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HOW TO DRESS
FOR AFTERNOON
PARIS, Feb. 3.—(Special Correspond
ence to The Herald.) Matinee musicales
are more popular than ever this winter.
For a long time past this has been one
of the favorite ways of entertaining ln
the fashionable Parisian set. The best
voices from the opera are engaged and
everything la carried out on an elaborate
Scale.
In tho American colony, too, the mati
nee musicale Is popular.' Some of the
most promising of Marchesi'3 and
Trobadella's pupils are Introduced to the
musical world ln this way.
They are brilliant morning gatherings,
these popular musicales, and the gowns
worn are always rich and attractive.
At one of the late matinee musicales
that I attended the quantity ot heavy
Bilk and, poplin gowns was remark
able. Cortainly the most striking up
to-date gowns were made of these ma
terials.
A BRUNETTE'S DRESS
A tall, slender brunette* in a gown
of pale grey bengallne poplin with broad
etripee of violet was much adrrjlred.
The skirt of this gown fitted close 1 over
the hips, but flared quite a good deal at
the bottom. The fullness at the back
was disposed of in two box plaits that
stood out over quite a sizeable bustle,
giving the full basques of the corsage the
Jauntiest air possible. Around the bot
tom of the skirt there was a broad double
fold of violet velvet that terminated at
the left side of the front gore ln a long
DOW.
A POPLIN WAIST
The corsage of the striped poplin
fitted close into the curves of the figure.
It opened over a vest of palo violet satin
covered with English applique that had
a short yoke of deep violet velvet and a
tall straight collar of the same. Border
ing the vest were revers of pale violet
satin that merged into a high Medici
collar. The narrow- ceinture was of
violet velvet. It fastened at the left
Bide with a long stiff velve"t bow. The
short basques fitted close to the hips
at the sides, but at the back they were
plaited full to flare and show the fac
ing of violet satin. There was almost
no fullness at the top of the close-fitting
sleeves.
A big picture hat of deep violet nodding
with deep and pale shades of violet tips
Was worn with this gown.
One of the singers, an Imposing blonde
Wore a gown of ceil blue bengallne. It
had a double skirt. The under skirt of
the bengaline fell ln long straight lines
that rather clung than flared. The over
skirt came to within four Inches of the
bottom skirt. It was trimmed around
the edge with a narrow band of sable,
and was draped up to the left hip, where
the fullness was managed so as to form
a sort of cascade.
A DEMI-TRAIN
The skirt nlmost reached a demi-train
length in the back. The corsage was a
blouse of white satin heavily braided In
deep cream soutache that was put on in
an irregular swirling pattern. Over the
corsage there was worn a sort of sleeve
less draped bolero of the blue bengaline
that fastened to the left side. It was
cut over the shoulders to give the form
of SQuare epaulettes. A narrow band of
sabre finished the edges of the bolero
and continued around the epaulettes.
The tall, straight collar, which was of
white satin, was encircled with three
bands of the sable. A similar finish was
given to the sleeves. The narrow ceint
ure was of white satin.
A white bengallne blouse that was
worn with a black velvet skirt was ex
ceedingly chic. It was cut to fall full
over the narrow celnture all the way
round. And yet at the front the blouse
effect was more apparent. The short
round basques fitted closely over the
hips and were plaited at the back in
two flaring box plaits. Heavy appliques
of cream silk and gold passamenterie
formed a short pointed yoke at the back.
At the front the passamenterie con
tinued down the whole length of the
blouse. The high Medici collar and the
revers were of a pale shade of old gold
satin, and a narrow piping of the same
finished each side of the blouse where it
fastened at the front.
The revers turned back to show a
narrow V of white tulle and a big but
terfly bow of the tulle entirely eclipsed
the high straight collar that was of ben
gallne.
A gown that was charming in its sim
AN IMPOSING BLONDE WORE A GOWN OF BENGALINE
plicity had a skirt of pale gray ottoman
that boasted very little Hare.
ELABORATE WAISTS
The corsage was of white satin covered
full with pale gray tulle that was em
broidered with petunln chenille dots.
Across the bust line there was a strip
of pale gray passementerie that was
heavily incrusted with spangles. A
broad petunia velvet ribbon commenced
at the left shoulder seam and continued
down Into the velvet girdle. The line
was continued down to the bottom of
the skirt so as to give a princess effect.
Three butterfly bows of the velvet
trimmed the velvet strip on the skirt,
and another bow trimmed the bodice at
the left side where the passamenterie
and velvet joined. The sleeves were
draped high, of the pale gray ottoman.
The big black velvet hat that was worn
with this gown was set on a band of pale
yellow roses.
In gloves to be worn with these dressy
gowns there Is a wider range for choice
than usual. With the deep violets I
notice a number of pale lavender kids,
and with gray gowns are worn grny
gloves so pale that the tint is hardly dis
cernible. These two shades share the
popularity of white glace kids.
PRETTY SUBSTITUTES
It Is not always necessary to purchase
LOS ANGELES HERALD* SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, f-898
THE GOWNS WORN ARE ALWAYS RICH AND ATTRACTIVE
very expensive gowns for these matinee
musicales, for there are materials that
ate precisely as becoming as these very
expensive fabrics, only they do not
wear as well. Take a cheap quality of
bengaline, for example, and note how
very prettily it can be made up. When
completed, if the latest styles are ob
served, it will have all the stunning
effect of the $4 quality. The difference
comes in the wear and tear. It will go
to pieces sooner than the expensive
brand. But as most women like to get
fresh gowns every two seasons it an
swers every purpose.
In using cheap materials be sure that
you select fancy designs. A modiste on
the Rue de la Paix showed me some
dresses that did not cost anything like
the expensive sums asked in the high
priced shops. Yet they were every whit
as pretty. They w ere expensively made,
silk lined and elegantly finished. In
making up cheap material do not econ
omize on lining. That is my best advice
to the woman who wants to look nice
on very little. NINA GOODWIN.
A woman never sees a baby without
wanting to run to it., and a man never
sees one without wanting to run from it.
—Chicago News.
A full church choir increases the chanis
for salvation.—Chicago News.
PAID HER OWN WAY
• Woman Went to Europe Six Times in
Twelve Years
A'plucky American woman, who be
gan to support herself at 13, says the
1 Philadelphia Times, has shown bow a
poor school teacher can see Europe to
the best advantage in twelve yeais.
Earning a small salary In a public
school, she has taken private pupils und
lived frugally and has been able to go
to Europe every other year for two
montns' holiday.
Her first journey was made to Eng
land and Scotland, and was enjoyed so
keenly that she planned another one
and saved money for it during the next
two years. The second tour was through
France, Belgium and Holland, and in
order to travel comfortably she learned
French during her leisure hours.
Returning to her school work she be
gan to study German, and at the end of
two years was ready for a journey up
the Rhine and to Vienna, and thence
through Dresden and Berlin to Bremen.
With renewed ardor she plunged into
• the study of Italian, and at the end of
. two years she started for Rome. She
made the round of the Italian cities, and
spent a fortnight in Switzerland. Two
years afterward she was in Spain, and
was able to speak the language.
During the last year she made her
sixth journey to Europe, traveling
through Denmark, Norway and Sweden
to Russia, and spending a fortnight in
Moscow. She carried with her a fair
knowledge of Swedish, and not only
knew the Russian alphabet so as to read
the street signs, but could make her own
bargains with drosky drivers and go
about without a guide.
In.the course of twelve years she has
made six journeys to Europe and learned
to speak six modern languages, and she
has supported herself entirely by her
earnings as a school teacher, and has
paid every penny of her traveling ex
penses. Starting with a painstaking
study of the language of the country
which she was to visit, and also prepar
ing herself by a course of reading, she
has made the best possible use of her
time abroad.
The refard for all this energy and
perseverance has come in her thirtieth
year. Her knowledge of foreign langu
nges'has tltted her for broader work as
a teacher, and she has left the public
schools to take a position as instructor
in French, German and Italian in a
high school for young women.
There may be higher aims than those
ordinarily involved in foreign travel, but
the persistency of this American girl in
carrying out her plans is worthy of
praise. It is a great gain in any human
I life, if it Is governed by a definite pur
| pose at(d keeps that purpose steadily i
lln mind. j
HER PLEA FOR MEN SERVANTS
This Housekeeper Relates Experiences
"With Different Maids
This is from a housekeeper who is
tired of maids and wants men. If there
is such a thing as a servant (either
sex) who has been educated to do house
work properly and to hold his or her
temper and be reasonable, please let me
know about that person. I should like
to engage that person.
I will tell you my experiences with my
three latest servants. Perhaps they
may be found typical of other house
wives' troubles. The fl'rs't of "the three
was a Swedish girl. I think she must
have had a love affair at some time
or other, she moped about so. Then
there were other signs. Her face was
covered with great red blotches, and I
caught her weeping over the fried po
| tatoes at breakfast" one morning. She
was a slouch at the work. She simply
dreamed through the kitchen work. At
dinner she would fall Into a reverie that
prevented her from hearing the call bell.
It is not pleasant to tiave a mourner
about the house. She could never be
made to smile. She cast a gloom "over
the whole place. I did not discharge
the girl; she left me one day with two
hours' warning, and I was obliged to do
my own housework until I got some one
to help me. I never penetrated into the
romance of her life. I never cared to
after that.
The next maid was a German, and her
; career at my house was brief. She did
; not like the children and the children
despised her. She had many callers.
Now, I do not object to a girl's having
company, but I do wish her to choose
her associates with some care. This
company was objectionable to me. It
did not wipe its feet on the mat outside
in dirty weather, and it smoked bad
tobacco in my kitchen. So I objected,
and the girl left. She told me before she
went that I had Insulted her. I had
nothing to say to this.
I thought I would try a negro servant.
So I hired a mulatto girl at very good
wages. She was a good girl, I thought,
though stupid. I rather liked her at
first, but after a week I found she stole
things. So yesterday I told her to go.
I am tired of maids. Let me try men
HOW JULES VERNE WRITES HIS BOOKS
PARIS, Feb. 1. —(Special Correspond
ence to The Herald.) I have Just re
turned from Amiens, where 1 have suc
ceeded in obtaining what many have
' sought in vain, a most interesting inter
view with Jules Verne, the popular nov
elist. I was received in a most cordial
manner by the novelist, who lives with
i Mme. Verne in a splendid house in the
Rue Charles Dubois. In answer to my
request, that he tell me something re
garding his dally life and literary habits,
the veteran novelist replied:
"I have long ceased to have any desire
to revisit Paris. I have grown to love
the clear, mild, salubrious air of Amiens,
and at my advanced age, for," added the
novelist gravely, "I have approached
very near to the three score years and
ten, a man is glad to get away from the
whirl of a big city and seek rest from
the turmoil of life amid quieter sur
roundings.
"I suppose I should go back to my
earlier life in order to tell you.the story
in proper sequence. My first recollection
of writing anything was when, as a
student in Brittany, I perpetrated half
JUKES VERNE
a dozen tragedies, or, in other words,
wrote them, and then, being possessed
with the idea that I was a budding
young genius, for whose talents Brit
tany afforded too little scope, I packed
my valise and started for Paris.
"Here, fortunately for me, I met a
friend in the elder liumas. I wrote a
play ln collaboration with Dumas fils.
which attracted little notice, composed
'tin Dram dans les Axis,' which at
tracted some attention, and then
achieved my first great success with
my 'Cinq Semaines en Ballon.'
"The success of this production intox
icated me. I expected to become a new
Balzac within a week, and had It not
been for the paternal advice of my pub
lisher, the elder Hetzel, I might have
gone astray completely in the literary
world. Ho advised me to stick steadily
to the line of the mysterious and ad
venturous. I am glad I took his advice.
Of my seventy-six books I leave the
world to speak.
"You ask about my habits. They are
simple. I am up with the lark every
morning, and do my best work soon
after dawn. I write on usually until 11
oclock, when, after luncheon, I go to
a reading room in the town and look over
the newspapers, except on the days
when I attend the municipal council, of
which lam a member. In the afternoon
I work again, finishing up for the day
at about 5 oclock, when I dine with
Mme. Verne. In the evening I take my
ease as a country gentleman should,
resting luxuriantly in my home. Occa
sionally I go to the theater, but not of
ten.
"I have no extravagant habits,
servants, ff there are any such. If not,
I will wait until a supply is educated.
I am not sure that the man servant
would relieve my troubles. I like the
men servants in the hotels. They seem
to be satisfactory. The man servant
ln the house is an experiment, of course,
but I would like to try that experiment.
If any one has tried the man servant,
or thinks she would like to try hlrn, I
would be pleased to have her say what
she thinks of the matter.—Housekeeper,
in Kansas City Star.
Dispatches from English, Ind..tell how
Miss Cassle Natrick, the 17-year-old
daughter of Mail Contractor Thomas
Natrick, on the Oriole and Eckerty mall
route, a line seventeen miles long, Is de
livering the mail on horseback. Mr.
Natrick was throw n from his horse, re
ceiving a compound fracture of his right
shoulder, which, owing to his advanced
age, will incapacitate him for some
months. Miss Natrick declares that
she will carry the mail till he recovers or
till the close of the contract. The task
is described as one that few men care to
perform during the winter months.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Rev. Father Doyle of the Paulist
fathers, New York, ln a recent sermon
delivered in that city said that converts
were coming into the Catholic churcli
at the rate of 30,000 a year.
A naturalist of eminence finds that
land birds make their journeys in the
daytime and water birds at night.
neither am I sportily Inclined. I once
owned a yacht and sailed the channel
and the Mediterranean, but I never saw
any of the scenes described in my
'Around the World In Eighty Days.' I
neither hunt, shoot or fish, although I
did have a little adventure with a gun
on one occasion, when 1 aimed at a due k
and succeeded in lodging the entire
charge of snot in a policeman's hat. My
nlmrod days died with that unfortunate
shot. 1 have had no desire to go hunt
ing since.
"I am quite content to sit at home In
the quiet of my study and learn all about
those countries, concerning which 1
write, from Ihe volumes on my library
Shelf. Some novelists think it absolute
ly impossible to write about a particular
place without going there first in order
to study its local color. It is probably
advantageous to do so, but it would puz
zle a writer to find a means of obtain
ing such help in writing a romance of
the ocean, such as my 'Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea,' or my
'Voyage From the Karth to the Moon.'
"A little thing suggests to me a great
Story. Thus the 'Tour of the World in
Eighty Days' was suggested while I was
studying one of Cook's tourist adver
tisements. When the idea had once
been born it was an easy thing for the
story to develop. I had to study the
characteristics and geography or the
countries through which 1 fbok my voy
agers, and construct the story around
them. So it is with many of the ideas
that come to me. They are suggested by
some little simple thing like that I have
referred to, and as 1 think about them
more and more they gradually take such
shape in my mind as enables me to com
pose the outline of my story. Then Igo
to work and build it up, little by little,
until the complete literary structure is
erected.
"Such ideas as those that I select for
most of my books are not obtained by
traveling. They come to me when I
need them. Mind, Ido not intend to say
anything against the stories that
written by men who travel many miles
to accumulate the data, and spend days
and weeks in getting the local coloring
to their liking. This is not my way. My
books are written in my home, and the
ideas get their being there, too.
"I am still writing and feel so w ell, and
enjoy my quiet life so much, that I see
no reason why I should not expect to
continue writing for many years to
come."
And the writer of this can bear wit
ness to the fact that Jules Verne has all
the appearances of a man who will de
light the public with his thrilling vol
umes for a long time yet, despite the fact
that he is nearing the limit allotted to
man's life.
SOME QUEER
MARRIAGES
"I was called upon ln 1878 to defend
a man who was charged with the most
unusual misdemeanor I ever heard of any
clerk entering on a court calendar,"
said a lawyer from the mountains. "A
young farm hand came to me at the
hotel where I was stopping, my home
being In another town, but my practice
extending to the county seat I was then
in. The swain told me that he had been
charged by a girl, to whom he had been
paying attention, with giving her the
measles, she claiming that the disease,
which had been epidemic in the neigh
borhood, had been communicated to her
by kissing her repeatedly while the de
fendant was recovering from the
measles. The girl's lather had sued the
badly alarmed defendant for $">0 dam
ages, claiming that he had expended
that sum In doctor's bills for the afflicted
daughter. My client plead guilty to kiss
ing the plaintiff, but said he couldn't
'a hope It ef he'd been a-mind ter,' and
insisted that he had never had the
measles. I tried the case before a kind
hearted old squire, and after the court
had heard the testimony he delivered*
long opinion, in which he held that a
girl as pretty as the plaintiff would make
a boy risk measles and 'even dumb
chills.' The Judge's 'jolly' put both sides
in a good humor, and the defendant, two
weeks later, married the plaintiff and
settled the costs of the suit to appease
the wrath of her father."—Glasgow
News.
Professor's Charts; Not Cupid's Dart*
Scranton, S. D., Jan. 4.—On ' the
assurance of an expert that they were
physically and mentally adapted to each
other, John Ward Ellis and Miss Mattia
Weaver were married recently after an
acquaintance of less than ati hour. Both
were present not long ago at a lecture
by Prof. William McShane on "Love,
Courtship and Marriage." The profes
sor's contention was than men and wo
men pay too little attention in choosing
life partners, tn similarity ot tempera
ment, taste and education. He urged
that these considerations be made para
mount in the selection of husbands and
wives rather than mere blind passion.
To illustrate his theory he picked ten
young ladies at random from the audi
ence, defined their characteristics, and
explained why they should wed hus
bands of such and such dispositions and
habits. Then he made selections for
them from among his male hearers.
Ellis and Miss Weaver were among
the ideal couples pointed out thus. Nei
ther had ever seen the other before, but
so deep an impression did the professor's
words make on them that a brief con
sultation between them followed imme
diately after the lecture, at which ftley
determined to act on the speaker's sug
gestion. It was already so late that it
was necessary to drag the clerk of tie
court and a justice of the peace from
their beds to issue the hymeneal knot.
Prof. McShane appeared as a witness at
' the ceremony, and emphatically ex
pressed the opinion that a union so
wisely formed could not end otherwise
than happily.
Ellis is a young farmer near Scranton.
His bride is the 22-year-old daughter of
a merchant of the town. —Minneapolis
Tribune.
Inter-County Nuptials
! An odd marriage ceremony was per
formed near this city today. K. P.
Stewart of this county was sick, but
what made matters worse, he was en
gaged to be married, and the wedding
day was drawing near.
His bride-elect, who lived in Harnett
county, a beautiful young woman with
a soul as full of romance aB a veritable
Juliet, learning of her lover's dangerous
illness, determined to hasten to his bed
side and marry him at all hazards.
When she arrived on the scene she
made haste to declare her intentions,
and would listen to no proposals or sug
gestions as to procrastinating the con
summation so devoutly wished. The li
cense was procured and the preacher
was brought right speedily, but another
serious difficulty arose when it was as
certained that the license was for Har
nett county and the residence of the
bed-ridden bridegroom was across th'j
line in this county. The preacher said
he could not perform tty? ceremony out
side of Harnett county, and was about to
leave the disappointed couple when sud
denly the bride, aftey inquiry, declared
that she had mastered the obstacle.
The county line was just ln front of
the house, so the couple stood on the
porch and the minister was placed
across the county line, where he loudly
shouted the marriage vows and listened,
while the assenting echoes came back to
him. —Atlanta Constitution.
Walter Scott Burton's Second Venture
Mr. Walter Scolt Burton, the young
man who manipulates the rollers for the
Reporter, and Miss Elizabeth Hudson,
a beautiful and charming young lady of
the Fishing Creek neighborhood, were
married at the residence of George Pol
sun on Christmas day. This is Mr. Bur
ton's second venture on the troublous
sea of matrimony, and, being only 18
years of age, it is safe to say that if he
perseveres at this pace he will be a world
beater before he reaches the age of ma
turity. At the time Scott made applica
tion to the clerk for a marriage license
the usual question of "Is this your first
marriage?" was asked. He replied:
"Oh. h—l, no! I just gave up a blamed
good mule to get a divorce from the other
woman In order to marry this one."—
Somerset Reporter.
All the Minister Had to Do
Parkersburg, West Va., Jan. B.—
The immediate friends of Miss Nettie
Morris of Montelare, Harrison county,
and Mr. Edwin Williams of Louisville,
Ky., were invited to attend the wedding
of the couple on Tuesday last, at tho
home of the bride's parents, and a spe
cial train w as chartered to convey about
I twenty-five or thirty prominent Clarks
burgers to the nuptials. When the wed
ding party gathered in front of the min
ister, he surprissed all except the prin
cipals by reading a marriage certificate
show ing that they had been married at
Nashville, Term., on August 31st, a few
days after meeting for the first time In
! the exposition building. — Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
An "Afternoon with Hawthorne'" Will
be given tomorrow afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. Felix C. Howes on
Figueroa and Thirtieth streets, for th<»
benefit of the Flower Festival-homo.
Mrs. A. P. West will read a review of
"The Marble Faun," and there will be*
musical program.
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