Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1882, Page 7

4 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FASHION WRINKLES. POLKA DOTS POR LADIES—POLKA DOT3 FOR GEN- TLEMEN—SOME MORE NEW @OLORS—THE NEW IMPORTATION Sprixe Goons are Pomwrapocr STYLES Sun Satis is a new wooly stuff. TRAINS Just now are rather short. Havaxa Brows is a new pale shade. GromerRicaL designs are on some new dress goods. Dark Straws will be more worn than white ones. Reap the attractive advertisements of spring Goods in to-day's Star. Cuavpron is the reddest aud darkest shade of eopper color. Paster effects are taking a decided place among spring styles. CHarpkon AND Maroon are the combination Of the passing moment. Tue crab and the spider are favorite creatures in millinery ornaments. ALL Sonts of sleeves are in vogue, but the | Coat sleeve remains the favorite. Lirtie silver cats and kittens take the place of pigs and elephants on lace pins. Tue single piece suit, with no belt or waist, Temains the favorite for little girls. SuovLper Cares should be worn only byslen- der, well-formed and graceful women. Trnqvorsé blue beaded lace bonnets are worn DN passementeries trim satin dresses | handsomely. CLotu Sirs to match cloth dresses have pat- ent leather foxing. Purrs of satin and crepe lisse are worn around the neck and wrists. Bayapere Sraires are imported for trimming seif-colored dresses. Emsxomery and moire trim the black cash- ses worn during Lent. Lack and lish crape are com. Bined on light mourning dresses. Tux first spring straw hats and bonnets will be trimmed with feathers and ribbons. Tue heavy broeaded silks are used more for | the train than any other part of the costume. PLrsu AND SILK Tors to gants de Suede—un- dressed kid gloves—are among the Parisian novelties. Woes trains are long they are made of heay- je material than the front parts of the toilet. Frowers, lace and gauze trimmings will be used exclusively on summer hats and bonnets. ver THROATLETS are edged with lace and studded with pearis. Ip THe Traty or a Dre: may be cut to correspond. Wine in tied in the back ina y sashes. ApRicoT Sates combines splendidly with black velvet and rich old rose point. Progkam Caps ate hand-painted in exquisite Tandscapes, flowers and figures. FoLpine Screens are covered with Christmas cards and bordered with plush. New Corrox Satrves are imported in boxes, with a fan and parasol to match. Lance Masta Hats, laden with feathers, are | in the artistic Rembrandt shapes. | Risuoxs of two shades of red, such as pink | with garnet, are used on white or black dresses. | Butroxep Groves are sold at half price be- | cause those with closed wrists are more fash- jonable. Cotorep Satix Risso Bows are worn at the throat with Byron collars, made of lace and in-| sertion. is square the bodice até Trx7 of blue, rose, or lemon color | nin many of the rich white bridal fabrics f this spri mLS’ DkESSeS grow longer, thanks to the Princess of Wales, who attires her young daughters in skirts reaching to their ankles; and so the short skirt dress is now dubbed the i ornamented with a profusion of steel lace and fringe. Laptes with | ir the color of ripe wheat may | ‘Wear a dress of mauve satin. embroidered with | Pearls, and a quare bodice, garnished after the same desicn | A CHa ToiLeTre shows panier and bod- | lee of silver tulle flowers of white and silver | lace, and is trimmed with white and purple vio- lets and snowdrupa. ASrv is specimen robe is of cream embroid- | ery on net, mounted on satin; the tunicis short | broche silk, Japanese red in color; a simple mousseline de soie fichu Hnishes the bodice. Tue QvEEN oF PoxtvGaL has two new and exceptionally beautiful bali dresses from Paris, ene of white satin, with a yellow satin train | brocaded with a Japanese desizn in towers, and the other of white tulle, nearly covered iver blossoms and trailing honeysuckles. | For the demi-saison manties will be made ck satin or camel's hair and trimmed with frills of the same material—gathered, not Pisited—and with frills of Spanish or Grenada jonde headed with chenille ruches. For morn- | ing wear such mantles are made of Cheviot | cloth; they have loose mantilla fronts, square sides producing the effect of square sleeves, the back lying smoothly over the tournure and of | even lenzth, with the front failing just below | the hips all round. With a velvet or moire- fizured piush costume, a mantle of this form Is; Wern to match. Moré Francaise, by which is meant the variety of moire, in which the ripples or wayes are small, is to be a very popular fabrie for the Underskirts of spring toilets. These skirts are, of course, untrimmed, as is usual with watered | materials, with the exception of a full triple box-plaited ruche around the bottom. Over these are worn short polonaise or sharp-pointed waists a la Camargo, with Watteau tunics very much draped over the hips, New Iwrorrarions of materials and models | show much that is new and pretty without any | startling chanzes to chronicle in women’s wear. | Fashion's wheel, with all her yazaries, rotates | after a method of her own, aud her styles obey the great natural law—First the bide, then the ear; aiter that the full corn in the ear.” | Accordingly, skirts are even shorter than last | Jeaty they not only swing of the ground, ut are short enough to show the dainty chang: sure of the day, the beat those and pretty shoes, which indeed are too elegant to be uiddea from ‘view. Shirring also has reacted the zenith, and will be among the guiding ii, dressmakers for the next six mon are bouflant in the back, si sting crinoline, | and are draped much higher than those of a | year ago. A New Move of making dresses, und one | Which bids fair to be among the prevailing | styles of the season, is with a bodice pointed | back and front. to which the overskirt, opening | In front, is athered, with tour or five rows of shirring on the hips and befow the points. ‘The tunic is cauzbt up panier-fachion. a quaint and becoming style. Indeed, the prevailing ch teristic of French dresses is their Watteau effect, | and at least one celebrated dressmaker copies | her styles from Dresden china ficures. Per contre. Engl'sh fashions are still in vozue for | ordinary or neglizee wear, and tailor-made | dresses bid fair to be as popular as ever. Wuat most strikes a casual observer in the | Rew goods fs the prevalence of polka dots. Fashien has, so to speak. an eruption of them. u Potka-dotted net is worn for vests: polka-dotted | ribbons are shown for bonnet trimmings and for ‘eer plat ete; esr are made of polka- jotted tuck trimmings, with polka-dotted ruMes. Gentlemen's scarfs and boys shirtwaists lave caught the fever. Linens, percales, lawns and calicoes —- if vaccinated all over, while | in richer self-colored Jots as larze as | twenty-five cent pieces stand out in bold reliet | on brocades, and great discs of gold or dull red | grounds of satin. Polka-dotted are also in the ascendant, ted satins and soft-finished figures Promise to be among leading materials for white i} | showing wide Others have or | Split’'en | know you were superstltious.” Charge of the Heavy Brigade. BY ALFRED TENNYSON. {Mn cabling Mr. Tennyson's excellent poem to the Independent several errors were made by oper- ators, The foliowing is the Brookiyn Eagle's spe- clal cable report and warranted to be accurate 3] Up = hill, way up, clear up the bill, then and ere, Charged a number of gentiemen, well mounted against the Russian ranks. They had t go up the hill, for they’d got to go somewhere, And they busted the enemy as though they'd been Savings banks. We Fo is the outskirts and watched the fearful strife Lord, how they went for em, that Heavy Brigadet vem and twisted "em, like doughnuts; you bet your iiel They may have béen scared, but they were not afraid! There was no funny business about the Heavy Brigade! ing of the Heavy Brigade reminds me; they charged thetr foes! They hed to g up the hill because they were at the bottom! Very well. That's all right enough as fdr as it goes! Had they been on the top of the hill, they'd never have got ‘em! This Weing conceded we proceed. The Heavy Bri- Went Siam up the hill, from the foot to the crater! They walked up, then and there, and not one of them strayed From h aoa or hinted he’d like to take the ele- vation! That ore of persimmon don’t come down for lest Weil, whea they got to the top of the hill there was a fuss! The Russians didn’t want any, and hunted their holest Every lost mother’s son got right ont of the musst “Thavs business, you beti” muttered Maurice Kinkade! ‘The gentiemanly and eMctent sutler of the Heavy Brigadet Lord, how they raised the dust! Lord, how they tried to bust very last Russian’s crust! hed it here and there, though a few YS missed! tart, it was this style for seventy-five cents! And it was tooth, claw and nail; collar, elbow and fist! The hill 1s now sald to be surrounded by an excel- lent fence! Be that as it may, the property has seen no such raid | Since the day of the charge of the Heavy Brigade! Well, that's all right, ‘They knew what they were about! Before they went monkeying around that hill then and there, Those Russians were in and they'd got to get out, For folks don’t want Russians around evi where! ‘This was the reason they slid up the nill, There and then! They might have waited and been there still! But that’s no difference to either you or met They didn't. That's enough! ‘They went up that slide Like a drop of gray in a zory seat Some of ‘em got ont and Sofie of ‘em died! I guess I've got it all In now, except that they were undisimayed, And this is the story of the Heavy Brigadet oe es A VALENTINE CHARM. AN IDYL OF A WINTER SPENT IN FRANCE. y~ HOW MISS J} AN OLD FASHIONED CHARM, AND HOW THE CHARM WORKED. From the Boston Courier. The Arden family, spending the winter In France, wholly for pleasure, were sitting in the private salon of a small pension in Dinan. It was a cold, raw, windy day, with no snow to keep the dust from blowing.and with no sun to make things cheery. There was neither warmth nor comfort in the narrow salon, with its shin ing parquet, ugly sofas and chairs of yellow Utrecht velvet and its fire-place filled with red Paper roses. Mr. Arden had objected to the Paper roses, and Madame Robbe (who was ap- pallingly large. with the mustache of a gren: dier, and the voice of @ drill sergeant) had as- sured M’sr, that the was of a warmness to- tally surprising. for the season; and that by noon it would undoubtedly be sultry. If it was not, (here Madame Robbe shrugged her shoulders prodigiously) why she supposed she could have Jean destroy superb ornamentation of the fireplace, and she would buy charcoal and a fa though of course M’sr knew this would undoubtediy be of great 5 ‘ would have gathered up his family, ani t the pension if he had been pe dinary spirit; but as it was salon like a very craven, and toldiis wife that Jean would build a fire. as soon ashe came in | w ith the fagots. Inthe meantime Mrs. Arden, huddled in a large white shawl, was trying to knit with chilly ivory needles: Mr. Arden reading a F garo by the wine loak; and Jes sat wrapped i a knitting. Taunt, Kuit three, id Jessica balancing her feet carefully on the round of her chair, to keep them from the chill of the iey parquet’ “Knit three, over, narrow, over, knit three, purl one—” “Why, don’t read so fast, Jessica,” said Mrs. Arden plaintively. “Positively you confuse me 80 that I don’t know at all where Iam. 1 shall really have to begin all over again.” “My dear,” said Mr. Arden, think Pll go out and have a cigar. It may be warmer walk- ing.” Well, be sure you shut the door,” said his wife. As he left the room she continued rather peevishly: “I never saw anybody so restless as your uncle is, Jessica. He acts exactly as if our being in this miserable place were all my faul when I'm sure_every! knows that I didu't want to leave Paris in winter. “Well,” said Jessica, “certainly you don't think poor Uncle Charles wanted to leave; and Um sure,” with a wicked glance tn her aunt’s direction, ‘nobody could accuse me of wanting to leave. “No,” said Mrs. Arden with dignity, “you were infatuated, If we had not come away asI insisted, there is no telling to what lengths you would have gone with Henry Wood, positively you might even have married him.” “I think it extremely likely,” eaid Jessica “An artist,” pursued Mrs. Arden, warming to the subject, “an artist anda begar, and you with a snug twenty-five thousand doliars i your own right; of course he was attentive. lined cape, reading aloud narrow, sica, If Harry ey, I'm sure I wish he had it, it is no good to me,” Sometimes, Jessica,” said Mrs, Arden, “L think you are actually possessed. I cannot un- derstand the influence Henry Wood had over you. And now here is Monsieur his mo- ther’s family are ali in the silk way at Lyons, immensely rich, and he ts certainly fond of you” “Monsienr Lange,” said Jessica, “is bour- geoise to his very marrow: he wears a blue neck- tie covered with yellow baby elephants, and he sucks the knob of his cane hke Toots.’ Let us change the subject. Why don’t you leave this soe eat begin your satin screen, uw ice? Mrs. Arden replied disconsolately, f don’t just like to begin it on Frit Why, Aunt Alice,” langhed da} Jessica, “I didn't “I am not superstitious at all.” remarked Mrs. Arden with dignity, “but of course! do not wish to begin a piece of work ona Friday, and know that I never shall finish it.” Well, I am not superstitious either,” said Jessica gravely, ‘and yet this morning, Aunt Alice, you know that this is St. Valentine's Day, and so this morning just for fun, I looked out of the window before I was dressed—” “Jessica!” ejaculated Mrs. Arden severely. “Oh, nobody saw me. It is an_old charm, = know, Aunt Alice,” explained Jessica. “On Valentine's morning you hop out of bed and go to the window with your.eyes shut, and then you say overa verse fo St. Valentine, and open your eyes, and the very first person you see, (of conrse J mean the first man will be your future | husband.” “I wish, Jessica, that you really would not speak in just that way, for you must know that T would hever have done so odd a thing.” ‘Very well,” said Jessica, “then it was I who did it myself. T opened my eyes and saw noth- ing at all, at first, but the empty street; then I saw Nanon going to market in her sabots; and then a charrette with a donkey, anda peasant cee “Not a man, I hope?” asked Mra, Arden with some anxiety. “Yes,” answered Jessica, heartlessly, “a man, and a Foe man. A strappi youn | ion ta louse and a horrible lamb’s woo! Mrs. Arden laid down her knitting work. “Of course,” at sory | ad at ber niece irs. with 8 sort of ‘shametaced sympathy. hs eee superstitions. She believed in signs and omen: to the very bottom of her soul; bat she fought against her convictions with all the good breed. ing she possessed. “Of course,” obseryed naughty Jessica, watching her aunt’s horrified face with sinful leasure, “of course I don't believe in it at all, ut wouldn't it be just horribie if it should come true? It would be almost worse than Harry Wood, wouldn't it?” “Don't be absurd,” sald Mrs. Arden; rigidly. “T suppose,” continued Jessica, gravely, ‘that T should have to wear sabots, and one of those ugly black woolen petticoats, immensely full on the hips, and a cap—I wonder how I should look in a cap!” She rose and went to the cheval glass which hung between the windows. She picked up a large handkerehiet of her uncle’s, which lay on @ chair, and folded it deftly into the semblance of acap with wide wings at the sides. “It is too limp.” she said, “it should be starched stiffly and stand out, so.” She regarded herself attentively in the glass a moment. “T sappose he would make me drive the char- rette into town on market days,” pursued the heartless Jessica; “or make me carry a creel of fish on my back, and shout, ‘poissons! vivants! touts vivants! shouldn't I do it well?” You certainly hfiye the lungs of a fishwo- man,” said Mrs. Arden, much displeased, “and unless you stop at once this humiliating way of talking, I shall go to my room.” “Don't go,” returned Jessica, promptly whisk- ing the handkerchief off her head; ‘there is our dear friend Lange, coming down the street, sucking the knob of his cane; which reminds me that he begged me this morning to give you his humble devotion, and ‘would you and niam’sel, your nie drive a little way i him before dinner? I entirely forgot it till this instant. What shal! we do?” « Mrs. Arden hesitated a moment. “I suppose you do not wish to go,” she said in an agurieved tone. “On the contra ” replied Jessica, “I am anxious to do so, We may freeze, but then we are freezing here. It will be a change at least.” Your uncle is probably off for one of his long walks, so I see no reason why we should not go.” considered Mrs. Arden. According! aif an_hour later a carriage rolled out of the Porte St. Malo of Dinan. con- taining a gentleman and two ladies; Monsieur Lange, in short, and Mrs. Arden and Jessica. Monsieur Lange was forid and stout, and not over young. small black eyes twinkled under thick bl; ‘brows; he never removed them from Jessica’s face, and he seldom / removed the knob of his walking stick from his mouth. The oppressive heat prophesied by Madame Robbe had not yet come, and as the carriaze rolled along in the open country, the air was undeniably bleak, and the ladies shivered in their sealskin coats. Up a rough lane and j nestled comfortably among apple trees, was a farm house, with many steep, red roofs, and ample whitewashed chimneys, from one of which a column of blue smoke was rising. “I declare,” exclaimed Mrs. Arden, with sud- den energy, “there is positively one house which looks as if it had a fire init. A real fire, with blazing logs, and not a handfutof charcoal, to be treated tenderly and extinguished the instant one’s dinner is cooked. I really think one might be warm there, Jessica. I wonder how it would seem to be warm again, honestly warm, with no pretence about it.” “But madame can see,” returned Monsieur Lange, politely. “It is an old servant of my mother’s who cares for this house.” The owner has di and the heirs have not yet taken their session. Madame can easily ‘get warmth in there for the homeward drive if she chooses.” “What would you like, Jessica?” sald Mrs. Ar- den, putting up her eyeglass to examinea tall figure in gray which was approaching with long strides. es, let us go,” said Jessica, “I'd like to see the inside of a Breton farm-house.” The matter being thus decided, the party alighted at the end of the lane, and Mrs. Ar den at once pounced upon the pedestrian in “L knew your walk and your left arm. You have the mail, too, I believe,” she addea. slipping her hand into his ulster pocket, as the two fol- lowed Monsieur Lange and Jessica up the stony lane. paper, and a le after I h stone wall at the end of the lane, and, a gate in this being opened, the party found itseif in a small court, paved with uneven tiles, and quite noisy with fowl. On one side there were stables, and on another the farm- house, with a door open into the kitchen, hence came the burr and hum of a spinning- theel. Eviphanie!” shouted Monsieur Lange, and the buzzing ed, and an old woman came to the open door to look out. Her face was brown and seamed, and her hair Was quite white under he ttiy starched cap. Her black eyes twinkled merrily when she saw Monsieur Lange, and she urged the party to come in and get warm. But thou art a naughty child,” she said, shaking a lean, brown finger at Monsieur Lange; “thou hast not been to see thy old Epiphanie for months! mechant! andthe fine bouquet of pot herbs Ihave for thy dear maman! Thou hee bear them back to town with thee, petit roitviet ! As the old woman talked she had set chairs for her visitors by the blazing fire, and she im- | mediately set some cider to warm in an ear?hern ipkin on the hearth, and brought out bread and some cheese. “But if thou had’st sent word of thy coming,” she rattled on, “certainly I should have made thee some zalette. Thou hast never forgotten the good galette of Epiphanie, my pretty little bitelou” | Monsieur Lange at length yielded to the prayers of Epiphante, and climbed with her, the uneven, stone stairs which led from the kitchen, to see, himself, the beautiful soup-herbs she wanted him to take to his mother. Left thus to themselves, Mrs, Arden, seated in a warm corner, became absorbed in her let- ters; Mr. Arden paced the floor, and Jessica went to visit the quaint parlor. She found the door ajar, and, stepping in, started to find that the room was not empty. Standing by a window, with his back towards her, was a young man with short, dark hair and a nrdy pel r of shoulders. He was whistling softly, and as Jessica came In, he asked without turning: “Whose carriage is that at the end of the lane?’ Monsieur Lange's,” said Jessica. The young man made a very sudden wheel about ; looked at Jessica a moment, and then without a word took her in his arms. “You needn't quite crush me, I think,” said Jessica, meekly, after a moment’s silence. He loosened his clasp the veriest trifle, and hed. You see,” he explained, “Iam so: afraid of losing you.’ “You needn't be,” said Jessica, shamelessly. “Tnever shall run away. I am quite happy where I am.” “You did run away from Paris, though.” “f supposed at least you would fullow me,” said Jessica. “And haven't 1?” Then they both laughed, being in that charm- ingly idiotic condition when young people laugh at Se Then the young man said seri- ously: “Did you know my Unele Simon was dead?” “T did not even know you had an Uncle Simon.” “Thad, though, and he died a month back; and last week I was notified that _he had left his farm to me. So I am down to take a look at it. Tarriyed last night, and was driven out by a n from the hotel. This morning I drove in myself, with the faym charrette, to post you a letter; did you get it? “Not asign of it. Uncle probably has it in his pocket now. Go on.” : *“Well, 1 found out your pension, and, early as it was, drove by tosce if { could get aglimpse of you; Idiot, you know, but I dare say I shall get over it in time.” “T saw you.” laughed Jessica. “I thought you were a ” “Yes, it was cold, and I put a beastly lamb’s wool jacket across my shoulders. It be- longed te the farm-man, who came with me as far as the mill.” Then she told him what a silly young person ‘she had been that morning, and abont the old St. Valentine's charm she was trying. Fate has taken the matter up, then,” said | the young man, ‘so I suppose, Jess, i must | marry you, whether—' “You much better leave that unsald, Harry Wood,” returned Jessica, with dij A “Then we'll talk about the farm a bit,” said he, “what do you think, sweetheart, could you | ! be happy with me here, for a while, a few yeare, j till _@ certain axe I have grinding, shall be Le enough tq use? me the truth, Jessie? “The trath is,” said Jessica, staunchly, ‘that I was Sees ne last Sunday, and 1 ‘will do any- thing you like, Harry, if Aunt Alice were Aunt pat oral thousand times over.” Tan , tears. ther remarks are 7.” sald the young man, after a moment of eloquent silence. “Come out, and let me show janie her Delf foproacl! and ulter misery, stood the mar- ow window, looking at his wife. Mrs. Arden, still in her warm corner, ‘surrounded by letters, and Dapers, wore alook of unmitigated and stony despair, Something truly remarkable must have taken place since Jessica left the room, for it was no- Uceable that Henry Wood's entrance caused no more surprise than that of Jessica, who had just slipped away to find her clove. “Jessica,” said Mrs. Arden, in an awful voice, ‘Jessica, my poor beggared child, come here!” Mr. Arden, rath- “Now, my dear,” interrupted er helpiessly, ‘do you think this is the place to tell her? Don’t youthinkon the whole it would be as well to wait until we get home.” Mrs. Arden smiled bitterly. ‘I have no doubt you would like to keep it secret, Mr. Arden,” shesaid. “I have no doubt you would like al- ways to put it off, perhaps to never let her know. But I shall not deceive my dead sister's child. I think the truest kindness Is to teil her the truth at once.” “But, my dear,” pleaded poor Mr. Arden, onee more, “don't you think I better tell her, if she mnst be told; you look on things inthe very darkest light.” * “I certainly do not gild the truth,” said Mrs. Arden, stiffly. “And you know my deat,” continued the luckless Mr. Ardea, “that you alway say that you do not understand business, and so— Mrs. Arden interrupted her husband with s ‘hering look on her face. ‘Thank Heaven that I do not!” she said, rather explosively. ‘“Thauk Heaven I do not. Thank Heay@n, though, I have never made the pretences that others have, of being in any way better than my fellow-creatures; at least 1 have” never robbed the orphan and the fatherless. 1 have atleast never broken any sacred trusts, ang squandered the little fortunes submitted to my care, and made beggars of my dead sister-in- law's children; at least |have never taken un- suspecting ladies trom homes of luxury and married them on purpose to bring them to beg- gary and woe. If this is understanding busi- ness, I do not understand business, and i thank Heaven that 1 do not.” As Mrs. Arden ceased speaking she burst into tears, aud Mr. Arden looked both angry and perplexed. There was @ moment of most un- comfortable silence, then Mrs. Arden continued, something less tragically. ‘: Four weeks azo, Mr. Wood, we told you in Paris that we could never let Jessica marry you. Now, I say, take her, and keep her from siarva- tion; she isa miserable beggar.” “Being a beggar myself, Mrs. Arden,” said Henry Wood, “I have rather a weakness for beggars as a class, and I promise you that Jessie shall never starve.” Jessica slipped her hand within her lover's arm, and Mrs. Arden suddenly relapsed into Monsieur Lange and Epiphanie were heard descending the stairs. Jessica crossed the kitchen to her aunt. e They are coming down, Aunt Alice,” she said. ‘Don't let them see you crying. not be so bad as you think, after all.” Henry Wood went to poor Mr. Arden by the window, “You've had bad news from America?” he said. ‘Of course I know it’s not so hopeless as she fears, but you are in trouble. if there's any- thing on earth which {—” “Oh, thanks,” answered Mr. Arden, hastily, “not at all, not at all. Things are not so horri- bly lost. My wife, ah—in fact all women are apt to exaggerate dificulties—don’t you think? I had papers this morning, and a letter from my lawyers in Baltimore, and, weil—in short itis about that gold mine in Alaska; the ‘Primrose,’ you know: the assayer was paid, and there was all the usual rascality, and the usual number of donkeys were taken in. I wag one of the don- keys. Linvested fifty thousand dollars, and I said to myself tiat if !succeeded I would call half of it Jessica’s money; but that if I lost, the loss should be mine. Well, [ have lost. Iam by no means a beggar, but we must go back at o1 to America; and Jessica’s little fortune is as it was, neither more, nor less.” Monsieur Lange and Epiphanie were now in the kitchen. “ Epiphanie,” said Wood, “I hope you willnot let our friends go back to town without retresh- sient” Tt may | If Monsieur permits,” said Epiphanie. “I would like to make a St. Valentine's pudding, uch as my pretty bibelot used to like when I lived with Madame his mother. ELeaNnon PuTNaM. ses pads Fighting at Long Range with a Gang of Rona Agents. Tombstone, Arizona, special. Speaking of road agents and shot-guo mes- sengers, one of the latter had an exciting adyen- ture with some of the former the other day on the Bisbee road, when escorting treasure to pay off the miners at Copper Queen mines. As the coach was driving along the river road he no- ticed five men on horses ranning in the same direction, but on the other,gide of the river. His suspicions were aroused, and at the next watering place he secured a Winchester rifle and ammunition, and was not surprised when sud- denly there appeared on the road a few hundred yards ahead three men, who, without further parley, opened fire on the coach. The driver im- mediately turned the horses and rode back, fol- lowed hotly by the robbers, who kept up their fusilade, which Mr. Bartholomew, the messen- ger, returned. Finding that the jolting of the coach interfered with his aim, he dismounted, and, with the aid of one of the passengers, had a long-range fight with the robbers. ‘his prov- ing ineffective, they remounted the coach and ran the horses till one of them fell dead, haying been wounded at the first fire from the foe. The robbers then went ahead of them on the road, where they found a Mexican wood-chop- per, whom they sent with a message saying that if the treasure-vox were not thrown out at once they would “kill the whole outfit.” The passengers—five men and one lady—held a con- sultation and decided to give up the box, greatly to the chagrin of Mr. Bartholomew, who wanted to fight till “the last armed foe expired,” but was finally persuaded to give a reluctant con- sent. They retired to one side of the road about 100 yards, and the robbers, two of them with faces covered with colored handkerchiefs, and the spokesman, with uncovered face, came to the coach, and, after threatening the coachman with instant death it ever he “ave them away,” emptied the treasure-box of $6,500, took one of the stage horses because it ‘jumped well,” and made off with their booty, leaving the discom- fited passengers to go back for new horses and relate their adventures. These robbers are supposed to be cowboys, as cattle-thieves about here are called—a class of men who have been an afiliction to this and the neighboring territory, New Mexico. Although they have never taken the town and held it at the muzzle of the revolver, as they are said to have done in some towns, they have had pretty full swing here. there being a class who are in sympathy with them, perhaps becanse they always have plenty of money and spend it freely and perhaps because there is a wholesome dread. of exciting their enmity. +e. _____ How American Girls Kiss. From the Atlanta Constitution. The Maine girl,talland raddy,kissesas though she were taking an impression inthe chewing gum of her native state. The Massachussetts girl kisses inthe Greek style, flavored with brown bread. The New York girl goes at it as if she were dabbling in a Wall street speculation. The kiss of the New Jersey girl is fiery as a taste of apple-jack, better known as Jerse’ lightning. Little Delaware's girls are as so! as the peaches which grow there. A Maryland kiss is rich and juicyasa terrapin stew. In the Old Dominion you are met with a genuine hos- pitality; the girls kissas though they wanted you to stay. The Ohio girl Is described as possessing the comprehensive qualities of the Ohio man—she wants all she can get and gets allshe can. A Louisiana kiss is said to be like eating sugar cane, while North Carolina girls stick like tar. ———_-+o-_____ Hooping a Barrel. From the Danbury News. Putting a hoop on the family flour barrel is an operation that will hardly bear an encore. The woman generally attempts it before the man comes home to dinner. She sets the hoop’ up on the end of the staves, takes a deliberate aim with the rolling pin, and then shutting both eyes, brings the pin down with all the force of one arm, while the otber one instinctively shields her face. Then she makes a dive for the camphor and unbleached muslin, and when the man comes home she is sit back ofthe stove, chiang oF St, Stephen-and the ether martyrs, while a burnt dinner and the camphorare strug- ping for the mastery. He “that if she had but kept her temper she wor 't have got hurt. And he visits the barrel himself and puts the AR on very carefully, and, then adjusts it so nicel smart Taps ay ity bring it » And then he laughs to bimself to think what a fuss his wife kicked up songs matter only needed 4 little penne: CLARA BELLE ON HORSEBACK, The Wonderful Intricncies of a Wo- man’s Riding Habit. COMBINED DRESS AND TROUSERS, WITH CURIOUS GUSSETS FOR A PURPOSE—A RAGE FOR RQUES- ‘TRIANISM. . “Clara Belle” in his, her, or its last New York letter to the Cincinnati Enguirer has the tollowing npon women’s riding habits in con- nection with the curreat rage for horseback riding: | 5 “Equestrianism, let me tell you, is just ragit in this metropolis. Central Park is full of it every morning. The swellest thing fora weman is to go out attended only by a groom, who rides sedately ten feet to her rear. I took a ten-mile jJoggety-jog on a hard trotter, and haven't a doubt that the milk I had drank for breakfast was churned into butter before I got down. 1 am certain that the churn felt as thouch the dasher was overdoing it. The pretentious riders nowadays scorn to ride galloping horses— the comfortable, see-saw brutes that carry you like a baby in a cradie—but pride themselves on being able to stand the joit and bound of trot- ting. They pretend it is easy, and that they never meet the horse’s back half way with a chug that threatens to shake the v liver from its fastenings, but I know better. The latest fashions in riding habits require that they shall be fitted bya tailor, though a clever woman may do the work herself by attend- ing closely to this description of the peculiar cut: On the left-side, in front, is a gore taken across to make room for the knee. This gore is not straight across, but forms a curve, making a | Kind of jacket for the knee to fit in.’ The side breadth is like that of an ordinary skirt, but the back one is peculiar in many respects. First, there is a smail gore on the upver part, which terminates and commences again on the middle of the skirt. These gores haye the same object as the one over the knee—that is, to forma space for the bend of the figure, allowing for the skirt to set properly without adding to its full- ness. Otherwise the wéarer might be boosted out of the saddle, on the principle of the boy whose trousers were made with no fullness in the seat. and, therefore, pushed him off the door- steps every time he bent to get down decorously. Fashion dictates that the habit must fit snugly from neck to toes, and be made from heavy cloth. This necessitates the BASEMENTS which I have described. The skirt is perfectly tight around the watet, and mounted on a piece ofsilk galloon. On the right side, between the front and back breadth, it opens, and is fastened by buttons and button-holes; and on the inside of His open part is the pocket. In front is a | band of elastic, for the foot to pass through, like a stirrup, to keep the skirt down. Were it not for this, the dress would push up in riding. Still, that would be no great disaster, for under- neath are trousers—half leather and half cloth. They are closed and buttoned on each side of the hips, something like the old-fashioned flap- fronted breeches of our granddaddies. The upper part is buckskin, and- the legs are cloth, like the dress. The waist has two gores in front and a small side piece. . The style is to be as flat-breasted as possible when on horse- back. The side piece in the back is very nar- row. The back has no sean down the center, and forms a small basque, with the side pieces falling over it and fastened on the inside of ti plait. The side pieces of the back and the back itself are thus joined by being piaced one over the other. The buttons shouid be very small and round. The tight sleeves button over at the wrist. The waist is wadded in case the woman is slender, but not if she has much flesh on her bones. Indeed, none but thin women should ever display themselves on horseback. It is difficult enough for a hundred pounder to appear light and graceful in a saddle, and whe it comes to anything over a hundred and thirty y Nothing is more comi- cal than the equestrianism of a certain fat girl of Fifth avenue. It is said that she has killed, four horses by the pile-driving kind of usage which her weight subjects them to. They COULDN'T STAND IT. n who won't,let out a horse to any woman weighing more than a hundred and thirty pounds. He has a scale in his office, and when a woman of any plumpness applies for a horse he politely asks her to step on it. But toreturn to the riding-dress. On the lower part of the waist behind are three tongues with button-holes, fastened to buttons placed a little below the belt of the skirt. The same arrange- mentison the seam under the arm. By this means the waist remains in the same place, no natter what movement there may be in riding. women use fancy styles for riding habits, but such things do noft last, and the plain dress is always elegant. Skirts have no more long trains, as they formerly had. For a moderately tall’ figure the long side of the skirt is about a yard and a half, while the short one is rather more than a yard. Men’s high silk hats are in more general use than any other shape, and lace veils are twisted around them; or gauze veils are arranged in draperies around the crowns and fastened in the back under a large gauze rosette. A long piece of veiling 1s sometimes taken around the neck and partly over the face. The plainest of linen underclothes are worn. The gloves are buckskin or kid, with coarse stitching. A high collar is_oftenest worn, with a man’s white cravat. From what I have written the unin- itiated may comprehend how hide-bound a woman feels when she is habited fora ride. If the costume doesn’t fit at every joint she Is in misery. The most accurate measurements are necessary by the maker—so Close, in fact, that tailors who make them haye to employ a woman to do the measuring, ina room sate from male eyes. OVER 5,000 DRUGGISTS PHYSICIANS HAVE SIGNED OR ENDORSED THE FOLLOWING REMARKABLE DOCUMENT: . Seabury & Johi i a Macorg, Piatt Stree nner Manufacturing Chemists, Gentlemen:—For the past few years wo have sold va- rious brands of Porous Plasters. Physicians and the public prefer BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLas- TER toall others. 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