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== ae, THE EVENING STAR: WASHIN' THE FALL FASHIONS. ‘THE COMBINATION COSTUMES—PASSEMENTERIE AGAIN-STRIPES AND PLAINS IX YooUR— SOUTACHE TO THE ¥RONT—WINTER WRAPS— FINE SOFT WOOLENS—WOOL LACES, RTC. Hiom Contans are worn with all walking Bresses, FLAT Vests are worn with bodices having facket — Lace ax Exnnorperep JaBors are worn ‘With indoor toilette, Bretox Vests axp Eton xp ZovavE JACKETS continue to be in favor. CaImsoN S1LK ScARVES with silver fringes are worn In the evening as a head covering, and Bro quite eifective. DARK BLUE AXD BoTTLeGREEN CLotusare the favorites for riding habits, the durability of ‘these colors being superior to Others, A Quainr Faxcy 1x EVENING SLIPPERS shows little French sabots of alligator skin, with tiny reptiles embroidered on the tip. AMONG THE PRETTY TRIFLES for the season are new Algerian ribbons, those made of lightly Woven woolen tssues dyed with gray-colored stripes. Wve Sasuss, both satin and monre, are still in favor, but there is some variation in tying ‘them, us the ends now often fall as loops; soft Silks Should be used. WIDE Sasues with narrower hat scarfs to match are imported In wool goods, in moire, faille, satin and velvet, with wide striped or flowered desizns across the ends, and a plain ‘cvlor for the main part of the sash. A CHARMING Boxer of rose-colored crepe- Ine is covered with cream white imitation valenciennes lace and Is trimmed with a bow of rose-colored velvet rivbon, covered by a cluster of piak and white roses. The strings are of narrow rose-colored velvet ribbon, CY for Wool Ince extends to its use in lingerie tor the neck and dress corsage. EX- ecedingly fine designs of white mobair lace are used by French modistes for tan-pleated cravat bows, plastrons, chemisettes and the collurettes that are worn outside dress waisbs, and serve to brighten up the simplest costume. Some oF THE TENNIS BLouseEs for ladies’ wear are made of nun’s gray flannel, or dark blue Austrian wool-goods, and laced wcross the chest exactly as zentienien’s yachting shirts are finished. Blouses vf the kame style are shown in gay striped woolens, but these ure not gonsidered frst choice for ladies “out of their "teeus.” A Paerty Avrumn Toicerte for a young girl or youthful matron Is of iaille frangaise | and Thibet in large plaid. The first skirt is of golden brown fuille, trimmed at the lower edge With seven bins folds of the same faille. The secund skirt is of plaid Thibet, bordered with @ very wide bias iold of goldén brown fuille, Pleated at the waist, SovTAcHE, which has been abandoned, re- sumed and reubandoned, {3 again restored. It is not employed indiscriminately, but solely for ornamenting cloth dresses, wich are em- broidered with youtache at the edges of the skirt and corsage; on the front the embroidery extends upward, diminishing in breadth with the shape of the skirt. | A Parry Apprrioy js nade to French waist- | coat bodices under the guise of a high ruffle of Jace carried over the chest, where it gradually widens and Is finished off by corselet drapings of surah or sik muslin. When worn by young ladies, it is intended that these folds shall be met by a deep Swiss belt passing round the | bodies, and compieied at the back by a broad sash, Puppy-red merveilleux is muca used for tals purpose. PASSEMENTERIE Is as widely used as ever, and the plaques or flat sppliques of it are grow- ing larger and larger and more and more blended with beads, which aiso are steadity in- creasing in size. These plaques ure placed on the shoulders in epauiet fashion, at the bottom Of the back between the waist. and the pont, upon the pleats of drapery, ani Gueed dimensions, of euurcé—at the thou | al the waist for a belt buekle. Woot Laces are very largely imported for autumn use, and are shown in flounces a yard deep to cover the entire dress skirt as far as Itis visible. These laces are now,made of the dura ble mohair, which 1s firmer than the som wool woven int are small ° of antique guipure. lac E ct Sign finishes one edge, which ts to worve as the foot of the skirt, These ounces are sold in four Yard lengths for the entire skirt, and are to be made up over silk, wool or satin in a plain round skirt. Haxper's Bazar says that the coming win- ter Is pledged to all fine soft woolens, there having been a marked and decided preterence for thick and rough-surfaced stuffs last winter. Cassimere cloth and on cloth, both fine, Smooth-surfuced stuff,vigogne, or camel's+hair, in {ts natural (a trifle russe:) tint, Thibet stuffs, both piatn and boucle, Tunisian’ stripes, show. ing bands of brigiit color mixed with ‘a littie which are used for skirts only tania, so calied because woveu in a small treilis of two colors usually gros blew and chamois. These are the au‘umn novelties. PLAIN VELVETS are so largely imported that of themselves they would constitute a “velvet season,” but to these are added striped and fig- ured velvets, und the beaded und embroidered | tare to form the combinations with Plain velvet or with uncut velvet costumes. A or lead-colured costume, with the front with lead beads, will be'a sty)*4h choice for autumn and winter, but the still larger im- portationsof brown velvets both for dresses and bonnets point to these warmer browns as a more certain choice for a winter toilet. The use of carved wood beads in brown shades on brown velvet is a novelty for the front breath, the plastron, collar, and eufts of brown velvet dresses. ComBINATIONS of plain and figured goods will | be used again for autumn and winter dresses. For woolen costumes two kinds of wool wil! be chosen, one of which is plain and the other striped or in smail set figures. The newest a shown are boucle or Astrakhan oe alternating with smoother stuff, which, however, are only smovoth by comparison, as bn | heavily twilled, or in sueh wide diag- onal lines that each line stands out like a sepa- rate row of braid. The boucie stripes are very effective, and will retain their appearance, be- cause they are formed of curis or loopsof tightly iwisted threads of mohair that are Lnpervious to dampness, and are not easily crushed out of shape. ‘Tux New anv FANCIFUL small wraps, now | being prepared for autuinn wear after French models, are very graceful, chie, and essentially Parisian, The shapes are almost indescribable. Some of the visites have jue backs, and there are pelerines with vest fronts strapped | across and held with small gold and enainel Duekles. Short, rounding doiman shapes are Joose in the back, with trim jacket-fronts belted ‘or heid at the waist with ribbon ties. Three ifferent kinds of trimming will often be used Upon even the siiailest of these mantles, which ‘are in most cases inade of fabrics of the richest deseription. A FasuioN WRITER in @ leading society Journal of Lodou states that velvet ribbon is used to excess as a garniture for dresses, hats and bounets—the deep or the vivid shades of red, green, blue and brown for day wear, and upon delicate red tabrics,for full dress occasions Velvet ribbons of the most exquisitely soft and lively tints of prawn pink, sky biue, mauve and the like are used with handsome effect. This same garniture, arranged in straight rows in ream or snow White, is taking the place of lace as a finish to tollets of albatross, uun's veiling and other light wool costumes. EMILIE RAYMOND, the fashion writer, says that@novel fabric Invented to please the pre- ‘vailing taste for lace goods is a warm wool cloth with Its surface covered all over with netting in web-like lace patterns. ure designs of intricate patterns show the periection of w jag when thrown in light threads of one or two | colors on aclogh back of some bright contrast- | ing color that shows through the netting, such as black on crimson, blue on poppy red, gray on blue, or brown on blue. Then there are stripes ofthis lace-work alternating with stripes of wool to form part of the dress fn combination with the: ler-figured lace cloth. Hanren’s BAZAz states that wrappings this winter will be either very long or very short— no intermediate lengths. The former will be worn about on foot, the latter for dress occa- sions. But between now and that distant da; ‘when a protection against eold will be need for the first cool autumn days numbers of small mantles of various shapes will be worn. Those ade with plastrons or vests were so well re- felved that almost all the new small wraps in Pelerine or short mantle shapes are made with # plastron at the front that is repeated at the Back, uniews a hood is on the back in- Stead. Many short Juckets of all iinds are in ion {oF the Winter, among the number Zoute richly embroidered th moldsteiog wate & wide sash of soft silit will be worn. PLUSH, VELVET, o& Morr STRIDES are seen 4m various wool fabries to form combinations ‘with the new crinkled wool crupes, the English serges, and plain camel’shair. The stripes vary from a fourth of an inch to those two or even ‘three inches wide, but the designs most largely im are made up of even stripes that are each an inch and a half wide. ‘Many colors in the smaller stripes in oue fabric, Lite, green and orange velvot lines being 20 e brown of blue twilled woot bat inx blue, bronze, ‘Srown, ouster, ar mgrile seem and these eit be liked for their q tone rich fabric, pes: groups of threads of coarse dotted ooh, three Gr ave im number, of different col- nd under the stipes both. perpoubiouint ‘Over and ‘ands ‘Jy and horizontally. are Cal ‘Preparation, to be worn os skiriain the autumn three. colore—alme: red and’ blue or Ese ROBINS AND HAMMERS. Br MARY B. WILKINS. It was Monday morning; Lois had her wash- tng all done and her kitchen cleaned up, and it Was yet not ten o'clock; the dew hed not dried of the grass, and the surprise of the morning had not worn off in her heart, Lola was a girl who felt such things, After she had finished her kitchen-work, she came with her broom into the front entry, with its unpainted, uneven floor; she was going to sweep that out; then her work in the lower partof the house was done, and she had nothing more to do be- fore dinner except to put her own room up- Stairs In order. She opened the front door after she had come the length of the narrow entry; then she could not help standing there and staring out, lean- ingon her broom a little while. It was beaatt- ful outside, and, aside from that, the outdoors guve her somebow a sweet sense of companion- ship. The soft wind and the sunshine and the weet spring smelis came tn by the open door like people. - Lolsfelt it, though she dia not get So fur as thinking it, She had been lonesome, without knowing she was so till then. She was always alone in the house all day while her father wasat work, Her mother was dead, and ‘abe had no brothers or sisters. The house southeast, and weeping-willow tree in front of it Its long boughs, which were more like tender srcen gat lands than branches, swayed gently in the wind, SriNaiandy "ine tpehu ‘eas were aeaiee tt . The §} ingin; Nery srill ah ‘There were biuebirds bi Red’ oricles, aad, than anything el: and_orio |, more anything else, robins. Lofs always seemed to hear the robing piainest, maybe because she loved them best. She had always liked robins ever since she was s child. But now there was something else she liked to Hsten to better than the robins, and that was the sound of the nters’ hammers on a house over the way. She could sec ite pee. unpainted pine walls thi sh the trees, at was to be her house, where she and Joho ligt were to live when they should be married in the autumn. The taps of the hammers seemed to Lois to harmonise sweetly with the calls of the bluebirds and the robins; ‘they were of Irn onsets tegre — sounds bel to love and hope and the spring. Lois was small and com) in figure; her light brown hair crinkled el ly around ic forehcad and hung in tight curls on her neck. She had a pretty thin face, with bright eyes, sensitivelips, and a clear skin. She was neat in her poor calico dress, There was no money In the Arms family, though ones they had been off, Eiram Arms had been a pros- perous farmer on his own account up in Rowe; now he was renting this great,unpainted weath: er-beaten old house In Rawlet. and letting him- self out to other farmers for low hire, A good muby causes had brought it about; fire and mortzages and sickness. “It had not happened until after Sarah Arms" death—that was alwaye @ comfort to her daughter Lois, Sarah Arms had been a high-spirited woman; there were people whosaid that her ambition and extrava- ganee Lad brought about her husband's failure. There had been a bay-windowand a new piazza on that suug farm-house in Rowe, which the old neighbors spoke of now dubiously. “Hiram Arms never ought to have put on them addi- tions,” said they; “but Mis’ Arms would hev z oor woman.”” the father and daughter grubbed Pawlet, the daughter uncomplaining- ther complaingly. He was naturally ous man,and trouble had shaken him. t, since Lois’ fy 2 fement to John El- 's began to look brighter. John money; he would have to mort- house; Out he had steady work nd zood pay, and a prospect of better. Hiram Arms was to give L the desolate old house which he rented, ‘on ‘Inis daughter's marriage, and go to live with her In her new one. He was '¥ prond and happy about it, and talked It over « good deal among the neighbors; he had always been almost foollshly fond of his daugh- ter, aud he was growing garruloux, Lois tovk her brvom and went about She bad been brought up on the w England plan, and had guilty feel- Lat it was a waste of time if she stopped a minute to be happy. ‘There was very little fur niture in these large, square, low-walled rooms, but everything was scrupulously clean. After her sweeping was done and her own room put fu order, Lots bad s little time to sit down and re she got dinner; after dinner, when the dishes were put away and her father gone back to his work, she had a long quiet spell the whole afternoon tiil six o'clock. « Lols sat in the oneof the two square front apartments which they used_for a sitting room, sewing. She was making 2 kind of coarse. cotton edging. She could not think of such things as bouzhton trimming for her poor little wedding outtit; but It was no matter, for she thouzht this wis beautiful. Hattie Smith had taught her how to doit. ‘She was her nearest girl neighbor, and she lived a quarter of a mile Sway, with ho houses between. Lois wished Hattic would come over that afternoon as she sat there, and by three o'clock she did eome in sight; A stout, girlish fieure, in an ugly Tight brown Woollen dress fitting tightly over her curving shoulders. She had her plaid shawl over her arm, the afternoon was so warm. ‘Oh, Hattie,” eried Lois, ranning tothe door and opening it, “I’m so glad you've come! 1 was awful lonesome.” “Weil, I thought I'd come over two or three minutes, Mother au’ I got our washin’ out of the way real carly today, and there wasn’t anything to do at home, an’ I thought I'd bring my sewing over her The two girls sat peacefully down at their work in the sitting-room. Hattle was running up some breadths of adress, and Lois kept on with her edging. “¥ along real fast with that edging, don't you?” said Hattie. * m'tknow. I haven’t worked on it 's real protty.”” o do I; beautiful.” Hattie dropped her sewing after alittle, and stared at Lois, with an odd expression on her large face, half of concealed jure, half of doubt and commiseration. “Lois,” said she, “I heard something to-day, an’ I don’t know whether to tell you of it or not. I told mother I was half a mind to, for I thought you ought to know it, It made me real mad.” W hat is it,” Hattie? “Why, I don’t know as1 ought totell, I'm id it'll make you feel bad.” No, it won't.” * ‘Well, if you're sure it won't. I wouldn't mind ita bit if Iwas you. It made me real mad, I think she was Just as mean as she could You see, old Mis’ Elifot run over to borrow some soap this morning, an’ she sat down # min ute, an’ we got to talkin’ about John an’ his new house an’ you. I don’t believe I'd better tell you, Lois.” “Yes; [ won't mind. Go on.” “Well, mother said something about what a pretty girl you was, an’ Mis’ Elliot sald, yea, you was pretty enough,but she couldn't help wishi sometimes that you had something to. rp oe along With a little. She always thought the wo- man ought to farnish the house—she did when she was married—an’ ft was @ dreadfal binder- nce to @ young man to have to do everything. Jobn worked terrible an’ she was afraid he'd get sick. And then she sald she always thought a girl ought to have at least two silk dressea when she was married,a black one an’ a colored one, and a good stock of clothes, so her husband wouldn't have to buy anything for her for two years certain. ww, Lola, you won't feel Why, Lois, don't ery!” Lois’ poor little cotton lay unnoticed in her lap, and she was sobbing pitifully in her little coarse handkerchief. “Now, Lols, I wouldn't have told you if I'd thought You'd felt so bad.” Lois wiped her eyes, and raised her head bravely. “I don’t ieel'bad,” said she; “only I wouldn't bave believed that Mis’ Elliot would have spoken so, when she knew 1 was doing the best I could.” “Well, JWouldn't;I think she was awful mean. I wouldn't mind it a bit, Lois,” det eae. aud eran the oe edging and went on wor! wo look pleasant and unconcerned. with hertrea eyes. She would talk no more on the subject, However, though Hattle Kept alluding to it. Hattie went home a little before tea-time, say- Ing to herself she didn’t know what to make of — Arms. a but honest dis- ress; no anger One—none against Hattie, nor even against Str, Elliott’ ter mother, before she died. had told het & good many iimes that she had not enough spirit, and would have a time going throt if the world, aud she would have told her that now had she been alive, After Hattie went she sat there listening to the carpenters’ hammers and the birds, but they no longer sounded to her as they had done. She kept saying it ovér to herself tu a discord- ant refrain that drowned everything else, and took away the sweetness of it, with a bitter aftertaste, “Two silt dresses, a black one and a colored one; and T ought to farnixh the house, and it's going to be a burden to John if I don’t.” Sue had her father’s supper all when he came from his work, though, gether in the ‘great bargalie tibsnes aga gether in the ‘great w Stretched the Width of the house bebiind the “Te was odd enough that her father should it was odd en t 7 broach the subject | Money, father.” Teould let leetic. I'ain’ cot eee ae ela ee eae, Lier Ef twoor ‘would do you any gooa—" “I really don’t need it now, father. I’ve got nity.” got to thinkin’ "bout sil, you know best. 1 it this afiernoon—I dou't keow my bead—when twas ma Er things were as ‘Was once, you'd hev i; He i f t f i; f HY 58 i 3 I i A Hy ‘I at i ibe ei i i conject- uring, however, He lingered and talked ‘and no more than , bat Lois would Te aa Ne bad said, aad be went of ‘Snxlous bewilderment, Gaughter’s ‘with the farmer whom he was hetplag, Be had sala good deal about the new house, and how likely the young maa Some he locked very old and dejected. vel an Lois saw it, with an awful sinking at her heart, but she never faltered in her A orner of her resolute mother’s mantle seemed to have fallen upon her gentle, humble little Ganghter, She nevar would marry John Elliot ‘until she could go to him well enough provided with Wromanly, gear not to be a burden to him St the outset. ‘There was no anger in her de- termination, and no pride deserving the name. She had got it fixed in her mind that she could not the young man now without injury to him, and she loved him too well to do 5 was al ‘She had asked him the night before to defer thelr marriage a year, She gave him no reason; she thought she could not, without perhaps havi mother's remarizs traced back and trouble belng made; then, too, she knew he id not consent to the pian. The result was inevitable with a young man of John Elifot’s turn of mind. He broke the qpenfemont squarely and went home, Next y Carpenters st worl on the nev house. The silence of the hammers smote Lols With @ dreadful sense of loneliness all day. Hor father did not notice it till Tuesday night; then he asked Lois, abruptly, “Have they stopped work on the house.” “Yes,” said Lols, with @ great sob, Then she Tan upstairs, threw herself ou her bed and cried Ditteriy. Sule could not help it, Stil, strangel enough, she was very far from giving up f hope. She had never believed more firmly in her life that the new house would be finished 4nd she and John live in Itsome day. She was going to work and earn some pretty dresses and some furniture; then John would come back, and it would be all right. In spite ot her yield: ing nature, there was in her a capability of fine ¢oncentration of purpose, which she might not. Use more than once in ‘her life, perhaps, but whieh would work wonders then. Whetiier it Would work wonders with a practical, unimagi- native, evenly resolute nature like John’s, re- mained tobe seen. Some might have ques- tioned if Pekapichend epee Paes ed Aa in @ near enough plane to admit of ay struggle, She had not @ doubt about it. John loved her, and by-and-by, when she had earned enough money, and had her clothes and her furniture, they would be married, and the carpenters would finish the new house. Her test present distress was her father’s dejection and her not secing John Sunday Bights, and she made the best of that, It was Odd that she did not worry much over poor John’s possible unhappiness; but she was 60 en- ed in acting against her’ own heart for his appiness that she did not think of that con- sideration. So she got the district school to teach, and passed the summer that way, instead of making edging and listening to the carpenters’ ham- Mmers. The school was half a mile from her home, and she had to keep the” house tidy and. get meals for her father, besides teaching, so she had to work hard. ' Back and forth she went, passing frst the wild roses and then the golden-rod on the country road morning, noon and night, never faltering. Her pretty face got strained, earnest look on it, but never a hope- less one. If John had only known! but he worked on in the shop over in Pawlet village, ‘and never came near Lois, If she was in his thoughts he kept her there so secretly that no- body knew. He went to work on week-days and to meeting on Sundays steadily and just as usual. He never alluded to Lois, or his broken en; ment, or his unfinished house, to anybody, and silenced his mother with, “I don't want to hear a word about this mother; you ee as well understand it first as last.” She never mentioned the matter to him af- terward, though she got a good deal of comfort from talking it over amongst her fo ee She was not sorry, on the whole, she said, that the match was broken off. She had nothing against Lois Arms; she was a real pretty little thing, and a good girl, too, she guessed, but she always thought John might do little’ bet- r. Then she was to have been left alone in her neat cottage house, which her husband had be- queathed her, on John's marriage; and although she had not wanted to live with the young couple ard sell her house, or have the young couple live with her, she did not altogether wish to be left alone. If she had told the whole truth, she would have said that she was jealous of her son, and did not really want him to get married at all. Lols used to meet John’s mother sometimes, and would return her stiff bow wistfully, She never thought of being angry with her. John she never met. She used to glance timidly across the church of aSunday sometimes, and see him upright and grave in his pe but he never turned his head her way, and never seemed to see her. ‘Lois taught all that year till the noxt spring; then she had two hundred dollars in money, She had_not spent one cent of her salary, but had saved itJealously. She had not given any to her father; that troubled her most. To see him coming home from his hard, pitiful jobs of wood-cutting and hauling through the winter, his shoulders bent, his thin, nervous face with {ts white beard growing thinner and more anx- fous, and she with her little hoard, worried her. But she kept thinking it would be all right soon. She knew his disappointment was wearing on him; but soon {t would be over, and this pre- cious money would bring it about, Lols had it all planned just what she should do with her money. Seventy-five dollars would buy her dresses, she thought, and one hundred and twenty-five her furniture. She antietpated @sumptuous housekeeping outfit trom ‘that, She was as innocent as a child about the cost of things. Then John would come back to her, and the taps of the hammers on the new house would chime in with the songs of the robins in. “Cols was thinking what day she should go over to the village to buy her dresses, and how. she should send a little note to Job ‘hen one day, shortly after her school closed, her father was brought home witha broken arm. That settled the matter. The dresses were not bought, the note was not written, and the car- penters’ hammers remained silent when the Tobins began to sing. Lois’ school money paid the rent and the doctor's bill, and bought Tod for herself and father, She nursed her father tll he was about again, and then she took up her school work and began anew. She went without everything. She wore her poor little shoes out at the toes; in the winter she wrapped her shaw) round her little red fingers and went without gloves. She went past the wild roses again, then the golden-rod and asters, then the red maple bonghs, then the snow-drifts, back and torth between her home and the schook house, with her pretty, enduring, eager face, lL sping came again. A few weeks after her school closed, John El- liot, coming home from the shop at dusk one rainy Satarday yey meta (is on the covered bridge just before he got to his home. She had been standing motionless at the farther en- trance till she. seen him enter at the oth then she had walked forward toward. hii rapidly. Sheextended her hand, with some- thing white in it, when she reached him. “Mr. Pilot,’ ‘aatd she, trembling, “here's a note for you, If you'll please read it when you get home.” ‘Then he saw it was Lots, “How do you do,” said he, stiffly, and took the note and went on. When he got home he opened it and read tt, holding it under the light on the kitchen shelf when his mother was out of the room, It did not take long to read it. It was only: “Desr John,—Will you please come over to my house u little while to-morrow night? I wantto sco You about something. Fr Tors.” ‘He folded the note then, put it in his, t,and asked bis mother it supper was ready. ready lor miectugs ad’ braaneae ae eet mee! coat, an Bincked his ‘boots 80 punetiliously, mother noticed it and wondered.” Was ie ing to see Lols Arms? But he did not go. Serwaras 2 nes And straight botse ithe hed only known how Lois was watchi) for him, though then it was doubtful if he: have gone at once. The limitations of his con- Yictions would always be stronger than his own inclination with him. Hoe could not slacken his own tight rein over himself easily at his owncommand. He had mind Ho tri up hi Lois ‘and he could not break his resolve. though. | Many an evening in the followin, himself in his Sunday eult’and even starved 10 went 10 see Lota: but "Meanwhile it was &, i “ ‘Oh, Mis’ Elliot? says she, and she put oa ‘sbout Jobo?” ter and wimed ton Twink you" think you'd onght to. It’s eccordin’ Fonprotess. I'l own I wa'n’t Jest pleased with idea of it at fret "3a real good girl, fan’ she’s peomed Teal cranes & *bout teach- in’ school. An: she did make me think #0 mach of your sister Mary, the way she looked, ‘Mary didn’t hev anything of that kind on her min but she looked, think of child, I'm than 7 fen like ig deci fr cathe br way leaving bis supper untasted. Even fe could ‘not bring hhewis ae ah oe that he h wal mat be earn at, he had to wait till the next, bi It washardly dark. Lois ing on the settee inte sivtingerOoms whom he enein withe out a “Lois!” “Siow ae 1 aign’t “How do you do Loist ped YOu were sick a told me Oh, Johnt” He pulled a chait up beside her then, and sat down. “See here, Tb I pao your ante soe Enyseit t6 come, afer aft thes a happen come, at a to tell the trash! Tm soy ones Tepulan’t “It's all right, John, never mind.” aitNou, ols, “what "nse the tronblte been “What troublet? j rhe whole of it from the first, What made you 9 the way you did, an’ putoff gettin’ mar- «Don't make me tell you, John.” “Yes, I am going 1D take you. I know Fours sick, an’ itseems cruel to bother you; ut it's the only way. Itain’t in me to goon an’ pretend everything's all right when it ain't. I can do everything else for you but that, an’ I can’t do thavitit's to save your life, You've got to be open with me now an’ tell ‘John, if I do, will you promise me, solemn, that you won't over tat anybody else?” es, Heder “Well, T thought it wasn't doing, {fT got married that fall. I didn’ thing hardly, not one silk dress, do anything ’toward furnishing the house. thought if Eshould earn some money It would make it easier for you. I didn’t want to begin to be a burden to you right off, John.” “But— why, I don’t know what to make of Zon, tais. ‘What putsnch a thing into your ead all of a sudden?” ‘Tought to have thought of it before.” ‘Why didn’t yon tell me?” ‘T couldn't, You wouldn’t have let me done ht by you ft. “Lois, I never saw a girl like you. Here you've been working hard these two years, an‘ "most killing yourself, aw’ never letting me know, an’ me not knowing what to think, “John, I've gut @ beautiful black silk dress, and a blue one, and lots of other things, Then ive got more’n @ hundred dollars saved to buy ure,” “What do you think 1 care about the dresses and the furniture? I wish they were in Gib- art’? “Don’t scold me, John.” “Seold you? ‘There! i guess I won't. Poor Lois! poor girl! You meant all right, but it was All Wrong. You've "most killed yourself. “But it'll be allright now. Shail I set the carpenters to work to-morrow, darlin’?” “Oh, John!” “I'll speak to’em te ed and early, an’ you must hurry an’ get well. You worryin' about being a-burden! Oh, my Lord! Lois, I'll never Gel over it. You silly, blessed little girl! There's your father coming.” The next morning Lois did not wake very early, she had slept so soundly; but when she did she heard, incredulously at first, then in a Fapture of conviction, the carpenters’ hammers, The robins were singing, ‘too. n her father called up the stairs: “Loist John’s begun work on the new house again!” —Harper's Bazar. ———~+e+____ ‘The Art of Dining. SIMPLICITY VERSUS PRETENSIOX — svGGES- TIONS FOR THE ‘TABLES — HOW DINNER SHOULD WE SERVED, From Good Housekeeping, To begin with, then, let the table, when no one is present but the home circle, be the model ot what it should be when surrounded by guests, Lay a piece of thick Canton flannel under your tablecloth, Even coarse napery will look like a much better quality with a sub- cover than if spread directly over the bare table top. Avoid the cheap tricks of hotels and rea taurants in the arrangement of napkins and table utensils, Simplicity is never Tidiculous, While pretension usually is, Placo the napkin on the lett side of the plate, with a piece of bread in its folds, the fork on the right hand, next to that the knife, with the sharp edgé turned from the one who fs to use it beyond this the soup spoon, At the point of these set. the tumbler and individual butter plate. Mats, tablespoons, salt-cellars and pepp ¢ruets may be arranged to suit one’s own taste, Banish the heavy caster from the center of the table and put there instead a vace of flowers, if it be nothing more ambitious than some bits of ivy or evergreen, brightened by a spray of Pit- teraweet, t the carver’s place spread a white napkin, the point towurds the middle of the table, to protect the clot from splashes of gravy. Let the soup be served by the mistress and eaten with no accompaniment except a piece of dry bread held in the hand. Battering it is only less vulgar than thickening the con- tents of the plate with crumbs. When this course has been removed the meat and vege- tablesmay be placed on the table. It there is salad it should be wervod separately, in a course ry itself. ‘The heavy part of the dinner eaten, the maid should be summoned and should commence the clearing of the table by carrying out, first the Meat, then the dishes of vegetables and after that plates and butter plates, placing one on top of the other, and using atray to transfer everything except the large permit her to go through scraping the contents of one plate {nto another with @ clatter of knives and forks and then bearing off the whole pile at once. ‘Two plates ato time are enough for one load, Next aiter the soiled dishes have taken off mats, salt- cellars and other table furniture but tumblers, latters. Do not le operation of Fater-bottle or pitcher, napkin rings and bowl, and then have’ the crumb brush and tray'used. ‘The dessert is then served, and except at & ceremonious dinner, the tea or coffee, which should never appear ¢arlier in the action, and the work of walling is done. When one realizes the exceeding simplicity of this much-dreaded branch of do. mestic service it seems incomprehensible that in so many familits dainty waiting should be unknown. Iam well aware that the question ofserving Is generally the sticking point. “It ia yery hard sometimes tmporsible—for the mis. tress with but one maid of all work to demand that that one shall be a practiced waitress, It is much easier to have the food jumbled on the table in a helter-skelter fashion than to run the tisk of making troubie by insisting that itshall be served in courses. But the matter Is not so difficult, after all, if the servant understands, from the beginning that this will be required ot rr. +e. Lyries of Culture. From the Boston Courier, THE SECRET OF SUCCEss, Now comes the toothsome oyster stew ‘To cheer the youth and maid, And, better, thére is coming too, een wag ana a cite weet ioie ins to rise, 5 ont wil Sait ey bag ‘To advertise. a SEPTEMBER. . 1. September, month of glorions days paint ghitn o cook atid clear, inspirer of the poet's lays, ‘Oboe mote thau'rt here n. ‘Thou bringest biessings tn thy train pyrite the arehras pend ¢ earth iy fait, and ‘neat ‘The dog days end.» MY relgm mr. ‘Thou searest fel diseaso NE tirentig theapples fo more the cramp or cholera, “Phe small boy grapples. eae A WORD OF wisDOM. “Sosa ress an ‘The Thomas cat pew slags tes on the When night creeds the iden day, “aft i . til he splita the listening ear of might, thrown open and faces grim d then he ry ‘PPaay anid then he taken sudden Aight, pacanepples eho ‘TRE BARBED WIRE FENCE From the Boston Saturday Rvening Gazette. mou! happy days of yonth, ‘ow gone raver bens . ‘When he could sit and ttle sticks Bat’now, Blas! he catinot thus Foe fate tage Hath fendered yall that Joy. GTON, D.C., SATURD AY, lis | is i I I IN | ik suffering as I was, a guffering as 1 was,and {am sure ‘oan be: preacribed dose : or eat OPO a. tay TILES MANN, Noda ivy oe For sale by all droggista, ‘Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. ‘THESWIFT SPECIFIC OO. N.Y.,.157 W. 284 st, Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga, ia We Anz Recavine FALL OVERCOATS AT PRICES $7 TO $25. BLACK CLOTH FROCK COATS AND VESTS, DOESKIN CASSIMERE PANTALOONS. DIAGONAL PRINCH ALBERT AND FOUR- BUTTON CUTAWAY SUITS, BUSINESS SUITS, IN SACKS AND CUTAWAYS. NEAT STYLES CASSIMERE PANTALOONS, IN HAIR LINES, MIXTURES, AND DIAGO- NAIs, BOYS’ SCHOOL, DRESS AND PLAY SUITS, TOGETHER WITH A FULL LINE OF GENTS FURNISHINGS, ALL AT OUR USUAL LOW PRICES, NOAH WALKER & CO, seT 625 Pennsylvania Avenue. Lov Bazan 4 PURE MALT EXTRACT, Possesses tho highest morit, Tt is manufactured from the choicest materiain, and combines the most pale fable quallies of « refreshing drink: with the mvigor. ating and wholesome properties of ihe best Malt tax acts. It w a true tonic and delightful beveraze. alike desir. able for invalids and persons in health. - Will be fo ‘Bpon trial to be a pleasant and compleve substitute alcoholic drinks, most of which are too stimUlALng, for delicate constitutions. Is the beverage “Par Fxcellence” for nural mothers, creates an abundance of mill, while Strengthens snd invigorates the entire syaicin. After careful analysis, Wilbur G. Hall, Ph. D., New York, says: “Liquid Bread isa refreshing, nourishing fable 'beveraze, andy wholesome invigorating tonic. Its palatable to the taste, and of easy asstinilation,” Prank Le lames, Ph.D SLD St Louis, alter analy- sis, says: “Its low perceritage of alcohol, iis eflerves Cotice, ts delightful taste and odor, all combine to Fe: commend Nicholson's Malt Extract as being @ most Bourishing beverage, and the best article of se Hors that has ever come under my examination.” Sold by all leading Grocers and Druggists, DAVID NICHOLSON, Prop’r, ST, LOUIS ‘At wholesale by WM MUEHLEISEN, yi 918 OTH ST., WASHINGTON. Wx. H. Rees, ‘717 MARKET SPACE. GRAND OPENING OF FALL BOOTS AND SHOES. Cut this out and show it to your friends, and con- ‘Vince them that in addition to our complete line of Ladles’ and Gent's Fine Boots and Shoes, we have the best line of Medinm Grade Goods ever offered to the ‘Washington public: $2.00. -<flenuine Oar. Kid Box Toe. ure, Gel Any J. C, BENNETT & BARNARD'S Fine Hand-made Boots and Slippers. Gent's Good Style. “Splendid Three styles jenuine Calf and Seam| ‘every Pair Warranted, extra fine Calf, Button. = ngress, Broad or Narrow os, Hand Welt (our specialty), dal in Style and Fit to Any For School Shoes it will pay you to come and see us, ‘We have combined good looks, quality and low prices together. Large lineof Children’s and Mieses Spring Heels. We make a Genuine Handsewed Ladies’ Kangaroo or Kid to order for $5. WM. H. RICH. ‘717 Market Space. No Branch Stores, sed SGRLITZS MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER. THE BEST IN THE DISTRICT. 48K FOR IT. SAM'L C. PALMER, Acre, Deror: 1224 29th Street Northwest. ‘Telephone. 454. jes Dr Hemstxys EXTRACT oF oo Pt ge eR. Y GELLER ¥. he ps _ el Bae EE FP AND t RR 0% ERA! bee 83 AL & MOST EFFECTIVE COMBINATION. (CELERY—The New and Unequal Nerve Tonic, BEEF—The most Nutritive and Strength-giving WIEN ONLY. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. PIANOS AND ORGANS. a eo ‘Stx Shirts to order for_————-§ @.08, ox 8 | ee Oe A FULL LINE OF SUMMER UNDERWEAR, OBl> LARS, CUFFS, HOSIERY AND NECK- WEAR AT TRE LOWEST PRICES COLLARS AND CUFFS LAUNDRIED Sa ext p= ‘Sieccorse | 2927 &.R ELUFRY. SF KUmWs, 407 100 areee RAILROADS. EJ, Lockwoon, PIANO FORTES, UNEQUALED In ‘TONE TOUCH. WORK pean 1 ae (HE VIRGINIA MIDLAND RalLWa¥. Ses enons name rife cours axpeovm> tm oET. 3 200.4 MONCH UIs Matte ant ee Seg feictmond and Alleghany Ralirsed. 1115. A. MNEW ORLEANS Past MAIL @aliyy tanking close connection Roath and Boutin Deoting at Lynchburg with No and W. i Te cavept Sunday, with Cand. Kaflway, Sars trom ‘New York and W ‘Auasta. Pullman. Sleeping care trom We ington to New OF tinh Parlor care ftom Washington to Whisewalpeat Pod ot SECONDHAND PIANOS AT LL PRICES, FROM $50 UPWAED DOCUMENTS, PIANOS FOR RENE ‘fome Of them Rare snd Valuable, inciuding Clarence King’s Reports, War Department Orders, &0. ‘To be sold at my Pompe clemgen ine pm street and Pennsylvania at ‘Washington, MONDAY SEPTEMBER FOUR ‘TEENTH, 1886, at HALS-PAST SEVEN OCLOCK, WM. KNABE & 00, $17 MARKET sPace . —. sae M.—LAa (LLE PAST LINE, oat eM —LOURVILLE Past LINE, slow! Western Point pleeping Car, Washing- Soa Swe OVER 86,000 NOW IN USE. 1du0?. SOUTHERN MATL AND unable to a can Lona Pr st 2 ders executed by the Auctioneer. set A toronghly firsiclam and reliable plane at ©] Daily to.sil points, South and Southwest vie 1HOMAS DOW. ‘Avotioneer, medium price, Gonteeue tc Ata one 00 T — STECK & 00. AND BAUS @ 00. PIANOS. Cars Noutgomery to New Orleans. TROUSER SITUATED. ON SOOT WEST OE | , Tisnee and Organs exchanged, repaired, waned, en from ‘Washington via Charioue and Golambas NER OF THIRTEEN. HALF AMD D | boxed, and for rent. Rent applied if purchased. Matnsene Division Train leave Washington a 465 ® en Nonrawask Deninnd mon complete amorumentofSe, masieta | Weta excege Saaey = 5 ‘ar-euton Trains leave. Washington at 7100) iY ‘HENRY ERFRRACT, diy. ‘except Sunday, 11:15 a mand 545 BP 915 F M20 Masaging Partner of the late firmof Ellis Expres ally bao = sour oom = | Soph Gan pm. bung, Keil, ani, se Ne irene Feet POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. Es mat + special, dali az TEAMER MATTANO LEAVES TTHATREET | ogi<r, gui Fennyrenie soeaue’ Tales eons Bae Qwinart ou Sunday Twendayvand Thurecaye st 7 SSgnahy stat = cre Tiedlaes oe MacDamTEL, reeraing oo Sid Weduendey nod Fring 20 ter! sh, IEAAS, Traite Mankpet Sbarves ot Sundavsand Thursdays town,and Wed Se 8, SE — LAKE GEORGE AND CX CATSKILL MOUNT: Y ALL RAIL AND PARLOR CAR Beedays information apply to Or ar OO", ESSERE, 1110 Pave. am, te G, T. JONRS, Agt., 7th-at whart a LINE TO NORFOLK AND FORTRESS iby Went ‘hore of pickaresque Ht way, by Went She Date use neORHOR Irate dersey City station Of Penusylvaaie STEAMERS GEORGE LEARY AND EXCELSIOR, | follow one ot Waves th rect wharf DALY excupt | 5 arrive sarators, Scnday, a 5:30 p.m. Exclasive eonnecuon with | 2: 7m Meets, Boston and Providence steamers, Secure Uckets aNd to fooms at 1851 and 019 Peanayivania ave. i. Mare ‘Penneyivana aliroad tal Botel and office Knox's Express Oth stand Penusy\- ry Yauigave. who will also check baggage frou hotels oo “Tear, gir Por Aer parccslary 1 at office, 7th street Rage need ‘Terms cash.” JOHN PATCH, Trustee, 506 ® fon awe ni e * ieotneate | wT sone AW. P. WELCH, General Agent. am, Arrive aibgayS 3m a Wi (aetioneer, Ww, TO NORFOLK.-STEAMER LADY oi Rochester 10:65 pene ae jens (oP TNE LAKE, eaven Oth street wharf, Wanh m 1243 am. ASSIGNEE'S SALE, Monday. Wednesday and Saturday, is 9 ey Biche at Cotonint Beach’ ou Relwtinys: going andre mives 4 furning. Fare 50 cents. Telephone call Od Ail Bi farmiogs Potomse aver Landings Steamer “JOHN W- ‘acho. THOMPSON, Sunday, Tuesdays nd Friday, 7 an = las store, includis ‘steam-e1 mill, otter, “and ro tore numbered 383 3 m 7h street ‘northwest, being at the southeast corner of 7th and I streets northwest, in the city of Washington. FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. NEW IRON STEAMER “WAK #FIFLI ne irat-clane a a 2 eal ye wilt besold in front of the sare at | TUPBDAYS, FRIDAYS and BUNDAY pm. touche tor far arene anise i RANDALL HAGNER, C4 _ sf 1218 ‘Trastee and Asigoce, pots aad pastor qur chakra. combi ‘deoe i Norra ede = RECT TO NEW, YORK—FREIGHT BTFAM. | tn'antynnce upon aeplign to achen Patan ae VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE aT FESICHN GUSON and F.C KNIGHT leave | Company, Pennsylvania kallrosd PUBLIC AUCTION IN GEORGETOWN, D.C. Aiy oh Washington avery WEDNESDAY | New Jersey con eNEY, 1QRTURSDAY, SEPTEMBER FIFTRENTH, MORNING. "Preignr at lowest rates. apd | gyta4a15 SerS5o BRonier, 'T. 1885, in front premises, umence, ees TTT ae eae SA Al the hour of FOUH O'CLOCKIP. MI, to sell. th .C TRANSPORTATION LINE HE GREAT. following-deseribed property: Subdivision of ", —— y sg PERNEYLVANIA ROUTE orm, fronting 65 13-100 on the west side of High street. STFAMER Ls THE NORTH, WEST AND between Grace street and the ge nrg) ofertas CAPT. W.C. GQEOGHEGAN, DOUBLE TRACK. SPLENDID four-story Brick House, containing about Foouns, | will resnme the route between BALTIMORE AND 11S MAGNIFICI Pm, 16 23-100 feet on the north side of Grace eat | “kiver Freight received SATURDAYS ONLY, and | ard'iinrsa ar fotos = High, Snrores ya two-ttory-and-basement A be rf use, tals rooms and Kitchen, No Bi, Sabo. feet on the north side of nth Grace strect, improved by a two-story Brick House, (0. 3208, Also Sub.61, fronting 27.52,{mproved by = a must all fretclame, Apply to STEPHENSON BRO., 7th st. whart Office:—12th st, and Pennsylvania mbi-Gm M = VERNON! MT. VERNON! rue house containing 7 Foon, bel 4 Also, Sub, 79, fronting 30.94 feet on the south side eftGrace sitet, In oved bya large Kame ou fo. ning # rooms. fronting about 16 feet on the south side of Grace sirect, being 2, B23 ‘Also, Sub. 56, fronting 18.10 on the south side ot proved uy che Story trade ousss etree tm} _DTHAN PRino, Pe ENERAL TRANSATLANTIC COMPANY Purt of same snb., fronting 18,10,0n third, of ng (a) alley, improved by one Z'story irame. Berwxax New YORK axv Haven ‘Terms: One-third the realdue in three equal | Company’: tier, No. 42 North iver, foot ot Morton payments at 6,12, and 18 months, with notes bearing | street, New York. interest and secured by a deed oftrust on the prop- | N ‘ormandie, ul, Wednesday, Sept. 16,12 a.m. Ganda, de'sermbien, Wednesday, Sepe Us." 2385 an. “Amerique, Santelli, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 9 am. Se'Gednnins Traub, Weduesday. Uae 430 nm. Checks ‘on Sight, in amounts t0 suit, on the Bis temnaeaie etre, Sou ‘Messi L& OO, Agents. for the District of iumbia, 1437 Pennayl = Sv Washington, D. C. Conxany tive NOTICE, LANE ROUTE. $cty pola call caa atthe option of parciiuser “Ge mundred d.Lars deposit on each property at time, fale. All conveyancing and recording et purchaser cont. sea-dte WILL SELL, AT PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Stock of M. SILVER, 715 Market Space, ing WEDNESDAY, "SEPTEMBER NINTH, at BALEPAST TEN AM. ‘The sale will, continue from day ‘Until the large stock of Ladies’ fancy on, mmultnery, floaks and Underwear of alldescrip- lion i disposed of. Ladies are invited to the sate, as the will be positively sold’ without reserve. Poul a ; THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIM CORRSGER® BORE PE AE ROUSHON E | "HESUNARD SUPAMGIUE, COMPANY, AND SIXTH SOUTHWEST, FS ANG AT CORK HARBOR. 725 AM. ana 4n0P.t. By vite of a decree Of tie Mupreme Gourt of FROM PIER 40. N. R- NEW YORK. ‘oncept — —_ the District of Colm Jaly 80th, 1885, For Annapolis, 035 A.M., 1205 an4425 PX daity, In Bquity cause ‘wherein Cath i ‘except Sunday, On 4:00 P.M. Diggins was plaintiffand Bridget Doherty aod others ALIX ANDRA AND PRED HR were defondams, Twill sell at public auction, fh WAY, AND ALEXANDRIA AN) in front of, premises, on, WEDNESDAY: Ey. INGTON RAILROAD. TWENTY< THIRD’ DAY’ OF ‘SEPTEMBER | RATES OF PASS For Alexandria, 6:00, 7:00, 1191, ane A.D. 1885, 7 O'CLOCK P. M., the | ®cording to socomm< ‘ BL. 2505, 4:28 4:45, 6:25, ona that Ft a followi a real éetate, situate in’ the Very low Tales Steerae tickets wand | — A. 2-00, 428, 4:46, 6:25) 6-05, and 12: city of Washington, District of Columbia, to wit: “Ail | ftom Liverpool and GQueeasiown and all other part | »,Sungay M1 6-00,035-1101 AAG BOG EM {hit certain pleco ‘or parcel of land and preinises | Of as towest cates. Gnily, and 4:45 P.M daily. =! Known and ‘20, tbe eastern eleven (11 {als of laden given for Belfast, Ginegow, | araing icuve Alexandria tor washing a feet and two (2) Inches front by the: hereot of | Havre, Antwerp and ports on the Continent, | "G00, 10:10 A.M. uo, 8al, ocho, atlow ned [ot numbered thirteen (19),ta "square Rambered ave | aid for Sed po og 310° dies and 120 Bupdred (600), Finimelmpovemeniaaa” | for Leet Sod panee apniy at the Company's | Oh -Sundarat 200 and 1040 4.2; 706 and Suageewearieda wena ate | Watya ace sonoma | reratia ett cohen payment sect ‘on the prop- areas wate) ner of 1th street ave Serosiigh sluorg meat aue aletoreyasciog | J. Mempguinionigncgtn, | Muni Suet crm me test Sei €c, at the cost ofthe 3 cu PUGH, 5. fa ws RBRIDGE H. WEBB, General Manager. [Je22] General Passenger 450m DUNCANSON BROS. Aucts, =a ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, For Other Auctions See Sth . OLDEST ESTABLIREED Schedule tn effect Shxpay, MAY Sn, 1885, until 52 D Ladies’ Physician in the city, can ‘Leave Washington ‘lauun, corner of New Jen SPECIALTIES. commuted dally, 404 Cat, Det din and th ste ieee | aekshre Nmahington fro Phe thea as oF a aoa | Oticeatwayn em ti F : is Stet aw Rob sie opm BY a RR FARES LADIES | Hsin for tant une. cans ‘and Ulpess, at her nice home, 305, or Clacinuadi, Loutevitie ena St fatty 98 909 BAND MACE. SELD} oar ney eae aves Whete they will have’ the beat of | P.™. nd 10:10 p. m., with thryagh comes nsive experience; remedies a4 a = dence strictly confidential; call or worite cain Nie Temen 60 cents each. 406 L street, Sad ‘th streets northwest, B. Bopremox. THE OLD ESTABLISHED ‘edi ‘Saturday, at oc aw. ei Se facie ak Povteed Pate ces bo of women. th Bair oir ae ae Se cpleatettrr irs areal ter ene ee ae ee feryous and Chrasie sore, 6, U0, 690 win Ta rand Disganme more, e vi “Otice hours to8 pm 10S ach oe, and 13 pam. du 8:80 ry $0 G2osing Lt pan,” Bor Gas Cooxma Srovea exincton, Sisinton and @ally,except Sunday. for eTovEs FoR HATTERS Talon, (CONFECTIONERS, TOTERA a, STOVES YOR PAMILY USE THAT WILL000K mee sen

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