Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1881, Page 7

FASHION WRINKLES. IRON-RUST Kzp fs a new shade of color. A NEw bluish gray tint fs called Bilbas, Bors large and small bonnets will be worn. PLAws Did fair to have @ rum of fashionable favor. TUFTS of fe plumes. SrAaNisH Lace ia used in profusion on evening dresses. : Now's Verets: retains fts popularity as a full- Gress fabric. SILK Kittie Is the fancy work of the pass- Ing moment. Exgoant brocades are Japanese Gr medieval in thetr conceits. . | Dorrgp and towered Swiss muslin dresses | Sea o ries and ribbons show much | hers are Worn more thas long T. ‘BTSs aro io high favor with | ladies of Parisian tastes, Lists TaReaD GLOVES Will be as faibionable this summer as they were last. New CaLicoss imitate to perfection tue new reales, momle cloths and satines, Ussies come in the handsome nd are most effective. CoLokeD Lace Mirra, in every style, wil be more worn this season than ever befor ‘Tax Naw G More fabrics, wn! contrasts in ef BRIGHT and p é ion except tn sanil bits to givea dash of ort 8s tO a costume. ‘Tae Mogr TSLES3 of new pira: figured by having a palette dept gore, a palette touched up with sma Of paint, and adorned by a pteture. ‘Tus skirts of all short dresses aré very nar- row, but they are so trimmed that they look both full and unportant; they are considerably more ornate than even thoge of last season. Gtoves ar> longer than ever for dress o2ca- sions, such as the opera, and they cover the arms fn some cases nearly to the shoulder, jeaving only a patch of flesh at the plumpest point expose A SPRING wea> made Entirely of satin ribbon, Sewn together at the edges and adoraci with iridescent beats, looks useless, but ding ¢ Orately lined it 15 a3 warm and comforiayi2 At Were of p ashimere. Ix New Ycxs stiver mounted ebony prayer i patcaes iab- as it Looks are the proper thing for this Lent, and they dangle from the belts of the falr worship- ers, as they church, at the ends of sliver vhains. Kies is thus absurdly carried into } religion. | CiaRa B ‘The Mother obard bonnets are so old womantsi an safely wear thom, for they T-ol4 ladle to be mis- matron can afford ONBOF THe very few now things about the arrangement ot spring dresses is gathering the Just in time, so terror. silghtest attention. } aud said, “Then way hurr PUNCTUALITY. Hsreor's Bsssr-] The troubie began a8 800N a8 We were mar- ried—nay, even before. I had been engaged to Charley long enough to learn his weaknesse3 pretty well, and as our wedding day ap- proacked, I began to tremble, “Chariey,” 1 said, a8 we parted the night po- fore, ‘don’t be late to-morrow, whatever you ao. “Good heavens, Lella! what do you take me for?” said Charley, “if ever a man was ready for anything —" “Which you never were since I knew you,” I said. “J believe you would manage to be late for your Own funeral.” “that would not depend quite so much upon my CwD volition,” sald Charley, laughing. “Make your tind easy, little woman; “i shali be in time.” 1 was by no means convinced of It, but I could Say no more. At firat I had thought of being married in the English style, but I did not fancy the idea of wafting at the chancal ralis for Charley. ‘The only safe thing seemad to be to secure bim before we left the house. Two o'clock was the nour fixed for the wea- ding, and as the time approached, of course I was in @ turmotl I wassure that the butr- dresser was late, but Aunt Fan convinced me that the appointed hour had not yet arrived He came promptly on the stroke of the clock, and then all was hurry and worry until my tollette was compicted. I was ready, from the spray Of orange blossom which fastened my Vell, to the rosette op my slipper; but Chariey had’not come. “it's too bad Isaid. ‘“ He promised so fatth- fully to bein tine, Dosend somebody to look him up.” ‘Dear ebtid!” erfed Aunt Fan, in terror, “whatever you do, doo’tcry. Blushing cheeks are ali very well for 2 bride, bat blush a decided mistake. "There 1s plen’, eccone:? might be here,” 1 cried. “I am ready, and why isn’t he? It’s too bad. One great tear sojached down upou the dro- caded satin oj 1 ress. Taat frightened me, and I resolutely repressed the rest, whiie Aunt Fan carefuliy dried the spot with her lace handkerchief i was completely effaced, but still Charley did nct come. Then Ifeli tuto a stony despair. “Thore will “He won’t come at all,” I sata. be no Wedding, and I shall be the laughing “My dear Letia,” Dg eyes of Ue. Stock of ever aid Aunt Fan, “wo are not in England. You can be married at any Ume, aad it 1s not two yet.” “ But jast on the stroke,” I sald. Just then the cu clock shouled out its two absurd notes. A moment afterward the door-bell rang, and Charley walked In as calm and composed as {f I had not been enduring aaron I cried, ‘Charley! Charley! how could you eep back eg, looking utterly d, and bit my lip to n rushed to my ey: “Whatis it” said Charley, Instead of looking ashamed, when he under- stood the sf; of atfairs, he began to laugh. “My dear child,” he satd, “the clock3 were surtking two as lL came up the steps. I said 1 would be tn time, and I am.” The wedding journey was not a period of unalloyed bliss to me, Charley never missed a train or a boat, bus he was never more than Twas kept In constant for meals he paid not the Wheo I reminded hin of them, he merely inquired whether I was bun- gry. IfJ could nol say that I was, he laughed ? what is the wie of @ hotel It we cabnot take our own Asif punctuallty were not a virtue in | bewildered. ‘Vo the hoi being in time?” itsel it Was arollef to me when wo cama home, and seitied down at last to begia life tn eara- est. We had bud one Nettie quarre! about the apron front instead of goriny tt, There are | furnishing of our house. I wanted a clocs vg or six shirrings vi : yle bolow the basque, | in every room, to Walvi Charley decidadly ob. Pardee ene an re grom, the sid seams tO | “Stime was made for slaves,” he sald. “Why ee oes oe ay Tome should I be constantly remtnded of my bonds? A VERY datoty costume for Raster for a young When Iam down town, I must nee ual and fommunican! of white china silk, tastefully energetic, and a score of other things. I coma trimmed with draperies of the fabric, and to these decorations will be added bands an ruflles of rich embroidery before the cos! 2 Serves its double purpose and becomes an even- ing robe. 1 AN InoN-wESSED GBENADINR from Worth’s Shows on skirt four lace-edged flounces, ar Tanged in scollops. The surah walst and sleeyes With skirt corsage of shirred surah and plated basque back. The sash and revers are lined ‘With britiiantiy striped Roman satis, while the drapery in back {3 of surah. THERA are eome magnificent grades of dress trimmings in colored beads. In some 2s many as six or nti ades of the same color are rep- resented, as in a passion flower, wheretn the beads rang= from a lavender tinged white toa rich itlac. In cther specimens the beads radlate from the most delicate hues to the brilliant rain- bow colors. AMONG THE UNIVERSAL Fasmioxs may be 09 teed a m« cullariy adapted for out of. wear in the sgriug. It is a kind of jacket basque, with fins tet in the back ski front skirt aod upper bodies with coll end vet garment & ing collar an? 5 AGzEeaT desl of attention 13 being bestowed upon slippers. both by the women who wear them and the meu whose eyes they dazzle, ey are n Salons of tk e fronts b2ing nie and the b -eks of another. Dark Gres are exceedingly popular, ani among them may be noticed a numver of myrtle shades; bouteilie 1s a bottle-green; gros n; corbeau derives its name S¥ plumage of the crow, ana 4i-Zreen—yet bone of these are is a dark as mousse, woich ith a yellowish ttn the bronze order. | IN THE seaconable novelties in sliks, s2tins Bud brocades, there are some combize2 with plain satin de lyons, the same shades as tue TounG, being most superb specimens in pasu- Yar Unts, With Clusters of Mac blossoms and deaves scattered over the surface. ‘Taese come im _& number of colors, the flowers being in contrasting shade—as on a cardinal groiad the | Mowers are purple; on blue, silver gray; oa pink, gold, anc on lavender, the flowers’ are | whit { In PHitaperrats this week there w bited a magui‘icent walking or re tume of Mazentis in black | ¥, Wiih center or | wrocade fan picated, edge with rutfie of spacish Jace and curied chenille fringe. The si composei of plastrons of te rich e y 2nd falls of lace and fringe to center of pack, | awhere these decorations are met by lovpings | and lace-edged drapings of lace and satin-bro- | wing a vaudyked | caded grenadine. The basque is deep and tated, wit ed front of brocade and em- roldery rt The sleeves are flnisned with embroidered cuffs snd lace edge. TWHLED Su.xs are the favorite chotce tor | Gsesses this spring, and have in a great measure superseded the rep gros grains and those smoothly woven like taffeta’ Surah ts ihe Rame given to several of the twilled soft silks now for the waist drapery, er trimmings ¢f dresses, dstiks so long used fo: purposes ar Hon skirts with regula: lightest qu: ube dri now in process of construction tn New York are Of nun’ vetling, a fabric specially ataptet to the purpose, for it 1s extremely delicate and | ar: vetully. ‘To the decorat 3. 0: iy considered in good t are most fashionable, e Marguerite and daisy dusiz necklace, piu and earriags, | and e€ar-drops are also appro- | Tax SHiRxen Watsrs that were Introd Year sgo are generally adopted for new made of any such as S is clusters at the the enure shou: covers ers tb pareliel rows stmul tins 8 round yoke. It Is also conspicuous ta tne ful sleeves ¢: eneraly the Dishop;’ sleevea, | In some of these tt appeara in several rows | arcund the les, the elbows, and ava! i C) in other: sleeves are shirred all. ov for short arms In lengthwise rows ania zontal rows for loug arms. ‘THE novelty for black grenadines tg the use ot the plain or Med sewing-sUk gresadine for the entire dress: and for its trimming ary {cit of Diack net, dotted and scalloped. eta v te Silk. Phis trimming forms a square 07 nesk ef the jue, and edges the turee scarfs tuat are draped across the front of the skirt. To | Soft bias puffs of the grenadine trim the foot of the skirt, te: of frilis, and the dack is d. Another caprice ts che usa 3 on black grenadine. tn com- bimation with Soantsh iace frills, and some- Umes with the Frened imitauon thread laces. Two Kinds of grenadine are also used In one Gress, viz., striped grenadine for tue lower skirt (especiaily when there are bias puffs at the foot, and much shirring and nos hort of Charley most troubie. that for him. Sure that ‘hat Was not the most aguravating part of It, Jalways fore the tim hoping effect, but it Was of no usa reaay, little woman: pulling out hts w we need not start for an hour yet; pienty of ume.” | Twoula | we, { Ty Was the Sth or August, | “Phe carrlage } Chariey in wn | trlend, and we were tn the middle of a most tn- | terest! 9 | Could T tel Charl | Owy in I home for retaxtion, and I wantto forget all an- noyances. Have a clock in tie kitchen, by all meals, and put one, if you choose, in the ser- Vant'’s bedroom. For the rest, we have watehes, and what possivle need have we for our ore? I yielded, Dut I made up my mind then which fanles was likely to give me the Charley was always good-natured; I will say Oa the whole, though, I am not Inade apotat of being ready n We Were golng any where, that my silent example woa!d have its “What! going al- shariey would say. Then , and lookiag at it. *On, rae. ‘Then he would throw himself into a chatr, and rattle away aoout anytaing or notoing, while I felt myselt ‘F int growlbg more and mors 8. [had made tp my mind 5 at On: Ag tho thr ¥On jarloy, OUZUE you 4 drew on, howeve: and I Leve A not to be geiting read)? ad in t drove me fran’tr. The Worsi Of if w. be just ta time, ItI couid on! Ol belong just too late for onc euhing to fail back apo: it Waa, [had natal our argume: take hoid of. ‘Things gone on mn this way for tvo or three months, “I did not suppose that Caarley cared, OF, Li how Ifretted about It. itried bard to hae my trritatioa, for I really loved bim, did BOL Wish to annoy, still less to allena! at I suppo3? that my efforts were in v ere tilking about a rece; Uonto Which we were golng i the evening, and I sald: “Now, Charley dear, won't you be ready 12 Ume, just for Gdce? You do make me waste 30 much time walting for you.” Chariey laugh usual, and was going to Blake One Of his careless retorts, but he stopped uiddenly. Weave been married four months, haven't r Lefla 2” he sald. “Pour montis to-day,” Esatd, promptly. “It and unts is testa or | December. i “And In all that time you have not bean able | lo cure me of my dreadful fault? Poor little girl! Your halr wil! be gray ina year, at tais Tate. Tmigeing to try toe effect of ‘turn over a bew leat, and see how we both like 11,” 1 did not know exactly what he meant then, but Tbegan to understand when he weat into | hls dressing-room the moment I enggeated i. | He came out fully equipped, even to als gloves, | before I had half finis hed dressing. “No burry, Lells,” ho said, looking in as he passed, “I only wanted to let you kuow that I am ready whenever you are.” Ol couree [hac to hurry after tuat, but, a3 1 always hurried anyhow, {Udid not make very iauch difference. Charley satd nothing except, is at the door,” when {cam after ali the fuss I bad mage, at 1f was too early to go, | Well that It was, and was aking inwardly all the way. Don't you Uitak {f would be pleasant to dilve around py Waskington Square?” i said,in desperation. ; i” exclaiined Chariey. Why not by Philad: gion Square is miles out down. Of cour I could not though I ke v * just my object! 1 could if, however, so 1 k ul, and ¢ destination by the suortest Use fouse was dark when we dit, the hostess entirely unprepared to , aud the waller who let us in equaliy Tse We had the pieasure of spending a soMtary hour, Lin the ladies’ and geutienea’s dresstng-toom, ba- fore we dared descend. Thea we were among the earliest guests. “1 begin to fce} the reward of virtue already,” shed Charley, as we descended the stairs. “iow nice it is to becarly! ‘The carriage 1s ordered for one, and I'll be sure to be ready.” He was—auil i was not. i had met an old iz CO! York en pe. again, prsation. She was only in New ‘ni, and I should not sea her it waswery provoking to be obliged to break off im the milddle of our talk; but how y that I was not ready, when he stood wailing with that atr of couscious Viriue? It was beyond my power, anJ, absurd as it was, Thad to say good-by to Annie aud z0. go. 1 had not supposed at first that Charley’s reformation was permanent, Dat as the days Went on, | was forced to confess that It looked ¥ery Touch as if it were. Promptly as tho clock struck Six in the evening, he entered the house; Rens At Struck nine In the morning, he FItit. No entreaties could detain him an in- stant beyond his time, ‘a, my dear,” was his tavariable re- i y, vi have already wasted tco much of life by tay uppanesnalliy. You have convicted me 2 y strive now to u ge which you Lave done?” ue ween OF course such sentiments ought lighted my heart, and they did, in necessary to urge Charley to eet thing ‘e were alsvays the first tn church: we Were walling at the doors of operas and the- aters long b fore they were open: at parties or receplions it was our invariable custom to Spexd from half an hour to an hour in the ae at putting up the fron’ rocaded grenadine Tge is used for the basque and 4; dra; — Harper's Bazar, AVTh Ih, pain dressing-room, in order to descend with the earliest ig And Charley was con Woualiy ex on the aweet reward of virtue, and thanking me for teaching hum the beauty of - Uce, though. PI ‘t myself in vain wonderings as to how Tong this stats of things was to last; it came to 8 cilmax finally. My oldest and most intimate friend, Tina Ver- ringer, Was to be married, and Charley and I ‘haa vowed in the most solemn manner to attend the wedding. Tina lived at Montelatr, and it Was there, of course, that the ceremony was to take place. “ Do you think that nine o'clock will be early enough to leave here?” asked Charley, maekly. * Nine o'clock! My dear Charley, she is not to be married until one, and Montclair ts only an hour away.” “IT know,” said Charley, ‘but I was anxlous I think that we had better start to bein time. at nine, to make sure. Iswallowed my astonishment as I best could, and submitted. “It was nota pleasant day. If I were not afraid of exaggerating, I should say thst it was a decidedly unpleasant one, belng cold and gray, damp and chilly, with that cai!- ness witch (foos straight through to your bones. Already a few slray snow takes were fiuttering dowa, givibg promise of a settled storm later in the day. The depot at Hoboken 13 not a spectally exhil- arating place to wait in; but Charley settled himself comfortably with his paper upon one of the straight up-and-down settees, saying, “We need not take too early a train, Dut it is well to be on han en If we do reach Mont- clair Wo soon, we ‘can walk about and see the place, you know. Walk about aud see tho place on such a day! T said notuing, but I tuwardly decided taat we Would 79/ take (00 ear! least we ‘av ti otaer end? While I was settling this point tn my own mind, the door at the end of the room wad fing open and Charicy tprang to his feet. “Come,” he said; “we might as weil make sure of this tratn, after all; find words In whica to cow without gt fe to OF may Ute, we We Charley was bu and Wiudew upon ine fast. when tite conductor paused before us with @ demand for “Pikes.” ‘Yaey were ready to bacd, bus the couductor gaze upon them blankiy. “Where to2” he asked, briefly. “Montelair,”: replied Charley, with equal brevity. “Wrong train. Yours left ten miautes later fromm the other door. You'd better get out at Newark, and take {t there. If you miss it, there'll be another along tn forty intnutes.” “It is fortunate that we have plenty of time,” safd Charley to me, as the conductor lett . ren’t you glad that I have reformed in regard to punetuality?” “Ob, very giad:” | auld, with a slight tiage of trony, and adding. inwardly, ‘especially it It leads you to take the wrong’ train rather than Walt for the right one.” We got out at Newark and took the next train that came along. Being the next, we made sure that it must De the right one;but it wasn't. ‘That train landed us at Orauge, where we spent a quiet hour beiora auother Newark-bound train picked us ui) “You see, dear,” satd Charley,“I go upon your prinetpie of always being tn lite. “it we Keep On taking ae fist train that comes along, we shail be sure to get there some tme—if no! In tme for the wedding, Wen, perhaps, ta time for vhs funeral of ali the family.” “We shail certainly not be in time for the wedding al this rate,” ! sald, half laughing and hait crying. “Seppose, by Way of variety, wo Uy the effect of taking the last train?” “What! and abandon principle? Never!” cried Caarley, “However, 1 think we will in- quire before we try agalo.” We did tuquire, but with the result of finding that the next train which {t would be poastoie for us to take wouid not reach Moatclatr until half an hour after the time set for the wed- alng. Pehl we try it?” asked Charley, cheerfull “The wedding may be delayed, you know. The groom may be unpunctual, or Sometaing.” I fairly broke down at that. “No, we will not,” Isaid. “I don’t want to go drageing in just at the tall of the ceremony. I'm cold and tired and wretebed, anid I want to go home.” I Was cold and tired aad wretched. but I was morethan that. I was thoroughly indtgnant, tor I was sure that Charley had done It ail on pur- pose, Though I had a hidden consciousness that I deserved a lesson of some kind I thought that he had punished me too severely. So 1 had 1 ttle Lo say fo bim elther then or when § sitting together tn the evening. Cuarley wa too busy with pencli and paper to take any uw “Lelia,” he satd, suddenly, “What Is it?" I answered, rathe “Lam thoroughly convinced now,” ley, “that punciuaitty ts the king of all virtues, the crowning merit of humanity; but her an expenstve ont sked, melttag a little, ‘Well, I won't speak of to-day, for that was not e fair test. I know you thluk vuat I made all those bluuders on purpose, but Ididnt. I suppose the tnioxication of such unusual virine Hew to my head, certainly made T have been pu: but not | “Dov't, r suddenly: i a’ yain, ¢ uring ifttle idto Twas so qu one virthe, aud it’s nothing but av Thave been beg and I am ready to § Ume by belng puncti nat 1 will ni al again.” Dou id Charley, laughing. “Thismonth bas done me no end of good, for 1 was tn clived to run things inuch too close, I never was exactly late, but lotten made a precious ight shave of it. We'll help each other after won't we, litile woman? You'll spur me on, and (li rim you tn, and we will neither of us get Out of temper with the other, Is it a bargin?” Hil hand was out, and his good, honeat eyes were shining into mine, and, before 1 koew It, imy arms were around his beck, and 1 was promising anytilng aod everyahing. So that was the eud of the first and last quarrel that threatened to overshatow our inarried Itty, The Amateur Tenor. BONDS IN A TRUNK. What the Accidental Kicking Out ofa False Bottom Revealed. (Port Jervis (N. ¥.) Union.) This town has just had a sensation of an un- usual nature, caused by the finding of a for- ‘tune In an old trunk recently by Mr. George E. Wat @ well-known business man, of the firm of Waters & Cole, provision merchants. Mr. Waters went into the garret of his rest- dence to get some bed-clothing which had bsen stored away in an old trunk, and tn order to get them out quickly kieked the trunk over, when a false bottom felt out, reveaiing some pers, Kxaminatton proved these papers to & New York banker’s securities for $9,000 Worth of government boads which had been | laced in his hands several years ago. Mr. | aters aiso found title deeds to an old hom= stead properiy. formerly | belongtag {9 ls. a mother, locaigd Kingston. No sooner had he found the valuable papers than he started for New York. where found the bonds safe. With accumu lated interest, the bonds are now worth $12,953 Mr. Waters isa young man and was worth $20,000 before he made this uausaally lucky find. The trunk in which these securttles were concesied belonged to Mr. Waters’ father, who went to California whea thi broke out and came home wit Old dust tp this trunk. een dead over six years, and it ta b that he put the papers to the trunk and fergot ali about them, aa ne aid not refer to thelr existence la any of b papers. The Ways of Wash 1.0, [rom Lippincott. } Toa lazy Chinaman us to. phitosopherjevery- thing 18 a matver for marvel. Hts lite 1s won- Gercd away by the hour. He pL of scrap-iron fn the street, an for an hour whar it has been us le speculates for sixty minutos conc pessibie use to whic. tute the post yon, wonderin z What younre going 15: 3 nts the change and estimates you lick It, he {samazed at the you silde the letier into the box, he catches last glimpse of the vignette on notices a man’s head with attachment of pi tall, and he goes out_and sits down on the es tremeedge of the stdewalk and stares at not ing, While Le wonders If that man was Confu- e a. Like the proyerblal country-boy who has never left his home, the Chinaman ts gawky and Ungraceful in tne’ extreme, but never was there a DOOK-agent, one of that class of man who travel so much, that had more of coi audacity than he, is jocose famillarity is more than audacious at times—tit IS tasolent, Showid you stop inthe street to exchange a word of courtesy with a lady acquatatance whem you meet, John loats along, his slovenly S ippers flapping at bis heels, and suddenty your coat becomes a matter of mighty import, to him. So,in his innocent impertiaence he Walks around you and stares, studying 1t ag If he were a tailérand an artist. ‘Theu, comlag nearer to exaraine the fabric, he does not hesi- tate to take the fabric in his hands, pressing It to bis palm or his chee! which he has great quantity—in order to determine the nature or its texture. Now, such hangers-on are Mot pleasant to have, albeit they are of ein, as they bo: the Chinaman is a very gocd cook, but he 1s not handsome enough Uo play the valet or footman, to hold Up One's SKirts in the strect, Ouce an old and toothless child of the sun entered our camp and inquired “Who bossee here?” Jt being supposed that be had vezo- tabies to sell, be was referred to the teat of the gentieman fn question. This he Invaded, sidied up to the occupant, slapped him coa- vivially On the shoulder, and gaid, “You bossee here? Bully! Shake hand!” And,’ haying paid his respects in thts informal manner, he seemed tw have no further comimunteation to make, bul began an inspection of our camp furniiure, which task promised to occupy lim the rest of the day. ‘Thiuking (to entertain our High-vorn guest, Our musical man sang him the song ba ginving—and, it isto be heped, ending aiso— With the following Unes: tle puss Cook fem in a Little k * What do you thin “ Heap crazy man!” laconic rebuke w our minstrel, These men are certainly of the low most ignorant grade at home, are few laundry-workers of 6 tes—Irish, German or colored — 1 of that, John 2” as the disduinful and which the heathen crushed er ational vo can handle wield the brush. linen to one Of these houses, ately One OL Lie inmates seats Lim Self at the desk, dips the brush ints th moist- ened surface of a Cake of Ink, and With many a Gash abd arustle suvoke, every One of whoss curves {5 a line of beauty ‘ 5 orandum of the artic ‘These shing- away a3 Absent was to be entle tomtom, with aa Passionaie outourst froma th aay, devoured with anxiety to leara the sweet words of this mystical message, for- warded it to a translator who returued auawer, ce d in sil the cold precision of busi willing cerUiied that this geniieia practical joker, hua deposiied with Mr. Waeh Lo, washerman, one shirt, two collars, oue pair of hose, et al,’ and that the sam to be duly Cleaused, ironed ahd ready for urn en suchaday. It is said that the iady’. reply to ths praclical joker was read wituou: i sist jator, and the tune ta vas a dirge over a lost 10 US that it is well to resery practical jokes on one’s sweetheart tlh aiter the wedding day. trious, if Tru vell-kKnown Parts scientist, Dr. Delaunay, bas made the curlous discovery that, to ascer- (The Seove.} ia the middl abura hue, © birds of evil cue by niet! He sings the Maid of Athans, And songs about th moos, With improvised a ich are not en the sent SOCIETY Class Bistinction—the the Women. {A Mexican Letter } There exists no other sociciy on the planet, not even in India, where tic. fs more distinc ton of caste and class than is fouad in Mextco. Of the Gulf coast, by conseq"uce of the uator- tunate amaigamation of the white and Indian and the Chinese and the biack races, there ara Sald'To exist at least a dozen separate classes of humanity, of different color, or, at least, of aifferent characteristics. In the capital such 13 hot the case. ‘There are Castilians and Creoles, or children of Iadilan motaers and Spanish fathers and {full-blooded Indias. ‘Tue Creoles are noted for thelr fatellt gence, their symmetery of form and feat- ure, and thelr personal courage. Their com- plexion may be said to resemble that of the far- famed Caballeros of Andalusia. The males are tall ard shapely, while the ladies are generally very beautiful, are well formed, possess doli- cately moulded ands ana feet, and the most beautiful eyes of any of the human tantly. The belles of the south of Frauce, of the moun tans aud platns of Spatn, of the sterras an: coasts of Portugal, and of the famous cltle3 of Italy, must yield to their charming sisters of the Latin republics in the beauty, shape, size and expression of the eyes. Tuey are'so ex- ceedingly expressive, a glance trom between ee long fringes seems Lo meit into the very sow Beauty of The term “Ojos Cresilo3,” or Creole eyes has become a proverb, while few, very few travel- ers from the by peroorean regions have returaed from their Mexican tour heart whole, while very Many who returned carried with them the holy balm for a wounded spirit. The better Class of Mexicans are, in the highest acceptance Of the term, gentlemen. They are easy and unrestrained In thelr manners, and are sx- {emely polished and polite. ‘They are very intellectual and are invariably well educated; can speak several languages, rmon the plano aud guitar, and are generally writers and poets—no mere scribplers, but ists heer ot ability. ae eau be ‘ find a race that uel - lar paradoxes of genuta, taln the qualities of an applicant cook, It 13 A Representative Detroit Constitucnt. Free Press. ‘Be gave all the hackmen at the Union depot s. | stand-off, brushed the bootblacks right and left, and shouldered nis sixty pounds of bag- gage and started up Jefferson avenue in search ofatavern. He was aright up-and-down man, and he wanted to strike atavern where they had an oid-fasnioned boiled dinner. * Just come in from Lansing,” he observed as he fell in with a pedestrian. “ Did, eh? Been out to the legislature?” “You bet I have. I'm not a member, bat I made things hum out there ail the same.” “Have a bul?” “Not exactly. I come down from — county to take the Kinks ont of our member. He was Sailing in with a high head, and it ['d waited ten cays longer he'd have been bossing the whole state. What d’ye toink?” “7 dunno.” “Be wouldn't speak to me when I first got there! Think of tha Up hone there we rated him about No. 4, and sent him down to Lai “9 more because nOné of Loe Test of Us cold leave, and he wanted to cut me colder'a a wedge! What do you tnink?” Rather mean.” * Youbet! But I lowered his nose a bit. We'd heard how he was prancing around and pultiog on atrs aud Makiag out that he ran cur county, and a few of us got together and wrote him a letter, It didn’t seem to do any g00g, and So we job together again tuey seat me dows (0 pul on the curry com you-dig?” *. i? Ved put tn about a dozen biis Cuug our county, and I mashed ail but He bad lat huhself out fer six or seven dallbut one. The first porting motions and eout, bap I mizaty 4 understand that no sack cuait oY With us. He trled to vull- but when he found that his hud got afier iim he calmed fooling with the game Law, sed up with a dog tax Dill, aad nia Dill about Mian W What eisa I to: ise and says A our coustituents demand’ that you calm right down, We don’t want no Cicero In ours, and we won't have lt. We sent you down here to do a little quiet work, and not to prance around and imagine you've got Patrick Henry's haton, We are a humbie people, tak- ing kindly to log-houses and Jobnny-cake, aad We don’t go a cent on big words and’ long Ronee: ‘Thavs what I told him, and he calmed.’ , eh?” “You bet he did! and if we hear anything more about his rising to expiain bis Vote on the dog-tax, or moving to recommit the musk- rat bill, our county won't be no place for him toretuin to. This is the place, en? Well, Pil fodder up and then take the train for home.” ROBUST IMAGINATION Some Very Able Stories Alleged to Ziave Been ‘Told in Nevada, (Carson City Appeal-] Yesterdey afternoon, when the lawyers fn Justice Cary’s court were waiting for the ver- Gleb im a petty larceny case, Attorney Soder- erg related an incident of his early childhood in Minnesota, lilustrative of the pecullar cus- toms in yogué In that state: “I Knew &n Old farmer there who owned ten seres of timber laud where militons of pigeons came vach year to roost. They davastated the Wheat fields, and the old coon used to catch the birds in bets and thrash thei out on the barn floor, ach bird had Unree ounces of wheat in histrop, and It Was a bad year for ‘old Taomp- son’ when he Couldu’t ship thousand bushels of wheat to market at $2.60 ranked A Ni elevator. Toore near crop.” “I know a planter down in Alabama,” said Elttreil, * who was fally as sharp as t He tredned an alligator to work up and down the river and catch the little picaninuies that played along the bank. The alligator would take the lite Kids in his jaws and swim back to the plantation, It was a dull day that he conldwt corral three or four. The plancer iaised ‘em carefully, and when they got big sold ’em In New Orieans at prices ranging from Lurce to ten thousand apiece, Ife was rolling r in's emancipation proz- ton Was issued, and after that tue alliga— tor never did auy more work. The man is now barely keeping body and soul together in Wash- Jugton, clerking in one of the government Du- reaus at elght thousand a year.” Cary evidenced the greateet tnterest ese Welrd tales, and edged up to the se are curfous yarKs, gentlemen, but I e them all. I had a dog once, back in Ne- braska, that I kept to herd humoer.” “Beg pardon, Judge; did you say the dog herded lumber “Yes, sir, cottonwood boards. We always kept a dog there to bring the lamber tn at per bushel, and tr when it reacned the Chicago it there had been a few millions pigeous he would Lave come pretty Ung & corner op the Minnesvia Wheat bi Was & Covronwood boards warp A boutd Wo tin * orning, itura over, By ay with the Each tme tt LIFE OF A TELEGRAPH LINE. . Talk With a Man Whose Business } is to Climb Poles. “Oh, It's not half as dangerous as It looks, Tam used to working high up inthe alr, and mind {t no more than working On the ground. Besides, I've a clear head and stron: nerves. Whee tne Wood 18 good and soll there's mighty lictle danger, and I dig in my spurs tight and feel perfectly secure sixty feet un = the ati - 1 e Speaker was a telegraph repairer, or Iine- man, who bad just descended from a telegraph pole, and the person he addressed was a fri!) Teporter, t0 whom he talked without reserve about his pecullar calling. The aj paratus which enabies the iineman to ascend. a tele- graph pole with the agility of a monkey con- sists of leather leggings fastened tightly about the legs with straps and buckles, and steel spurs on the feet. The eee are fat bars taade of steel, passing under the instep, with a sharp pointed attachment fastened at’ right angies tothem. The latter 1s the part that ts forced poe the Pebuacal by the weight of the body bear- Dg upon st. “There are two kinds of telegraph repairers, Ine-men, or climbers, and ground-mea,” con- tinued the ae “The climbers are the men that go up the pole and do the repairing, and get from #9 to $5 a month. The ground-men carry the wire, dig holes, plant poles, au do other odd jobs. They get ordinary ‘laborers as wages. ‘The tools I filers and a strap. caich we strap, are a vise, a pi na wire snap: broken ends with the ‘vise ani and then splice them with the pliers. of course I don’t tie the wires iy atte tight tog-th but a litle slack, for when colder w comes they'd coi an citle: out where ther. legraoh won't work, aud the damage Is scon repaired. ‘There ara always A lov of Tine-men ‘kept at headjuariers aud they are ready to be sent out at any time, If Lolice comes In that there's a break and a pole has toppled over, the men go to the place, drag off the broken pole, dig up the stump, putin a new pole, and then up this the eltmbers go end splice the wires, Someitmes a new hole has got to be dug. and we use a machine callad an “earth augur, which does the work much bet- ter and quicker than a spade,” “Have you ever been a line man in tho country 2” “Yes, for a short time; when there ts any work. ch Man has a boat of from twenty-five to fifty miles, over which he must make an inspection tour at least once 8 week. If his routes along a ratiroad track he usually goes on a hand-car. If the poles Gon’t run alongside a track, Dut across open country, he has a beat about twenty miias long and goes out on horseback. He's got wo live hear a station so that he can be quickly nott- ied when there’s a break, and must be ready to go out at any time, day or night, in ran or pray) cold or hot. I had’ a cross-country beat anoe” nd mighty hard it ts “Have you ever encountered any great alm. culties in the performance of your duty 2” “Wel, I shouid say so. Iwas catied out in the middle of the nigbt once in January in a blinding snow storm aad the thermometer about 19 Gegrees below zero, Tue snow lay several feet deep on the rough mountata path I had to ride over, and kept fiylag into my eyes, bitnd- ing me so that I could not see the wires, and I had to climb up every other pole for a couple Of mies before I couid flud the break and re- pair it. It's pretty hard Ufe when there's Stormy weather and there are many breaks, But then, again, you may not have to go outin amonth, and youcan just loaf around while your wages go right on. But you've got to ba always ready foracall. Poies are elt tie eSt~ nut oreedar. Cedar looks nicer, but ches! lastsa good deal longer. Wires are usitally destroyed by rust. They last from seven to eight years."—N. F. Tribune, A Sure Cure, (Yonkers Statesman. | “Don’t you know it’s very wrong to smoke, my boy?” sald an elderly looking iaty, ina railway waiting room, to Young America, who persisted in puffing a cheap cigarette much to the old lady's discomfort. “Ob, I smoke for my health,” answered the boy, emitting a volume of smoke trom his Toouts which almost strangled tue old iady. “But you never heard of a cure trom staok- ing,” continued the lady when she had re- gained consciousn - persisted the boy, as he “Oh, yes I did,” formed his mouth into a young Veauvius work- ing on full time; “thas the way they cure pigs.” moke on then,” quickly repliad the old lady, “Uhere’s some hope for you yet!” oe ee ere eee oY Tas NATIONAL OAPITAL, THE EVENING STAR THE WEERLY STAR, WASBINGTON, D, C, EVENING STAR, (on Saturday's a douvle snd show w didn’t need any fl i it off at the right ume, . Well, here comes the “The witnesses €8.”” ‘The Domestic Lite of the Sturdy. Courageous Farmers, New countries, elngulariy enough, are usually Older than their parents, Just ag some of our iL page paper of fifty-sis columus, tue New York datles), is everywhere ed as Uhe leading newspaper of Wash- ‘9 exceptions only, i has the t ci om of any daily paper yroblished i @f New Pork, aND MORR THAN DOTELS 7 OF ANY OTHER PAPER IN THR CITY. issue of THE STAR ts carefully read not oaly by the citizens of Washington and ad- jacent cities and towns, but by the throngs of Strangers constantly visiting. the Nationai Capital on business or for pleasure, (and who constitute, in a very lange degree, the purchas- ing population of every State and Territory in the Union), thus making it for most purposes THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THE UNITED STATES. The evidence gf this is the number of new advertisewents It printed in the year 1890, which reached 21,482, averaging from 1,700 © 2,680 per month In the busy season !! ‘Phe advertising books are open to the inspec New England villsgea resemble tn seattment and custom the England of Cromwell's day, 89 in the Transvaal and the Orauge Free State a Hollander of the time of Von Tromp would find Ultself more at home than e modera Dutch- suflictent to give her a plate to clean, or sauce to meke, and watch how she moves her hand in either act. If she moves it irom left to Tight, or in the direction of the hands of ou may trust her; tf tho {3 ceitatn to be ‘stupt pap and noting in whica atre moved. The good students in a mathemattea! Class draw circies from left to right. Th: interlority of the sorter sex (as Well ad of mal. Gunces) 13 shown b. ir dri ng from ri to left sents and chiidren sare. In a word, centrifugal movemc..¢ ch: tic of inteiliven =. ang higher d: Ocat Bf a mark of Incomplets 490: A person, as his faculties are dev } thay, com ne to draw Clrdles tie opnosits to what he didin youth. Dr. Dalaunay me {urbber extraordinary to the relative positious of ra development, trom the wag Watches and make thelr scre ‘fhe Martyr ou Marr! (Pall Ma @xzette. ] French papers, Parisian or pro pul the question of divoree better tha: Patrtcte de COve Bes Statistics w least on: h society, wad that a very con. tres this Change in the marria: of Course, Lue Women of tainly hardest ing order of things; wituess the eno;nous was A101 jority of the pei for separation pat for- Ward by Wives. Oat of 10 of these peut: 90 aré made by women—tue stron: possibie argument ely for bring! about the proposed cusnge. “These requests, the most part are based on tbe leal ples mitted by the code EC FOL 8! ie luereass. 26} separatio: is very largely on tribunals prozoune 2; Sulely, says t divorce would be of marrage. He poinu Pe mo igidicaut tact that la 1874, whea aver, bo us question was brought before tha chamber, there were only 32 volces 1a favor of divorces to Set ogalust the 216 recently given. ‘There is Little doubt that the measire will ba cargiei due time. Besides, the woinen of France aa on their side in this qaestion tha youuger mon of the present generation. “When the law of divorce 13 pass:d,” said lately a thoughtful young Frenchman, “parents will taink uwics before forcing rich, Dut otherwise unsultadle, marriages on thelr sons aud daughters, Mar: Tlages WIIl become less mercenary; tadre, 1 deed, a8 they aren Eugland.” Nothing ij so hateful to a French mind ag an es Laan, which {8 the inevitable climax of many a mar. rlage now Contracted by money-loving French parents for their sons and daugaters. ne birder SILA a story. Aman oa moving into a new how: found the cellar swarming with rats, which on the frst night ate up an entire quarter of beet. He put his cat down stairs, put she cama up in ahurry and fled the house. Four days atter ing @ column of three dozen ‘The hext morning a flour barrel full of dead rats was buried vehind the ‘house, and the cats returned to their homes. tells the latest cat ‘at mar. In alluding to the domestic of tha | Becrs—the term Boer belng the Dutch name for farmer—the New York Star gives us these | detalis: i { Mteratnye of the Boer, as of oar ola ‘kerbockers, {8 the ‘Their rooms are scantily furnished. A hollow foot ove filled with co: the place of the more yenerous hire} he old Dateh home- a ‘@do vou come tro gene? “What ls your basin aSx3 the B ather Numerous faintly. “Arc you married?” timidiy Inquires the young Boeress, As in all fron y, the of the girls soon develop {nto utilltics, fortunate, as they ar upen to aid in their homes agaia: firs, aces a all these happy re @ contracted early, as ta lons where there 1s no lack Gf land ana where children are a blessing. From ten to twelve children to a mother 13 the average, and fifteen or eighteen are not at allrare. “The case of one venerable Boor is Mentioned whose descendants, including s0nS and daughters in-law, grandchildren rd greatgrandcilidren amounts to 2: gO Jarms are the rule, ap ke cur Texan ana Kansas s pelually pushing thelr front! s the increased nt on the he Boers, tilers, are per~ r forward to mand for rovm con- seq increased population. Farms of 6,000 fo 8,000 acres are the rule, and there are some farmers the area of whose lad 13 cual tothat of a ttle Gi Next to the land, the cai chief w cau of the Boers. ¥8 18 Of the highest an Tie Men are hy six most rugged type Temurkab!y robust, audare gen. erely s feet high or more, with broad shoulders ana baray muscles, ‘They are ex- celleut horsemen, “mouncaiaeers, foresters uu rinemen. They ure Intelligent gh to submit to needed discipline case of a war Uke that in whica 0 and probably their ned Uttle army will show the amailest icknees ever known, they ale now cngaged, Ge ee O1igzin of Envelopes. A Brighton (Ezg.) stationer, we are told, toox a fancy for dresslug his show-window with piles OF writiug paper, rising gradually from’ the largest to the smallest size in use, And to flash his pyrainid off nicely he cut cards to pring them to a point. Taking unese cards for imine uilve note paper, lady customers were contin— ually Waving some of “that lovely Uttle pa- Fer,” aud the stationer found it advantaesus to cut paper to the desired pattera. As thére Was No space for adcressing the sotelets atter they were folded he, after much thonght, in- vented the envelope, which he cut by the aid of for the purpose. The sale £0 rapidly that he was unable to pro- Guce the envelopes fast enough, so he commis- Sioned a dozen houses to make them for him, and thus set going an Important branch of the manufacturing ery trade. Up to date, the Norristown He only ‘0 hi red and 1 7-Seven Dowapepete have Coutts-Bartlett wedding ‘We thought there Uon of advertisers to verify this statement, or ‘au aflidavit of Its truthfulness wiil bo submitted, TEE WEEELY STAR—This ts 4 double or eight-page sheet, containing Nfty-six columns fresh News, Literary and Agricultural matter every week, and is pronounced by competent yedges one of THE CHEAPEST AND BEST WHEKLY PAPERS IN THE UNITED STATES. OLUB RATES FOR THE WEEKLY sTa& 5 copies one year for $9.00, and one copy to the getter-uv of the club, 1 40 caries one yeur sor 615.00 anc ene copy to the getter-up of the club. 20 copies one year $20. i Copy Three Months, 59 Cents, Single Subscription, ge. 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