Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1881, Page 6

FASHE WRINKLES. THE AUTUMN NOVELTIES. ome plush ribbons are a novelty. MRS. PENNY’S MISTAKES. A sTORY. Just on the brow of a gently sloping hill, com- Care Broie is the singular name of a new | manding a rich and varied view,on one side of a shade of brewn. Tue fall openings in Washington have beenre- markably brilliant. Toad cut into the solid hill, stood Elmholt church. Crowning the opposite bank was an ivy-clad, gray stone wall, behind which two Trsx birds, swinging ip golden hoops, make | solemn, slumbrous yews kept sleepy watch on charming earrings. Sous of the newest overskirts are quite short, with doufant draperies. Munrrary braids and new chenille braids wil be used on woolen dresses. Rissons are very much wider than have been sed for some seasons past. Back silk stockings, with alternate open- work and plain stripes, are new. Very handsome ombre plush ribbons have satin sural on the reverse side. Liykep rings, chains and diamonds are the Rew patterns in embossed velvets. Chori pri dr quilted silk lining throughout the skirt and waist. Basques of moire silk are worn with skirts of satin merveiliewx that are trimmed with bands of moi Lona, loose-wristed gloves, of tan-colored, undressed kid are worn with elegant street cos- Wire silk stockings, embroidered with pink Toses and blue forget-me-nots in colored floss silk, are a novelt cola: and flat cuffs to match, of ilk, are stylishly worn with camel's hair SSeS. girdles or corselets of watered silk or velvet are worn over both plain and plaited basques in woolen goods. A Lovey fan hasa “Kate Greenaway” de- sign painted on dark-green feathers, which are mounted on torvoise-shell sticks. WareRep Sitxs are combined with cashmere, Surah, and, plush in the French costumes im- ported for misses and little girls. Cloaks are exhibited in great profusion in the north, and are very long. Clara Bellesays wear- ing mourning for a sweetheart is not uncommon in New York. FLoRENTINE bronze, a mixture of green and gold, mort dore, which is a new golden brown or tarnished-gold tint, anda dull red, are among the newest colors. Sruirep Prvsu is used for Directoire collars, and is trimmed with white English laces that are darned in long stitches to outline drooping flowers, convolvuli, lilies, ete. Mortuer Husparp cloaks for little children are Row made of navy blue cloth, with plush facings | of old gold, bre + or Ted; or else they are of | gray corduroy, with deep collar of blue or red plush. Licut twilled woolens show very gay con- trasts in the stripes, such as pale blue on claret color, the same ground color displaying olive or Fose-tinted stripes. Many colors are also run in one stripe, such as blue, yellow, olive, grey, and red. New sash ribbons are brocaded to represent Peacock’s feathers. Those showing only the eyes of the feathers are newest, and have many threads of gold. Plush sash ribbons are very | elegant, and there are mixed moiré and plush sashes in wide stripes. Moiré sash ribbons for children to wear with-their white dresses are chosen in very dark shades of garnet, sapphire blue, or myrtle green. Tue beaded tabliers, valances and garniture for dresses are among the handsomest trim- mings imported. These are front breadths of Diack net, black satin, or Surah, and also of white, wrought in elaborate designs with beads of various sizes; the black bugles.nail-heads and small faceted beads give great variety to jet em- broideries, while those done in white are varied by having different shades of white in the beads, such as pearls of different tints, opals and trans- parent white jet. A single embroidered breadth costs from 340 to $125, according to its elabor- ‘steness, and this is accompanied by bands aad Collars for the corsage. shown of very cay embroidery, done with silk floss on a net foundation that is cat out, and the embroidery has strong edges, to be applied so that the ‘needie-work seems to be wrought directiy on the fabric. These are without beads, but there are most remarkable beaded passe- Menteries in colors and in floral designs, showing every shade of the flower, and these are perfectly shaped, such as asters with petals that can be lifted, ‘and rounded lily bells with swaying pistil ‘The steel beads so popular last year wwe disappeared, and there are fewer gilt ‘and amber beads than was formerly used. CLana Bette writes from New York: “Im- Mense quantities of striped and plaided silk ‘and wool novelties are displayed at these shows, while cheviots and all-wool diagonal serges, camel's rand ca nere stuils come in colors to mateh the groun of the novelty goods. The brocade and moire silks and the new satins merveilleux; now cailed radzimires, in a variety of lovely shades, make the counters look bright and gay. Some of the new shades in cheviots are cadet grey,terra-cotta brick-dast a yellowish brown called jau: and a bewildering variety of mixtures,hair-line stripes and broken checks. Among the cheviots, those called heather mix- tures will probably haye the greatest ran of Popular favor. The lawn tennis stripes are re- Peated in fine goods in wool, as well as in mixed milk and wool, intended for the skirts of cos- tumes whose tunics and basques are to be of plain, soft and smooth-finished wool goods of color predominating in the stripes. As for the tunics, they are looped high back of the hips, forming a much-wrinkled apron and cock’s tail drapery in the back.” Tue Panis Fasuions ror Gioves have for the first time in many years undergone a decided change. Heretofore the variations from one season to the next have been slight and hardly Pereeptible, as when the two-button gloves that been worn for years were replaced by three- button, and these later on divided their popu- larity with four and six-button. True, there are still a good many of three, four and six- batton gloves worn for ordinary oceasions, such as shopping, etc.; but for all dressy purposes— promenades, receptions, parties or balls—these Older styles have to give way to the newe] fon. The leading styles are the ‘Gant de Saxe,” along glove, measuring from eight to fifteen faches above the wrist, without any opening or fastening whatever. The “Gant Mousquetaire,” aglove of the same length, having an opening at the wrist fastened with two or three buttons, and the ~ de Belge,” which is the same style as the “Mousquetaire.” cut very broad and wi elasticity, so that it can be slippedon or off very easily. This style is mostly confined to use in driving or riding, and therefore comes only in yellow, ecru, ana tan shades. fash- fonable colors in these longer gloves are all shades of ecru, yellow, and tan, down to the loud but not unkindly voice outside. it. ties and strode out with masculine tread. won shan’t fling stones at the jenny-wrens. They be Godamoighty’s birds.” florid, with wiry-gray beard and mustache, and somewhat bowed in figure. He wore gaiters, corduroy breeches, and a drab coat with brass buttons, which looked as though it had formed part of some discarded livery. altercation stood irresolute, with the stone in his hand and his eye on the bush where'the jJenny-wren had disappeared. Just in the nick of time a blackbird started out, and that the stone might not be wasted he hurled it at the (ae billed lover of cherries, and then ran off jaughing. birds. Hull at they if thee likes.” little more on one side, hitched up her dress in nautical fashion, and retired to pursue the inter- rupted consideration of woman's rights. cation and fairly well endowed with those “good gifts” of which Sir Hugh Evans had so high an appreciation. She had been left an or- phan before she wasout of her teens, and having always very strong opinions as to woman’s ability to do anything that men could do—and do it better, too—with a marked partiality for a country life and for independence, it was not long aiter she became her own mistress that she took into her own handsthe farm on which Elm- holt House stood, and began to manage it on strictly original principles, although she conde- scended to dip into Virgil’ and Columella for a hint sometimes. expense when she committed a more eggregious mistake than usual, but she bore such jest as reached herear with imperturbable good humor; for, without having any of his morbid sensitive- ness, she rivalled poor Haydon in a sublime con- tempt for criticism. nature, however, which led her at times to con- template the necessity of considering her ways. steward on the farm, but Miss Gurteen was too much of an autocrat to admit of this position being more than normal. His advice she by no means felt bound to follow, though she not prohibit it. He had, on one oceasion, urged the necessity of having more sheep on the farm, and as the suggestion seemed to her reasonable, she purchased a small but beautifal flock on what she thought to be favorable terms. inspecting them. rigid in the lines of it, opened his lips to reply, Sipe Paxsts and bands half a yard wide are | anda loud laugh, which he Itad been at much pains to suppress, took the opportunity to escape. Gurtee®angrily, “that you behave in that wa; before me?’ * 4 gravity with an effort that nearly chcked him, “Tcouldn't help it.” tress; “that’s what you are. And now about the sheep—” face, resolutely compressed his mouth, turned his head, and burst into an uncontrollable roar of laughter. When the paroxysm was over, shecaid severely long,” said he, substituting an indefinite phrase, as it flashed upon him that he had just refreshed himself with a cup inthe kitchen. “But they sheep—they be all rams!” been meditating much. said: I shall always be making mistakes.” gravity he could command. them,” she went on. “I shall have to marry yea" ree ae It makes me sick. What do you say penvell miss,” sald he “if you be willin’ I pair were scarcely altered. She remains auto- crat still, and he, good easy man, was stilt stew- ard, with but little increased responsibility. He was placid and obedient, and their life was happy enough. In the course of time a son and heir was born—the young malignant whom he found casting stones at the jenny-wrens, then about fourteen affectionate boy. for thechurch, the living of Elmholt being in her gift, and'the lad, with a placidity which would have done no discredit to his father, acquiesced in the destiny. Not that he felt an: special vocation for that sacred office, of whi he would even (the you their theological brothers in the churchyard; and behind the yews, also solidly built of the gray stone with its mulhoned windows, was Elmholt House, the residence of no less than Mrs. Penny, who now a sits with a sort of biue woollen antimacassar over her plentiful frowsy iron-gray ringlets, deeply immersed in a political pamphlet. ‘The room is barely and somewhat incongruously furnished. An old-fashioned grand piano, of which the legs and rather rich carvings had at one time been gilt, occupies one corner of the room; in another stands a harp, whose better days belonged to the years when George the | Third was king: ses for small girls have a | hear the same impress of faded gentility. Mixed | with these are homely, uncushioned Windsor chairs: a plain deal table, scantily covered by a threadbare common cloth; and other furniture not quite too far gone to be rejected fromthe kitchen of a house where the exchequer is very limited. and other articles of furniture Mrs. Penny’s studies were interrupted by a “Put it down, I tell "ee. I won't ha’e thee do ‘With a snort. Mrs. Penny tossed down herpoll- the boy alone, Penny,” said she, “I have you interfere with him.” ~*T tell "ee,” said Mr. Penny, for it was he, “he Mr. Penny was a hale-looking old man, rather The boy who was the subject of the threatened “Ay, ay,” said Mr. Penny. “Dang the black- Mrs. Penny pushed her blue antimacassar a She was a lady of good birth, respectable edu- The neighbors occasionally made merry at her There was an element of practicality in her Penny occupied the nominal position of ell, Penny, what do you think of the she asked, afterhe had returned from Penny, whose face was unusually red and “Have you lost your senses, man,” said Miss “T beg pardon, Miss,” he said, recovering his “Penny, you're a great baby,” said his mis- ““Why, lor’ bless you, miss—” He stopped suddenly, grew purple in the Miss Gurteen looked on with amazement. “Penny, you've been taking too much cider. “T haven’ had @ drop o’ zider sin’—ever so Some time after this, Miss Gurteen, who had “Penny, I've been thinking about those sheep. “Like enough, miss,” said he with all the “I can only see one way to keep clear of Penny grinned from ear to ear. “Oh, man,” she said petulantly, “don't grin ‘And with that brief wooing Miss Gurteen ie Mrs. Penny. Therelations between the ears of age, a plump, well-grown, Mrs. Penny had from his birth destined him scapegrace!) with ‘rable humor make fen when he Saar his Way into the kitchen, and extemporized a pulpit with a couple of chairs, and a surplice with a tablecloth, to the infinite merriment of the servant Proeliy of. the boy for finding compan- The ionship in the was Mrs. Penny's trouble. She had been at infinite pains to make him understand that he was a gentleman, and after he left college, “I ain’t fit company for | at him, could but think he had never seen his father so much a man before. dare you?” exclaimed his wife, almost breathless with amazement. was precedented for him to address her by her Christ- ian name. “We dare do much,” said the old we nivver thought we could ha’ done the time for it come. I know Amelia, you have allus tuk me for a quiet, good-natured so I am most ways, most ways; but I ain't. such. a fool as not to know tl farm, and all the rest every rood and every shiliin’ have no settlements when we married, an’ it all became mine. I didn’ want it, and I didn’ care about it; and I shouldn’never ha’ said nuthin’ about it ’s long as all had won't see the boy and ’s long as it’s mine he’s welcome to it, and all that’s in it; hearty, yes, hearty.” It was another of Mrs, Penny's little mistakes. In her scornful repudiation of any interference in her affairs she had married without consult- ing any friends, and without taking any pre- cautions to secure to herself the control of her property; and so quiet and submissive had her husband been that no suspicion of her position had flashed upon her till now, when indeed she realized it in its full force. She stood as one thunderstruck, but taking in everything with such helpless acquiescence as that with which we régard the wonders of a dream. The old man approached his son, shook him by the hand warmly, and kissed his niece, whose eyes, dry till now, answered his kindness with Tesponsive dews. “Your mother,” said he, “is tossicated” (per- plexed) “like with disappointment and the vex- ation of it. Thee'd better not worry her now. It ‘ud be better, mayhap, if you'd go away for a Week; then you come baek, and all ‘ull be right; her'll have time to ceme round. Go round to the kitchen, and ‘I'll come and talk to you in a the likes o’ thee. You go and talk to your “Ah, you sly old gentleman,” answered 'Gus. taking his arm as he did so. are you thinking of that you want to be quit of just had avery long talk with mother, and now I am coming to have a long talk with you.” The old gentleman was inwardly He was immensely prend of this tall, son, such a fine scholar and such @ Mp Ge ge par sore ‘hstanding, the old man said: ‘ourt pleasant to me as harvest to hedge-sparrow); “but don’t ‘ee go for to vex your mother. Her'll be like adry drock’ iter-course) ‘‘wi’outen thee yet.” ¢ a self-willed old boy it is,” said ’Gus, No; Iam coming with you, and with nobody else, for I have something very particu- “What mischief American independence was declared, there was instituted on Doncaster town moor a sweep- stakes for 3-year-old colts and fillies. The premier contest was a very mild one, for only six gentlemen could be induced to subscribe. and five animals went to the post. Two years later the event received a name, which it has borne ever since, and which has become 80 ta- mous that it is talked of in eeety quarter of the earth. Those were the days some, dare-devil Jack St. Leger flourished, and the race was named after the honest, | a loving, but somewhat harebrained Yorkshire- man. For years, however, the contest had to battle rather hardly for existence. Then it made rapid strides in public esteem, and now its subscribers amount to nearly 300 annnally, while the animal which achieves victory is re- garded asa paragon ofits kind. But, though this race had been run ever 100 times, and has been productive on many occasions’ of gr surprises, inasmuch as merit, where merit was little expected to exist, has, now and again, | asserted itself. it is pretty certain that never did a St. Leger result excite such blank amaze- ment, not unmingled with dismay, as was the case yesterday when Mr. Pierre Loriliard’s Iro- | quois came gailantly up tothe winning post ahead of no fewer than 14 opponents. I must not be understood to assert that the triumph of | the American horse induced universal conster- nation. There were thousands who had clung to him through good and evil report, and, nat- urally, they were jubilant enough. The aston- ishment and disgust were shown by those popu- larly supposed to know most about racing mat- ters—the people who get reports from training quarters two or three times every day of the'r | lives, and are regarded as being au courant with | every little incident which could at all affect the chances or prospects of a competitor. They threw Iroquois overboard days and days agi and now they rue the circumstance bitter! mournfully contemplate the fact that. they have to pay dearly for their indiscretion. Your readers must have noticed how determinedly Troquois has been opposed in the English turf market for weeks past. At York the “set” against him commenced. All kinds of rumors were quickly afloat. He was coughing, having become infected with a complaint through com- ing in contact with some recently imported American horses. Then it was said he had got into a very low condition and was able to do but little exercise. Jacob Pincus, his trainer, was accused of knowing but little about the art he professed. In time some genius discovered that Iroquois was lame; another critical ob- server noticed that he had a cracked heel. Scores of people avowed their belief that the horse was never intended to win—that it would pay better for him to Jose. Indeed, the torrent of depreciation flowed forth until it became well nigh overwhelming. Your readers will readily apprehend what an effect this would have upon the peculiarly sensitive turf market. One day | only 2to 1 would be laid against the horse. Next morning he was driven back to 4 to 1 in| the quotations. Then some American specu- | this house, and this ea, ofit. You didn’ fine gentleman, ahay-suck” (a e house is mine, lar to say to you.” “Well, lad, well. It makes bright day to me to have thee; but thee mustn't vex thee “That's Just what I'm afraid I shall have to oe i “and that is what I wanted to tell you. You know mother has al- ways intendea me to be rector of Elmholt?” “Yes. zartin.” ever shall be. I am not going into The old man stopped abruptly, and looked with awe-struck dism: ejaculated “Scissors!” ‘There was a whole world of wonderment-and horror in the exclamation. “No,” said the young man, “I cannot do it. I have never thought seriously about the matte till quite lately, but, as the fime camenear when Ishould have to take orders, I was obliged to look it in the face, and I am sure I am not fitted Icould not take up that for such a position. work as a trade, or a mere profession. feel called upon to censure those who do; but such a course would be utterly hateful to me. I Icould never respect myself, nor could I look for respect from others. I shail be very sorry to vex mother. If it were a matter of in only, knowing how her heart is set on it, I think—but one never knows—I think I should have given way and sald nothing about my feel- an, I should be a con- yprocrite, and I woa’t be that for anybody. I wouldn't try to be it even ‘What you say is right good, lad,” said the old man with unwonted decision. ti bin” (food) to me to hear thee say it. vex your mother more'n anyt! Her'll be wild about it. Tight out, but break it to she bit by bit like.” The conversation was earnest and prolonged, but it travelled, as is the wont of familiar talk, very much in acircle, and did not go beyond what has been indicated, though father and son varied the form of expression from time to time. Meanwhile Mrs. Penny had been engaged ina most interesting tete-a-tete. An old schoofellow of hers—now a widow in comfortable cireum- | stances, with a married son and two unmarried daughters had made a call at Elmholt Farm, and Mrs. Penny, who had lately meditated much. on her son’s settlement. in life, with charac- teristic frankness and directness, had proposed @ match between him and Mrs. Burrowe’s daughter. The proposal met with a gracious reception for ’Gus was a decidedly eligible ving of Elmholt was more han comfortable, and Mrs. Penny, though not , and had always liyed below her income; so that he would inherit from her no inconsiderable property. od-looking, almost handsome young fellow, k and modest, high-spirited and without a article of vice.’ Any mother might be well leased to find such a son-in-law, and Mrs. Bur- Towes, who could almost answer daughter, saw no obstacle in the way of the match, unless it lay in the young man’s inclina- “As to that,” said Mra. Penny, “we are quite safe, Augustus” (she never condescended to the abbreviation) “thas really and he has no foolish romantic notions. A more charming girl than Marion I know he could not. id, and I know we have only tobring the young folks together, as you and I will manage to have everything settled happily—and “Now, Amelia, come,” he went on, when he had led her into the parlor. loves the boy, and you'd be bitter sorry if he your word and go away. Aye, an’ he loves us too, though he has chosen 8 wife for himself, as a man should do. she’s a right good gell, never you doubt that; she'll make him a good wife, and he'll be a hap- pier man and a better man thanif you and I had the shapin’ o’ his life for ‘un. and we mus’n let ‘un go.” We are strange creatures, and our lives and characters are full of contradictions. tone of authority, which any time during the previous quarter of a century she would have Tesented strenuously, was now grateful to her feelings, and she allowed herself to rest, with a sense of comfort and security, on the practical common sense and right feeling of the husband she had systematically underrated. alone, Penny,” she said, ‘for half an hour. My head is in a whirl now, and I want to be alone. Tell Jane to bring me acup of tea, and come Don't let the’ boy go till When the alloted time had expired, Penny went back again, and found her looking ten years younger, her hair brushed and smoothed, an old-fashioned but exquisitely beautiful lace cap on her head, and abox of trinkets and whim- whams by her side. “Penny,” shesaid at once, “I hive been an old fool, and blind to more things than one. don’t say that if what has been done could be undone I wouldn't undo it; but I can’t, and I will make the best of it. Tell the boy he needn't I am not tossicated now. And tell him, too, that if I never give him ocea- sion to remember that mad scene outside—as, so help me Heaven. I will never recall it. re, a laugh, emptying the box o' haye never worn these things since I Was a girl, but Alice will look gay in them.” Two years and a half later, the old folks sat by a blazing winter fire, and’ a chubby boy was fondling a shaggy dog on the hearth-rug at their he old lady stooped down and smoothed the flaxen ringlets of the child. F “Janes,” she said, “do you mind my telling you once that if I could I would undo what ‘Gus had done? I do not wish it undone now.” ——__§_+o-____ Stars, Crosses and Ribands, From the Pall Mall Gazette. It is a noticeable feature in the social and po- litical life of the present generation that the love of stars and crosses is decidedly on the in- crease. Till the time of James II. the kings of England had but a single decoration to bestow, and the number of Knights of the Garter was restricted then than now. We both on us was to take you a ings; but, as a clei scious humbug and He's all we'n got, sin I've known Don’t thee tell it back in half an hour. you've seen me again.” and straightway Iroquois would come back with a rush to 7to4. At last the bookmaking fraternity grew thoroughly convinced that Iro- quois possessed no chance. They laid against him on every available occasion. Last Friday He was a healthy, |-g0 away for a week. avery curious maneuvre to indulge in on the very eve of the great tace. !—T hope that he she added, with f trinkets on the tually 10 to 1 was laid against him, and the bookmakers never tired of offering long odds. Certainly he came back once more, but the seen no one, Mrs. Penny and Mrs. Burrowes went to work with gusto, and when Farmer Penny and his son returned from their walk they were still at it. But there was an obstacle to the fulfillment o! the scheme even more serious than the anti-cler- ical determination of the young man; and of | this even Farmer Penny knew nothing. There had lately come to the farm, as a sort of | upper servant, a niece of the good farmer, a bright-eyed, neat-handed, and really bewitching | If Mrs. Penny had made a love- | match with her steward, she might have sus- | But hers had been merely young woman. | unable.to w y fielded azainst, pected mischief here. a matter of convenience of the most kind; the possibility of ‘Gus falling in love his father’s niece Alice had never flash her, even as a remote contingency. truth, had it upon the honest old farmer, though living much in the kitchen regio them together far more often than the autoer: had done, and had listened to and lauzhed at heir bright wit-combats which she had never | t! hereditary titles and of pension: B , Charles IL. er vere the last who took the official e hdd no badge to mark thei other knights. sons formed a and Narborough to be content | like Temple with a baronetey. For the master- And the denouement was destined to come | the Inet Tecalved 10, upon them all very suddenly, for ‘Gus,.richtly 1. arguing that his mother would never consent to such a match, and that his father, from whom certainly he anticipated ne position nor disapproval, would unqnesti severely handled if he were made pri 1 “2 H Cie aenaain Kent tues ove Ls after Swift told the world how the King of Li een Sree ened A ape EnUGI i atldecbratea with biue, red and green threads | those of his courtiers who jumped highest. But So just before Alice took her holiday to visit | the real dificulty at first was to get her friends at Thornbury, ‘Gus elected to spend | a week or two with an old college friend at Bris- tol, and onemorning a quiet little wedding party | stepped into the quiet little old-fashioned church | of St. John, the Baptist, and Augustus Penny,of | Elmholt, and Alice Covington, of Thornbury, glowing with radiant happiness stepped out of it man and wife. On his way to church, letter to his mother, ex tle, the original number of knigiit being eight, which Anne increased to twelve. ; dL the Order of the Bath, w hich Tinmuiehed bye qurty-tive Knlihts; to be dis- | moment before the race was set to commence. be able to say, ‘‘We are one till de: ath do us part; what use are reproaches?” accept the red riband. The minister took it him- self to set the example, and offered it to Duchess of Marlborough forher grandson. ‘He must have the Garter.” pole replied that the best way to get the higher decoration was to accept the lesser; but At was not easy to convince. Till the year 1815 no farther additions were made to the orders of British chivalry, though George III. created an Irish order, and wanted to institute another, “of Minerva,” for men of letters and artists; but the rumor of his intention re- vealed so terrible an imbroglio of jealousies and factions among the designed to benefit that the monarch, for very peace, was fain to give up the idea. _A favorite method of recompense under the Georgian pe- riod, down to the time of the Union, was to confer an Irish peerage. Clive was thus hon- ored, and encouraged to hope for an English title as further promotion. Similarly, till the union with Scotland, Scotch titles had been stepping stones to more serious English honors. Marlborough’s earliest reward had been a Scotch barony, conferred on him when he had no higher military rank than that of colonel. To George, Prince Regent, and to Lord Liver- pocl we owe the present system, which causes a greatness to be known by the number of. letters of the alphabet he can The Bath was divided int the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order founded at the same time, with an equal number of classes. The same Prince, with the same Pre- mier to guide him called yet another Order into existence in 1818, and named it after St. Michael and St. George. It, too, consisted of three Touching the Hanoverian decoration there is & good story told of William IV., which has the "Gus had posted a long plaining his invincible re- ignance to the career she had destined for him; is determination to be a farmer, the rare quali- ties of the wife he had chosen, and her eminent fitness to adorn that sphere of life; his warm affection for his mother and father; which he and Alice indulged that their happiness to minister to the comfort of both in their declining years. honest, sensible letter, She tore her hair, herself on the floor, and then lay for hal! ersons whom it was Tt was a good, but it made Mrs. Penny stamped, screamed, flung went into violent hysterics, if the day on the sofa, sob- bing and moaning. Utterly unreasonable it Was, a8 everyone must see; but not unnatural. cherished purpose of five-and-twenty years }. Just as it seemed on the eve of accom- it, irrevocably dashed into ruins, and lady's desolation of Her boy, her hope, loved under that q half-comic exterior, cloud which had tak the brightness of life. old, she arose from the annointed herself, and and caused bread to be ‘here was nothing ‘soul was complete. her one love, passionately jueer, eccentric, autocratic, was dead to her, and the en him away blotted out all Presently, like David of oases cl er a set before, her, and sie now to weep for, weighing-in room by a cheering mob, who the chief speculators must have been ve heavily “bit”; inde of settling day next Monday. Of this, however, PARTICULARS: plo nd VICTORY AT Pineus the Trainer, and Archer the Joekey. London Cor. Boston Herald. Lonpon, Sept. 15, 1881.—In the very year that in which hand- lator would quietly invest a thousand or so, Pincus only gave the colt light work—certainly THIS CREATED INT: -E EXCITEMENT. " Troquois went down lower, however, until ac- hearts of the newspaper prophets were touched, and they threw the American oyer to a man. Those who had said ever since the Derby that the cherry and black of Mr. Lorillard would once again be seen to the fore took up with new loves, and Iroquois was almost completely ig- nored. The majority would not even award him a place in the great race. There were only apparently a couple among the “knowing” di- vision, who maintained their serenity. These were Pineus and Archer, the jockey, the latter backing the horse to win him between £3,000and £4,000. It must be admitted that Pincus was somewhat impressed with the strange hostility betrayed toward his charge. I am assured that he grew terribly nervous, and adopted all kinds of extraordinary precautions lest Irequiis should come to harm. He had probably heard of the days when horses that were said to be were sot at a yhow, he determ= ined that, were “nobbling” attempted, he would fix the vundrel, The news of his sensitiveness got abroad, and he was regaled with all kinds of letters calculated. to add to his alarm. Threats to shoot the horse were made, and sey- eral letters arrived as: him that the horse could easily be “nobbled,” and that a sure hand would accomplish that little performance. hi What led the cautious trainer to so horse off the moor on the morn- 2, 80 that tout and all the f y chers could have no opportunity ofseeing himdo any work, and yesterday the candidate for Leger hor®es was not allowed to appear in the saddling paddock until the very Even theu there were detectives all about him, and they never quitted his side till Archer rode forth into the open course ready for the prelimi- nary canter. Just prior to that period an American commissioner had been busy in the ring and had backed Iroquois to win nearly £10,000. Even this did net open the eyes of the | “bookes,” as they are termed, and two to one was an offer against the American right down to the fall of the flag. Before mentioning anything about the race itself I ought to say a few words about the enormous attendance of spectators. Never be- tore was such an immense gathering seen on the old town moor. Nearly 50 ortinary and special trains had brought thousands from far distant towns, while great detachments came by road from Sheffield and surrounding towns. The enclosures were crammed, and the nobleman’s stand probably never before bore such a dis- tinguished company. The Prince and Princess of Wales were absent in Scotland, so royalty ‘was not represented. Unfortunately, a large part of the race was in- visible to spectators, in consequence of a rather dense mist hanging over the far portion of the course. When the horses, however, swept round by the famous Red House and’ quickly darted into the straight, Iroquois was seen to be going strongly, and his rider was not 4 him af all. Then came the rush at the close, and Archer just gave Iroquois one shake-up. The American colt, responded right cheerfully, and darted by, a winner by a good length from Geologist. There was a terrific outburst of ap- plause, and the vietor was followed to the waited patiently until the reassuring words ‘‘all right” were proclaimed, and then once more bawled themselves hoarse. To wind up with the 8t. of 1881, I may remark that many of there will be Baris Kins oak colors. Black also promises to be fashionable. For parties and bails, white and the pale-tinted opera shades in “Me ires” will be the first choice. These Jong. oves offer several advantages over the styles; they avoid the trouble of closing so buttons, and as they can only be made of the qualities of kid skins, the goods cannot De imitated in cheap grades of gloves, hence cannot common. ConsrperaBLe VarrstY is displayed in the BUmMerous shapes of hats and bonnets for the present and coming season. The large poke bonnets with high tapering crowns, small capote shapes, which, however, gh rather larger than microscopic affairs they have |, the “Bernhardt” poke which is still po) , thecor- Onet-shaped or *‘Rabagas” capote, and the very large, round hats, in picturesquely irregular shapes, are the favorites. Among these last, the “Bolero” is aquaint hat with a straight brim turned up squarely all around. Higher crowns ‘are noticeable in nearly all of the newest shapes, iy the Gainsborough, and the peasant hats, bavevery slender, high-peakedcrowns. For early autumn wear, the popular “rough-and- straws, bronzed manilla straws, and heavy English braids are worn in all the above shapes, while later on the choice will be for far, happed felt and the ordinary French ‘as entirely ignored last year. Plush extensively used for bonnets and arious styles of layed ial season. the long it is wor Planet on. ig extremely pretty, while stripes i peeled ot momen in ito . The mole-skin plush has a short Cen iy” suchas that afforded er. That “Penny” fath should prefer to sit in the kitchen, smoking his pipe and chatting with the laborers after his day’s work, was natural and right; he belonged to “that class of people;” but her son was ex- pected to keep state with her in the parlor, or in a dignified promenade up and down the ‘fil- bert walk. ’Gus op) to this arrangement a passive resistance. en caught and marched of with Mrs. Penny’s hand in his collar, he made no complaint, took his book or his pencil, listened to his lecture, and rendered obedience so long as the maternal but the moment he was released from that stern gaze, he slipped back with unimpaired cheerfal- ness. and with as much ice asa moth pursues its own shadow on the ceiling, evidently Torraing the parlor existence as merely paren- “He will grow out of it,” said Mrs. Penny, Iebore re Emenee her steward not to encour- age in the practice. But he did not grow out of it. “Even after his experiences at a genteel board school he would come back to shudder away from the dull decorum of the gentlefolks’ quarter of his home to the cosiness, warmth, freedom and fun of the common folks. Gradually, too, there grew in his mind a painful sense of his father’s posi- tion. It did not come to him early, for from his babyhood his father had been always good-humored cipher, and the strangeness in conditions 80 familiar to us awe eatery eee 2 late. In him it came surely, and while he grew more studiously polite with his mother he grew more and more affectionate with his father. He loved to walk round the fields with ets up from him scraps of natural history Ik-lore, listen to broad but innocent jokes, his kindly merit of being authentic. On succeeding to the throne the Sailor King was muoh gratified to find how many old naval officers who had served with him or under him remembered his and trusted his Majesty had not forgotten them. Some of them were perhaps a little impractica- blein their requests, and a few were rather im- portunate. One the King frankly avowed ata di had p William continued. “T got rid of him at last; I made him a Knight of the Hanoverian Guelphic 01 nd served him right, too!” exclaimed one of the guests. Even the presence of the Eoverelgn could not: prevent multiplication of orders under the present has apace; nor can it be denied has been affected wil oval. The Victoria Cross and the supplied what soldiers and Indian alike considered necessities. The need the decorations of the Indian Empire and Crown Tndia was lesa apparent: but Lord about her household: and fa affairs but more silently, ate fi lips, and a fierce hers. the old gates swung back, statement, and the man coming upto the Then, and she saw the yor cae with his bri proceeded heat. : that th “Mother,” said Gus, ashe stretched out: his Pabpeerane “No mother of , ungrateful bo; is pastand buried. have scorned my love; you have trampeled on my heart. And now go and take your beggar- le, and work out your own low tastes, and ditch, and delve, and starve! ‘Never more shall I will send further particulars in my next. piehasllan Lovaas iB Driving With the Parasol. The other evening the Jester was bathing his eyes in cold water, and suspended the operation Tong enough to remark: will come back after it.” An impressive quiet followed this do; for it. this ” = kind: country, at times, to my knees and the dash- toard ofthe wages. ‘Whenever we meta team, especially if the road was very narrow, the cess lowered her parasol between myself and the passing wagon, 80 that I turned out by faith, or | no man, no clique and no interest, will present Hood on my head 0 catch a gilmpee of the Col- | the fullest and the fairest picture it can make of ge. cach. day’s passing history in the city, the Dis- the horses, and I trusted to the good sense of | trict, tfie country and the world, It will aim the animals to keep out of the ditch. When we | hereafter, liding wheels. When we hill she dropped the parasol between me met an, juaintances to whom I wished to bow, ee kanked my hat into my eyes. When ald point miring gazeto some exqui- | now is larger than at any former seminal satan leaves the jabbed @ project- | twenty-nine yo.rs of its existence, and gat | 44 cents a month, By mail, 50 cents a month, or OF LETTERS, REN yi IN WASHINGTON crry ay SATURDAY, OCTORER 8, 1881. call for “* ADvEzRtixE Lip 3P° Tf not calied to the Deed Lotter Ome” Kaiser Withelm as a Figure-head. From the Cardiff Times. Personally the Emperor of Germany is a large lim>ed, good-natured, not too quick-witted man, wae plays at war and politics with a simple gravity charming asa study of character. He is, in his warlike aspect, a little more real than our lamented King George, who had soften de- seribed the event that he died in the unshaken belief that he had led a charge of cavalry at the battle of Waterloo. The Emperor William has actually heard the distant roar of artillery, and upon the smoke of battle whea the had ceased. We all remember the pretty knack he had of riding up to the great battle- fields of 1870 just as all was over, and daiting, from amidst the slai ‘ouc mouth they will be sem LADIES’ List. ‘Aden pire Annie, Spee Mise Laure L: Ashtom Alice: Brown Mf : ; Brumbry, Mins #0: Womoly temp — > Praising God for thls h ising God for this new I don’t mean to say that he would not have joined in the fray had ‘quetie permitted. He comes of a soldier family, and his sons showed during the same campaign the stuff of which the old tree was made. there being no need for him to draw his sword, he was kept out of the range of bullets, aud his | y Movements carefully timed so that he might | come in with the flourish of trumpets that an- t nounced a fresh and heavier rad pon Sarah; Coleinan Mis Mildred. wey Mime Carrie: Davie Hannals Doran Miss Dollie Dhiworth Mre J: Duwi tie; Duval Mre Mary. juncnds Mise Luis; Evans Mise Mise Ada: Finney Mre Alice: jefeat of the | lary. In war Von Moltke did the fighting and the ubbarc Mre Emma; Holmes wrote the telegrams frou Bismarck plots and ind when all is | oun Jones Mre I Johnson Mew jones Mrs Lanra: Johnson and often wien: iss Maxie, Jackson Mise Side the old Emperor is trotted out at “interv which take place in the face of the world whereat the harmless old gentleman pon et-part and thinks he he real Emperor of G many is the heavy-looking, burly man, who not . in despair of his future, de- clared that Heaven had intended him to be a ‘hen he left his country home to dabble in politics, he was flying in the face of Bismarck has a profound and un- | feigned reverence for his imperial master, as 1s | , frequently shown in the volume of his “Early | | Letters,” which, with characteristic and amaz- | ing frankness he half a dozen years ago mitted the world to read. him with the skill and coolness that a marion- ette is handled by its proprietor. Probably the last man in the world to suspect the autocracy of Bismarck is the Emperor William. one else knows that in Germany the Emperor reigns and Bismarck governs. +e. ——_____ Electricity in the Balloon. The discovery of a practical means of storing up electricity in the secondary batteries of M. Gaston Plante and M. Camille Faure has been followed by a suggestion to drive balloons by the electric power contained in these useful res- ervoirs. Some recent experiments in this di- tection have been made dier, the eminent French aeronaut, who has constructed a small balloon about eleven feet long by four and a half feet in diameter, filled with pure hydrogen gas, and fitted with a double-bladed screw propeller, driven by a dynamo-electric motor, made by M. Trouve, and weighing only eight ounces. The motor is ac- tuated by the electric current from a Plante secondary battery weighing three pounds, and drives the screw at the rate of six anda half | 3. turns per second. This balloon has an ascend- ing force of four and a-half pounds, and is propelied at a speed of over three feet per second. From these trials culates that a hydrogen balloon of about 4,000 cubic yards’ volume would have an ascending torce of about three and a-half tons. It could, therefore, take on board seventeen cwt. of secondary batteries and five ewt. dynamo- eleetric motor, and still be able to carry from one to two tons of ballast and passengers. This apparatus would provide six horse-power of work, and in calin weather he calculates the balloon could be propelled through the air at a | Speed of from twelve to fifteen miles per hour. Of course this rate could only be maintained for a limited time, that is to say, fora few hours, but when these useful accumulators are im- proved, this time, is expected, will be con- | siderably extended. : pel Mrs Joenin, cs Lewis Mre FA: Laughiim ie Mise Med; Loaby Maxie Mrs Reitio: Miller Mew Miller Mins Jennies Millar Mise; Maynard Mary; Mar tha: Mascu Mes Sa t Mrs Eliza; Melood Mrs Sarah. ously plays his pup moving the world. So many years agi farmer, and that ‘ Pert Mrs, Parker G) Parker Mins 8B: Mrs Ann: Reers Mrw ine Junuita: Robeoen Mrs; Rollins Mary; juseell Mrs AW: Reynold« Mre kW: Rose SU Reiley Mrs; Robinso P But ‘he plays with Rettie: Wright Mrs Clara V: , jen"); Williams M Mise Mandy; White Malachi, White yy M. Gaston Tissan- Henson A; Howard EA Horner Frank, 2: How. Frank; Howe Geo W Hon. ; Haskins J Finley, ‘Thos L; Henn FL; Faackson Charles W: Johnson Clinton: Johnson @ di di Hiram. mason’ Thomnas My Johnson Williaia HS . Tissandier cal- M. 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