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DAILY SOUTH KENTUCKIAN.
HEACHAH & WILGUS, Publishers.
HOPKINSVILLE. KENTUCKY. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 18S5.
NUMBER 18.
LOVE'S EXCHANGE.
Why hury nil crnlcmmcnl in nuv hearts,
Anil never know tho Joy nf love eontcsHod'?
He reels the heav'nly bliss that It Imparl
Who lovoa, caresses, U loved ami caressed.
Why keep our kisses for tho denHi-cnld: faoe,
To rlve them nil with utiavnillnir Ictirsi'
why not heslnw thorn whlli.' they inny crnm
A lino of care niul briirhtcn weary c"
The iluml), colli clay will no spirit thrill,
Nor touch of liiiK'rlnic lips, nor last bin
liracot Endcarln words ne'er reach thn heart so
till
When wo Khali mourn ahovo Its resting
place.
0 friends, I pray, ye who aru.frlcmls Indeed,
Keep not your kJssch for mv frozen face;
The liw, nweel word, the fond caress I need
While lolling In life's weary-welghlcd race.
My marhle llp can mako no warm return.
Nor eves, nor wonla can utter love's do
IlKhli 1 will not need, nor will my spirit yearn
For love'a oxchungo, when t am still and
while.
Lu n. Cnkr, (ii t urmil.
BUTTONS.
Insignia of Rank Which Is of Oon
Boquonoe In China.
x
Great Men In Countries Measured hy llraan
Iluttoni The llaehelnr'a and Married
Man'i llulloin A Fori one hy a
Mlell Manufacturer.
When a man says "I don't rnro a
billion, he means to convoy tho Men
that the subject under consideration la
( no value and hn is entirely indifl'cr
cnt to it, lint if hn lived in China ho
would not tiso tliat figure o( speech.
Them a button is of soino iinportanee,
for llinro a man in known by the but
ton he wears. Show a Chinaman a
man's button and he will tell you what
be is. For buttons h will work, nnd
intrigue, and light, ambitious to lie
translated from white to red, and from
red to blue, whilo for the vellow but
ton tho imperial vellow, which niiikos
a man brother to the sun and uncle to
the moon what will ho not do for
that? Kverything, anything. In
China public servants arc divided into
nine ranks, each of which has two
classes, thus forming eighteen classes
of officeholders. They are distinguished
by the, peculiarities" in form nnd sub
stance of tho buttons (hey wear,
which range from precious stones down
through various grades of value to bits
nf glass.
Nor nre buttons so Indifferent to us
as tho common saying might imply.
Have fair readers) over seen a West
1'olnt endot return home arrayed in
blue and brass to bask In tho smiles of
a fond mother and admiring sisters?
Have they mil Iced (he enthusiam his
buKons awaken? Nothing could in
duce Hint youth to part with his but
tons, except to gain the bullous of a
l.li'iilenanl. The Lieutenant aspire (o
the Captain's, and tho Captain to (he
Major's and so on 11 it through all the
nrmy grades, until at last (here are no
more buttons to conquer. So in the
navy, from naval cadet to Admiral,
bullon worship goes on, and we
have bti( little to boast ourselves over
the Celest'til children of the nlmond
eves nnd slanting brow. '1'hero was,
imleed, our great (iencral, who has
been laid to rest amid (ho (ears of (he
Nation, who did not seem to have the
bullon mania and never looked very
bright or glaring In (ho eyes of his fel
low soldiers; but there were numerous
cithers, who, surrounded by gorgeous
escorts, shone brightly in tinsel, and
not infrequently looked like a brass
foundry with the front door open. It
is no reproach to them. Some of the
world's bravest men hail this pardon
able, Tnnity. Mural shone rcsplcmlcni
when ho headed a cavalry charge.
Scot I, at I.undy's l.ane, ami in all his
battles, was arrayed in full-dress uni
form. Nelson, Hi Trafalgar, had on
all his buttons and badges. Doubtless
they felt better and Ihcy fought better,
and tho world may sniile a little, vet
honors (hem none (ho loss. A blue
coat with brass buttons was part of tho
habitual costume of Daniel Webster.
It seemed as if it would be unconstitu
tional for him to wear anything else,
and he stuck to lira and blue, and
huff waistcoat to the end cf his life.
The members of tho famous Pickwick
Club woro a brass button on their
coats, bearing tho Initials P. C pe
culiar coat, as Mr. dingle translated it
and It was that button that nearly
Involved Mr. Winklo in a duel. So, in
fiction, in politics, in war, and in his
tory the button holds a prominent, if
not a foremost place, anil the man who
uses the phrase "I don't care a button"
tloosn't know what he is talking about.
Ho would rare, if he would only think
for a moment on what the button has
done for the world. If the loss of a
single suspender button will mako a
roan feol mean and uncomfortable all
day, what would tho loss of all his but
tons entail upon him? It is the button
that marks the difference between the
ancient and tho modern styles of
dress, between the old and (ho
now civilizations. Tako away but
tons and you tako away steamboats,
telegraphs, railroads, the newspapers,
and all tho wonderful appliances (hat
make life pleasant in the nineteenth
century. Buttons had to be first in
vented, and were the forerttnnors of all
these, for until one eould button bis
clothes snugly about him tie could not
work at these great problems. Think
of him trying to do anything that is
handy. It can't be done, and when a
man's mind is necessarily occupied
with trying to hold his clothes on, it
can pot be occapicd with much else
The evolution of clothe fastenings
was something like this: Thorns, tish
bones, strings, metal clasps, pins and
buttons, and the buttons did not coma
until about the timo Columbus dis
covered America. Hut buttons alono
woro not (ptito sufficient and it took
our 'good ancestors two centuries
longer to invent tho biitton-holu. That
is to say, buttons woro first used en
tirely for ornament, and It was not
until tho close of Queen Elizabeth's
reign that tho great convenience of
buttoning one's clothes, instead of pin
ning them or fnstening them with
clasps, was discovered.
Tho ornamental purpose of tho but
ton Is still in vogue In ladies' costumes
nnd in men's survives in thoso two
helpless buttons on tho back of their
coals. Some dreaming enthusiast has
calculated that if we would only forego
the use of those two buttons the amount
saved in a few years would pay Iho
national debt, or would found a charit
ablo institution that would provide for
everybody, substantially banishing pov
erty from tiio earth. Hut fashion do
mands that we should retain them,
and so (he national1 debt must take
caro of Itself and the millennium still
delay its coming. Last game tho self
fastening button, very recent, as wo all
know, a boou to bachelors and lone,
lorn widowers. Time was when a wife
was an Indispensable necessity to ovcry
gentleman for his bullous' sake. Studs
and self-fasteners have changed all
that, and now a man need not marry
unless lie wauls to. Indeed, u marry
ing man may he known by tho bullous
he wears. If he wears studs and sclf
fastcners ho is hopelessly independent.
If hu still clings to pearl buttons nnd
(he art of sewing lie is sure to marry
on the lirs( opportunity.
llutlons are made of almost every
mnterinl and in every color. There is
scarcely an article can be named, leav
ing out fats and such tilings, that can
not be turned inlo buttons and after
which the public does not run with
fruntic eagerness. It has infinite vari
ations, and its fashions trend upon each
oilier in swift succession and crowd the
wearer. Their manufacture is enor
mous, our largest factories being at
Newark, N. J., Walerhury, Conn., and
Springfield anil Kast Hampton, Mass.
Wo import from (Germany, Vrance and
Knglaud buttons to thu value of three
million dollars yearly.
The first manufacturer of buttons In
the United Mules was Samuel Willis
sum, of Kast Hampton, Mass. His
father, grandfather nnd great grand
father hail been ministers in Connecti
cut and Massachusetts, and he intended
to lie one, but whilo studying for that
profession his eyes gnvo out and he
nearly lost their use. He gavo up the
ministry, became a country storekeeper
and married. His wifo to help keep
the wolf from t lie door commenced to
cover by hand tho wooden buttons of
(he time, which met with quite a ready
sale in I lie store. Heboid how large a
matter a little button maketh. Thu
snlability of the article led to a study
of the subject and to the consideration
of machinery as an aid to the business,
for your true Yankee will never do by
hand what he can get a machine to do.
One invention led to another, nnd to
(he establishment of a factory, con
stantly enlarging, in which was made
more (linn half the buttons used in the
United States. Samuel WilliMon made
n largo fortune in the button business,
and lived a long and useful life, dying
in IS74, nt the ago of seventy-nine.
During his life he founded the Willis
ton Seminary, at Kaslhampton, en
dowed two professorships in Amherst
College, built a church, which' was
twice burned down and rebuilt by
him, giving during his life nnd be
queathing at his death to these and
other charities, more than one million
live hundred thousand dollars. That
is what buttons did. Could anything
better be said about them? Observe,
too, it was the wife whose industry
selected (ho object which made the
fortune. If Mr. Williston hud remained
a bachelir and depended on self-fasteners
or studs, he would never have
been iible to give a million and a half
dollars in charity. Tho moral lies on
tho surface. Chit-ago Herald.
A Genuine Character.
A real "Daughter of tho Regiment"
is said to live at St. Petersburg, whose
fate shows that the Kussinn soldiers are
not all as stony-hearted as they are
sometimes painted. In 1877 a Russian
regiment, after a hard struggle, took
and invaded tho Turkish town Hotv
manly. Tho inhabitants had mostly
fled, but one of the Kussinn soldiers,
in searching for booty, came upon a
beautiful young girl about fivo years
old, who "looked at the soldier'with
tears in her large black cyos. The
soldier pitied the child, took' it along
and showed it to tho officers, who
soon raised a subscription of five
thousand rubles, and sent tho child to
St. Petersburg to a school for young
ftirls. She is now a charmlflg Oriental
icauty of thirteen, and it is surmised
that out of gratitude she will marry one
of the ollicors who provided for'hor.
Recently, at a special festive occasion,
she sent a telegram: "I congratulate
my dear unelos heartily." N. Y. Post.
An old lady attending camp-meeting
at Old Orchard, tho other day,
said: "I don't call 'em camp-meetings
at all now. We used to chop down
trees to sit on and worship God right
in the brush, hanging our kettle on a
beam across two crotched sticks and
sleeping; on a pile of boughs In a tent.
Folks pay so much attention to com
fort nowadays that thoy can't give but
a Jitllo to religion." Boston Post,
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
David Gamble, of Enimlttsburg,
Md., has slept in a coffin for forty
years and died in it tho other night.
Baltimore Sun,
The first prizo for violin playing at
the Vienna Conservatoriura this year
has been awarded to a lad of ton years,
Friedrieh Kreislur.
Prof. Huxley's idea of a well-
iroportioned man is ono weighing one
itindred and fifty-four pounds, threo
pounds of which are brains.
William (ilynno Charles Gladstone
is the full name of tho hoir of lluwar
den, tho ex-Premier's grundson, chris
tened in London a few days ago.
A collector of the 'curious an
nounces that Mnry continues tho fa
vorite name for girls Anna comes soc
ond, F.lizaboth is third, Laura is fourth.
N. y. Nun.
A colored woman only thirty-seven
inches high, though twenty-seven years
old, lives on a Florida plantation. She
claims never to havo been sick. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Rev. William Paltcrson celebrated
his fiftieth anniversary as pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Poundridgo,
Mass., tho other day. Ho became pas
tor of the Church July 7, 1835.
Victor Hugo, who survived to such
an old age, was, when born, such a
tinv, frail and gro'esquely hideous bit
of humanity that the doctors declared
ho could not possibly live to grow up.
Miss Ella F. Kidd, of Kcene, Ky.,
has completed a crazy quilt which con
tains ono hundred thousand pieces
nnd nine hundred and forty-eight
thousand six hundred and eighty-eight
stitches.
Tho most vnlunblo wedding prosont
which the Princess licntrice received
was a magnificent tea nnd coffee servico
of sol ill gold, each piece being richly
chased, which was scut by the ex-Empress
Kugoniu.
Two New Knglnnd pastors ex
changed pulpits, nnd ono delivered a
sermon which the congregation had
within a month heard from tho mouth
of the other. Tho Baptist Weekly
vouches for this story, and would liko
to know tho real author of the dis
course. Kli.a McCarthy, who has been an
inmnto of the insane department of tho
Baltimore Almshouse for thirty years,
died at Hnyview recently. Tho poor
creature never had anything to say ex
cept to repeat the words "doll babies"
and "Fourth of July." Baltimore
American.
In answer to an advertisement for
a first-class clerk in tho Chambers of
Justice Pearson, in London, rendered
vacant by death, over live hundred ap
plications havo been sent in, among
tho candidates being both barristers
and solicitors. The salary of this ap
pointment commences at live hundred
pounds u year aud rises to six hundred
pounds.
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"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
"(Hobo trotters" Is ono of tho
terms for tho tourists who take tho
beaten track round tho world. Boston
Budget.
A cyclone resembles a woman, bo
cause when it mako its mind to go
somewhere all earth can't stop it. Oft
City Derrick.
"Pa, what do they always have a
handkerchief over Justice's eyes for?"
"Because, my son, the lawyers have
talked her blind." The Judge.
Old gentleman "Ah! Mrs. B.. did
you keep a diary during your visit to
the country?" "Mrs. 13. (indignantly)
"No. sir; I didn't. The family
bought milk from the neighbors!"
A'orrixtown Herald.
It has been decided that a naval
cadet who throws kisses nt a girl is
guilty of tingenllemanly conduct.
Quite right. He should carry them to
her ami place them gently on her lips.
Philadelphia Call.
Jones (at tho circus) "Hello, Smith,
you here?" Smith: "Yes, I had to
coruo to tnko caro of my littlo boy."
Jones: "Where is tho boy?" Smith:
"He wns taken sick at the last moment
ami couldn't come." Auburnian.
Ho slipped in quietly at tho door,
but catching sight of an inquiring face
over the stair-rail, said: "Sorry so
lato, my dear; couldn't get a car be
fore." ' "So the cars were full, too,"
said the lady, and further remarks
wcro unnecessary. Georgia Major.
Said an exasperated Texas fnthei
at (he dinner-table: "You children
turn up your noses at everything on the
table. When I wns a boy I was glad ti
get enough dry bread to cat." "I say,
pa, you are having a much better time
of It now you aro living with us, ain't
yon?" remarked littlo Tommy. Tczas
Hillings.
"Now, you young scamp," said
Rinks senior, as he led '.lis youngest
out into the wood shed nnd prepared
to givo him a dressing down, "I'll
teach you what Is what." "No, pa,"
replied tho incorrigible, "you'll teach
me which is switch." And then the
old man's hand fell powerloss to his
sido. Chicago Rambler.
"I've gone about as high in ma
sonry as anybody can," saicl a laborer.
"Is that so, how high have you gone?"
"Well, I worked on the top of the
Washington monument as a mason."
"Well, that's not taking any degrees
in masonry." "It isn't, ehP Well,
you'd a thought it was if you'd been
there, with the thermometer at thirty
three degrees below. I took all the
degrees I care to now." Chicago
ledger.
fgf-bMISai? tee
Sold by tho Loading Dealer in Every City and
Town.
CAJLmXm SEES
D. KELLY.
His JEWELRY HOUSE is ahead of anything in litis end of the State. He has the
largest and finest stock of
CLOCKS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES,
GOLD XJ3IVW, ETC., J3TO.
His prices are lower than any other house. His workmanship can not be excelled
and his experience has been nearly a quarter of a century.
SIG-JSr-'BIG. TOWN CLOCK,"
Main Street, Opp. Court House, HOPKINSVILLE, KY.
SEED CORN.
Why and When Kverj Good Huibaiitlman
Sliould Saleet Ilia Own Seed.
What a man sows he reaps. The se
lection of soed is, therefore, of the high
est importanco to thefurmor who wants
to reap the best and tho most as a
rocompenso for his labor. Labor
is thrown away on worthless material.
A man may spend as much skill and
pains in carving a medallion out of a
piece of sandstono or soft slate as he
might out of a hard, beautiful onyx or
the purest alabaster, and at the end he
has only trash that is worthless and
disagreeable to show for it Ho a man
may crib his corn in a few weeks, and
in the spring, from a mass of moldy
anil refuse cars, ho may hastily gather
seed for the next crop, but if he expects
a good and abundant yield from a he
will be sorely mistaken.
The enormous losses which have fall
en upon farmers the past few years
through tho use of inferior coed have
wrought damage lo (ho extent of mill
ions of dollars; some farmers lost near
ly their whole crop last year and the
year before, and thousands lost a largo
portion ot it, aim all this miglit nave
been prevented by the simple precaution
of selecting good sound seed in the
fall. There is another fact which should
be considered, and that is that corn is
susceptible of greater improvement
through the selection and use of tho
best seed than any other plant grown
upon farms, ana at the same timo
this plant can bo better improved by
using home grown seed than that pro
cured at great cost from a distance.
There are many wise and thoughtful
farmers who havo been saving seed
from their best plants for many years
twenty, forly and some for tiity years
and their rcputatious for growing
good corn und large crops have made
lliem the seedsmen of their localities,
tanners who might have done tho
sumo for themselves have paid four or
live prices for seed grown by these
neighbors. Perhaps this common neg
lect is a necessary condition to estab
lish the truth of tho proverb that "the
hand of the diligent maketh rich," but
at any rate the result juslilics the say
ing. This .-eli-iiillieU'il tax paid to
the diligent seed gatherer might be
spared uud the public wealth increased
by a hundred million dollars if every
farmer would early begiu tho work of
selcctiug seed corn, and hereafter take
special paius to cultivate, the crops
grown from it so as to improve the grain
m every possible way. And just hero we
would deprecate as strongly as possi
ble the so-called experiments of some
agricultural experiment stations, the
ooject of which has been to try to
show that moldy, hnlf-ripeuoJ, shriv
eled corn would grow aud protiuco a
crop. What is the possible use of such
an experiment? It may servo to en
courage a thriftless farmor in neglect
ing the plainest precaution and duty,
and so injure tho interests which should
be helped and encouraged by these sta
tions, but no reasonable man would
ever act upon such a suggestion. Be
sidos, it is not tnie. It is an apparent
impossibility that a grain of corn defi
cient in substance can bear a germ of
sullicient vital strength to reproduce
the original quality of seed. It it wero
othorwise, tuen all the claimed results
of breeders from the excellent care and
cultivation of a race of cattle and tue
selection of tho best dams and siros
would be falsiiied, aud the poorest haif
starved scrub might be used as the
progenitor of a superior progony. "As
a niau bows so shall he reap."
Then the farmer intent upon improv
ing his corn will go into the field as the
ears aro ripon ng und select those plants
which most nearly meet his ideal of
what the best corn should bo plants
with moderately sized and well leafed
stalks which bear two cars, both well
tilled out und souud, and the earliest
ripe and from these plants he will
choose the upper car for seed, and mark
tho stalk by tying a colored strip around
the top of it. Or as soon as he becomes
expert and can select those stalks as he
goes along in cutting tho crop he leaves
them standing until the rest is all dowu
and these ears are ripe and dry, and
then proceeds to save them in the best
manner. If there is but ono good ear
on a stalk it may be saved, but as mul
tiple earmg is very desirable we would
choose a less attractive ear from a twin
bearing stalk in preference to a single
car. But the top ear should always bo
taken because it u Uie earliest.
These selected ears may be strung
upon a wiro or a cord in dozens by
using a long twine needle, and eight
such strings would make a bushel of
shelled corn. These strings should be
hung in a dry place out of the reach of
vermin, nnd no extreme of cold likely
to occur will injure them. In tho Soutli,
where the corn "weevil," as it is called,
but really the corn moth worm,
abounds, the corn should be kept in
bags or old kerosene oil barrels and
thus out of the reach of this pest As
early maturity is no special advantage
in the South, it is not necessary to se
lect the first ripe ears, but only the
largest and best tilled. And yet for
some purposes and at somo times early
corn is useful even in the South, where
the present season corn has been bring
ing from $1 to l.'-'o per bushel in
places whero the arop was short lust
year. A'. . Times.
HORN SICKNESS.
A Disease of the ltlood Whleh Demands
Prompt and Decided Action.
Years ago a notion prevailed among
stockmen that when the horns of a sick
animal were cold at the base it was in
dicative of some disease of the horn, the
nature of which no one professed to
understand. Horn ail, according to
Tellor, is now understood to be a special
diseased condition of the blood, in
which there is either a deficiency in the
amount of blood in the body or a dim
inution ot some of its important con
stituents, especially tho rod blood cor-pu-clcs.
Such condition may follow an
attack of any acute disease where re
covery is slow and partial, but generally
results from poor or insufficient food,
exposure and neglect, fonl air, lack of
cleanliness and other necessary condi
tions of health. The food may bo
abundant in quantity, but contain an
excess of water and a deficiency of
solid matter. An exclusive feed of
roots or of green food growing on damp
soils, or tho persistent use of a singlo
variety of food, sometimes results in
this depraved condition of the blood.
The symptoms are those of great debil
ity. Tho animal is thin in flesh and
hide bound, often lousy, with hair
standing staight out from the body or
titrucd toward the head. The appetite
is ravenous or irregular; the bowels
either constipated or too loose, gener
ally the latter; the fieces are very fetid
and accompanied with gas. The pulse
is feeble and the animal easily fatigued.
Tho lining membrane of the mouth
is unusually pale and the horns colder
than natural, sometimes almost as cold
as thoso of a dead animal. It is this
condition which gives the disease its
name, and the ignorant cow doctor,
with no knowledge of the anatomy and
physiology of the animal, imagines the
disease conlined to tho horns, which,
under his treatment will either be bored
with a gimlet and turpentine squirted
into the orifice, or an active plaster will
re applied to the head at their base,
which, as the temperature results from
a low condition of tho blood, can have
no beneficial effect Later symptoms
of the disease are swellings under the
jaws and about the navel, also dropsy
of the belly. The cause of the disease
being understood, common sense will
suggest that the first thing to do in the
way of treatment is to see that the ani
mal is well fed, comfortably housed
and kept perfectly clean. The food
should be of the best quality, given in
small quantities and often. If lousy
apply Persian insect powder thorough
ly three or (our times every other day.
(.iive from one pint to one quart of lin
seed oil, varying the quantity to cor
respond to the sue of the animal. If
tho animal suffers constantly from diar
rhoea, give powdered chalk one ouuee
and bisulphate of soda one ounce, three
times a day, mixed in feed. If this does
not pioduce a favorable effect mix oil
of turpentine one-third of an ounce
and lauifauum one-third of an ounce
wili three raw eggs, beat all together
in a pint of warm water, and give at
one dose. From two to three closes a
day should be given, according to the
severity of the case, until the desired
effect is produced. After which get a
druggist to mix thoroughly-powdered
sulphate of iron two ounces, powdered
mix vomica one ounce, and powdered
gentian one ounce, uivme into seven
powders and (give one every night in
meat or otner leea until an are used.
then omit one week, after which repeat
tne powaers until seven more are given.
This treatment will effect a cure with',
nt borina tka horns. K Y. Uera'.d,
ELEGANT TOILETTES.
Some of the Materlali Considered Comae
It Faut for Fall and Winter.
Buckles, clasps, slides, and books in
gold, silvor, steel, bronze, enamel,
pearl, amber nnd jet aro used with a
free hand this autumn both for dross
and millinery purposes. These various
ornaments, in all manner of odd, quaint
devices, often represent nothing
but the vagaries of the design
er's imagination. Antique gold
belt clasps, with dog-collar orna
ments to match, set with brilliant
Rhine stones, or ornaments for a liko
fiurpose made of iridescent enamel, in
aid with half-precious colored gems in
floral patterns, are added to many
of the elegant costumes of silk and
satin, and also to handsome tailor
made suits of rich lined tricot or
bouole fabrics. With the new fashion
of loose Fedora vests, to wear beneath
pretty house jackets, no buttons aro
visible, and the full-gathered fronts aro
caught at the belt with ribbons, and
held with these fancy clasps, ono large
one or two smaller sizes, as preferred.
Some of the elegant fancy woolen fab
rics brought out recently are as ex
pensive at silk or satin goods of fine
quality, and are far more popular for
street wear than cither of these materi
als, it wo except perhaps, the dark du
rable surahs. The new vigognes, for
Instance, are shown with exceedingly
rich broche figures, small, but magnifi
cently colored, over plain, rich, darkly
dyed grounds. Tho brocho designs, al
though showing a mingling of Persian
colors, are always in perfect harmony
with the prevailing shade of the goods
they decorate, reminding one of the
autuma foliage, a ti'ille subdued from
its first vivid brilliancy of coloring,
against the background of a dull, dark
September sky. These rich figures are
not woven in clusters, but detached and
sprinkled at quite wide intervals over
the'soft, handsomely finished fabrics.
This is to be a "checkered" season
in the matter of woolen fabrics, judging
by the endless lines and grades of
plaided and blocked patterns which
strew the counters and adorn the shop
windows of "exclusive" importers,
who are sure to secure tho leading
novelties for their patrons. The new
Elaids and checks aro uncommonly
andsomo, and there is an absence of
the over-brilliant coloring which fre
quently characterizes these designs.
C ream and ruby, olive and doo color,
dark blue and deep crimson (the fash
ionable "Princess of Wales" combina
tion), and au artistic shading of a
single color merely outlined nt ttio
edges of each plaid, with hair lines of
a contrasting hue, aro among tho many
patterns displayed. Long, full drapings,
laid In heavy flat folds at one side, or
down each side of the front of tho dross,
is the popular and stylish mode of ar
ranging the skirts to these. Velvet is
used as a garniture upon checked and
plaided suits in preference to other
trimmings, and very frequently (he
dress, wrap in tho shape of Gladstone
jacket, or long French pelise, and the
princess bonnet are made to correspond.
The new double skirts are likely to
become general as the season glasses,
and the fashion is eminently calculated
for the heavy woolen materials which
form so large a part of cold-weather at
tire. The double skirt increases the
warmth of the gown, and docs away
with complicated drapery. Upon some
models these skirts are cut of nearly
equal length, and are set into rather
short-waisted hut pointed bodices in
thick gathers or heavy folds. The up
per skirt is faced up for a considerable
distanco, with a contrasting color. It
is then caught up high on one side or
on both sides a la milkmaid as taste
suggests. The bright facing is in
tended to be shown, and this color is
repeated on the waistcoat and upon the
collar and cuff facings. N. . Post.
Contagion by Mail. ,
The Waterlown (N. Y.) Times gives
the case of a little girl who was dying
with scarlet-fever. She sent a "dying
kiss" to a little friend, which was im
printed on a letter and a circle drawn
around the kissed spot. The "little
friend" kissed the spot when the letter
was received and shortly afterward be
came a victim to the disease. It was
the only case in the place, and her phy
sician believes the affection was com
municated through tht malK
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