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14 "BEAUTIFUL VENICE BY THE SEA." Flinging Off the Enslavement of Fiction That Has Been Woven Around It. THE CITY AND THE PEOPLE. A Place Where the Sound of Rum bling Carts and the Hoofs of Horses Are Not Heard on the Pavements— Scene in Early Morn on the Grand Canal. What the "Gay Gondolier" Really Is. Special to Tiiic Ses bay Call.-. ▼;'rf.-,ALLOMr.i;OSA (Italy), May fi, 1890.— A*!** The human iuteiest of Venice is. after $!__&s all. "" -chief enchantment. If one fling oft the enslavement of the. fiction woven about It there Is still enough to know, and enjoy. In endeavoring to analyze, causes for the cre ation >•! tha universally false sentiment existing concerning It the best excuse 1 can find is In the peculiarity of Its situation. It lias always im pressed travelers strangely. A city. : without a In.rse or ...-. It' beast of burden strikes on« as a curious anomaly. This unceasing seeming of strange and remarkable phases has easily been distorted into the wonderful, the marvelous, rhe vivid fancy, lib the opulcut imagination and poetic use, have done rest. Each suc ceeding traveler has scraped the empyrlao of imagery to outdo his picdecessor in florid de- Iscriptlon and matchless simile. ..Coining from the mountains of ..Italy at once across what seems to be an arm of the sea, but which, in fact. Is so shallow a lagoon that a school-boy might wade it in many places at ebb title, to a city built so _, that the earth it really stands upon, and the piling, forming the perfectly secure foundation tor'other structures ami street-rides, Is wholly bidden from view, the feeling of actually being. at.. sea Is difficult to overcome. Indeed, this one.fact. fact about one's almost Ineradicable .first. lmpressions has had more to do than all else In giving poet-travelers their Venetian frenzies.. Then, again, the con stant Intensification of this Impression further unhinges the aveiage mind. In no other city can oiie avoid the roar and thunder of . battling tides of humans and conveyances upon the streets. Th- ie is not a sound -of this sort In V. nice. Then, wherever one secures a vista toward the boiizon '.ire waters or the Adilatic are first seen, and the Impression of being upon the sea is fur ther emphasized. Again, the' quaint, strange I craft of ihese waters, instead. of here and mere ti.e land, are In view whenever ..the glimpses toward the outer world ate had.' r One: must be at sea, Is the Impulse of mental cnn.cia.ston, And more mystifying tban all. you who have always looked fiom your window': lnto a 'street, where il.e nib Is below, mnst here. perforce see nelliing but Water, ii.ovl.ng.cf.ift upon water, and. as though you looked from the porthole 01 some mystic craft, you see through this nautical seuse of riding upon the ocean, in the structures opposite your window, other • fanciful craft which must be Boating alongside you own. I have passed over the Bahabia Banks In _ sailing vessel, where [or 123 miles a bed of coral more than 1000 feet high was often less than twelve aud never more than eighteen feet from the sea's level. If that bank stood against the Florida Instead of the Bahama shore the capitalists would have a winter resort .ct'.y (.tainting upon the white coral bed Inside a quarter of a century I and would regard the eti.tituie of two or Hnee liuudred millions al dollar: to make an American Venice a very trifling • incident lv American development. . On» must come to think of Venice in some such way as this in ...'.lei to .sine it In justice and truth. « It is probable that the sanity of one who should visit Veuice without making a study of the gon dolier would be doubted. 1 endeavored to oo this earnestly, but find, alter all, thai be Is a very ordinary sort ot fellow, : lie. is better than the American back-nan, because he. -robs you with some slight suavity and grace.- In but one other respect is he in any degree remarkable, he is tall, lithe and slender. All Ills limbs show tin* development from rowing upright, ereiy muscle coming into play at every, stroke of the oar. 'Tiii-* gives the gondoliers sinewy development most admirable. 'llieie are somewhat more than • ■,, licensed gondoliers; 20 cents an hour Is the legal rate tor the services of boat and boatman, this tauß being double for every extra gondolier you re; and the gondoliers costume In sum mer comprises linen trousers, a linen shirt . i en at the throat, exposing a black and hairy chest, a gteasy colored sash; and st dirty straw lat with jauntily rolled rim. He works as little as lie can aud live. He sleeps and eats and smo-es and guzzles when uot at work, lie is tbe veriest coward about the water, used as be is to It, and never permits bis ..clumsy crall to ap proach Hie legion of " choppy" . waves. lie is. briefly, a vain, offensive animal, whom poets - have spoiled and amateur photographers have de ye: need into an iusuflei-abla bully of these winding, watery : streets. For real manhood, bravery, hardihood, suuuluess of heart and niauuei aud true plctUresquenc39 of costume and bearing, the guadauero of Havana Harbor is In comparably th-: mure interesting man add char acter, wrlr.'' '.:.'■ ■■-■-. --'••.-.'-• To my mind a scene In early morning on Grand i anal m Venice Is far more Interesting than oue lv the early evening, when the laded aristocracy of _:. city are moving about Willi apparent llst lessuess iv Iheir Iriivate black go las, decorated with their owners' ' coats-ofarms, propelled by private gondoliers In ridiculous liveries, or at night when the Canal In general -Is wholly and olleusively a show-object to i. pen-mouthed strangers. In the veiy early morning, while the gravis yel upon the water and the guigllugof the tides is like the chuckling of night imps a the dark retreats of the lowest arches and angles, then ll is that -the oddest and most fascinating processions passaud:ii-epass away down there in the - -.flows beneath your window. Scores of little, long barges loaded: with vegetables from lhe flat outlying islands aie on their way to iho market at the. Itlalto.r' Tfi__ir sails are red, with blue tips and yellow ' center pieces, and most ole que figures of Madonnas are painted soine wbereon their, -gaudily.- colored. sterns. These barges are propelled ■by poles •In the bands of man lil purple,' pink, blue, md orange garments, ami very often a: b^»-tieaded peasant womau Is piled in with >.-._■ vegetables. Here- and there a s>auda.lr>f_a'ii ijier .and ui.ne graceful bark IhaP'Use' gondola, darts by. : It is rowed by two^tfiien, with insseled caps, like the ' ; -''■'. .Irstiennen. A ball-dozen goats are vera 'Head and lull to the gunwale, and women and children are milking these on their way to the next customer. Barcas with soldiers speed ing to or from guard-changing till tue shadowy way with a din of chattering profanity. Here are lour nuns with bowed be.ds being rowed on some errand of mercy. Again whole families ot the lowlier classes, especially pious through sonic common bereaveiueut, are selling one to be present at some early mass. Here come a <■•...'. ._ boats with villagers, vegetables, fowls, flagons of iii 1 1 bestowed In dewy wisps of grass, rolls of butter In last year's sweet, white corn busK-t, ami uumbei less and nameless stuffs for lire met cato. They are from the mainland hamlets, and must have been astir at midnight. Following these is a curious procession of gondolas piled higher ttiau the gondoliers' heads with house bold goods and the people owning them who aid thus "moving" follow In their own gondolas. suggesting a funeral of household gods cut short in lis cortege. There are friars with huge basket* in their gondolas setting out to the mar kets to buy and beg for their brethren and the poor; Hied fishermen wiib boat-loads of gleam lugfis.lt of the sea; sailors subdued and sullen after an a!l-nlgbl royslerlng on their way baclt to their dog's life aud the ships; messengers with the night's collection of telegrams; bakers In while linen caps and shirts, with boat- loads ot black, brow D..nd white bread; waler-camers with huge flagons of drinking water; butchers, icemen, grucerytuen, all in boats making their first morning : iJhds: and all of them dowu there upon the water In the shadows seeming lise some weird and silent maskers In a dr am. Titian gives his " Bella," In the Plttl fishery, that light, fleecy and almost transparent golden ted hair commonly known as Venetian. This is another ot those pretty Venetian mysticisms whicli It Is unpleasant to dissipate. I have seen, perhaps, 10,000 women In Venice. Among all these no Venetian woman was crowned with hair of any such color. Out of deference to a late freak on tbe part of i'atti, there were En glish, Flench and American dames whose heads were glowing beacons of the Titian style. The women of Venice have squaie heads, with wide foreheads, deeply sunken and lustrous eyes, with wide, arching brows which meet, tiny ears a..d hair the lexiure, color and quality of a farm horse's black tall whose outer and exposed filaments have become lusty, dusty and gray ill 11.. and ploughing lime. There are Hire.- classes Horn winch to choose your types of Veueliau women, and from none of these will you find the ideal faces and forms of poetic I. uniting or the artist's pencil. The firs: comprise the woman of tbe aristocracy; 11. in, lall, plain, pa- Itrut, grave, lisLess, ambilionless, vacuous, si lent. They remind one of lhe Jewesses of Al giers In their languid manner, but possess lions of their lustrous, almost pathetic beauty. Tliey seem to exist lis merely passive beings 111 a bale ful present, dolefully regarding the dead glories of a vanished past. In the second class aie chiefly the brusque, strapping, square- lied wives and daughters of the small dealers, telle sliowmeu and petty politicians of modern Ven ice. They are loud-voiced, wide-jawed; regard the social revolution wblch bas put them at the front of tbe decayed aristocracy as a gladsome, beaveu sent dispensation; and mimic the last -at* Parts and London fashions with an afflu ence and eulhusiasm worthy of their extraordi nary vigor and assurance. Tbe third class Is of course the lowly. Its women ate bare headed, barelegged, bare-breasiod creatures with pudgy little faces, liny noses and eyes, tiny mouths with puckered protruding lips, necks with a tendency to goitre, and with no more per fection of symmetry about their bunchy, squaw like forms tbau you will find 111 the bumpy, head -11 oil tiding peasant women from Bulgaria and lower Hungary who are weekly landed at Caslle laiden ill .New York. These glory In linmeuse flat, descent-shaped ear-rings, metal bracelets upon aims and ankles, huge strings of gaudy Venetian beads, garlic ana babies. This is not a I piea'aul plctuie, but It Is a true one. All these faces have more or less of a plalutlve look about Hie eyes and drawn pathetic expression about '■ the inouih. This, the subtle essence of so uni versal poetic adulation, is ascribed by the more realistic physicians of Venice to catarrh. I havo their word for II that it Is a universal aliment in water-logged Venice. The only specimen of the tramp species I have seen in Italy, though myself an unblushing tramp and likely to meet the brotherhood If it ex isted line, wat on the way from I'atnpl Veteres to I'l.tenza. We met at a wayside shrine. After succeeding in convincing him that there was a natural nihility extstiug between, us, I snaied the contents of my lunch-wallet with liim. 1 then made hlm partially understand the luxit rlousness, versatility and numerousuess of the American tramp, aud, on our way Into th- old earthquake-shaken city, he explained with the excellent analysis and unerring logic wiih which all tramps discuss sociology, why out kind were quite unknown in Italy. The reasons he gave were, briefly, that he who bad no work to do, or lie who preferred not to engage In toil. In his country from choice and custom In stantly became a beggar or bandit, lie could adopt neither profession, because a bandit required a certain amount of bravery and Involved danger. Being a successlul beggar made malformation, or unpleasant distor tion and posing, necessary. Another Important reason for tbe non-ex Ist. of ti amps, he thought, was a certain sharp spur of necessity which goaded men of desuetude to at least movement in rigorous northern climes.- In such lands as Italy sunshine and sleep were a good part ol food itself; little actual nourishment was reaulslte where the. was little waste from exertion ; the la/./. ir. ml could sleep nut of doors neatly all tho year round; nine was cheaper lhan good water; practically no clothing was required; and al together, sentimental tourists provided hand somely for all. For himself, he had a soul above begging, below the banditti, and so loved all his adored Italy that lie a-ptie.l to know It from the true traveler's standpoint. To further Ibis as piration he repaired pedal indurations by day and Improvised pastoral epics by night, science and poesy, as it were, waud-i hand in baud through the suuny ways of Italy. 9afl Millions of men and women reading Milton's lines, . Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the t. rooks In Valloiiibrosn, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch.l embower— Have seen the vision that came in a swift longing I to linn in again dwell among the Franciscan 1 monks In the mon .stery near the top of the mountain above Florence, and yearned, as he yearned, fur the cool depths of Its restful shade. lt Is the one place in all Italy, save beautiful Palermo, which fulfills piecouceived notions. Votn join ney is eighteen miles from Florence, up the lovely valley of the Arno. where are embow ered in vine and Dowers bundle. is of villas occu pied by tbe Italian aristocracy and nobility. A broad cai rtage load leads all i .re way. Halting at the little village ol lost, from which una was merly conveyed to the mountain re treat by sled drawn by oxen, an hour Is j passed at refreshments and in enchanting views of the cities, valleys, plains and rivers below, when the Journey Is resumed up the I'latumagiio Mountain, through groves of the most magnificent Letch and chestnut tires lo thfl world, The songs of butt-, the Enliau music of forest breezes, and eudtess melodies of f .lllug waters, so bewitch one all the way from Tost, that suddenly and without warning you are at I the enchanting mountain eerie, lt comprises but a lew acres of level meadow through which i tins a loir.; avenue of majestic trees, an.l at the end of this stands the llci.ened and gray old mass .-! buildings, mote famous from thiee hues by Milton than any oilier similar spot in the world. The order ol Vallombrosaus, founded in the early rut ni the eleventh century by Gualbertoot Florence— who, prevented by a pious impulse from slaying Ihe murderer of ins brother, though at his mercy, In thankfulness lo God became a religious devotee, and, eventually the founder ot acieat outer— became one of the richest and most powerful lv Italy; and this one old monas tery held their chief treasure. For this order Ciamlae painted his priceless Madonna; Peru gluo, his marvelous Assumption, But tlio I rencb revolution almost ruined the order. When Napoleon's couueil debuted whether tliey should .-pare the V..llouiuios.ius, because they kept the wolves thinned lv the mountains. It was asked, '-Shall we have monks or wolves'.'" " Wolves!" was the answer, and Victor Emanuel .In 1870, at the Italian disestablishment, com pleted their extinction here. The place is vow used as a Government agricultural school, with a corps of resident professors, and just above the monastery is an observatory, one of the Italian signal and weather stations of to-day. A glo- lens to: lent leaps past Hie edge of the meadow; the forests in which the sweet old nest is em bedded were nearly all .set out by the monks; over -10,000 beech trees are now standing, all of which were planted by these vigorous recluses, i and though Valli.iiibr.rsa Is 3000 feet above the sea lhe mountain behind rises 1000 leet higher, covered densely with as grand a pine finest as eyes ever beheld. Glorious indeed are all tbe surroundings and memories ot this Utile upland valley; but from the lop of Praioiuaguo Ibe I most ravlshlogly beautliul view In all Italy is presented. What wondrous associations are coujuted hi contemplation of the fair, far Ci sen lino Valley, »l;h Its bouudaiy beyond formed by the lofty Apennines, where are born the Tiber and Amu! Tuscany, home of the dream-bieed lng vine and of fair women, stretches sunnily tv ; the westward. The majestic Duomo glitters I down there In the center of Hie purple, check ered valley where Florence stands. And far, tame and magically seen through the passes of the uttermost peaks of Carrara, shines a thread of sapphire where sweep the sails upon tbe broad Mediterranean. Descend to the old monas tery. Dream among Its cloisters. Wander among It* stately groves. Leave It to go your ' way and never return. But all the sadness Italy has lelt in your heart will lie there with some thing akin to forgiving tenderness if you have i but once diunk the ambrosia and kuowu the i spell * • * where the Etrurian shades High "Terarc.-'d embower. Copyriglit, _r-90.* EdoabL.Wake_.ia-S. "ANY CHILDREN." Margery Answers A. K. C. to Her Own Satisfaction at Least. . TF*j subject of renting honses, flats or -5 I s-. rooms to families with children is, tj\ls- as A. K. C. says in an article in last Sunday's issue of The Call, a very serious one. But I don't agree with the writer, and ..tins Question, like all others, has two sides. And, as the writer argues from the point of one having children but no house, I propose to answer on tho basis that I 'have a: house and no- children. Probably, if I had any little ones, I would be as blind to their faults as 'other parents are to their chil dren's. There is no denying the fact, chil dren will damage a house, furniture or flower garden more in one year than a dozen families of mature years, and as peo ple build houses to realize something from them by rental, is it to be wondered at if they prefer the class who will injure them the least? • .. ",: .' Take, for instance, a poor, hard-working lady, who, by strict •: attention ta saving" every cent, at last manages tr-, 'i^Tier-ci a little home, which, <' . _.i, is successful in renting to a.^aii reliant, she can save sometMag.' But if she has rented it to cljAWren it generally takes all she has to re tail- the house and put it in proper condi tion for the next tenant. The front gale will no doubt be found without its hinges or one or two of the slats will be missing — doors, window-sills and the woodwork gen erally will suggest the idea that a wood chopper has been around. The handles of the doors will be so loosened as to be almost unable to do their work, plastering will be broken where swings have been constructed, window panes smashed from a misguided . ball or kite, while the pure white walls or handsomely papered ones will 'be bordered with prints of ditty fingers, ranging all the way from two to four feet from the floor. Children have no respect for fine mirrors, water faucets, fine shrubbery, etc. ls it to be wondered at- then that owners ask the question, "Any children'?" Or is it to be wondered at also if : boarding-house or lodging-housekeepers ask the same question? People who keep such houses are generally poor, and. it is only by dint of strict economy that, they manage to make any kind of a living. They know the exact price of every article of fur niture in their house and just how much it will ' cost to replace it, and where Is the child that is not constantly tramping through the house with Hands cither besmeared- with butter or molasses or who is not hammering tacks or nails in the carpet or furniture? The land : lady or landlord may not be "soured or childless," but may have quiet people who only stay because the house is quiet. It is not pleasant for one, a writer especially, who has worked all day, to be disturbed of the needed rest at night by shrieking babies or boisterous half-grown children. It is not agreeable either when clustered around the dining table to -have an instructive and pleasant conversation interrupted by a child's prattle. Xor is it pleasant to be it witness to correction bestowed upon these little ones. :"."•• A very strange thing connected with peo ple who have children is that when making a contract for boarding they invariably in sist upon paying half or quarter price for their children, when in reality they should pay more for the annoyance of them and what they waste. These very people, too, will generally shun a house where there are children, or when renting will try to find a location where there are no children on the block. A. K. C. asks what is a man to do who has it family of children and who does not own a house. I would advise such a man to save his money, build himself a home be fore he enters into matrimonial ties, and se cure for himself alone the secrets of crying babies and the fumes of paregoric. I don't think there is much danger of this "great and glorious country" becoming in the near future as dead and desolate as Babylon, or the plowshares rusting in the furrows, the ships rotting upon the ocean or the streets silent and deserted, so long as Immigration holds the sway it does. After all, I don't think that children are so much to blame; it is the parents. Chil dren come into the world ignorant alike of good or bad behavior. They are easily molded into any form of conduct, aud if they are shunned by all law-abiding and quietly disponed citizens as a community to be avoided, let them rise up, mighty in their anger, and teach their would-be teachers, their indulgent parents, to rear them in sucb a manner that landlords will not be forced to shun them as they would the grip or a street-organ. margery. An Aroostook (Me.) couple were married last week whose combined ages were 29 years, the bride being 14 and the bridegroom one year her senior. THE MORNING CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 1. 1890-FOURTEEN PAGES. PIONEER LIFE IN COLORADO. ■ Arthur Lakes' Reminiscences of Log-Cabin Experiences. A Family lhat Lived a ".Robinson Crusoe" Life— Horace Greeley's Narrow Escape - From Drowning. Written for The Sitnoat Call. tpVAUKIXG a recent visit to Arthur ll'^'ls Lakes, the celebrated geologist, I laSsy! was very much interested in some experiences he related of his log-cabin life in Colorado. He is an exceedingly man, very retiring in . bis manner, and has an amusing droll way of telling his anecdotes. During our conversation we had occasion to speak of the State's Prison at. Canyon City, Colo., and the professor remarked that when lie visited the institution he was particularly impressed with the politeness shown him by the so-called "lifers "and in visiting their cells he found the conversa tion of the occupants so intelligent and their manners so polished that be came away with the impression that all the gen tlemen were shut up In the prison and all the sneaks were allowed to roam free over the country. Arthur Lakes is a true Quaker .In his [dene of war. He is averse to capital pun ishment and thinks and feels very keenly on the subject of life for life. In conclud- «i Iwlwilll ing some of his remarks on the subject he said: "They cannot complain much of my treatment of the deaders" (meaning fossils). He tells nn interesting incident of one of his geological tramps, lie was accompanied by an Irish friend. They had been walking all day, and as night shut in about them a heavy rain came on. They quartered them selves for the night in ii deserted log cabin, which was decidedly dilapidated, the roof leaking plentifully and the chimney smok ing disagreeably from. the camp-wood burn ing. They made their toa in an oyster can ami ate their lunch in true prim itive style, standing on as dry a board as they could find with little streams running through apertures in the roof. After a comfortable smoke they prepared to retire, fastening the wagon canvas over the roof in the dryest corner of the cabin and stretching themselves upon a fur rug with blaukets and coats covering them to keep out as much dampness as possible. Soon tbe. wagon-sheet began to fill with water and a riclitco gathered above them. The canvas bellied out, but, thanks to the quick-wittedness of the Irishman, a pail was procured, and gathering a portion of the canvas in his band he milked the water through a. hole that be had made with his jack-knife, Into the pall on ibeir bed, and emptied and re-emptied it until the threat ening flood was exhausted. At another time the professor described a log cabin, at which he stopped for the night, where the family were living a Rob inson Crusoe life. Into the one room was collected all the necessary furniture. They used cne half for the kitchen and the re mainder ns a bed-room, divided by a blanket. The floor was of earth, and pet pigeons, fowls and dogs all had free access - -X A Log Cabin. to tbe kitchen, white a dove was likely to fan your face with his wings as he flew out at your entry. In the loft, to which one ascended by a ladder, was a large lumber-: room, also tenanted by the smaller live stock of the farm, which ran about or perched upon bedsteads and chairs and chased one another or fought behind farm implements, which were strewn about with household -utensils in sublime chaos. "Alter a hearty supper, anil pleasant chat over our pipes," he said, "I was shown up the ladder to my bed on the floor of lhe loft, ft was a glorious spring-mat tress on which my weary limbs were repos ing and I soon fell into a sound sleep. I was awakened about midnight by a sten torian voice close to my ear. I started up. Was it the war-whoop of the Indian of whom I had been dreaming? All was still, the moonlight was gleaming in through many cracks and chinks in the wall and lighted up the chaotic furniture into ghostly forms. 'Cock-a-doodle-doo roared the stentorian chanticleer as he sat perched at the loot of my bed answering another idiotic rooster who had- also mistaken the moon's pale light for the rays of the dawn. I hurled my boot at the monster and went to sleep again. I must have snoozed for some hours when I was awakened by a hen and a whole brood of chickens running across my face and over the bed. I raised a violent volcanic upheaval of bed-clothes and scattered them like ashes to the four winds. The dawn was just paling the room and I tried to sleep once .more, hut in vain— the whole menagerie was awake. Almost at my pillow a tame meat-hawk was domiciled in a large wire cage and kept up a perpetual squawk and sharpen ing of bis bill against the rounds, prepara- SPUING PARASOLS. They Must Mutch the tinieral Costume .In Color. . — M'aOW that the question of paramount ■^importance, has doubtless been de _[*i_ided by most ladies concerning the cut ami material of the new spring suit with its accompanying bonnet and coat, one has leisure to attend to the smallest, details of toilet which index more faithfully perhaps the taste and gentility of the wearer than do the gowns and mantles governed more arbitrarily by. generalities and conventionalities. In the first place, there is the parasol, in the selection of which cognizance of but' one general principlo must be. bad— the tall handles of last year have apparently 1 telescoped themselves into much shorter and heavier affairs, even having been : . reduced in ■ some cases to the short and stubby sticks ouce so popular,' like pug dogs, from sheer grotesque ugliness. All kinds of ma terials, from the frailest gauze and tlio flimsiest. lace to heavy silk brocades, are employed in their construction, and all manner of fantastic, fanciful arrangement is desirable 'and sought after. Once the skeleton of a parasol is Completed the manufacturer's work is finished, and only the "deft fingers of 'the milliner and artist can conceal the frame beneath its fluff of frills and garniture of flow ers. These fairy-like . creations must har monize in color and correspond In material with the toilet worn, and the elegante sends samples and orders for special articles to her parasol-maker as well as to her mil liner, glove and boot maker, to accompany all the gowns designed to be worn for any out-of-door purpose. - Puffed silk or chiffon in artistic shades, bordered with treble frills, pinked tit the edges and very profusely adorned with bows, are seen. Tussore parasols will be carried when the sun condescends to shine, and parasols done up in kilted or accordion Tory to beginning his breakfast on a cob of Indian corn. This roused the attention and wrath of a fussy little bantam, who straightway offered him battle through the bars. The meat-hawk responded ,to the challenge by most aggravating screeches and by pecking away vigorously at his cob, as much as to say: 'Wouldn't you like to have some, Mr. Bantiin?' bleep was therefore hopeless, and I contented myself with earthquaking the broods nf chickens that kept crossing my bed till the door opened, letting in a flood of red' morning sunlight and a lovely mountain scene. Sly host's son stepped in, telling me that break fast would soon be ready, and a fragrant smelt of roasting coffee came up from be low through the chinks of the floor." ' . — ■*^— —^sg_. _ ■ ' ■■ ' ' ■■■-*■ port Lupton. Perhaps the oldest building In the State of Cnloratlo is Fort Lupton. Captain E. L. Berthond was stationed there in lStiT and bad many interesting engagements against the Indians, who fought under their chief, Colorow (which is a corruption of Colorado). Colorado is the Spanish for red and the State took its name from the fact that at high water the Colorado River becomes red as blood, lf a bucket of water is taken from the river at this time one-fourth will be red clay. It wns in the early days of Colorado that Horace Greeley visited Golden and undertook to ford Clear Creek, which is a very quiet, peaceful stream at times, but ou this occasion was rapidly rising into an impetuous torrent. He had A Colorado Scene. heard . that Yasquez Fork, like another Pactolus, rolled over golden sand?, that in the mountain peaks west of the Platte the miners had discovered gold everywhere, and all that was needed was work ami small capital to produce untold wealth for all. The bridge had not been completed, . but Horace Greeley, mounted on a mule, dressed in the rough garb of a traveler, with his old white hat pressed firmly on his head, rode up to the bank of Clear Creek, which was a roaring, vicious mountain torrent that must be passed. Fearlessly he plunged In, mule and all, and right manfully lie buffeted the angry waves, hut the waves prevailed and the mule anti rider, white hat and all, danced merrily down to swell the turbid Platte. The mule landed first, but Horace Greeley was about to drown when a sturdy miner with a boat-hook rescued the author and dragged him safety ashore. In a log cabin, some eighteen miles from Golden, Arthur Lakes delivered a cottage lecture to a congregation of various creeds, after which the family party gathered round the open fireplace where the big blazing pine logs cracked and sputtered cheerily while tlie party spun their yarns of early experiences in Colorado. "About six or seven years ago when set tlements were few," said one fanner, "I planted a bed of carrots down yonder one morning. Just as they were lit for use, I went to my patch and found it torn to pieces and trampled and scratched as if a herd of buffalo had been on it. Tho tracks were those of beirs. I went into Denver ami told some professional hunters, who were swaggering about town boasting of their deeds, that there, seemed to be a good many bears up our way, and asked them to come over. Over they came, armed to the teeth with daggers, knives, revolvers and rifles. In the evening they lay in am bush close to the patch. .Soon they heard the eras*, of underwood, and a hear trotted into the patch ; they got ready to lite when another appeared at his heels, then a third and a fourth, and such a growling and scratching took place and so formidable was the- sight, that our noble hunters stole back as quietly as possible to the ranch." "Well," I asked, "how many did you shoot, and where are they." "Wal, you see," was the response, "there was jist one bar too many." "In the same valley," continued the farmer, "lived an old man by himself, his only companions being a noble shepherd ring and two cats. It was ludicrous to see the easy terms between them. They ate, drank and slept with him. I visited him one day, and found him in the center of his pets. 'The other even in',' he began, 'me an' the cats was goin' up to the potater patch. 1 had my rifle with mo in case of srouse. Fuss was trottin' in from, when suddenly she stopped; up went her back, • tin.l every hair stood up like a needle. 1 hail just time to say. 'Why, what's the matter with you. Pussy?' when ri«ht out from the bushes in frout reared a great cin namon on his hind lees, like a giant. I was so taken aback that, without stoppin' to think, I up with my rifle an' let him have it under the fore leg; then I didn't stop to see what I had done, but lighted out toward the cabin. Nex'day I went up, but thar was no sign of the bar etcept some blood; so I guess he ran for his life one way, while 1 ran for mine the other. Pussy never came back for a fortnight after." UttAC'K IlnM.irnsrrs. petticoats, garnitured with flowers and lace and always accompanied with bows, are very popular". The chiffon parasols are very charming nnd very cheap, which double attraction promises to make them very popular as well:— N. Y. Sun. AN INDIANA GlliL. Her Very Queer Sayings and lingerer Doings. T'i OXCE made ud my mind to keep lv my {I head-as many as possible of the queer say ,j head as many as possible of the queer say -4$ ines vouchsafed me by Miss I'ussie ; . the eldest daughter and actual manager of a prosperous hotel and hotel-keeper in a town on tho Ohio Kiver, but the queer • things sue said are slipping from mo so fast that 1 will jot down what I remember. "Are yon married?" I asked her. "No," said he. "One at a time's enough for me." She spoke of a man who drank too much, and made this comment on all such cases: •"Tain't what a man drinks 9'much's what he kin carry. 'Ts what, a man can carry, that's what It is." ' .-" en rA leave my hair alone's the only time I'm lit to die. When Igo to lixin' it I wish I was father, so's 1 could ornament the language. All a girl can do to make Lnglish vigorous is to pile in exclamation points— and them you can't see when you speak em. •-•., . "Hut to git hack to my hair-It's alius like a brush heap. I guess if I was in the city and Ml i | t0 " a barber to ' fix "P he'd faint When she drove me to the boat on the day I left that part of Indiana she was annoyed by the colored driver of a team of horses who blocked the wheels of his cart with those of our carriage. si!-' See , . 1 5 re . 1 ' Snowball/! said she. "ain't this world wide enough for you- to drive past a leetle carriage ?"-From Chatter. I There are 30,209 Germans in Paris. SHOPLIFTING BY SOME WOMEN. Why They Do It, How They Do It, How They Are Caught. An Interview With the Proprietor of a Store -'. Who Had Heard of ths Umbrella and Parasol Dodge— Neatly Canght. Written for Th* Sunday Cau. : ' T'iS the latter nart ol March the tele- graphic dispatches of March the tele \ graphic dispatches bore the following JJ news to our country: "Americans in Rome are wild over an outrageous inci dent," and then followed the details of how the wife of a wealthy Calif ornian, accom panied by her daughter and two friends, went into a store to examine some coral and shell ornaments, were accused by the pro prietor of stealing some articles, arrested and marched through the streets to prison, from which they were extricated by the American Consul. -How unpleasant such an experience must have been needs no stretch of the imagination to appreciate.' . . The writer was discussing this episode with a lady whose life has been spent iv an endeavor to help her own sex to realize the distinctions between right and wrong, whose labors have been blessed with some success, for she has directed her work through the channels of leading benevolent and charitable institutions. This is what she said : "In this case the parties were unjustly ac cused, but the fact is that the public do not hear of one-half, nor of one-tenth, of all the attempts at shoplifting wblch is curried on, and, to the shame of . my sex bo it said, by some women. '' ' TEMPTED. "I cannot say why it is that women are so strongly tempted to be kleptomaniacs. It would furnish a lino study for a moralist and a psychologist to discover just why women who have no need to steal are so prone to appropriate what is not their own. And at the same time it might be worth while to consider the subject of smuggling, which, as we all know, is carried on most recklessly by women; the two are much akin and show a certain lack of moral sense. I do not pretend to be a moral casuist, but it does seem to me that the de vices that many women, even rich women, have to resort to, in order to get any money from their husbands and the little decep tions which so many of tin in practice rather than have their husbands know the extent of their wasteful purchases may be in a measure accountable fur the dulling of the moral sense which can make smuggling or shoplifting possible. "The merchant who consents to alter the items of his bill, so as to suit the husband's ideas of what is right and who does it nt the wife's solicitation, need not, it seems to me, be surprised when that woman in turning to go out oi the store helps herself to what does not belong to her. l can remember in all the readers which it was my good tor'. une to peruse when I was a child; that It was held a crime to pluck a rose that hung over a fence into the road, or to pluck i ripe peach when It hung temptingly In reach. It seems tome, however, that the founda tion for the shoplifting habit lies farther back than tbat. It begins in the disregard that some have for each other's things, bmall children borrow pencils and rubbers and do not return them, others get in the habit of wearing each other's clothes with out so much as by your leave. THEY HELP THEMSELVES. "As they grow older they help them selves to the fruit or the candy in tho stores where they buy. A certain man in this city told me that some of his customers ate more of delicacies than they bought, that they would purchase a head or two of lettuce or a pound of spinach and eat more than 25 cents' worth of choice, rare fruit. " Whatever may be the cause it is certain that many women cannot resist the temp tation ; there are so many articles spread out nnd the clerk surely would not miss one, so it is taken, and the}' tire caught. "Those are some of tho conclusions I have reached," said the benevolent lady, "and now if you wish to .find out anything more definite why don't you go to some of our leading merchants and ask them about it?" "That might be a good idea," said tho writer, and bidding his hostess good-day was soon upon his way downtown. The first store he entered was that of a leading jeweler. ".No," said the proprietor with a smile, as he slowly shook his head, "I don't think that there's much of it In San Fran cisco, at least not so much in my business. in the first place we have only the best class of customers, Hut it Is not so much tbat fact as it is that we never trust toe much to anybody. You see that a jeweler must have his eye so trained that he can carry the whole contents of his tray at a glance. lie must always keep his trays lull, too, and that helps, and moreover he must never allow more than two or three articles to leave his hands at the same time. In that way be can keep track of them. But still Willi all 4 tt precaution it will hnppt-fi tint a ciever braced! sv.itidley will ' do' him. You see they always work in pairs, and one engages the attention of the salesman while the other makes off with the booty. TUE UMBRELLA DODGE. "I've often heard of the umbrella or parasol dodge, where goods are dropped into the folds of the uncauglit umbrella, but 1 have never seen it tried. About the best dodge, and in fact I may say the only one that was ever tried on me was this. A pair of diamond ear-rings was missed and by careful inquiry among all the clerks I found that it, lhe tray, had not been dis played for two days. Suddenly it flashed across me that I myself had shown these goods to two young women two days be fore. 1 remembered how they had hesitated over another pair and thought that perhaps their father, would buy it, and they left, promising to bring him in. I forgot All about them until the solitaires were missed. Then I undertook a little detective work on my own account and regained the dia monds. Nu— l am not going to tell you the details, ' only 1 will say this, that the Woman herself told me how she had dropped her handkerchief over the tray and in picking it up again had carried off the diamonds under my very eyes. I tell you it makes a man feel cheap when he sees how easily he can get fooled." Tlie writer next visited a milliner. " Well. 1 cannot say that I ever missed things," said she, _ "although when the cruzy-quilt was raging 1 did have some customers who had the- gall to bring scissors iv their bags and snip off pieces of the bonnet strings as they hung there from the stands, and more titan once we found a big gouge from a choice bit of silk that had been hanging out of a drawer. And I have a friend who Is a dressmaker, and she told me that Indies had no hesitancy in taking away nieces of rich material. But let me tell you what did happen to me once. It was on an opening day, when the store was full and the attention of the young ladies was rapidly called from one to an other of our customers. A young girl came In and tried on several bonnets, that's the rule you know on opening day. When we came to put away our things at night, lo and behold, one of our choicest bonnets was gone, and in its place remained the last season's hat that one of our young ladies remembered seeing on some one that morning. Well, I can tell you wo were In dignant, and yet I could not blame any one. THE SEQUEL. • But I think that the sequel was tho fun niest part of the affair. Three days after ward one of my salesladies rushed out and fairly dragged iv a girl who was looking in our window, and would you believe it, she actually had on the bonnet that she had stolen aud walked oft with the day wo missed it. She did not attempt to deny it, but as I didn't care to prosecute I let her go. It would never da. for a store to prosecute, it only gives it a disagreeable notoriety, and the accused is generally left off scot free." " For ray part," said a dry-goods man, "I wish that I could believe that shoplifting was less generally practiced than 1 know it to be. •'! do not think that we lose much, though, If you notice I am generally at the store door, and a certain signal from the floor-walker or a clerk gives me the cue. I walk right up to the suspected lady and say in a whisper, 'I'll take my goods, pjease ; I saw you hide It. They always hand them out aud leave in a hurry. I can tell yon, I always am suspicious of long cloaks or of Japanese sleeves. Bul the best thing hap- : pened not long ago. A clerk came to me breathless with excitement and said that a lady, «ho is one.of our best and wealthiest customers, had stolen a piece of valuable lace. I would not believe him, and although the lace was certainly gone, I felt sure that whoever had stolen It that lady was not the thief. - But he was so persistent In his accu sation that I felt It worth while to try the plan which he suggested. So, on the fol lowing day, I sent up the companion piece of lace with a note saying that it was a very rare opportunity to secure a valuable piece of lace, that it would be hard to match In a lew months, and as it was the mate to what she had purchased yesterday we took the liberty of . sending it up for her approval. . With the second piece of lace we sent '- two ;. bills— one ; for each ; piece. Within an hour the. two bills comeback paid. What was that but an acknowledg ment of guilt? D. AZILE. LITEKAIiY NOTES. jT\l, CURIOUS story about a story Is told In 'Lil £, connection with "A Frankenstein lain lT\\ ily." by the 11.-v. John Bradley tiilman, *l\*_7l'Ul_lisbed in "Harper's Bazar,". L"Jtb. 'Tiie central conceit In Or. Bradley's tale is identical with that in Dr. Edward Everett Hale's recent extravaganza, "Susan's Escort," Before the latter story was published In the May num ber of "Harper's Magazine," Dr. Bradley and Dr. Hale happened one day to compare notes about tbeir literary work, and discovered mat Uie same Idea for the basis of a short story baa occurred to both of them about the same lime. The coincidence ends, however, wiib the Idea. John B. Alden of New York, the well-known publisher, bas Just Issued "Stanley's Emm Pasha Expedition," by Wauters, a very handsome, lame type. Illustrated volume, reduced in price from %'i to DO cents. This book tells a most In teresting and complete story, beginning with tbo conquest of the Soudan, and continuing through years of African exploration, tbe revolt of the Mahdl, the siege of Khartoum, with the death of don, the return of Dr. Junker, besides the story of Stanley's own adventures, including his successful relief expedlliou. The boon is well primed in clear, huge type, has many good Illus trations and is bound In cloth. Air. Alden, who was charged with having joined the "Book Trust," denies the allegation and declares that be proposes to continue to furnish the best liter ature at me very lowest prices. The book men tioned, which was originally issued at $__, Is oilered at one-quarter that price. Over the ImDrlul ot Welch, Fracker Company, Publishers, New York, will soou appear "The 1-ivt.r.sons," a novel of Pennsylvania life to ilia forties, by S. J. lluinstead; '-Oue of 'Ben lan* s' .Novels," by Mrs. 0. .H. Stone, a story of the twentieth ceniurv; "The Bank Tragedy." a novel by Mary IS. P. Batch; "From Yellowstone Park to Alaska" and "From the Land of the Midnight Sun to the Volga." both by Francis C. Sessions, President of the Ohio Historical Soci ety, these taller volumes lo be uniform with Mr. Sessions' two lately published books of travel, "On the Wing Through Europe" aud "In west ern Levant." " Nature's Serial Story," an Illustrated number of the new edition of Edward P. line's books, has been published In paper, at popular price, by l>odd, Mead & Co., of New York, in this back the author describes the life of Mr. and .Mrs. Clifford. He Is an aged man who Is as truly In terested In his garden and fruit tiees as any en thusiastic horticulturist In his prune. Mrs. (.'lll_oid is one who always found solace in na ture and flowers. The object of tbe book ls to show that a love for the soil and all pursuits of outdoor life is one of the most healthful signs In a people and to bring people lv sympathy wltb nature, "Our Erring Brother, or Church and Chapel," by F. W. Itobiuson, "TheSluot Joost Avellugb," by Maarteu Maartens, aud "The Talking Image of I mr," by Franz liar!. nan, M.D.. have been added to the " International Series" by the John W. I.ovell Company of New Voik. ihese works of fiction, like oihets of the series, are among the good books that are published. They are well , writ: en, carefully revised, elite. taming and pleasant reading. The care exercised by this compauy in selecting novels to place befoie the reading public lias gained for It a reputation that it may feel Justly proud of. "St. Nicholas" for June has an exciting and Instructive story, " With Slick aud Thread, ".by L. Clark Davis, relating a boy-fisherman's tri umph In caniuring a " red drum" with rod and reel. No angler can read it without a deshe to start at once for the fishing ground.-, ll is Illus trated by M. J. Burns. Another striking story is "A Divided Duty," by M. A. Cassidy, telling of a Utile boy who had one brother lv the Fed eral and one In the Confederate ..nny. Being tin willing to decide against either, he compromises by having apaiii-colured suit, one bide gray and one side l.li! . The "Delsarte Recitation Book and Directory" Is presented to the public by E. S. Werner of New York. It is edited by Elsie M. W'llbor, and Is a collection of a large number of recitations in i lose and poetry ranging from simple to most dramatic. The hook gets Its name from some fa vorite pieces of Delsarte, from an epigram on every page slating some point in the Delsarte system and from a tine medallion picture of Del sarte embossed on the cover. It Is one of the best collection of pieces lor recilallou ever luted. Funk & Wag alls of New York are publishing - a thirty-two page weekly called "The Literary Digest." 11 Is a summary of the current I iter a tuie of the world. In It is presented a conden sation of the best articles appealing in the re views, a summary of editorial opinions from the leading newspapers, summaries of bonk reviews, and oilier matters of great Interest. It Is a most valuable periodical lor careful readers and will prove ol assistance to the students of literature. Twenty-four illustrations drawn by the notable French artists, Luigl Boast, Louis Moulegut, F. de Myiti.i ch. Ernest Bleler and Frederic .Monte iianl, will accompany lhe first Installment of Alphonse Daudet's new humorous seiial, "Port Tarascou," iv "Harper's .Magazine" for June. The drawing)! are all In the style lhat li, is be come liteiitllied with the names of Boast and .My i bach, the famous -Illustrators of M. Daudet's. other Tartarlu stories. Th- -Memorial day number of "The Ybuth's Companion," just Issued, will appeal especially to all those to whom our Decoration day brings tend. ■ aud sained memories. Tbe illusirallons are of a high character and the stones of a patriotic limine. Among them Is ihe $1000 piize story for gins, entitled "Way Out iv lhe Prairie Kentry." ll tells In lunching language how a devoted daughter secured ihe decoration of her lather's grave. Tue June "Century" opens Willi another arti cle by Albeit Shaw, whose paper on "Glasgow" receutly attracted so much attention. This time Mi. Shaw treats of "Loudon Polytechnics aud People's Palaces," a subject which is particu larly timely, as similar Institutions are springing up in ditleienl parts of the world. The frontis piece is a poitralt of Walter lSesant, author of "All -oris and Conditions of Men." "With Fly-rod aud Camera" is the title of an elaborately illustrated woik announced for im mediate public. l.> the Forest aud stream Publishing Company, The author is Edward A. Samuels, . the well-kuowu salmon-angler aud amateur photographer of Boston. Tbe book con tains 170 full-page leproiluctions of stilting photographs, to the collection of which Mr. Samuels has devoted tbo vacations of several years. . The Century Company of New York has Issued a cliaiiiiiug novel entitled "The Merry Chanter," by Frank 11. Slocktou. It is written iv this author's Inimitable style, and Ihe scenes are portrayed iv sucb faiibrul Huts that tue reader Imagines himself seeing the Incidents narrated and hearing ibe conveisalions betweea the sev eral characters. The book contains a uumber of exceileni illustrations. 6. W. Dillingham of New York has Issued "The Strike of the Sex," a clever book, lhe pur port of winch Is io show '.That the -effect would be ou Ihe male ponton of the world if tbe women should strike for their rights and leave lite cities to the men. Tbe picture is well drawn nnd the book furnishes much for thoughtful re flection. Ottered by the I -.meruit Company. The second number of the " Kepubilc Maga zine," published In New York, has for frontis piece a splendid photograph of General Sher man. ll contains a biographical sketch of tbe Geuerai and a large number of Illustrated articles lhal aie of particular Interest to the members of the Grand Army of lhe Kepubllc. Tbe plays and pastimes of "A Boy's Town " are described iv the Installment of Howells' story in Ibe number of '• Harper's Young People" pub lished May '-.'Till. The author will doubtless be plied with questions as to who that boy men tioned by him was " who wanted to be a pirate, aud ended by inventing a governor." "The Evil That Women Do," a novel by Heleue yon Kacowitza, translated from the Ger m. by A. Howard, has Pe-n Issued from the press of G. W. Dillingham, and ll 1- offered to the reading public through the Bancroft Com pany, It is a very luteresling aud eulertaiulng stoi v of I; rissi.iu life aud intrigue. Newspaper reviewers are puzzled over the authorship of "God lv His World," the ieceDt anonymous work published by Messrs. Harper Hi Brothers. To some It suggests Phillips Brooks; others say that It could not have beeu written by a divine. Oue paver believes thai it may be the work of a woman. William li. Turner of Spokane Falls has com piled and published a very handy- pocket chart of "Medieval and Modern History," lv winch is given iv a convenient aud popular form at a glance the histories In which the people of the world are most nit i crier I. , The June issue of the "Cosmopolitan " Is a brilliant number, It contains the inn .1 stage of Miss lilsland's flying trip around the world, "A Ghost at ills Fireside," by Louise Chandler Mntillou aud over a duzeu well-written and enter taining sketches. .The June number of " Halted Service" com pletes the third volume of a new series of tins very readable and interesting monthly review. The leading at tide is " The Battle Tactics of To- Day," by Lleutenaut John P. W'lsser oi me First Artillery, U. S. A. The lint Domination for the Presidency In 150..' is published lv the current number of " The Illustrated American." It is lv au article by lielva Lock wood upon the question as to whether we shall ever . have a female President of the Culled states. "At a Girl's Mercy," a spiritedly told romance of The War ot the Kebeiltou, by Jean Kate Ludluiu, has just beeu issued by Street & Smith of New York. Ills «v Interesting, well-told story, true to life and full of dramatic Incidents. Chicago has a new cartoon paper called " Light," which. Judging from lhe illustrations an.l the initial, blight and witty mailer tbat till the pages. It .will soon become Hie equal of the cartoou papers of Mew York. lv the latest Issue of "Garden and Forest," published In New York, there ls an Interesting article descriptive of au oinameutal Japanese barb.- by Professor Saryeul. The Juue issue of "The Domestic Monthly" Is devoted to fashions of the latest styles and other mallei of the giealesl Interest to lhe fair sex. Like the Cleansing Brook. Where the branches swiug and the robins sing And the Utile lishes play, - The pretty brook at each muddy nook Keeps washing all the day. It tosses high with a merry cry lis whirling sprays of foam. And seems to say, as it works all day, 11111' " I'm making clean my home." And thus through years of smiles aud tears, And changing human lives. It Is the wont of SOZODONT " To cleanse who falls or thrives. Forever pure end safe end sure It cleans the teeth of all; They bless its name and spread Its fame Through cot and palace-hall. r Success Rewards Merit ' As a rule, ana SOZODONT . is no exception. There is not In the market a preparation the sale of which has been attended with more success, Decay of the teeth Is prevented by SOZODONT. It Imparts to them an Ivory whiteness. It Is a liquid not a gritty and corrosive paste or pow- der. It remedies offeoslveness of the breath, leaves an agreeable flavor In tbe mouth- and Is itself fragrant. ; Being what It Is, no wonder that SOZODONT is a success and Is made the subject of so many encomiums. SUMMER OUTFITS. A Tacation Wardrobe at Little Expense. Plain Talk About Simple Gcwss for the Holi days—Hew Cheapness and Attractive- •' ness Hay Be Combined. II READ from time to time descriptions i of inexpensive summer outfits and fre _s quently run npon detailed directions for making a vacation wardrobe out of one's head and having plenty of wash goods left to supply one's sisters .'and cousins; but still the bona fide economies actual useful to the dear lady to whom Sl always means 100 cents and usually seems to mean 125 Ido not find in the newspapers. First among the summer vacation econ omies I reckon a knowledge of ' woolens. The woman who is going to the seashore, the woman who is going to the mountains and the woman who is going to stay at home are alike interested in light-weight wool gowns. Call it street dress, traveling dress, tramping dress, general outing dress. It must be light and it must be wool, except when it's mixed judiciously with silk and becomes alpaca. This summer stand-by must be water proof to a moderate degree. : There are those among the delightfully pretty spring novelties, bordered cloths, etc., that will not dull, but tbe woman who is practically economical and whose gowns are rigidly limited in number will not trust to the tricky goddess Fortune to guide her choice among this counter's temptations. Until she can. get a certificate from providence, duly signed, sealed and delivered, guaran teeing that no "sea turn" shall set in while she walks the bench, no clouds wrap tbe summit until she is safely up the cliff and down again, no splashing drops fall when there is not a horse-car to be hailed,, she will pin her faith to serge, and she shall not be deceived. Serge. is the economical woman's ma terial. She delights in its gloss and its freshness. When it loses these she puts it into tbe wash-tub and 11 comes out new again. for the summer outing it is incom parably better tban flannel. The ouly ma terial which approaches it for everyday out of-door vacation wear is a good alpaca, and alpaca has a surface which Is not becoming to all complexions. For women who can wear it, alpaca is very cool, very durable, very light, wonderfully considerate about shedding dirt and more to be relied on when caught in the rain than most ma terials, though in this respect serge is its su perior. ;,;/•' -\ ■;■"., : . ' ;"•/." 77.' Owing Gqwti. Let it be, then, alpaca or serge There are pretty gray serges that stand more wear than almost anything else without looking badly. Let it clear the ground by several inches, the fashion correspondents to the contrary notwithstanding. There is noth ing more slovenly than to dip into the dust at every motion. The details- of cut must depend on circumstances. lam not suffici ently progressive to yield my heart to the stiff shirt -bosom, waistcoat, jacket and straight draperies which go to make up the favorite outing dress of the season, and to the woman who is I. suggest this consider ation : The masculine make-up is chic, neat and practical, if not beautiful, when made by a masculine craftsman; but 11 you are one of those for whom this article is writ ten—a woman te «tmm economy is a neces sity—if you can't go to a good tailor dou't try to make it up at home. The amateur masculine rig would be odious if it were not laughable. The home dressmaker is a dear, sweet, sensible soul, but she should be judicious in choosing her styles. One of the summer's best styles is an easy one. It gives the effect of a polonaise with a low bodice worn over a princess gown. It is really a high polonaise with yoke, and sometimes sleeves, of the ma terial of the under gown. _ If it opens on one side and is finished with an enormous waist buckle it is so much mure quaint and fashionable. Summer gowns ought always to be a pleasure. There is always a chance for fresh, simple, dainty rigs for the piazza, the garden party, the June festival. To tbe serge stand-by may be added for little money a pretty India silk fete gown. I would not take the word "wash" silk too literally. No small proportion of the low priced wash silks spot if they see water on the other side ol the room. The better wash silks do not suffer much at the hands of a professional cleaner, but the number that can be managed by a good washerwoman is not large. Call them simply "summer" silks ami they tire really inexpensive. From SC to SS will by a fine fabric that a seam stress will help you make and that when it has been washed can be turned into pretty and serviceable underwear. The woman whose money is valuable should re member in buying heavier silks that faille is apt to be much the most serviceable. Conscientious dealers often refuse to recom mend peau de sole. f— -— iS5 -.■•-. Simple Fete Goumt. ■ The only silk that will wash repeatedly is pongee, and this makes either the prettiest or the least pretty of fete gowns. It Is dis tressing enough to make one shut one eyes and turn sadly away when it Is cut la smooth, close-fitting, boned and steeled, conventional fashion, with coat-sleeves, and, as likely as not, a velvet panel. If you want to know what pongee Is capable of, make it with a blouse or baby waist or with the front of the bodice in loose cross-folds, with straight-gathered skirt, high gigot sleeves nnd plenty of bright ribbons. So shall you rejoice the eye and come out of the tub. if necessary, fresh every Monday. • If you are the wise woman I think you, you will fight shy of sateen. That it is apt to fail in the washing is not vital, for a good many foolish people are making up all the so-called wash goods in such style that they couldn't be washed possibly; but the new ginghams, the beftutifulliuen ba tistes, the gay little prints and the soft French percales are much cooler and pret tier It is not good taste to make these up elaborately as lf they were foulards or crepe de chine. The nice girt who hasn't many dollars wherewith to make herself beautiful will make a much better appear ance at tbe lawn parties and garden tea drinkingsto which she may be invited if she lays out her little board in several cool. simple toilets, with straight skirts and tucked waists, English skirts and waist coats, or one-piece dresses opening low at the throat over chemisette and broad collar, than if she expends all on nne or two more costly and more studied arrangements. ■ v"~ lS^^^*^««^-~ -*<" ** '<b'£t&3$' ■■■■■: ■■■■■■ -^^ $&m ..■■■- ; - ■:;.■ Por country wear. The loosely woven cotton cheviot In pat terns of checks and stripes makes low- . cost country dress which is about as satis- •' • factory as anything for tennis or picnic ... wear. Some of the low-nriced challies are .; in good patterns and make delightful fete gowns. There is going to be a good deal of ■■■= muslin worn this summer in organdies and dotted white weaves. Now let me offer a hint to my economical girl. If she wants a•' white dress and thinks she can't really af ford it, let her get white mull. Where is;, the advantage? You don't starch it when': yon wash it and consequently It will last;, several seasons. Iseg, borrow or earn— -• money for two or three different sashes and;.-, sets of shoulder ribbons and yon will have-...; two or three toilets with one gown. :..?;.: A tea-gown need not be an expensive lux- ury. A dark challi makes a pretty one, with vest of cream-colored surah; and sash . coming from under the arms. The sash-is -v prettiest made of the challi and silk-lined... One can make a delightful . tea-gown ; '.-.of;-.r- French sateen with vest front of .white. V sateen. ■ Or for a little more money, cash- ». mere is as good a material as there is, with ■"::'. front of challi. ,;."" ..".: I meant to have room for a word about -.' millinery. The -Neapolitan straws are good-.'.' purchases, because they are very durable. ... The girl who has few hats should not in- ... dulge freely in flowers. They are too per- ■:''.. ishable. She should buy the heavier an.l \ more waterproof ribbons and get.her touches '. of brightness with facings of the best of the ..i non-tarnishing gold and silver laces. She.- should have a black bat, both because it ii r-7 tbe most fashionable, and because it will go with every one of her gowns, If she likes';: feathers she should remember that, a really good ostrich plume wears while a long series of "tips" are coming nut of curl and being thrown away, but a low-crowned, •broad-brimmed hat, trimmed with gold lace and black ribbon, needs nothing else to ; make it captivating. Those who interest themselves in dainty j. dressing, at low cost or high, will do well to . remember that Dickens says: "Style means " back." . Style means carriage, and much of . ' the success of a dress depends on bo.w.vi, woman carries herself after the dress is on. . With head up, chest raised and waist firm,';"-; If the material has not cost more than. s.l:so',:' she should look like a queen. .• •'.'.': _'*'•'_**_¥£> Copyright. '.-'; __tl EN USB-Sjt:,, A FEW EXTRAS \;J>:£^ That Were Written by the "American ; ' Grocer's" Funny Kail*' •.-..-_"-j.-.s-;VI.-: --f^|,i'GEOGHEGHAX entered the house I'VIK the other day in an unusually ugly 1555/* humor. .. ..••'• -,' -'y ■'■Jy'y-, "See here, Ellen," he began, ' "do, I giver, you the impression of a rip-staving idiot?"' "No, Henry!" ••■ . -;'_y : -_- .:&y£ "Wouldn't you take me for air escaped: lunatic now?" ''•;;.'%'VJ.'J'v "Why, of course not, dear; • who said ;: so?" ", •• :T:-.' : .;Vvh; "Well," replied O'Geogheghan, "I. just wanted to know. I had barely got down to v my office this morning when an agent. tried to sell me a daft motor, I believe he .called ■:> it. Ten minutes later a wo man.-,came'-inl and actually forced me to buy shares in: a ; church-fair crazy quilt. At lunch, because; -: I told the waiter 1 wasn't feeling- well,: ho: - : brought me noodle soup and cracked wheat';; —and, and— now when I come home you ask me what makes me so mad!".:''/.'.-// *'.';,,''? ?.!j UK KNEW DOJIINICK'S ABn.iTl__.3iV <* .~:V. Doctor X (accosting patient in downtown restaurant)— very strange, Mr. What not, that I And you disobeying my instruc-'.- : tions regarding your medicine. You'll never be cured at this rate! ? •.'•. : .'.-:- 'iy. Patient (imperturbably)— Wont eh? You explicitly stated that these pills were to be > taken one hour before eating. ' Haven't. l'..-.; just this moment given my order, to ..the'-':' waiter? --."'.' •>.'-. f - : DOUBTLESS. '...-. V .'-'■'*'_".? She— There goes young Mr. Van Dike, You should see his latest masterpiece. -''V :'■'•;• He— lndeed— a landscape? v.-... vA-' she— Oh, no; a representation '"-.'.0f -vSn;: 1 ; artist's palette; awfully .natural, by the way. Why, the daubs of color are executed.'':', so beautifully that you would almost, be- V' lieve they were real! '."-'.'V-.^?- AX INTREPID GIRL. .v;'.'!.'"'.--?';.': Wentman— A brave girl in Chicago rte- . cently jumped on two monstrous footpads'-; and held them down .without any assist- > uae: - —■ ■ ■'"-.:. -'■■' •■>_■•- '■--" Weeks — The villains! They were finally , jailed. I suppose? \ • v\,-A\_> Wentman— Oh, no. I alluded to a pair of cork soles. She is still holding them down. : A CLEANSING JOB DESIRED:.- ...' .'■._->' V Rough-looking Party— here, I want to •' . clean out this place. ■f ■ ' ' : . : . ~.ii,\'. Editor (paralyzed)— Sitdown, my dear sir, and perhaps— we can explain. ' '.'■ "" '"' \ "• }:■ Rough-looking Party— Gimme the. job, i mister, and I'll do it for half a dollar. ... >; -'Vv THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWKUS. > ■'} :.''y A New Hampshire man writes toa'co.hwv temporary to know if "flours reely hava.'.': language." 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