM.
Give every a house
and lot.
Try McMcrry's 45c tea. 531 M. •
IN RELIGION'S REALM.
EXPRESSIONS FROM VARIOUS
RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS.
The Religious Thought of the Day
as Expressed in the Sec
tarian Press.
"In our judgment," says the New
Tork "Outlook," "the Episcopal Churcn
has done wisely in adhering to its
canon and recognizing the one cause
for divorce which Christ himself recog
nized. It is true that Bishop Doane
argues at some length that Christ do«?s
not recognize any just ground for di
vorce. It appears to us that the plain
reader of the Gospels Will form a dif
ferent judgment; and we think that the
sccial history of the world justifies the
conviction that the sacramental theory
of marriage promotes rather than pre
vents looseness of morals in the com
munity. There is, indeed, something
horrible in the idea of fastening for life
a woman to a husband who has been
unfaithful to her. or a husband to a
j woman who has been similarly guilty
jof infidelity. It might perhaps be said
j that under such circumstances divorce
| to permissible, but not remarriage; but,
in fact, that argument against remarri
i age is for the most part based upon
the idea that the marriage tie is ab
solutely indissoluble, and divorce is not
to be permitted, at least not recognized,
by the church, for any cause what
ever."
* m "c
"Another admirable negative act."
says the New York "Independent,"
•"was the refusal by the House o?
Bishops to pass the proposed canon on
d'vorce. The present canon has in it
quite too much of that 'forbidding to
marry' which Paul so severely .con
demns. The present canon allows re
marriage to the innocent party in a
divorce for adultery, while the proposed
canon would forbid it equally to both
parties. There is really not one valid
argument that can be brought forward
for such a vicious unscriptural . rule.
We suppose it is founded on a false
conclusion from a false premise which
makes marriage a certain sort of sac
rament. But both premise and conclu
sion are beyond the understanding of
common people. One must have a pe
culiar kind of ecclesiastical training to
comprehend them. Common people
know- that the innocent should not be
punished for the sin of the guilty. And
common people can read their Bible and
they know that divorce was allowed
by our Lord for adultery, and that di
vorce isi not divorce if remarriage is not
allowed. They know further that St.
Paul distinctly declared that in the cast
of desertion the party deserted was n-u
J bound in such a case. Yet further, the
maintenance of the institution of mar
riage belongs to the State as well as to
the church, and the common sense ot"
the world has settled it that the' scrip
tural law is to be interpreted reason
ably."
* * *
"The hopeful element in the present
situation," says the New York "Church
man" (P. E.), "is that the general con
vention realizes the need of further de
bate, the necessity of more thorough
going information. This is exactly the
proper stand to take. It distinctly re
fused to adopt language that made the
vicious elements of the present canon
perfectly plain and obvious. Happily,
the church is saved from a plain,
straightforward permission of remarri
age. The ambiguity of the canon as
it stands now is better, because its am
biguity may and, we trust, will be
changed in the direction that tends to
the social amelioration of the Ameri
can people. The church is fully alive
to the necessity of a fuller, a clearer ex
pression of its views on divorce. But
it refuses, on the one hand, to adopt
without further investigation the course
suggested by our arguments. On the
other hand, it as firmly refuses to ac
cept as its own a new canon that de
finitely places its attitude toward di
vorce on a low level. In other words,
the time is now come for a thorough
going and far-reaching campaign of ed
ucation on the subject of divorce. The
situation thus created cannot be unwel
come here, and the opportunity must
be used and improved unhesitatingly."
* * *
"Replying to John Baptist's 'Art
Thou He that should come?' Christ,
among other evidences of His Messiah
ship, quoted this: 'To the poor the Gos
pel is preached.' In another place we
read, 'And the common people heard
Him gladly.' Is it true to-day in this
Christian land," asks the New York
"Evangelist" (Pres.), "that the Gospel
is preached to the poor, and that the
common people have an opportunity of
hearing the word of God? In answer,
visit almost any of our churches on a
Sunday morning. The pews are occu
pied almost entirely by the wealthy, the
cultured, the fashionable portion of so
ciety. The furnishings are elaborate,
the music artistic, the sermon, some
times plain and practical, but more of
ten metaphysical or oratorical. The
common people, the workingmen and
women, not to speak of the lowly and
degraded, are conspicuous by their ab
sence. One reason why they do not
come is because they could not feel at
home in such surroundings. Nor will
it meet the case to say. as may be said,
that efforts to reach those people were
never so abundant or more successful,
Witness the Salvation Army, the Mis
sion Sunday-school, and evangelistic
work. For all these only accentuate
and emphasize the social and class dis
tinctions that never ought to be found
inside the Church of God. The very
existence of such agencies implies that
there are two kinds of sinners, the rich
sinners and the poor ones; and for each
of these a different Gospel must be
provided."
* * *
"It is the Church of Christ." says the
New Ycrk •Observer" (Pres.). "that
is the stay of truth through the cen
turies, from which, and not from the
i vagaries of individuals, whether unbal
anced as unbelievers or as fanatics, the
most consistent and persistent testi
mony to the essentials of the Gospel is
to be expected. Cheap substitutes for
j organized Christianity will not do. De
j predatory views of the mission and
i worth of the church argue in their au
thors a lack of critical insight and his
toric sense. The church, with all its
human errors, has proved itself to be
in all ages the great conservator of
just views and practices among men.
and it is too late in these days to begin
to rail at it or to treat it with cold neg
lect. Empires may rise and fall, armies
and fleets be mobilized or dispersed.
| markets may change, political issues
vary with the years, and heresies as
sault or abate, but through all muta
tions, and despite all enmities, the
I Church of Christ, which is the Church
lof the living God, remains the pillar
| and stay of truth, the continuous con
i servator of the faith once delivered to
i the saints."
"One of the most difficult studies of
Christian ethics is the use and abuse
of vows," says the "Interior" (Pres.)
of Chicago. "The authors of the
Westminster Confession gave no lit
tle space to the consideration of this
theme, being moved thereto by a knowl
edge of what the church had suffered
through voluntary renunciation, upon
the part of God's people, of that free
dom with which Christ makes men
free. Every form of ecclesiastical
tyranny starts with the introduction of
a vow. Rome could never have become
the mighty resisting power she is ex
cept for the oaths with which her
priests and monks and nuns and acoly
tes are bound up from childhood with
bet interests. The candidate for ord
ers who at the age of 21 fixes his who>
life beyond recall or change of convic
tion by vows of celibacy, poverty and
obedience— renouncing the family,
financial independence, and personal
decision of religious problems —is no
longer a man, but only a thing to an
swer the uses of his owners. The first
feature of popery that a decadent Pro
testantism seeks to re-establish is a
series of 'orders,' 'fraternities,' 'sister
hoods,' 'guilds,' whose value to the ec
clesiastical despot is just in proportion
to their strictness and severity. The
genius of the New Testament hi wholly
opposed to all this; and. except the
sacramental union with Christ and the
indissoluble nature of the marriage
bond, it recognizee no vow for life as
natural to Christian liberty."
RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY.
(At 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., except oth
erwise stated.)
Presbyterian, Westminster —Sixth and
L streets.
Presbyterian—Fourteenth, O and P;
Sunday-school, 12:15.
Methodist (South)— Seventh, J and
X Sunday-school, 9:45.
Methodist (A. M. E.)—Seventh, G and
H.
Methodist—Sixth, X and L streets,
10:45 and 7:45.
Methodist—Central, Eleventh, H and
I; Sunday-school, 12:15.
Methodist—Oak Park; Sunday-school
at 10 a. in. Epworth League, 6:45 p. m.
Scandinavian Methodist — Pythian
Castle, Ninth and L
United Brethren—Fourteenth and X;
Sunday-school, 9:45.
Christian Science—Pommer's Hall,
5(»5 J street; Wednesday evening at
S(>Gy 2 J street.
Baptist, First—Ninth, L and M; Sun
day-school, 12:15.
Baptist, Calvary—l, Twelfth and
Thirteenth; Sunday-school, 9:45.
Baptist, Emmanuel — Twenty-fifth
and N; Sunday-school, 12:15.
Baptist, Oak Park—Cyprus and Thir
ty-third; Sunday-school, 10 a. m.
Baptist, Mount Zion—Sixth and P;
Sunday-school, 12:30.
Christian, First—Sixteenth and L;
Sunday-school. 10.
German Evangelical—Tenth. O and
P; Sunday-school, 10.
Lutheran, English—Sixteenth, J and
X; Sunday-school, 9:45 a. m.
Lutheran. German—Twelfth and K.
Episcopal, St. Paul's—Eighth, I and
J; Sunday-school, 9:45.
Episcopal, St. Andrew's—Twenty
third and X, 7:80; Sunday-school, 3:30
p. m.
Catholic, St. Francis —Twenty-sixth
and K. Sermon in English only at 6,
8 and 10:30. At 9a. m. mass and ser
mon for German Catholics. Sunday
school, 10 a. m.
Catholic, Cathedral—Eleventh, J and
X, 6:30, 8, 10:30 and 7:30.
Congregational—Sixth, I and J.
Latter-Day Saints—Pioneer Hall,
Seventh, between J and X: 11 and 7:45.
Latter-Day Saints. Reorganized—
Twenty-fourth and K.
Adventists —1816 G, services 7 o'clock.
Marguerite Sunday-school (Congrega
tional)— Twenty-third and X streets.
HUMOROUS.
Algernon—Tommy, do you think your
sister would marry me? Tommy—Yes,
she'd marry almost anybody from what
she said to me.—Tif-Bits.
"I should like most," said the dreamy
boarder, "to be a great painter." "The
sculptor cuts a pretty figure some
times," said Peppers.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Ethel —He doesn't seem to take our
engagement a bit seriously. Grace—
Jack always was reckless. But never
mind, dear; he probably will later on.—
Truth.
Lulu —Dobson has been neglecting his
business and losing money ever since
he bought that villa. Penndelf—Yes;
he calls it his suburban handicap.—
Judge.
Hicks—Every dog has his day, my
boy. Dick Hicks—Then why do they
fight? Hicks—l suppose it frequently
happens that two of them have the
same day.—Life.
"What time does the next boat go?"
asked a woman at the ticket office.
"4:05," was the answer. "Well, how
much before five?" insisted the woman.
—Chautauqua Assembly Herald.
He—There seems to be no question
that divides public opinion more than
annexation. Are you in favor of it?
She —It is rather sudden, but if you're
willing, I am.—Boston Courier.
A Real Book Lover.—"What is your
idea of a literary person?" "Well, a
literary person is one who buys books
without asking whether they are to be
had in paper back."— Detroit Free
Press.
"Oh, mamma, don't read any more
about cannibals being wicked for cook
ing the missionaries. Why, my own
dad's as bad as any of them; I heard
him tell you himself that at dinner last
night he toasted all his friends."—Ally
Sloper.
Authority.—Xerxes, king of the Per
sians, and master of a million soldiers,
stood upon the ocean's strand. 'Si
lence!" he commanded in a loud voice.
The bellowing billows paid no atten
tion to him. But the pattern faded out
of the grand vizier's golf stockings,
which goes to show that his majesty
had considerable authority after all.—
Detroft Journal.
Her Portrait.
The night was warm and the porch was
wide
And the soft wind wafted the music's
tune,
And a youth and a maid sat side by side,
'Neath the witching light of the summer
moon.
Said the youth: "There's a maiden I
dearly love.
She's as fair as the daybreak, and pure
as gold,
With a voice as soft as a cooing dove,
And a mouth like a bud with one leaf
unrolled.
The gleam of her eyes makes the starlight
pale.
And she's witty, and clever, well read
and bred."
The maid's cheeks flushed at this glowing
tale,
And—"l love you, too." she said.
—Beatrice Hanseom in Ladies' Home
Journal.
No deep-sea sounding is now consid
ered) trustworthy unless a sample of the
bottom is brought up by the sounding
apparatus, as evidence that the lead
has reached the solid ground.
There are only 3,842 left of the Ainu
of Japan—the true aborigines of that
country. Nearly all of them live on
the northern island of Yezo,
ART AND LITERATURE
The death of Stephane Malarme, the
leader of the symbolistic movement in
modern French literature, recalls to
mind that Whistler's portrait of his
mother was purchased by the Luxem
bourg Gallery largely through Mal
larme's efforts. This purchase was a
i great triumph for American art.
* * *
A writer in the Boston "Transcript"
recalls the interesting circumstances of
Rodin's first exhibit at the Salon. This
was a nude figure in plaster, entitled
"The Age of Brass." The character of
the modeling of this statue was so un
usual and its general effect so lifelike,
that some members of the jury sus
pected that it was not a genuine piece
of modeling, but a reproduction ny
pressing from a mold on the living
model, and, therefore, not entitled to
admission. This suspicion meant that
the figure was a fraud and its author
an impostor. The statue caused con
siderable and varied comment, one of
the jury remarking: "If it is not a cast
from nature, he who made it is strong
er than we are." It was finally ac
cepted under protest, and put in a side
place near the entrance, reserved for
objects of questionable origin and
merit. However, Adrian Gaudez, him
self a sculptor of superior ability, found
it out and brought it to the notice of
his friends, who procured for it a bet
ter position. There it was seen by
Edmund Turquet, an art lover and a
man of independent judgment, who
was also a member of the State Com
mittee on Fine Arts, and one of the
Buying Committee of the Salon. He
tried hard to induce his colleagues to
buy it. To the objections raised on
the score of genuineness he replied:
"There is a Chief of Police whose duty
it is to solve greater mysteries than
this. Call him in and ask him to open
an inquest. It must certainly be easier
to find out the truth about this figure
than to detect counterfeit money." But,
notwithstanding M. Turquet's urgent
appeal, the statue was returned to the
sculptor's studio.
* * *
By the will of Mrs. E. H. Stickney,
the sum of $75,009 has been bequeathed
to the Art Institute of Chicago. It is
to be known as the "Stickney fund,"
and the income is to be used iv the
purchase of pictures and other works
of art, or otherwise for the general
purposes of the institute. The "Fuller- i
ton MemoriaL Hall." erected by Charles j
W. Fullerton in memory of his father, |
is just finished. It is in the shape of j
an amphitheater, seating 500 persons, j
and is situated in the north court of
the building.
* * *
Henri Frantz quotes Lamartine's de
scription of Balzac, which, he says in
the "Magazine of Art," Rodin absorbed,
and he draws attention to the close
connection between it and Rodin's con
ception. The passage runs: "He was
not a tall man, though the radiance
of his expression and the mobility of j
his person did not allow one to con
sider his figure; and that figure moved
as fluently as his thoughts. He was !
stout, heavy, squarely built; his neck, j
his bust, his body, his thighs, all his j
limbs powerfully made. With a great -
deal of Mirabeau's massiveness. he j
was not in the least heavy; there was j
so great a soul that it could carry all |
this lightly, and like a pliant sheath, |
and not as a burden. The weight j
seemed to give him force." Damartine
adds that he often sat with his head j
bent forward, and would throw it back
with heroic pride as he grew r ani
mated in speaking. In reading this!
passage, one remembers that the
sculptor hag represented Balzac in his
favorite attire. The bulky frame is
wrapped in a monk's frock; the arms
are not through the sleeves, but folded
underneath; and the folds of the gar
ment and the structure of the body
areas little emphasized as possible. The
neck is very thick and the head thrown
back in a slightly exaggerated posi
tion.
* * *
Gladstone and Ruskin were always at
opposite poles on nearly every ques
tion, and nothing could be at once fun
nier and more, embarrassing than a
meeting between them. There is said
to have been an absolute contrast at
every point on which conversation
could conceivably turn. At one time
Walter Scott was uppermost. Here, in
deed, it was thought, was common
ground, but Mr. Gladstone unfor
tunately dropped the remark that "Sir
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Walter had made Scotland." On Mr.
Ruskin's inquiry as to the meaning ..f
the phrase, Mr. Gladstone began tell
ing of the amazing contrast between
the means of communication in Scot
land before Sir Walter wrote com
pared with the present day, mention
ing the number of coaches that were
now conveying masses of happy trip
pers up and down the Trossachs. Mr.
Ruskin's face had been deepening with
horror, and at last he could bear it no
longer. "But, my dear sir." he broke
out, "that is not making Scotland; it
is unmaking it!"
* * *
It is stated by the "Pall Mall Ga
zette" that the trustees of the late
William Morris, when depositing at the
British Museum the woodcuts and or
naments belonging to the Kelmscott
Press, retained the three fonts of type,
"and have begun to issue an as-it
were-posthumous series of booklets, of
which the address delivered by Morris,
to the students of the Birmingham
Municipal School of Art, at the prize
giving, February 21, 1894, is the first
production. This is in the well-known
Bvo shape, uniform with "Syr Ysam
brace." "Sire Degrevaunt," etc., and
similar in binding, except for a blue
I linen back in place of the brown hoi
land. It contains no initials or orna
ments. The colophon states that it is
printed at the Chiswick Press, and
published by Messrs. Longmans (at the
price of half a crown). Other lectures
will probably be issued in the same
form, and there is talk of a cheap edi
tion also of Morris' romance, "The
Sundering Flood," an illustrated edi
tion of which is Included among the
productions of the Kelmscott Press.
* * *
Professor Max Muller is preparing
two volumes for publication, one being
entitled "Indian Philosophy" and the
other "The Sayings of Ramah Krish
na." A third book which is coming
from the press is a new edition of his
"German Lore-Fragments from the
Papers of an Allen."
* # *
According to the Athens correspon
dent of the Munich "Allegemeine Zei
tung," the Greek Government has pre
pared a bill for the establishment of an
"Antiquities-Gendarmerie." The .-P> J 
cial function of this new police will be
the guardianship of the national Greek
antiquities in the interest of the Greek
people, even in places where no exca
vations are at present in progress.
Every man admitted to this corps is to
possess a certain degree of necessary
culture, in order that he may under
stand what is confided to his observa
tion and protection.
* * *
Philadelphia Press: A most remark
able literary coincidence is pointed out
by a writer in "Literature," who says
it would be interesting to know if Dr.
C'man Doyle before creating Sherlock
Holmes had read a certain anecdote re
lated by the Jesuit traveler Charlevoix,
who died in 1701. The story is o f a
red Indian from whose wigwam a piece
of meat had been stolen, and who
promptly set out in pursuit of the thief.
He had not proceeded far before he met
with some persons, of whom he inquired
whether they had seen a little old white
man with a short gun, accompanied
by a small dog with a short tail. Asked
how he could thus minutely describe a
man whom he had never seen, the In
dian answered:
"The thief I know is a little man by
his having made a pile of stone to stand
upon in order to reach the venison;
that he is an old man I know by his
short steps, which I have traced over
the leaves in the woods, and that he is
a white man I know by his turning out
his toes when he walks, which an In
dian, never does. His gun I know to
be short by the mark the muzzle made
in rubbing the bark off the tree on
which it leaned; that his dog is small I
know by his tracks, and that he has a
short tail I discovered by the mark it
made in the dust where he was sit
ting at the time his master was taking
down the meat."
This certainly is so much like the
ratiocination of Sherlock Holmes that
it almost reads like a parody of it.
The apple orchards' of Judge Well
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1,630 acres, and contain 100,000 apple
trees. In thirteen years he has har
vested over 400,000 bushels of applea.