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A pair of very chubby legs
Encased in scariet hose;
A pair of littie stubby boots
With rather doubtful toes;
A little kiit; a little coat—
Cut as a mother can—
And lo! before us stands in stale
The future’s ‘““coming man.”
His eyes, perchance, will read the stars,
And search their unknowa ways;
Perchance the human heart and soul
Will open to their gaze:
Perchance their keen and fiashing glance
Will be a nation’s light - _
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some “big fellow’s™ kite.
They were standing together out on
the moonlit terrace. Behind them
in the distance sounded the band,
playing eoft, dreamy waltz musiec.
But what cared they for dancing and
the hot, crowded ball room? In all
the world for bim there was only one
woman, aud she stood, her hands
clasped in his, her head resting on his
shoulder.
“You won’'t forget me, darling,” he
whispered, ‘“when I am thousands of
miles away, at the other side of the
world, and letters are long in coming?
You'll remember that I am coming
back in two years at the latest, to
claim my little wife.”
“Ob, it can’t be really true, Geof
frey, that you are going to-morrow?
It is too dreadful to think of! Andit’s
not I that will forget. I shail think
of you night and day until you come
back. Bat you'll most likely meet
with some lovely American giri—all
American women are lovely, you
know—and then you'll forget all about
poor little Mysie Trafford, who is
waiting for you in Eagland.” ‘
“When I am out on the great lone
ly prairies,” he said dreamily, *“I
sball just shut my eyes and think my
self back to this night. I shall hear
the band in the distance, I shall feel
you once more in my arms, and I
shall smell the faint odor of the helio
trope you are wearing.”
For answer she took a piece of the
heliotrope from her drese.
““Here's a little Lit of it,” she said.
*““When you mect that lovely Ameri
can, and wish that you were free, and
that this evening had never been,then
you can put that little flower in an
envelope, and you needn’t write a
word to put ia with it, but jast ad
dress it to me, and when I getit I
shall know what it means, and you
will be free.”
“What nonsense, Mysie!” he said
angrily. ““Why do you talk like that?
You know—"
*‘Ob, here you are!” eried a shr.il
voice.
““I bave been looking for yon
everywhere, Mr. Castleford is as
cross as he can be, Mysie. He says
you promised him the last two dances,
and then you disappeared and no one
could fiud you; and as for you, Mr.
Hamilton, I think you hal Dbetter
keep out of the way altogether, after
disappointing Lady May aud goodness
knows who bosides.” And Gertrude,
Mysi.’s sister, chattered on, totally
uncounscious that she was a most un
welcome intruder.
She and Mysie had been taught
that it was their duly to make good
matches, and Geoffrey Hamilton, with
no money, and jast off for Ameriea,
was so entirely ineligible that she sns
peeted nothiog, and ruthlessly insisted
on their immeliate return to the ball-
JYoom.
Mysie Jooked often at the little
hoop of pearls—the pledge of Ler be
troths.—b Lat never put it on, except
in her own room just for a few min
utes, Somehow as the days went by it
secmed barder to speak of that even
ing to her mother, especlaily as her
mother had uot the faintest suspicion
of anything of the sort. And so a
month passed away,
Then one cvening Mysie retarned
from a walk aud saw.a letter Iying on
the Lall table. One glauce at her own
name and the postmark— “New York”
= and she snatched up tite letter, won
dering if any one had noticed it, then
ran up to bher owa room, and c¢losed
the door to enjoy it in peace.
The fire burned brightly and looked
inviting, and she drew up a low easy
cbair aud scated herself comfortably
as she broke the seal of the envelope,
What was the faint perfame as she
did s 0? She drew out a sheet of blank
note paper from the folds of which a
little pices of dead beliotrope s'ipped
and fell to the 1. 1.
“Mysie, you must come down,”
said Gortrade. “Mr. Castleford is
down stairs, and mother SAYS you are
to come,” as Mysie looked rebellions.
“But you must change yvour dress;
you can’t come in that, Has anytiing
bappenei? You look very queer.”
“No,” sa’d Mysie, with a strange
little laugh; “‘at lewst nothing of im
portance. I will come down pres
ently.”
In a very short time she was in the
drawing-room, and Herbert Castle
ford, as he looked at her, thought he
bad never scen her so beantifal. He
bhad loved her for years, but he had
received so little encouragement from
her that he had not spoken; but to
night be had determined to put his
fate to the test, while poor Mysie,
with & pain at her heart, was saying
to berself that if Geoffrey could forget
s 0 easily, why, so could she.
And so it came about that a few
hours later she retarned to her room,
. baving pledged herself to Herbert
Castleford. Instead of the little hoop
of pearls she had never worn she po;-
~ sessed a handsome diamoud ring, and
~ the dead flower and the pearls were
, pat far away out of sight, to be for-
E gotten—if possible.
Six months had passed and Herbert
patleford was pressing for an early
The Coming Man.
Those han
THE ONE GIRL.
little, busy hands—
So sticky, small and brown—
Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down—
Who knows what hidden strength may be
Contained within their clasp,
Though now ’tis but a tafly stick
In sturdy hold they grasp?
Ah! blessings on those little hands,
Whose work is yet undone!
And blessings on those little feet,
Whose race is yet unrun!
And blessings on the little braio
That has not learned to plan!
Whate'er the future holds in store,
God bless the ‘““coming man!”
marriage. Mysie and her mother had
gone away from home immediately
after her becoming engaged. Mysie
complained of the cold and looked so
delicate that her mother took her t>
the south of France, where,soon after,
Castleford followed them.
Mysie seemed willing that the wed
ding should take place whenever they
liked to arrange it, so matters were
being pushed to sunit the impatient
lover, when oneday Gertrude ran into
the room where Mysie and H .bert
were sitting, .
“Look, Mysie!” she cried. *‘Here
is a lovely bunch of flowers from that
dear count! Isn’t he silly? And
they are such beauties! Only smell
them! Obh, lam so pleased! Look!
Here are a bit of heliotrope and some
maidenhair that will just do for you.”
To her surprise Mysie turned pale
and sbrank back, looking almost
appealingly at her lover, who was
watching her.
As their eyes met there was some
thing in his—an expression, a con
sciousness, a what? Mpysie did not
know, but a great trembling seized
her. A htndred thoughts seemed to
pass throngh ber mind in a moment,
but of one thing she was certain—
Herbert Castleford knew all about
those playful, loving words spoken
out on the terrace on the never-to-be
forgotten night.
Then, leaning forward, she asked,
as if they had already been speaking
to each other:
““How did you send it from New
York?”
“I—that is—what do you mean,
Mysie? I never sentit!”
Seeing that her clear eyes seemed
to read him through, he attempted no
more denial, but just caught her
bands in his and implored her to for
give him,
“Icame out to look for you that
night,” he said, “‘and I heard what
you were saying just as Gertrude
came upon you from the other side,
and it was such a temptation, for I
loved you dearly—much better than
he did. It was all done for love of
you, Mgysie.”
She tried to wave him away, but in
stead fell fainting to the ground.
When she recovered Herbert Castle
ford had gose. A few basty lines from
bim besought her forgiveness, and told
her Geoffrey was now on his way baek
to Eugland to find out why she had
not written to him ; that he hoped they
would have been married before Geof
frey could arrive, but that now he
would go away and never trouble her
again,
“You will forgive me, Gaoffrey,
won’t yon,” she said, *“for doubting
you? But it seemed so terribly true!
Look! Here are the envelope and
the flower.”
“And here is the flower vou gave
me,” said Geoffrey. ““There’s not
much difference, certainiy, between
them, bat regarding the envelops—
well, T must give you a few specimens
of my haudwriting when I go away
again, so that you may not be taken
u so easily,”
“But I shall never let you g 0 away
again,” said Mysie, -
Aud that was how they arranged it.
« A Child and the Letters.
Au ingenious per:on named Krohn,
whose patience is evidently more
highly developed than his sense of
bumor, has been making some ¥xperi
ments that are supposed to be very
importaut to scientific teachers. He
hus fonnd that it takes a young child
364-1000 of a second to recognize the
letter ¢, 358-1000 of a second to recog-
nize the letter a, and 389-1000 of a
second to recognize the letter t; while
the word e¢-a-t as a whole is recognized
in 339-1000 of a second. Therefore,
he says, primary teaching should be
doune by words and not by letters, and
the letters should be 1-12 of an inch
high and printed i} a line not more
than four inches long. We don’t
know exactly how he has discovered
nll these things, bLut that does not
matter; for he is evidently a very pro
found person. We bave dcne some
figuring ourselves on the basis of his
researches, and we found that follow
ing out his method and adopting his
kind of reading book, a chiid of five
years, in an average du'y leswon,
would each day save 9789-10,000 of a
minute out of his valuable time,
Thivk of that!—The Bookman,
Madagascar Under Frauce.
Madagascar is beginyinz to reap
some of the benefits of the rule which
the French, much against the wishes of
the natives, have forced upon the
island. Slavery has been abolished,
and government work, chiefly in the
direction of improvement to the roads
and highways, is going on in every
direction. General Gallieni, who is
now the practical ruler of the island,
is baving the greatest difficulty with
the labor guestion., He is trying to
prepare some sort of a labor law that
will counteract the evils which have
resnlted from the sudden abolition of
slavery,
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The United States consumed last
year more than 4,000,000 bunches of
Jamaica bananas,
It is estimated that 2,000,000 tons
of pure silver are held in solution by
all the waters of the earth.
At the point where the Mississippi
river flows ont of Lake Itasca it isonly
ten fecet wide aund eighteen inches
deep.
The most extens've cemetery in the
world is that at Rome, in which over
6,000,000 hbuman beings have been in
terred.
Journal.
On the summit 5f Ben Lomond are
the smallest trees in Great Britain.
They are dwarf willows and when m.
ture are only about two inches in
height.
A size in gloves is from a quarter to
half an inch. The sizes of gloves fur
nish little indication of their probable
fit, as the gloves of some mannfact
urers stretch more than those made by
others,
The British secretary of state for
war has issued a circular to the
various commanding generals of the
army calling upon them to enforce the
Queen’s regulations requiring offi ers
to grow moustaches.
In India there are 100,000 boys and
627,000 girls under the age of four
teen who are legally married, while
8,600 boys and 24,000 girls who have
not attained the age of four are under
marriage bonds by their parents.
Robert Reid, railway contractor of
Montreal, Canada, is the owner of
5,000 sqnare miles of land in New
foundiand. It was given to him by the
Dominion government in paymeut for
his services in building a railroad in
he colony,
The late C. Jerome Cary of Mil
wankee, Wis., directed that his body
should be burned, that the ashes
should be used to nourish a certain
rosebush,and that the blossoms should
be distributed among his friends, His
wishes were carried out.
Stockport, England, boasts one of
the largest Sunday schools in the
world. The total number of scholars
at present on the books is no fewer
than 4,834, while there are 238 male
and 195 female teachers—a grand
army of over 5,000.
The «Tippecanoe’” Inauguration,
Mr. Joseph B. Bishop contributes
an article on ‘‘lnanguration Scenes
and Incidents” to the Century, which
is an “‘lnauguration number.” Con
cerning the inauguration of General
William Henry Harrison, Mr. Bishop
says: A magnificent carriage had
been constructed by his admirers, and
presented to General Harrison, with
the express wish that he ride in it to
tl @ Cipitol; but he declined to do so,
it sisting upon riding a horse instead.
The crowd of visitorsalong the avenue
from the White House to the Capitol
was the largest yet seen in Washing
ton. The procession created such en
thusiasm that the novel expedient was
put in operation of having it march
and countermarch several times before
leaving its hero at the Capitol, For
two hours it went to and fro in the
avenue before the spectators were sup
posed to have their fiil of it. Mr.
Adams, who saw it from his window,
nnder which it passed, deseribes it in
his diary a mixed military and eivil
cavalcade, with platoons of militia
compaies, Tippecanoe clubs,students
of coileges, school-boys, a half-dozen
veteraus who had fought under the old
hero in the war of 1811, sundry awk
ward and ungainly painted banners
and log cabins, and without carriages
or showy dresses. The coup d’eil,
he adds, was showy-shabby; and he
says of the general: ‘‘He was on a
mean-looking white horse, in the cen
tre of seven others, in a plain frock
coat or surtout, undistinguishable
from any of those before, behind, or
around him.” The day was cold and
bleak with a chilly wind blowing.
General Harrison stood for an hour
exposed to this while delivering his
address, and at its close mounted his
horse and returned to the White
House with the procession again as an
escort.
Earthquakes in the Philippines,
Nature in showering riches unnum
bered upon Luzon did not forget to
provide her with an ever-ready supply
of earthquakes which are brought out
to startle newcomers with suddenness
and frequency. Japan is free from
earthquakes compared to the Philip
pines. A man may be conscious of a
slight motion in Yokohama, but in
Manila his very bones seem to rattle.
In Japan you are gently swayed;
in Luzon you are racked. San Fran
cisco, which enjovs a slight tremor
now and then, would think that her
foundations were of dynamite if she
experienced one of the dozen shocks
Maniia bas known in the last three
decades, Indeed, the study of earth
quakes past and present is a worthy
excuse for visiting the Philippines.
No less an authority than Sir John
Bowring says in describing these seis
mic effects: *‘‘They have overturned
mountains; they have filled up wval
leys; they bave desolated extecsive
plains; they have opened passages
from the sea into the interior, and
from the lake into the ses.” Are they
not, then, a fit land for rebellion and
insurrection? The spirits of air and
earth alike nurture unrest. As I see
again, as it were, those cavernous
cracks in cathedrals and walls, those
tottering spires and towers, those moun
taine where Pelion has veritably been
piled on Ossa, insarrection seems the
logical result of the surroundi2gs and
m.uocisfiona. —North American Re
view,
The first number of a new paper en
titled the German Industrial Adver
tiser, in the Japanese language, has
appeared.
INTO THE UNKNOWN
Explorations That Were Made
During the Past Year,
Late Conquests in Remote Quar-
ters of the Globe.
In briefly surveying the work that
has been accomplished by travelers
during the past 12 or 18 months, and
the field of exploration that is left
unfinished by these labors, it is made
manifest that the planet which we in
babit is not yet fully conguered.
The most brilliant piece of recent
exploration is unquestionably Nan
sen’s heroic effort to reach the *‘far
thest North ;" if he has failed to reach
the ultima thule of the explorer, to
plant his flag upon the much-coveted
North Pole, he has at least succeeded
in arriving nearer to it by some 200
miles than any previous voyager of
the Arctic seas. How long the record
of 86 degrees 14 minutes will stand
cannot be foretold, but there is rea
son to hope and to believe, with the
advances that have latterly been made
in polar work and knowledge, and the
activity which is being manifested in
this field of inquiry, that it will be
challenged and passed before many
years. Nansen’s greatest contribution
to geographical knowledge is not the
attaining of his high northern posi
tion, but the determination of the ex
istence of a profoundly deep sea (of
some 12,000 to 15,000 feet) in the far
North, for it had been almost univer
sally assnmed by geographers that the
Arctic basin was a comparatively shal
low one.
In the continent of Africa the hand
of the explorer has not been idle; an
other of its main features has been
sketched out and the problem of the
Niger solved. Every successive quar
ter of a century has added something
to our knowledge of the general course
of this river, but, singularly eunough,
up to the present year the work of ex
ploration has not been such as to make ‘
a continuous study, and sections of f
the ‘‘intermediate’” course of the river
have remained as unknown as though
no work had been conducted in the
region before. The announcement is
now made that the full exploration of
the river has been brought to a sue
cessful completion by the French trav
eler, Captain Hourst, who, in bonats,
descended the stream from Bammako
and Timbuctoo to the actual monuth.
The journey was begnn in January,
1896, aud terminated in the early days
of October,with the arrival at Okassa.
Of the long section between Timbue
too and Say hardly any trustworthy
information has heretofore existed,and
Barth himself knew but scattered parts
of both banks, The journey of Cap
tain Hourst thus makes a memorable
addition to African knowledge, and
it closes nearly the last important
problem connected with ths geogra
phy of the ‘“dark continent.” It has,
moreover, a great commercial signi
ficance, since it establishes the fact
that, despite the presence, here and
there, of impeding rapids, the river is
practically navigable throughout its
entire course,
The heart of Asia, in the remark
able explorations of Mr. St. George
Littledale—his traverse of the Kuen
lun range and of the great eastern
plateau of Tibet, the so-called Chang
is the beginning toward filling in the
great cartographical blank which be
gins with the northern Himalaya
chain and ends with the Altai, and
with which are associated the head
waters of some of the mighty rivers of
the globe—lrrauadi, Yang-Tze and
Mekong. This Tibetan plateau, as
has been properly pointed out by
General Walker, chief of the trigonom
etrical survey of India, is the largest
protuberance of the earth’s sarface,
and its physiographic features are
among the most unique and imposing
that this globe presents, Toward its
exploration will doubtless be directed
much of the energy of travel during
the next quarter of a century.
In a brief dispatch addressed to the
governor of Queensland, Australia,
Sir William MacGregor, the adminis
trator of British New Guinea, an
nounces that, ‘“without loss of life or
limb,” he has successfully mads the
first crossing of New Guinea. Throggh
this venture, therefore, another one
of the presumably inaccessible regidns
of the earth’s surface has fallen sub
missive before man’s determination
and daring. Various attempts to pene
trate into the interior of New Guinea
have, from time to time, been made,
but, owing to the hostile character of
the native tribes, the dense vegetable
growth, and the comparative insignifi
cance of the water courses tending
to make avenues of travel, these ef
forts have met with but little success,
while in some instances the extermi
nation of the personnel of the expedi
tion has been the only achievement of
a well directed purpose. The region,
except on its borderland, has thus
long remained a virtnal terra incog
nita; indeed, mauy of its most salient
features were hardly known before the
earlier explorations of MacGregor, in
1889, Washington Star.
A River Tragedy.
A steamer cailed Martha Washing
ton left the Cincinnati docks late on
the night of January 7, 1852. ‘She
was heavily freighted with a cargo
consigned to New Orleans and the mar
kets of Texas and California. In her
cabin were thirty passengers. When
seven days out, on the coldest night
known to river men, she burned to
the water’s edge off Island Sixty-five
in the Mississippi river. Despite the
loss of sixteen lives, together with the
cargo,the catastrophe excited no more
comment at the time than maay Jike
disasters. In time, however, the cap
tain and others were charged with
buraning the boat to secure insurance.
In a famous trisl they were acquitted,
but belief in their guilt remained gen
eral. :
On the witness stand is the pilot,
Lewis Choate. *‘l was at the wheel
when the Martha Washington barned,”
says he. *‘Captain Cummings was
with me in the pilothouse, Iremarked
that I smelled fire. The captaia looked
about and said there was no fire. He
went down stairs, however, and im
mediately the flames broke out.
“I stood at the wheel until a line
was made fast to a tree. There was
' no person alive in the eabin when the
' boat struck the shore. I could hear
the glass rattling like hail in the burn
ing cabin, where the flames roared
like a tornado. I jumped ashore
from the pilothouse—a hard spring it
was ; I struck partly in the water and
partly on shore. All the passengers
who ever got ashore did so at the in
stant the steamer struck the bauk.
Yes,” he adds, in a tragic voice, “‘if I
had believed that Captain Cummings
set the boat on fire, I would have
taken bis life that night. If you,”
addressing Mr. Stanbury, who stands
erect aud alert, the very Bayard of
the bar, ““bad seen the misery, the
suffering that night on board the Mar
tha Washington, you would not blame
me. lam sure I would have killed
the incendiary on the spot. It was
the coldest night I ever saw in that
country. No one could quench the
flames. As well describe a hurricane
as that fire, so fierce, so swift was the
destruction it wrought. lun less than
a minute after the engineer shonted
back to me that there was no fire the
flames flashed ten or twelve feet above
the burricane deck. The eabin of the
boat had been painted over, God
only knows how often--perhaps twenty
times. It was not the coal-tar paint
on the chimneys I smelled; it was a
pine and turpeatine smell,” —Me-
Clure’s Magazine. i
Rats Destroying Paris,
l Quite a cry-of alarm is being raised.
Paris and the Parisians are menaced
with destrnction by rats, which are
honeycombing the city, and will soon
start on an organized raid, with a view
to devouring its inhabitants, The mu
nicipal council is invoked to avert the
impending eatastrophe, and it is sug
gested that a substantial reward might
be offered to any one who could in
vent some practical process whereby
these horrid creatures might be ban
ished off the face or, rather,the depths
’of the earth, ere worse befall. Set
ting maunifest exaggeration aside, it
must be admitted that never has this
nuisance assumed more formidable
proportions than at the present date.
Never before have the rats, within the
bounds of the fortifications, increased
and multiplied to such a disagreeable
extent. They teem everywhere, and
the recent floods and rains have ren
dered them particularly active. They
emerge in their thousands from the
drains, and in out-of-the-way districts
scour the streets in gangs, affording
fine sport to the policemen on duty
there at night, who pursue them with
their sword bayonets, committing veri
table massacres. It is, however, in
the neighborhood of the central mar
kets and the Palais Royal that they
most do congregate, as well as in the
slaughter houses. @ Vendors at the
Halles do not know where to stow
their goods for greater security, and
at the abattoirs havoc is played by the
rats with the carcasses which come
ready to their teeth. The demolition @
of old houses, large stables and the
like, for building purposes, has de
prived myriads of their former means
of subsistence, and has turced them
loose on society. That something
must be done to keep this nuisance
within certain limits at least is a neces
sity which seems to be generally rec
ognized, but nobody appears to be, as
yet, ready with a plan of campaign,
Paris Letter.
A Texas Dairy Farm,
Hiram C. Wheeler, the lowa furm
king, who was the Republican nomi.
nee for governor of the state in 1891
and was defeated by Horace Boies,
bas sold his farm of more than 4,000
acres in Sac county and will move at
once to Texas. He has purchased
more than 7,000 acres of land fifty
miles northeast of Galveston and pro
poses to establish the largest dairy
farm in the world. To this end he
bas ordered two milking machines,ca
pable of milking 200 cows each at one
time, similar to the one successfully
used upon his*lowa farm for more
than a year, and proposes to deliver
milk to Galveston people as promptly
as if the dairy was located only one
mile from the city. Mr. Wheeler has
already shipped one car of machinery
to the new farm. He has ample finan
cial backing to make the venture a
success. —Chicago Times-Herald.
An Abnermal Appetite,
Melancholia on account of the loss
of two children has develop2d an ab
normal appetite in an Odessa woman
32 years of age, whose case is report
ed in a German medical journal. She
first tried to commit suicide by drink
ing petroleum and a solution of car
bolic acid. She then took to swallow
ing metalic objects, beginning with
needles, nails, hairpins, bittons and
steel pens, and winding up with forks
and teaspoons. The doctor, who took
37 pieces of hardware out of her stom
ach, asked her howshe got them down,
She answered, “Ob, il is easy, with
the bandle first.”
The World’s Shipping,
The mercantile shipping of the
world was increased in 1896 Ly 842,-
000 tons net, the sailing tounage being
reduced by 264,000 tons, and the
steam tonnage increased by 1,105,000
tons. Oi the total increase only 299,-
421 tons of steam and 108,710 tons of
sailing vessels were built out of Eng
land.
LATE PARISIAN CONFECTION.
; One of the latest Parisiun confec
‘tions is a bolero of black chiffon that
can be slipped on over aay bodice, to
lend an air of festivity to a toilet. At
‘the back the chiffon is pat on fall,
with six rows of shirring that draws it
down tight to the linings. The shir
ring at the front is pushed together
to make six puffs. The two fall bouil
lons of black chiffon are placed at the
armiole and fall neariy to tae elbow.
Black velvet ribbon and brass buttons
trim the bolero. When worn with a
white canvas cloth gown that had a
black velvet belt the effecct was decid
edly new and charming. These are
the little things that make house
dresses elegant to look upon, yet cost
almost nothing. —Chicago Times-Her
ald,
SHE MENDS SHOES.
Mrs. Pollock of Pittston, Penn.,
mends shoes. Her husband was a
cobbler, and she frequently assisted
him through a rash. When she was
left dependent upon her own resources
she bravely picked up the last and
awl,and continued her husband’s busi
ness. This new departure—a woman
cobbler—created much consternation
in the neighborhood. This dismay
resulted in a decided decrease in pat
ronage. But Mrs. Pollock knew the
way to a woman’s heart, and offered to
mend shoes at bargain ratess. @ When
the cut down the rates fixed by her
husband, the women ventured to try
her. She turned out such good work
and the orders were so promptly filled
at low prices, that she soon had a
large trade. She now employs a man
to assist her, and earns i.om 820 to
$25 a week. —New York Journal.
A STREET GOWN.
A stylish gown seen on the street
the other day was of fine black ladies’
cloth. Thae skirt was perfectly plain
and made with overlapping seams.
The black, tight fitting coat bodice,
which also showed the seams over
lapped, opened in front over a little
white vest. This vest was trimmed on
each side of the opening with a nar
row scroll of black braid, and set
closely down the front were two rows
of tiny black cloth buttons. The col
lar was a black stock, and a black
satin tie was bowed in frort. On each
side, at the top of the stock, were two
overlapping points of the white, with
the scroliwork of the black braid. The
neck was finished with a frill of
creamy lace, which half stood and half
fell over points and stock with a soft
ening effect which was becoming,
The coat had a turn over collar of
black velvet in the back, and the bot
tom ended in a regular narrow coat
tail, upon which were the small but
tons. The sleeves were long, with a
square tailor finish at the wrist, and
were also trimmed with the buttons.—
New York Press.
THE MEXICAN BELLEZAS
The eyes of a Latin beauty are sim
ply magnificent in their changing ex
pressions; they perfectly mirror every
shade of sentiment in the Southern
soul. The face, too, dangerously de
mure, unless lighted up by a radiant
ly captivating smile, can hardly be
matched for beauty the wide world
around, when regarded in all its har
mony of gleaming teeth, countenance
delicately tinted and dimpled, raven
hair falling in waves upon the marge
of the high, white forehead, and the
film of the lace-wrought sevillana,
carelessly tossed with true Castilian
grace upon the head. A corner of the
lace head wrap lightly kisses forehead
and cheek, and makes a fit crowning
to the gracefally lined form, shawled
in the silken folds and sweeping
fringe of the costly tapalo, brought
over from Spain as a family heirloom
many years ago. There is nocostume
more befitting the occasion than these
Andalusian shawls and lace head drap
eries, reinforced by the Spanish fan,
innocent in itself, but a whole battery
of expressiveness when commanded by
the taper fingers of a Southern beauty
abroad for conquest.—Ladies’ Home
Journal,
COLORED HANDKERCHIEFS.
Exquisfte little *‘hankies,” as a
friend of mine always dabs the nowa
days ornamental mouchoir, court the
gaze in the Rue de la Paix in a scale
of charming colors. They are of fine
cambric, in rose, yellow, ecrimson,
mauve, blue or purple, or, more cor
rectly speaking, pansy violet, and are
untrimmed, save for the rather broad
openwork hemstitch with which they
are enframed all ronnd,and the Chris
tian name written in full,and imitating
the owner’s hand writiog. The signa
ture is, moreover, embroidered in
black or purple cotton. These hand
kerchiefs, I am told, must either be
sent to the cleaners, or rinsed in cold
water, in which a little salt has been
dissolved. @ The darker cambries—
crimson, purple, and for half moarn
ing, in Llack—Dbear the name written
in white. Other dainty handkerchiefs,
of fine white gossamer cambric, are
embroidered with Jights of birds or
butterflies and enframed with Malines
or Valeuciennes entredenx, a flonne
ing of lace finishing them off—Dbirds,
butterflies or tiny flowerets, embroid
ered in pink, mauve. or pale green,
upon the pure white surface. Pink
and yellow cambric are effectively
trimmed with narrow entredeux and
lace of fine black Chantilly. Paris
Fashion Letter.
MUST «ONSIDER THE LININGS.
} Whatever else we neglect now, we
- must, perforce, consider the linings,
‘and nowhere are they better seem in
the skirts of day gowns than at the
fashionable skating rinks, where every
body elects to dress well. The white
satin bod ces, either covered with jet
or embroidered or veiled with jetted
net, seem to be considered a suitable
accompaniment to all sorts of skirts.
The hats to accompany these are either
large and picturesqie, or sailors in
velvet, with wreaths of flowers, or re
placed by the most fascinating toques,
in which fur always playsa part. Very
notable indeed are the nigrettes and
quills ; and jewels that are real and
others that are not, accompany the
feathers. A few courageous women
wear white shoes, but they can hardly
be said to be a success with the dark
skirts, however bright the lining. The
narrowest colored leather belts are
worn, or gold galon belts with multi
colored enamelled buckles. Lovely
mantles of fur, or trimmed with far,
are put on when the skating is over;
and sometimes a short sable jacket,
with a full and shallow basque, belted
with chine ribbon, and displaying vel
vet sleeves, figures on the ice. Bro
cades, satin and velvet, show large
square sable collare, often mingled
with fine and priceless lace. Sealskin
capes have the most delicate flowered
pompadour silk linings.—New York
San,
SHABBY BODICES MADE NEW,
The silk bodice that has done ser
vice all the winter is apt to show
signs of wear by the time spring ar
rives. Frequently it is not worn out
entirely, and its economical owner
cannot afford to discard it. Yet the
eight of it has grown tiresome to her
@sthetic eyes, and it isa positive
weariness to the flesh to wear it. Then
it is that ‘‘all over” embroidery, chif
fon, mousseline de soie and kindred
fabriecs come to her aid, and, at trifl
ing expense, help her to transform the
old bodice into a new one.
For the ordinary street or house
waist that has grown old, nothing is
better as a rejuvenator than all-around
embroidery on grass linen. Make a
broad collar that stands out over the
shoulders. Attach to it a straight
band for the back and front. Add
revers, and behold, the old waist is
hidden. Or, make a bolero of the
embroidery. Edge it with a narrow
ruffle, and you bhave a quaint and
dainty waist,
Still another method of transform
ing old waists consists in making col
lars, cuffs and box pleats for the back
and front of colored satin, under
coarse lace. For instance, a brown
silk waist that had pin points of nas
tartium red in it, was beautified by
the addition of these adjuncts in the
same shade of red under heavy ecru
embroidery.
Other waists are covered, except
the sleeves, with loose blouses of
loose, openwork embroidery. This
is a favorite way of freshening up
evening and theatre bodices, except
that chiffon or gauze is wused with
them instead of the heavier materials,
TEN YEARS ON ONE PIECE.
The glory of Vienna is the: govern
ment art school of embroidery, the
classes of which are under the diree-
tion of Mme, St. George, perhaps the
most accomplished designer and
needle woman in the world, says a
writer in the Contemporary Review.
The entire course of instruction, which
is quite free, lasts five years, but
many pupils leave after two or three
years, especially ladies who do not in
tend to make art work a profession,
and are satisfied with knowing the
rudiments of either lacework or art
embroidery, for every year has its
special course. Every year’s course
has its special room and instructress,
and the pupils cannot go from one to
the other until the year expires. The
pupils of the last year’s course were
busily mending a magnificent canopy,
tbe work of the Empress Maria Ther
esa,
An idea may be formed of the mag
nitude of the task when it is said that
ten girls under Mme. St. George’s
superintendence had been working at
it for ten years alresdy, and she ex
pected it would take two years more
to eomplete it. Every kind of em
broidery, ivcluding Persian, Indian
Jupanese, Tuarkish, ete., is done here,
aud I was astonished to see more
beautiful samples of the ‘‘nandaty,”
or spider’s web, made by the Guarani
women of Paraquay, and rarely seen
in Europe, This lace is made of the
fibre of the aloe, and is so fine that it
is made inside the buts, with the door
shut, so that not the least breath of
wind can touch it. I was still more sur
prised when Mme. St. George assured
me that the sample before me was not
really Paragnayan, but copied by her
principal assistant. This lady has
been equally successful in copying old
Venetian, Irish, Biussels, Honiton,
etc. —in fact, every kind of lace of all
countries. |
FOR THE HOUSEWIFR
MOCK DUCK.
Procure a large slice of the ronnd
of beefsteak; season one side with
salt, pepper and sage. Prepare a
stuffing as if for turkey, spread on
the meat, roll it up and fasten it with
skewers. Dredge the outside with
flour, Pat into a dripping pan with
a cup of boiling water and add a picce
of butter as }arge as a hickory nut to
it, cover and cook till tender. Re
move the cover and brown, basting
frequently that it may not bharden.
Make gravy of the drippings.
A BACHELOR'S PUDDING.
Four ounces of grat:d bread, four
ounces of currants, four ounces of
apples, two ounces of sugar, three
eggs, a few drops of essence of lemon,
a little grated nutmeg. Pare, core
and mince the apples very finely, sufli
cient when minced to make four
ounces; add to these the currants,
which should be well washed, the
grated bread and sugar ; whisk the eggs,
beat these up with the remaining in
gredients, and when all is thoroughly
mixed put the pudding into a buttered
basin, tie down with a cloth and boil
for three hours.
STEWED KIDNEYS.
Cut six mutton kidneys lengthwise
in half, remove the white centre part
and cut the kidoey into slices. Sea
son them with one even teaspoonful
salt, one-quarter teaspoonful pepper
and mix the seasoning and kiduneys
well together. Melt one ounce but
ter in a sancepan, add one tablespoon
ful fine chopped omion, cook three
minntes, without browning. Then add
the kiduneys, cook three minutes, add
four tablespoonfuls of some favorite
sauce and cook again three minutes.
Sprinkle over half a teaspoonful flour,
stir for a few minutes, add one gill of
boiling water, with a little beef ex
tract and one tablespoonful lemon
juice. Toss for a few minutes over
the fire, and serve with croutons.
SULTANA SCONES,
One pound of flour, two ounees of
caster sugar, two ounces of sultanas,
two ounces of butter, one teaspoonful
of baking powder, half a pint of milk,
and one egg. Beat up the egg with
the milk, rub the two onuces of but
ter into the flour, add the sugar, eul
tanas and baking powder to the ingre
dients in the basin. Stir all well to
gether; pour in the egg beaten up in
the milk and make into a light dough.
Set the dough on a floured board,
make it into a round shape, roll it a
little so that it is one inch thick, cut
into triangles, place on a greased tin
and bake twenty minutes in a steady
oven. When nearly done, brush the
scones over with milk and sugar, and
return to the oven to glaze and finish
baking.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS,
Recipe for cleaning copper is to wet
a coarse cloth in hot water, soap it
well, and apply to the copper. Then
sprinkle powdered borax over it, and
polish with a dry cloth,
Clearness in water is no sign of
purity. It may contain many germs
invisible to the naked eye. Spring
water is considered the best that can
be obtained, and shallow well water
is generally the worst,
When cleaning a stove, a little soap
rubbed on the rag used for cleaning,
before the blacklead is put on, lightens
the labor of cleaning and improves
the appearance of the stove. It shonld
be polished with a dry cloth.
To clean fine lace, spread it eut on
white paper and cover with ecalcined
magnesia; place another paper over
it, and lay away under a heavy weight
for a few days. All that is necessary
after that is to shake out the powder.
Codfish skins can be used as a sub
stitate for egg in settling coffee.
Scrape the outside of the skin and
clean all flesh from the inside, rinse
in cold water and cut in two inch
squares and then dry. One piece wiil
settle coffee for six persons,
To make codfish balls, simmer to
gether equal quantities of raw fish
and potatoes—cut in small pieces—
until the potatoes are thoroughly
cooked. When done, drain and mash;
add a dash of white pepper, a little
sweet milk and butter, and the beaten
white of one egg fur every cupful of
the mixture, Fry in bot fat, drain
and serve at once,
For fruit stains on white goods, use
yellow soap, then wet powdered starch
to the cousistency of thick cream ;
cover the spots and hang the goods in
the sun for several days. A fresh fruit
stain will always yield to boiling water
if poured through the cloth. For
mildew and iron rust on white cloth,
wet with strong solation of tartarie
acid and hang in the sun,
Oak furniture is better for being
rubbed with linseed oil in which some
alkanot root has been steeped, and
then brushed with a stiff Lrash that"
will penetrate every crevice of the
carving. The oil and root preserve
the wood and keep the farniture in
excellent color. Beeswax and tarpen
tine, used by our grandmothers, are
still as good a polisher as can be fonund,
Good Cause for War.
“Your Mujesty!” cried -a courier,
rushing up. “‘The United States ves
sel has stolen the missionary that was
for dinner.”’ '
The cannibal King looked fierce.
“‘Declare war instantly!”
“Bat, Your Majesty,” pleaded the
Prime Minister, ‘““what good will that
do? We are helpless against so
mighty a people. They laugh at us.”
“I don’t care!” cried the King.
““We've as much right to be sassy as
Spain.”—New York Journal,