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A PROFESSIONAL.
BY CAROLINE SHELLY.
She stood by the window looking
through the straight-hanging lace eur
tains long after the door had opened
and shut on Twyelort’s form,
“This is what I have dreamed of!”
She sat down at the low writing ta
ble in the corner and drew a sheet of
paper and a pen toward her. “‘Sleep
on it, think it over well,” he had said,
““and write me tomorrow.” What need
to wait? He should have his answer
now.
Bat she did not write at onee, she
leaned her head on her hand while the
pen idly trailed, quite dry, across the
blotting pad, and her happy eyes
watched its progress, She might have
sat Just so for her portrait, There
were hundreds of photographs of her
all over London in that postion; it
was one she particalarly affected; a
new package lay unopened at her el
bow; taken in the very violet velvet
gown she was wearing, and her name
printed beneath Maxima Sterling.
She had not chanzed it when she went
on the stage; she had no great family
escutcheon to stain, nor any formid
able connection to overshadow by her
profession. Her father had been a
cireus owner, her mother the prettiest
woman bare-back rider in the world,
yet it could scarcely be said that she
inherited her histrionic talent, for
what is there in common between
pirouetting on a horse’s Lack to a cir
cus band, and holding a London au
dience spell bound by the interpreta
tion of a London heroine?
“Maxima Sterling,” she wrote
across the blotting pad in a big de
termined bhand, and then, ““Maxima—
Lady Twyefort,” and laughed aloud
at the oddity of it. The little gilt
clock on the chimney-piece chimed
four, and a ray of cold suunlight flew
tbrough the lace curtains over the for
golten letter sheet. She heaved a
sigh, the sigh of a mortal waking from
fair dreams of Paradise to a realiztion
of the world again and began her.
task. When the sunlight had left the
writing table, and erept out at the
window again and the hand of the
emall clock poiated to five, she sealed
and directed it with her firm strong
touch. There was a servant coming
along the landing; he should mail it
directly. She stood there waiting
tall, expeciant —whea the door
opened,
* “Mr. Heathoote.” ‘
“Ah! admit him,” and she smil
ingly laid the letter face downward on
the writing table.
““It is good to sse you this bitter
day, Teddy,” she said, holding out her
hand. Her voice was soft and low and
resonant ; it had been half her sue
cess in her professional career; it
brought a clear light now into the
man’s eyes as he camo forward and
took a chair opposite to her at hLer
bearthstone.
*‘Always hospitable,” he said, grate
fully, “bat you knew I would be here,
Massie. Hus ever more than a day
gone by that I have not managed to
see you, since we first started uphill
together?”
“Not so very uphiil, dear boy ;
we've shared saccess, haven't we?”
*‘Nextseason we must star together,”
he said, “I've a spleadid plan; when
you bave given me some tea I'll un
fold it.”
Miss Sterling lay back in her chair,
with hands clasped behind her head,
staring at the shadows chasing one
another across the tinted ceiling, -
“Ah! bat 1 am tired of it all, Teddy,
tired-=tired; I thought I was ambi
tivus; T'am not. I doa't care a far
thing for fame or footlights or—or
applause; it is all so bollow. What
am Ibut a—a puppet.” She arose
and walked the length of the room
once or twic?, and came back to lenn
ker elbow on the chiimney-piece, tow
ering alsve Lim.
= **l've heard itall before, yon know,”™
he said quietly, . good-humoredly,
““You're a bit fagged from the execite
ment of iast evering, I funev. A first
“-igM is terribly trving, and then the
sapper that folluwed with my Lady
Glandon, and her gay company—did
You enjoy it, Muxima? I believe you
did, yon vain lifilfih* i_¥ou Lked
the adulation of ail those titled
women, knowing there was not one in
the room that eould claim a tithe of
Your beauty of your genius, Ah! |
was proud of yon. Yon loeked a
qaeen, head audshounlders above them,
with their tiaras and their waviug
‘plumes.” -
*‘l hated them,” she said, intensely. '
“I bated them for their superiority
and for their impextinenee in‘(\;fll‘?‘
a supper and inviting their fasbion
abie friends %"“‘ an aciress, a
woman of the ¥, for example—one
~ Mot ol themselves and therefore 8
divertissément. I“QMeret\i
by the nolile patrunsge, gowthougis;
~ whatwae I last night, in that room,
"‘ibo’fb"t’ery heal was a titled one, but
8 pappet, to be'met off Bis’ fhagd 5w
aonlen A(. AIGHT 3524 t s
%;h'.o' the trick is Jq.n‘c?" ——
She turoed saddenly anl looked at
'& | bim with onutstretched hands and a
% | face all peniteace.
“Forgive me; it was childish.
Years ago I would have broken my
i’ toy into pieces, and screamed my face
purple. Now I keep it bottled up for
! you—you generous martyr.”
He bheld her hands in his, still look
ing at the fire,
l ““Maxima, do not let thess people
turn your head from your life work.
There is notl‘ikng in the world like hav
ing a life work ;it ennobles you and
lifts you up; it carries you beyond
and above all such feelings as en
g | gulfed you last night. Little woman, we
= | were boy and girl together; we began
1 | at the foot of the ladder and we have
risen in the ranks, hand in hand;
" | where your name goes in our profes
= | sion thero mine goes too, as its shad
flow. We have buth succeeded. Don’t
) | you be the one to let this wave of dis
| content wash you overboard into the
| | ocean of fashionable frivolity that
" | means death to the worker.”
He released her hands and regarded
" | her steadily. Some of the light went
" | out of his eyes,
’ “Is it possible, Maxima, that it is a
' question with you now, which makes
| life worth living?”
‘ *I am afraid it is,” she answered
| softly. She smiled as she remembered
| the letter lying face downward on the
writing table,
*“S0!” said Heathcote, He leaned
forward in his chair with his hand
some head bent down, and his eyes
still on the fire. *““Whilo I have been
steadily working upward, growing
more and more interested in my
career, not realizing all the while it
was because it was keeping my road |
in life running smoothly along beside |
yours, you have been drifting away |
from me day by day. I have strug- |
gled with you for the world’s favor, |
and now the world has come between | ¢
us! You are fascinated by the luxuri- |
ous case of such women as my Lady |!
Glandon and the honorable Sibly |1
Craven ; such men as Cavendish and |1
wmy Lord Twyefort, who never gave |l
their lives a serious thonght, have— "’
“Wait a 2 moment, Teddy,” She
raised her hand, still standing on the .
bearth rug before him, tall and pale, .
in her velvet gown. *Today my 1
Lord Twyefort has done me the honor e
to ask me to marry him.” P
~ Heatheote rose to his feet; thelittle ?
table with its burden of silver tea |
things glittered and twinkled between :
them. t
After a moment he spoke, steady- | o
ing himself by the mantel on which | a
she also had laid her hand. “‘And you | b
have accepted him?” s
*‘l have not given him my answer— | ¢
why?” staring at his set white face. | i
“It wonid make no difference in our | w
friendship; because I beeame Lady |af
Twyefort youn wonld not cecase to be |tl
my friend, would you? Oh, Teddy, I |a
could not give you up; I have known | m
you all my life!” v
The man lost his head a little at | ve
that break in the well-knowa voice, I
“Lady Twyefort aud Elward Heath- | ¥
cote, of the Princ> of Wales’ Theatre,
could scarcely be friends,” he said
trying to smile. ‘I congratnlate you
on securing one of the finest titles in |%O
England!” ty
He was sorry the next moment for
the bitterness in his tomess. Why
could he not rejoice with her in this
trinaph as he had iy ail the others?
Ah! then they had gone hand in hand
before the footlights, and it had been
his hand that raised and presented the
flowers flung at her feet from pit to
galiery ; but in this hour he had no
sbare ;he rose and took his hat and
stick.
‘“You cannot expcet me to -be -yery
glad,” be said falteringly, looking
down. ““It means the end—of every
thing for me.”
“But Ido not nuderstand at all,”
she eried piteously. That Heatheote
should cease to Le her chum, her con
soler, her adviser, was as if the heay
eus had fallen. v -
“Teddy, you don’t ‘mean—?"
“That I love you? You are blind
if you did not know ik . Ads 60
late, Lut yon have forced me lo.apy.it
now. [do love you, I always shall
love yon—never any one else as long
as I live but you, and—"
He canght her in his arms and
kissed ber once, Mon@qb,-‘f‘here
the deé[; bronze bair fell away in’ rip
ples from her temples; the. next min
ute he was gone, and the fiifififi’ he
bad lcft stoud staridg "st the spot
where he bad been, just as she had
starad at him—speechilBs in ber as
toni=hment as he stood there,
Alter a moment a great wave of
color flashed in her white cheeks; her
breath eame iu short g;téps. “that were
half sobs from bLer trembling lips,
Sbe pushed open the door and rushed’
out into the hail. ’
“Teddy! Teaddy ! she called; but
there was no answer, ouly the decisive
soand’ of the closing door; mad the
little cold gust of wind floating up-.
ward that told of his departure,” ©
* She walied slowly baek: inte ‘her
shadowy d,g;ping._'xogg o th&fixq _was
dying, and the room was growing
' o S #over to the writing
3&:um¥sup the letter lying,
there fac: dow 5 logkad at
ita muumfla:awm a e
was abluze in the hottest part of the!
ASE Aok p) Wk AR orner of
‘shertpretiy S apartment, as the little
gold elock on the mantek-siguck. the
ufiif,t!wi York™Pruth, « tz w 3
&3l —_—— .PO R .
' "MVout 12,090 workmen are em
ployed in' the ‘logging fudastey o
Mumegoth <55 13.a0
The Buffalo and the Indian,
~ Not many years ago General Sher
man made an official trip through the
Northwestern couutry. He traveled
on horseback all over the bench lands
about the course of the Upper Mis
souri, Wherever he rode across the
wide brown plains be found strewn
the bleaching bones of the Lnflalo,and
throughout the secticn Lis aitention
was directed to former eamping
grounds of the In lians that had been
abandoned when the buffalo failed to
appear upon th: ancient trails The
Indiuns deprived of the game upon
which they had principally relied to
keep them supplied with food and
which bad also encouraged them occa
siovally to defy the Government, had
clustercd upon reservations to be con
venient to the regular supplies of beef
and blankets.
General Sherman was not moved to
compassion for the Indian by the
sight of the bleaching bones and the
disappearance of the buffalo. He
thought and said, with his characteris
tic positivencss, that the extinction of
the buffalo would be a small lossif that
was to be the price the country must
pay to secure the safety of white set
tlers and the subjugation of the sav
age.—New York Times.
Color Blindness on the Increase,
““Color blindness is on the increase,”
said Dr. D, L. Bliss of New York at
the Metropolitan. ““The causes of this
defect in vision that may be otherwise
perfect are not all very well under
stood. It would seem that the use of
tobacco had a good deal to do with
it. I have examined a great many for
color blindness, having on several
occasions been employed by railroad
companies to do so, and in every in
stance where the man examined was
found to be color blind, he was a user
~of tobacco. Women are seldom af
flicted ia this way, hence it must be
caused by something that men do
which women do not. What cases ex
ist among women will be found to be
inherited from male ancestors. I have
never known a woman to be color
blind whose father was free from the
defect. lam asmoker, and my per
ceptions of color are unusually good,
so that it is not impossible that a man ‘
may use tobacco without such an ef
fect, but, but I believe a large pro
portion of the cases are caused by to
bacco.”—Washington Star,
Rebuking a Cyelist,
A very grave fault of many cyclists
is to pass vehicles on the wrong side.
Talking about this the other night at
dinner, a country doctor with a large
practice, said: *‘l think it’s scandal
ous that they do such a thing, though
it does not always end as one expects,
The other day I was driving a pair in
tbe phaeton, when a cyclist came by
on my near side, ringing his bell when
abreast of me. Now, my near side
horse was very young and frisky and
started jumping all over the place ;the
cyelist lost his head and went crash
into a heap of stones and I nearly
went over him. I got up and swore
at him, finishing with: “If you do
that sort of thing often, you will get
a whip across your shoulders, young
man.” ‘Please, sir,” said a plaintive
voice, ‘I am very sorry.” It wasa
very pretty girl in bloomers! Well,
I never felt such a fool in my life,”
Weekly Telegraph.
Cyelone High in the Air
There bas been much talk about
some singular looking eclouds that
traveled across the sky one evening
recently, A brisk breezs suddenly
prang up and a iarge white cloud
-hot across the sky. It was a funnel
shaped aflair, was accompanied by a
roaring, hissing kind of a .noise and
traveled with great speed. It was fol
lowed by a reddish kind of a cloud,
while close upon the heels of this
came a huge and appallingly black
cloud. All the time the wind blew
vielently. The sky was obscured prob
ably twenty minutes, and then became
clear again, there not being a sign of
'a clond anywhere. Persons all over
town watched the clouds, and most of
them confidently pxpected that a cy
clone would sweep down upon the
city. Persons who have had experi
euce with eyclones say that the clouds
~were regnlar cyclone clouds Ports
mouth (Ohio) Times, .
Remarkable Recovery of a Ring.
Mrpl"b'iumérb.fi'éy" of E&st Bruts
wick,: Me., h:i;;eco'vqigl 8 gald ring
which she lost as & child thirty-five
years ago. It was given to her when
she was twelve years old by her father
and was purpesely made large for her
finger, and it slipped off one day while
she was playing. After ‘marriage she
continued to live at the parental
home, and the other day her husband,
on,,lps' way through the dockyard,
pieked up the ring, so dirty that he
had thought at first sight it was a
washer, —New York San, :
A Curions Cow.
.A thoroughbred Jersoy cow belong
ing to-J:- Lo Engliah, . of. Haritard,
Coub., his attained notoristy tirie sea
son by giving birtirBa twe ealves Dot
twind, bat Liorn At an “joterval of more
-theti thrée wesksr syt YPhe oow is
registered “us" 0o OG¥ifnell. The
Bret of ‘the 'tvumh:& wag bmn Jane
29, It js.a beiler, and has every mark
of a Holstein. “T'he second calf, which
is 4 ptire Jersey Wwll, was Bt July
23, three weeks udtwn: (?’ ater the
A tar ue mie e
'al hea W‘“ x m.. >
:xgsfl!} Hamm the «door)—
&, Lkb Ty mafdr :di;t it don™t Took
-j!etfighvhrplmpg:gan like me to
be beggia’. LUddbe glad to go to work,
‘Butit’s only fest'idw-and then T can
git apythigg 16" 80 it iy trade,
FMFH‘*? Wkhat is your
f o & 8% i
. Raggad: Haggard—Votin’ at presi
leatial elections, Harper’s Bszar,
CHEERED AND SANG.
Thrilling Scene at the Sinking of
a German Gunboat,
Officers and Crew Gave Three
Cheers for the Emperor.
The China papers give long ac
counts of the wreck of the German
gunboat Iltis, already briefly reported
by telegraph. It appears from these
that the litis left Chifa at four a. m.
on July 23, the weather being good
and the barometer rising. Owing to an
interruption in the Chinese telegraph
lines, it was, unfortunately, not known
at Chifu that a typhoon was approach
ing from the direction of the For
mosa Channel, and it was not till the
afternoon that signs of bad weather
began to appear.
As the night came on the wind and
sea rose and the storm increased. The
vessel labored heavily, but not more
so than on previous oceasions, and,
though the watch of duty was called
on deck at ten p. m. to assist in furl
ing the sails, no danger was anticipat
ed. Half an hour later there was a
severe shock, aud it was found that
the vessel was hard and fast on a rock.
Leaks immediately showed themselves,
and before long the engine-room and
stokehole were flooded. The heavy
sea dashed the vessel against the jag
ged edges of the rock upon wh ichshe
had struck,and ber plates were smashed
and stove in. By this time most of
the crew were gathered aft, the com
mander and the officer of the watch
still keeping their stations on the
bridge. Rockets were sent up in the
hope of attracting attention from a
lighthouse not far off, but it was soon
seen that all such efforts were l}opeles&
Heavy seas continued to dash over
the vessel, which soon showed signs
of giving way under tue strain, and it
was at this moment that the com
mander, abandoning hope, gathered
the doomed men together and called
for three cheers for the Emperor.
The men responded with enthusiasm,
and almost immediately afterwards the
ship broke in two forward of the
stokehole, and the masts went over
board. Most of the men and officers
were on the after part of the ship,and,
in response to a suggestion of one of
the guuners, the officers and ecrew
joined in singing the very appropriate
“Flagglied,” a patriotic song which
winds up by asserting that shonld
their vessel be driven on reefs the
men will go down singing: “‘Der
Kaiser und die Flagge-Hoch! Die
Flagge schwarz, weiss, roth!”
The after part of the ship then be
gan to heel over and sank, and all
upon it save two were drowned, the
exceptions being two men who man
aged to swim through the boiling surf
and reach the shore safely. The for
ward portion turned on itsside, with
the keel towards the shore, and there
the men managed to cling until morn
ing broke, when an attempt was made
to construct a raft. One man was
washed off the wreck during the day,
but he reached the shore safely, and
the construction of a raft being found
impossible, the others were forced to
remain on board thirty-six hours
without food, when a Chinese boat
came to their assistance and took
them off the wreek. The Chinese
inhubitants of the village near
by bebaved very kindly to
the shipwrecked men, providing
them with food and clothing, and an
English missionary attended to {he
men who bad been injured, while the
keeper of the lighthouse at the south.
east promontory, a German named
Scbwilp, came overland to the assist
ance of his distressed fellow-country
men. Only twelve men in all were
saved, there not being one oflicer
among them. Great sympathy has
been expressed in all the foreign com
munities of the far East, where the
officers and men of the Iltis were well
known, and subscription lists hLave
been opened at Kobe, Yokohama, Nu
gasaki, as well as the various China
ports, for the assistance of the rela
tives of the drowned, who number in
all some seventy-five men. —London
Times.
School Gardens in Russia,
A very interesting feature of prima-
ry education in Russia is the estab
lishment and rapid development of
small farms, orchards. and kitchen
gardens in connection with many pri
mary sclidals, especially in the vil
lages. “The land for such model gar
dens, “or:farms “on a small scale,
was mostly . obtained through free
grants” from ‘the village con;munes,
and, occitsionally, from the neighbor;
4ng-landlords; while the expenses are
covered by very small money grants
from the country and district Conn
eils (zemstvos). To take one proviuce
in South Russia, namely, Ekaterinos
las, we sce from the hlen“l,‘l report,
just issued, .. that .not only has
almost ‘every school an. orchard
and .kitchen garden for the, mse of
the schooimsaster, but that - nearly
one-balf of the schoalsin the prayigee
(227 out of 504) are~alreu-l_y in pos
spion of il mode K. g,
orchar?h. trec plantations, or arms,
at whieh gardening, syiviculture, and
-sericulture arecregularly fanght, - The
teaching is mastly given-Ly the school
_masters, who_themselves receive in
stronction in these branches at courses
volontarily attended in the samimer or
occasionally by some-practical special
ist of the meighborhood, The prov
ince of Ekaterinoslav being mostly.
treeless, special attention is‘given to
tree plantations and, next, to silkworm
cultare. The aggregate area of the.
227 school farms or gardens attains
283 - acres, and they contained, .
m - 1895, © 111,000 - froit. trees
trees and 238,000 planted forest ;
nearly 14,000 of the former, and
42,000 of the latter having been dis
' tributed free among the pupils daring
‘the same year. The money grants for
these 227 gardens were very small—
i,e., a little over three hundred
pounds (£314). Besides, over a thon
sand beehives are kept, partly by the
schoolmaster and partly by the chil
dren ; and some schools had vineyards
in conuection with them. The move
ment has widely spread over different
provinces of central Russia, where the
culture of cereals. dominates at the
school farms; while in Caucasia at
tention is especially givea to the silk
worm culture and the culture of the
vine.—Natnre,
Surprising Adulterations,
A report of Dairy and Food Com
missioner Wells of Pennsylvania
Dames so many food produects which
are adalterated as to raise a query as
to what is not adunlterated. Among
the many impure things sold as all
spice, which often is mainly composed
of grouud and roasted cocoannt shells:
baking powder; beef, wine and iron,
prepared as a tomic; butter, buck
wheat flour, candy, catsap, cider,
cheese, cinnamon, cloves—tue latter
made slmost entirely from ground
cocoaunt shells, the odor and taste of
cleves being scarcely perceptible—
coffee—consisting chiefly of cof-
ee screenings or damaged cof-
fee, but sold at a hig_h price
as a pure article; fresh “Java,”
made from wheat and barley hulls,
roasted with sugar and containing no
coffec ; codfish, not codfish at all—
merely cheap dried fish; cream of
tartar adulterated with flour ; flaxseed,
aduiterated with starch; fruit “but
ters,”” such as apple butter, peach but
ter, ete., very seldom pure, being
adulterated withstarch waste and saly
cilic acid: the same is trune of grated
pineapple; ginger, adualterated with
ash, rice hulls, rice flour and cayenne
pepper; lard; maple syrup, made
from commercial glucose thinned with
about tweuty percent of water; mixed
spices, orange juice, lemon oil, lemon
phosphate, molasses, mustard, olive
oil, pepver, vinegar, vanilla extract,all
kinds of preserves, extract of straw
berries and tea.
To add to the decription a few ap
ple se2ds are scittered through the so
called fruoit jams, or timothy Qr other
seeds are added to the mixtare to rep
resent raspberry, strawberry, ete.
The produnetion of artificial colors is
psrticularly common in econfections.
Indigo, tumerie, annatto, logwood
and cochineal are used in great quan
tities, and are probably not harmful;
arsenic, copper and leads are very de-
leterious,but are not now used as much
as in former times, before sanitary of
ficials wade such persistent attacks on
them. Milk and milk products are
often colored. Annatto is very com-
wonly used by dairymen to -give a
rich yellow color. In itself annatto
is probably harmless, but it produces
deceptive results. —New York Post.
The Flying Machine Qutlook,
Professor S. P. Langley, sceretary
of the Smithsonian Institute, whose
experiments in the field of aerial navi-
gation have attracted world wide at
tention, has retarned from an extend
ed European trip. Secretary Langley
found that the problam of navigating
the air was attracting attention abroad,
and in all the countries which he vis
ited men of science were int:rested in
the successful results obtained by him
in his latest experiments,
In Euagland he visited Mr, Maxim,
who is at work on a new flying ma
chine differing 1 soms particulars
from the one he formerly constrneted,
The new Maxim machine will be quite
large, and will be capable of carrying
a maa to control it. Its practieal
trial will be watched with great in-
terest. Mr. Maxim's experiments
have been conducted partly along the
same general lines as those which
Sceretary Langley condueted. Thus
far, however, he has confined his ex
periments to a machine held down to
a track.
Seeretary L I>y said that he had
no further experiments in view at the
present time. He has demonstrated
that a flving machiue canfly by ac!ual
ly having flown one. He may concinde
to leave to others the work of practi
cally applying to commereial uses the
principles he bhas established. The
coustruction of a flying machine on a
commercial scale is only a question of
money, Secretary Langley says.
Food for Soldiers.
An officer of the United States
Army has recently complied some in
teresting figures on the food allow
auces made to the soldiery of different
nations, and argues that the better
the ratiouns, it naturally follows, the
better the fighters, ‘
For iustance, the case of the vieto
rions Japs in the recent Chinese-Jap
anese war lis citcd. The Chinese
troops subsisted on rice,together with
what they could pilfer, while the Jap
anese soldiers hal rice, tinned and
fresh meats, fish aud vegetables. The
meat allowance of a Japanese soldier
is seven ounces. The Russian standard
1816 ounces, the English 12, the
Italian 11, French, Belgian, Turkish
"‘a'n«‘ff German 9, Aastrian and Spanish
‘B, ““The allowance to the soldiers of
ih'g;fi;fiited States is higher than any
of the others, and is twenty ounces.
1 The daily allowance of bread is
bighest among the Austrian troops,
who receive thirty-two ounces and the
lowest is .the.. English army, where
each.man is allowed sixteen ounces,
In the Ugited States Army,the French
Army and tbe Italian Army the ailow
apce.is.twenty-tmo ounces. In the
German Army it is,. tweanty-eight; in
‘the Russian seventeen. All modern
soidiers, except-the Russiane, have a
daily aliowance of rice.. The Ameri
-can is the oniy ene in the commissar
iat of which beans are an article of
diet. —New York Joarnal,
A QUEEN'S SHOPPING.
Queen Victoria never makes pur
chases in a shop, but has everything
brought to her. There was muech
gossip in St. Petersburg some time
ago over the new czar’s unprecedented
act of going into a shop with his wife
to buy gloves. The Austrian Em
press seldom goes into a shop in
Vienna, but is very fond of shopping
when she can do so without being rec
ognized in her travels. —San Franecisco
Chronicle.
DOLLY VARDEN PANNIERS,
~ Dolly Varden panniers are coming
in again,so say the dressmakers. They
are certainly exceedingly becoming to
two styles of women, the overthin and
the overstout. The beanpole woman
acquires a semblance of hips and the
broad woman who has too muech of a
good thing modifies her appearance
by a puffiness of drapery, of which it
is impossible to predict the actual ex
tent. The dainty Dresden shepherd
essesin Parian and painted on Watteau
fans are good examples of a genuine
charm of the paunier, ‘
A DAINTY TOILET SET.
A dainty toilet setfor a young girl’s
room, consisting of cover, a set of
mats, and a stand cloth to match, is
of white linen, embroidered with a
moruing glory design,showing leaves,
flowers, the long slender buds and
tendrills,. The edges are in scallops,
buttonholed with white silk. The
flowers are in ja’e pink, veined both
with the white and dark garnet, and
the leaves are iu shades of olive. As
the design is worked either one of the
heart-shaped leaves or a flower alter
nates with the scallops in the border,
makiug a very pretty effeet,
QUEEN VICTORIA'S HOBBIES,
Queen Vietoria has two hobbies
which she pursues even now, despite
her feebleness, One is music, the
other languages. As a young Prin
cess her majesty was noted for her
sweet voice and her excellent touch
upon the piano.
It is not at ail exaggerating to say
that in both these respects she was
more than an extraordinarily good
musician. Thongh rheumatism pre
vents her playing now,she still retains
her love for harmony and enjoys
nothing more than a quiet musieal
evening,
At least half a dozen European lan
guages have been mastered Dby the
Queen, aud she has taken pride also
in obtaining close kuowledge of cer
tain German dialects. It is well known,
too, that within recent years her ma
jesty has succeede:l in acquiring more
than a mere acquaintance with Hin
dustani,
ENGAGEMENT RINGS.
The correct engagement ring to
give the dearest girl in the world is
no longer a diamond solitaire, but a
raby. This will be unwelcome news
for impecunious bridegrooms, but the
jewelers declare it is a fact.
The ruby is supposed to be of all
’ s[ones the most Incky—a pretty legend
connected wilh the gem is that Noah
wue supposed to bave had a ruby of
marvelous brillianey in the ark, and
that the roseate light which it emitted
was sufficient to illuminate the won
derful boat until all danger was past,
Many of the oldest betrothal rings
were set with rubies, these stones
being the acknowledged love tokens of
long ago,
Aud, speaking of ancient love to
kens, the British Museum contains a
love letter which was written 3,500
years ago. This is no doubt the oldest
love letter in existence, and it is also
the most substauntial, as it was written
on a brick. The letter was a proposul
of marriage for the haud of an Yosypt
ian princess,-~New York Journal,
BICYCLING AND THE FIGURE.
Tue Westminster Gazette has this to
say in regard to the effect of bieycling
upoun the figure: **There is a rumor
going about just now about bicycling
which it is a little too soon yet to test,
but in the proof of which many will
be interested. It is said that its tend
ency is to make the figure well knit,
Lat on the whole rather squat. It is
an adjective one would not like to
use in speaking of a lady’s figure, and
yet it is the proper adjective to con
vey the meaning. We all know—for
we all have seen—how much games
have influenced girls. The figure of
the English girl is almost completely
changed in the last tweonty years—
lawn tennis seems to have lengthened
ber arms and gymnastics her body.
She is taller, tlighter, more muscular,
more agile, and more manly,
They say that comstant bi
cyeling will leave her just as man
ly, but will pull her together instead
of pulling her out. The musecles that
this exercise calls into play develops
and promotes make for strength rather
than beanty. A graceful girl with a
liths figure looks peculiarly pie
turesque asshe glides along on wheels.
But then she is the girl that tennis
and gymnasties have produced. We
see her at her best. She will lose the
supp'e figure when she aboudons what
produeces it, and the will get the other
kind of figure when the gives herself
up to what starts another set of
muscles into action. The ‘bicyecle
face’ is a transitory disfigurement—
when the terror of anxiety that pro
duces it is allayed, the features return
to their normal expression. But the
bicycle leg, like the biacksmith’s arm,
will grow stouter with coanstant use,
TASSELS OF OSTRICH PLUMES,
There has been a new departure in
the manufacture of ostrich feather
trimming. The feathers themselves
have been transformed from the
sprightly, curly tips to a stem with
long fringe hanging from its flues
The attempt is to make them droop
like paradise feathers, as that is the
craze of the hour. The fringe is
usually in a different tint from the
rest of the feather. A white feather,
for instance will have a yellow fringe
about eight inches long.
It appears to best advantage, how
ever, when made into tassels and used
to trim boas and espes. A boa that
has been ou exhibition in a New York
window for some time has enormons ,‘
tassels at each end, each of which con- |
tains two thousand pieces. They are
formed of the same material which is
used to fringe the feathers. This
material is not new; it is merely u
new way of using the feathers them- |
selves. The stiff,ungainly stem, which
has always been so much in the way of
progress in feather manufacture, has
at last been removed, and the soft
flues are found pliable, The fringe is
made by simply twisting the flues to
gether, three or fonr being used to
make one string for a feather, and
more according to length jwanted
when a tassel is to be made. The
tassels on the end of the white feather
boa mentioned are about eighteen
inches long and as thick as a man’s
arm. It took four girls ten days to
twist the 4,000 ends used in these
tassels,
Small tassels are used to trim
feather capes and collarettes, and in
this way they very much resemble the
fur tails that edged fur capes last
Instead of the bushy mink
year,
tails used on far boas we shall see soft
feather tassels and ostrich boas during
the coming season. They are dyed in
all colors, but the prettiest combina
tion is white and yellow. A white
feather collarette bas yellow tassels
about eight fnches long, set around
the bottom at intervals of six or eight
inches. There is a sort of jabot of
yellow tassels in front.
Out of a pound of feathers contain-
ing from sixty to eighty plames about
eight tassels can be made of the size
described on the white boa. It is a
new industry, but there are already
one Lhundred people at work inthe fac
tory. The product is called plume
de sanle. The manufacturers intend
to use it in connection with fur goods,
There will be ostrich tassels on fur
mufls and boas, and it is possible that
we shall sce a soft fabric woven out o
he feather threads.
Feather muffs with ostrich tassels are
veing made to go with the ostrich
boa. A large firm in New York holds
the patent on this material, but it is
being scattered broadeast all over the
country, and there is every indication
that it will be the leading trimming of
the coming season.
In making this feather thread the
very best quality of plumes are used,
as a poor grade would give a stringy
fringe that is not pretty.—Washing-
on Star.
s FASHION XNOTES.
Ermine waistcoats, with full cream
lace cravats, are worn with sealskin
coats this season.
A feather boa is an article easily
worn inappropriately and without re
gard to the proprieties of fashion.
A very beautiful shade of palest
corn color is exhibited among evening
gloves of both uundressed and glace
kid.
Pockets hanging from the belt are
going to be fashionable again, both
belt and pocket to be heavily studded
with the imitation gems now much
used.
High crowns are the rnle among the
new felt hats, and feathers of all kinds
are used in great profusion. Partridge
wings are worn, and a special novelty
is an owl’s head, with jewels for eyes,
and wings on either side,but no body.
Black bodices of chiffon or net em
broidered iu colors, or trimmed with
fancy ribbon, are the latest thing to
wear with black silk skirtss Any
color you choose may be used to
brighten the waist, but the main fea
tare must be black.
It goes without a sermon that seal
skin will hold its own, as well as other
furs that last season obtained fashion
able recognition. Sealskin and Per
sian lamb will De a favorite combina-
tion, and chiochilla will be the most
elegant of all fur trimmings,
Tules and gauzes, according to a
Paris correspondent, are to be the
most fashionable materials for eyen
ing gowns for young ladies, especially
those who next year are to make their
social debut. Both materials are ex
peusive and cannot be imitated at a
cheap price. This, no doubt, is a
tecommem.htion in the eyes of some
women,
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
A CHEAP FROSTING.
Well beat the white of one egg, ‘add
to it one tablespoonful of cold water,
and stir into it gradually sufficient
sugar to thicken it. Lay it on the
cake and smooth it with a knife dipped
in boiling water, set it in a cool oven
to dry. This frosting cuts easily with
out breaking.
FOR FEATHER BEDS.
Au unusual way of treating a feath
er bed is as follows: Place it u pon a
pinzza ¢roof, if one is at haud, or, if
not,upon several boards,so as to raise
it from the ground. Leoave it ex
posed to the drenching rain uutil it is
thoronghbly soaked, then turn the bed
several times. Dry it in the sun, turn
ing first one side and then the other,
When one side is perfectly dry,beat it
up with sticks until perfectiy light,
and so on, uutil the bed is in perfeet
condition,
FOUNDATIONS FOR SAUCES,
’ Peppers, walouts, and lemons may
' all be used as the foundation of very
' good winter sances or vinegar for flay
oring salads, use on cold meats, or in
’ chafing-dish cookery. The walnut
- vinegar should e made when the nuts
are green enough to be piyreed by a
! darnivg-needle. As one only cares
for it for occasional fiavoring, only a
small quantity nced be made, and a
few dozen nuts will be all that will be
required. After picking the nuts pat
them in a stone jar with two table
spoounfuls of salt to every fifiy nuts
sprinkled between them. After standing
over night crush the nuts with a wooden
mallet, and put them back in the
brine for ten or twelve days. Then
pour off the brine and heat the nuts
in enough boiling water to cover them.
Strain this liquid and add it to the
Lrine. Measure your liquid and spice
with red and black pepper, cloves,
mace, and ginger, using a tablespoon
ful of the black pepper and ginger,
half a tablespoonful of the cloves and
the mace, and the red pepper to taste.
Simmer fifteen or twenty minutes for
every quart. Puat in bottles, scal, and
stand in a cool place.—New York
Post,
WORTH KNOWING,
Thin glass is less likely to be broken
by boiling water than glass which is
thicker, since it allows the heat to
pass through it more quickly. A tea
spoon putinto a tumbler before pour
ing in boiling water will often prevent
the glass from cracking, especiully if
you pour the water in very slowly,
Soap should be cut with a wire or
twine, and kept out of the air for two
or three weeks, for if it dries quickly
it will erack and soon break when wet.
Soda, by softening the water saves a
great deal of soap. It is said that the
oftener carpets are shaken the
they wear; the dirt that is un
der then! grinds out the threads.
Scald your wooden utensils often, and
keep }'our‘tinware dry. When washe
ing them, damp a cloth, dip it in com
mon soda, rub the ware briskiv, and
wipe dry before setting aside. 1f cop
per utensils are used, be careful not
to let the tin be rubbed off, and to
have them repaired when the least de
fect appears. Again, never put by
any soup, gravy, ete., in them, or
indeed, in any metal vessel ; stone and
earthenware utensils should be pro
vided for these purposes. Tin vessels,
if kept damp, will soon rust, and this
causes holes. Suet andlard keep bet
terin tin than in earthenware. —De
troit Free Press.
- Honey Tea Cake—One cup of honey,
balf a cap of sour ecream, two cggs,
Lalf a cup of butter, two of flour,
scant half-teaspoonful of soda, one
teaspoonful of cream of tartar., Bake
thirty minutes in a moderate oven,
Pickled Red Cabbage—Slice a solid
bead of red eabbage in thin strips;
sprinkle lightly with salt; let stand
over night; in the morning drain and
cover with boiling vinegar, to which
add a dozen cloves and twice as many
peppercorns. This will make two
qnarts,
Broiled Potatoes Cut six eold
boiled potatoes in slices a third of an
inch thick, dip them in melted butter
and fine bread crumbs, place in the
double broiler and broil over a fire that
is not too bhot. Tarn out on bot plat
ter, arrange the stuffed eggs around
them and garnish with parsiev.
Swiss Cream--Lay oue-quarter pound
of macearoous in a glass dish, mix two
tablespoonfals of cornstarch with three
of milk, put a pint of cream over the
fire and when near boiling stir in
cornstarch ;cook slowly three minutes;
remove from fire anl flavor with tea
spoonful of vanilla; ponr over maceca
‘roons. When cold dust with Dbright
bits of jelly or eandied fruit,
Ham and Ricz- Chop very fine one
cupful of the crumbs and trimmings of
boiled ham. DBoil one cup of rice and
mix the ham with it while hot; add
one tublespoonful of butter; pile it
lightly on a platter, Beat three eggs
add one pint of milk, cook it over
boiling water until thickened slightly ;
then pour it over the rice and serve
at once.
Pea Soup—Pick over one cup of
split peas, wash and put them into
one quart of rapidly boiling water.
Boil steadily until tender and dis
solved. Then rub them throngh a
gravy-strainer, and put on to boil
again ; add one pint of milk. Dissolve
one tablespoonful of flour in one table
spoonful of melted butter; add one
tablespoonful of salt and one saltspoon
ful white pepper. When the soup is
boiling stir in the seasoning and cook
ten miontes longer. Serve with
toasted crackers or fried cubes of stale
bread.
RECIPES.,
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