Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1889, Page 9

‘Written for Tux Evewnre Stas. ATTRACTIVE HOMES. on hammock pillows has gone by some sug- gestions may be stored up for another summer. Turkey-red cotton with an all-over pattern in How to Make Some Comfortable Pillows Sons tone belgne ont eee eas be used, but the or yellow linen also with SEL SIZES AND SHAPES ARE ALLOWABLE—SOME i i , are very effective. All OF THE PRETTIEST AND SIMPLEST DESIONS— three ean be readily washed, in fact the is improved by several boilings before it is A Well-Dressed Man Illustrates the | Some of the Popular Styles of the Early A tall, thin man, with a straw hat, unusually large cars and gig-lamps,was strolling along by ‘the railing of the Smithsoman park, é Casco Bar, Mz., August 81, ei WHAT KIXD OF FILLING 18 BEST—THE COVERING | worked. I shall have more to say sometime AND ITS DECORATION—THE CRETAN PATTERNS. {on the excellence of this fabric for many “Ts that Portland?” opposite the markets, yesterday, when he came to = f i i i i The questioner was sitting on the hotel verands,looking across the blue waters of Casco f i} sudden pause before an aged colored person, things. To this already long list may be Pillows and cushions of all kinds form such | added those which I might call an important feature in decoration at the pres- PILLOWS OF “SENTIMENT.” ent time that almost any number can be dis-| The filling and covering of these may be the posed about a house in different places. The | occupation of the summer outing. One may be comfort as well as picturesqueness of many | filled with clover heads, picked in ~ course Pillows scattered about on sofas or in chairs is | of many country walks. These dried are sup- great. All sizes pe pre are allowable. | posed to be ver} soothing to the heed resting on Various, too, are the fillings used, as best suits | them. The silk cover should be embroidered who stood guard over a big basketful of yellow and red vegetables, resembling plums some- i j HI i bay to what seemed some celestial city—white, with scattered clover blossoms, and a motto the maker's taste and pocket book. Probably | ay be interspersed with appropriate wording. all would prefer the Inxurious down to any-/| The pine needles have been use so long that thing else. That takes rank, and as it | the freshness is gone from the idea, but thistle- isnot so expensive an first sent into | down, as airy as some of the summer dreams of ‘Wee almost every one can boast of at least one the gatherer. isa new fancy. With this the thistle biossom is, of course, the proper dec- er two down pillows, Next come feathers | oration for the cover, and the whole would be and down mixed. These are nearly as | a pleasant souvenir for a friend who may have Jight as ail down, with in their favor. Curled ell at first, but mats somewhat ifference | made some of the summer hours iy og sles aad Pleasant. "A holiday reminder of days deli ht i in themselves but gone forever would Many people like it, however, on | very acceptable to most people, the idea using. sceount of its being cooler for the a pretty one. The flowers of thi 8 + te comfort- | are said to have great healing powers for peo- weiberhe willow: but are. probably le troubled with shortness of breath, What, se. There is sufti-| for instance, could be more touching tha: these materials for most | pillow filled with them and presented ai nious and impe- | Christmas gift by a maiden to her asthmatic more used than anything else. erent choice amon people. I heard of some eunious girls, however, w! “show” pillows which seemed unattainable, Inade some and stuffed them wanting some | lover! —_—+e+___—_ excelsior! QUEER WAYS OF RAZORS. anbappy was the They looked well enough, — man who, like the poor private secretary, | Shaving Instruments Discussed from the longed for “repose” and sought it there! Metaphysical Point of View. THE COVEKING. The part of the pillow referring to comfort isposed of the covering may be considered. This is of even more importance to the em- “When I say that a razor hasa good temper,” | said the barbei mean something more than within any set bounds. Dozens of different | razor has a disposition like a human being. It materials or combinations of materials await | mzy be amiable and always do its work One can scarcely select what to describe, he man; ii t de: wasetbas Sones hen ooh enee | while—or it may be sulky half the time and re- | 0d: cushion or nct. One must devote enough | fase to cut properly, even if ¢he beat of tools to it if there is to be a really good and artistic Pesult. To begin, then, with the easiest cov are the pretty effects ob- - ; to do is to humor it. Ther Decietited dace’ ee ee vial ome | drive a razor that doom't want % shave; attractive and durable, wash to look like new when soiled. Among pretty and usefal covers are linens of | smoothly— 7 and vaguely outlined against the misty August sky. In the broad channel that stcetched between the nestling islands lay a fleet of boate with sails outspread, making so unique a picture with green-black firs, sun- filled heavens and shining waters that we all gazed long, touched with wonder and delight. ‘Yes, that is Portlan: loves the beautiful sea city, and the inquirer got out her travel books and began reading up concerning Portland, her harbor and her ‘what in size and appearance. “What are those, pray?” asked he. “‘Deee is pickling tomatoes, sah,” replied the negro, “Tomatoes! Well I declare, I never should have guessed it, We don’t have any tomatoes like those in the north, where I come from. How the folks up in Connecticut would stare if they could see ‘em! The only tomatoes we know about up there are the common round i bf tf ft “Dat's what I said, sah, Watch him nowand | abroad and after seeing the exposition little remains that is within the ordinary run to pay The elderly man was just then examining | for discomfort, This, together with the fact much-decayed banana which he had fished out | that an unprecedented number of persons re- of the refuse pile with a stick. Upon removing | mained at home this season and enjoyed their the skin he seemed to find about one-third of | own comfortable houses, lends an air of occu- it available for his purposes; any way, he broke it in two, threw away the sarger portion and into a greta a e hea] Ag wtton A tomato ” replied one who see what he git.” tomatoes, sal?” “Grape tomatoes! N “Littie tomatoes that grows in bunches like j that grow like cherries on stem: matoes that grow I cannot imagine how more enchantment can be put into a day than by taking the cars s: where on the borders of the ‘‘Dominion’ beyond and traveling some other Casco bay island, seeing in a few crowded hours the marvelous White mountain region, Portland and the se: quick transitions from pha beauty—the mountains giving way to lake and tree-shadowed meadow, tic billows break upon the green outstanding islets, pation to the cities very uncommon at this — — and fills the commercial mind with : ¢ Pleasant anticipations, little Chebeague or that be ccitied, steps further on he foun nd another green one; these he also possessed ‘A really’ good fallen out of a box he gral cealed eagerness, and thereupon gave himsel up to the exhaustive investigation of « barrel, the contents of which had survived the period of ordinary usefulness. From this last source he added a number of second-hand edibles to his store, including two exceedingly dubious t had been plucked flower over age and another tomato with a bite taken out of its good side, Evidently he was well known to the peddlers on the pavement near by, for they watched him with the is id hurled at him laug! id not the slightest attention. i, you, Massa Gutter-Sniper!” called out one fat old colored woman with ber head done up ina bandanna turban. ‘Is yo’ gittin’ er pooty good libbin’ dese tim: ‘ibs on de fatob de lan'—yah, yah!” langhed a picturesque darkey in a check jumper. who will bring us the dress sensations for “Nary one, nor heard of them nuther, Are all good to eat?” ‘hey's not much fer eatin’, sab; but make werful good pickles. Nebber see none of ‘em in a pickle jar?” “Not to know 'em, any way. I notice the fel- low that keeps shop next to you has a basketful bristian sort of tomatoes I'm used to.” (es, sah. Dem's berry good eatin’; and fer makin’ wine most ‘speci “Wine! Come now, you're stuffing me, Whi ever heard of making wine out of toma- “Fac, sah. Tomatoes makes berry nice wine. b people in dis part ob de country put it ; You squoze all de juice out stand it away to famment, d it’s ready to drink,” “I want to know! Guess I'll have ter spring that on the folks when I suggest that perhaps we'd mato ketchup in the shape of wine this year. It is a journey of to phase of world ball and dinner and will not return till October, t bor has emptied itself of its tide of seekers, Newport of its cottagers and derers are at home book for the p below which the Atlan- in ready with check for another cam- A CHARMING CITY, Portland is introduced to the traveler by means of one of the finest railway stations in the United States, Granite, marble, slate, oak, French plate-glass, have been combined in a magnificent structure whose interior arrange- ments present the ultimate of convenience and comfort, Once out of the station you seo, if it late August days such that the steel has been hardened by fire and| asx we are now delighting in, a city of elm- broiderer. Here the choice is not confined | Water to just the right point. In my opinion a | bordered streets, house close-clipped tu flowers, its balconies an: hough I never did see arazor yet | gardens wound and linked with vines, PRELIMINARY AUTUMN STYLES, In the meantime there is the usual announce- ments of preliminary autumn styles. Was there ever a year when Scotch plaids were not not announced that it year, and when we did not, after all, fall back upon plain cloth as the laided wools are always us and velvet also, Will the majority of women learn anything from the prese and comparative simplicity of their dress? is a question that has its on the future, never realized the folly, hes, an ear of corn maturely, half of a heralded, when it wi was to be a “velvet” terest of recogni- be one of the sparklin, of de vegetubble a A De: bottl many of them in the | D°% YOu bottle 1 ago, each with ite lawn of arden brilliant with verandas and window : Now, Nellie, you've taken my rubber again.” it home and kinder No, Susie dear, I haven't seen your rubber, but you have my pencil, I'm sare.” better have our to- ven the indecency, of ied back, and unnaturally said an ‘intelligent woman deal on | that wasn't subject to off-spells once in a | will tind presently that everybody knows every- | when ina good humor, And what you've got you'll only put yourself out, maybe cut| the customer, and make the razor 80 angry that it won't work again for goodness Secu a of fineness. These are em-| knows how long. The thing to do is to put with silk or linen floases, both being it right away in a drawer, without disputing pretty in effect. White upon white | tie matter, and give it a rest, Take it out and still is, a favorite combination. is dainty to look at, and serviceable on account of qualities. A white li droidered in an all-over linen floss and edged with fine its laundering | Possible. , With white again at the end of a week, and, ten to one, it | yet 80) will be in prime condition and as willing as There wasacollege professor in here one day not long ago who stuffed me with what he called a scientific explanation of razors’ fits. illow, em- torchon lace, | He said that if 1 would look at the edge of a may be seen in one of the fashionable drawing Fooms here in Washington. It is very simple, | flosses are used. Satin sheeting makes a very handsome cor for pillows and many are ‘the ways in which it can be decorated. Plush applied in flower forma, with the cealed with gold thread and tendrils of gol: thread interlacing in all directions,gives a beau- tiful effect. Another way of treatin, it is to em- broider the flowers in feather stitc! through a microscope I would see that it | ike a cross-cut saw, with tecth Reoteot- ing on either side. By use these teeth were | bent out of shape; but, if the razor was put | away for a while the teeth would get back into | adjustment again and the tool would once , more appear sharp. Of course, that all soun very weil, but I stick tomy theory just the same. | And I ought to know, for I've seen more razors, and handied ‘em, than that bald-headed old professor ever dreamed of.” with rope A CASK. IN POINT. con- silk and the tendrils in stem stitch, adding “Itseems to me,” said Tar Star reporter,upon ttle gold thread if desired. A newer fancy is | whom the tonsorial artist was operating, ‘that make use of the rings crocheted around ie, which can be bought now. These are | t#€ Tazor you are using upon me at this mo- groupings | ment must be suffering from no small degree ad Se cee ae ae retains groupings | Cf irritation on some account or other, judging fean easy method, and in two tones of brown | by, the way it hurts, or terra cotta the result is really pretty. The barber paused for a moment in the The bolton sheeting squares, to be found at | 8T# i performance, and extending one | the shops with the patterns stamped and dyed, thumb drew the edge of the blade slowly acrose | a while ago, | te nailin a manner that sent » cold shiver by the score. are to be | down the newspaper man’s backbone. avoided ‘by one who cares for anything like A GOOD RAZOR, BUT— were an epidemic in fancy w These originality in her work. A PRETTY CUSHION. A sofa cushion was seen at an art exchange which had this same material for a foundation, but with an entirely different and beautiful | “It's sharp enough,” he remarked, “but I'll try another. Perhaps this razor did not like you. You see, there’s no doubt of the fact that | razors have their personal preferences. The blade that will shave one customer toa charm effect. The design was drawn by the worker | won't shave another. Of course, a difference iginally stamped at a| in the toughness and thickness of the beard it from a vine | makes a diiference in the sort of razor required; into a conventional square suitable for a cush-| but I am not speaking of that at all. Ifa herself from a ion. This pattern she had colored with — razor doesn’t happen to like you it wont shave try dyes in emg | — of terra cotta pink, experime! and combining se Ore to get the shade desired. The you well under any circumstances. Now, you ‘veral col- | observe, the razor I am using at mt background | takes to you first rate. I bought it off a man was first worked in honey-comb stitch with | whom it didn't like for fifty cents. It’s a good white rope silk, and then the pattern outlined | one, and, though I should hate to part wit! it, with four strands of goid thread. Asa finish ht let it go to you, sir, for $5, I four-inch band of terra cotta plush, put on | handle’s broken, but you could easy have \d thread couching on the inner edge, | another put on, and it wouldn't cost so much. the embroidered center. The pillow | Did you say ‘tonic’? Your hair's getting a was lined with India silk of the same pinkish | trifle thin on top.” color. This is all in the power of any worker| “Thanks, no,” roplied the customer. ef moderate skill to do. There are always Deautiful cushions to be bought at art societi Lap tapmpel eng ssp? perme of the expensive kinds, doue by traincd cm-| “T've been thirty years in the business,” went broiderers. My aim, however, in these articles | on the barber, accompanying his words with a is to suggest to home workers articles that can plished by smaller outlay, except of thought. THE S0-CALLED CRETAN PATTERNS brief shampoo, ‘and what I don’t know about the ways of razors isn’t worth knowing. There was something the professor I was speakin, about told me, however, that I hadn't hear: are excellent to use for pillowa. These consist | before, though I don’t guarantee that it’s cor- of a conventional figure as center, usually sug- | rect, mind you. What he said was tha’ the gesting a flower or group of flowers. These | Cdge of @ cold razor, seen.through'a micro- have radiating from them innumerable tendrils, | S°PC; 85 @ wary lin but, when the blade lunged into hot water, the steel expanded carling in every direction, but keeping within | 4 "he Cage wes made sdemight fy i aight, like string erect to be the sbive of the canes; *hich-| drawn taut, and that was the reason why it was introduced, adding to | * good thing in cold weather to dip your razor ever is to oe sha| and there leaves may the effect. Such @ design may be used on | into hot water, so as to make sha: ig easier, as . "ger f course it would be with a straight edge than almost any material. It may be done in simple | outline or with the figuros worked with a solid | "it! # crooked one. edge and lace stitches put in here and there. SELECTING A RAZOR, or it may be It'sa funny thing about a razor that buying ttern may be left uncolored with tapestry dyes. The tendrils may . with one is alwaysa perfect gamble, even for an Bed than, with compared tans catside, | expert. A first-rate blade is an accident, and If one will try | often a 50 cent razor will be better than such designs for herself success will | another for $2. You see, razors have to be thas, with com handsome pillow may TRE SIMPLEST war hand-made from beginning to end, and the most skillful workman can’t be sure of getting to begin is with the largest dower for the center; | ¥° just alike. It is in the ‘temper-drawing from this make waving lines toeach corner, aug: | Proves! that the quality of the razor is deter- mined, Laid upon a plate of hot sand, the gesting branches. Leaves and tendrils, as well | blade changes gradually from a light yellow to #s more flowers, can be added at will, with this | « dark straw color, and it is by this color that the workman must judge of the degree of tem- et all quite an expertness may soon be ac-| per. If it is a shade too light the steel will be such designs, which can be | too soft; if a shade too dark, it will be too 7 things benidee pillows. They | hard and will crumble. So it happens that are suited to almost all fabrics. Velveteen, | razors of the same brand always vary, and a i @r the cotton bolton sheeting are ali | really fine one is a prize. TELLING RY THE HOXE, cellent material for embroidery 40 not soil ate Maro nae ccc ee goes to buy with any certainty unless he given an opportunity to try it on a hone. In tive and durabl. th that case, if he is an expert, he can judge. Sascad dest aot Seen fer oer ens | ninety per canter ale tine oret Oe Will stand much use and still look well. Since ere ee Regent, Rotgh Geolace ‘the stores sell it at such alow here put their own names on them. I should rice it is also | advise any man who shaves himself to have a ms for embroid- | razor for each day in the week. Then no one e way to Use it is to couch it down | of the seven will ever get ti and if they ellow sewing silk or @ single thread of So eee yar it will be enough. imexpensive mate: le. To couch two threads at once gives | The chief trouble wit! ® much more brilliant effect than to use one. | that thev don't know how strop their razors, very pretty | If they would get some one that knew how to them that, and always have their iather thread, with the outside row pro- thick and rub it in well, they would be saved a Ey — Great deal of distress. Next” are ait pare SILK WITHOUT WORMS. walanecaaa The Important Discovery of a Great FETE Het i : i z 4 & Ls H E | in) I French Savant. From the New York Sun. M. de Carbonnet, a French savant, has dis- covered how to make silk without worms. He silk was the result of the spinning of a liquid. After many months of repeated and unsuccess- ful trials he produced several yards of silk in this wise: He poured « collodiea solution into copper receiver which emptied into a system of small glass tubes. These tubes terminated which the | : | | (3 E & f 7 ! : i a: f i E 5 i i f } i E i i F i had nif brad abe fH tid li i tal il i i st one | Beiscanet' alt im ‘silk and cuuabrio | Stier more aria | cs PICKLING TOMATOES. A pickle manufacturer in the market said to @ Strap reporter, who had been so ill-bred as to listen to the above conversation, that the pick- ling tomatoes in question were, of course, the ordinary egg tomatoes, which are not known at allfarther north. No New Englander could ever guess what they were; he wouldas quickly suppose them beets us tomatoes, toes and other distinctive varieties familiar hereabout, though unknown in latitudes but little north of this, were chiefly used for pickles, the pickle man averred, He thought they were indigenous to the soil of Virginia and Maryland, growing wild in many places, and that they were not an imported vegetable from indeed I have « pencil of my own, I thank “Youse all wrong, nigger zled old fellow with watermelons, man keeps a bo’din’ house for whit dis am de way he gits his perwisions *stablishment.” A continuous fire of this sort of badinage was all along the line of venders on the sidewalk, but its object continued to pursue his scavengerlike occupation without seeming At the corner of a sewer rat that had been ," joined in a griz- 1 since we have returned to straight skirts, and now I dread every “But why revive them?” asked the friend whom she addr 5 y they will never revive. I will never again lend myself to such mountebank dis; effort to accentuate that whic! is now a possibility of independence in quiet way, without assuming anything that is outre, and there should be enough of good sense among women to make a stand for a san- itary, comfortable style of dress, varied in de- tail as they choose so long as it does not in- fringe the laws of health and decency.” y else worth knowing; that rents are on the lage; that the streets run {down to the sea in the most fascinating you. “And my blotter’s gone, too.” three times around the office looking for it, goes ont and asks the elevator boy if he saw it, comes back and finds it on her desk.) “Lend me your watch key.” “Oh, dear, it won't begin to fit, and I left Island this year?” to go. Beil I no use trying to | and western promenade, where glorious pros- ects come into view; that its suburbs are eaten by great breakers and that ite harbor is protected by the most beautiful islands in the world. You shall see Longfellow square, with its bronze statue of the poet upon its granite pedestal, and the old brick “fore door” opened by knocker and latch, where Longfellow spent many rene and honored life. the memory of Portland's soldiers und sailors is being built in Congress square, which will, when finished, add much to the attractive ap- pearance of the city, In Portland harbor lie three picturesque old forts; just beyond her gates sparkles Sebago Jake,and Old Orchard beach, with its miles u miles of drive and promenade, is but the excursion in your carria; “Deering’s woods,” celebrated in Longfello’ are now one of the city's parks, and Cape Elizabeth and Falmouth Fore- side stretch away on either side bright sea-wet skirts of the high-lying city. THE ISLANDS OF CASCO BAY are @ continual surprise. One may live snm- mer after summer on their wooded heights or green slopes and the last day of the last sea- son will bring some fresh delight. As, for in- stance, yesterday my attention was caught by a oup of thorn bushes arranged in a circle, aving a central space over which a woodbine, half of which had already turned to a brilliant searlet, had thrown its leafy festoons. This pretty arbor stood on the very edge of a bold cliff where the tide came running in with its So in other spots may be seen agreat green oak casting its shade over the transparent waters of a to hear a word of it. culvert he came across a dead run over by a wagon; but he sim his stick, shook his head slighly on to pick up a highly-impossil some offal in the mi mine at home.” “Have you been to Cone don't think it a pice p! don't mind going with a good crowd of your “Did you read that awful story in the paper abont Jack the Ripper?” jan't he just too dreadful for anything?” they can ever kill people with ” % ! ‘dont know, but it makes « lovely light, And so on, till lunch time. “Oh, Nellie, did rears of his se- A noble monument to eet the reads” Tasca: porter, for curiosity’s sake, ventured to ap- proach and address to him a question which often best serves to smooth over an introduc- “Make it whisky,” plied, “and I'll go you?” The amendment was agreed to and the two entered asaloon near by, where big drink: rtised at such moderate rate: luxury of intoxication within easy of the most exiguously citcumstanced. “Cooking or eating whisky?” said the bar- tender to the scavenger man, politely, when the latter had nominated that beverage as the especial poison he desired. “It don’t matter which,so long as you haven’t got any that’s good to drink,” responded the grubber after stale vegetables, with graceful poured out for himself a liberal tumblerful of the fusil-oil-laden fire- ter, fresh from the still, and poured it down P- “I approve of whisky,” he sai whisky is a vegetable product. All things veg- etable are good for man. Nature intends that human beings shall feed on vegetables and not | QUESTIONS OF BEALTH, It is a hopeful sign that medical authorities are beginning to speak out on questions that affect the strength and life of children through .d the experience of open air and is reacting upon patients, and most of all upon women, It is not necessary to health and sound con- stitutions to wear flannel, but if fannel is worn it ought to cover the body evenly, and not be N put on and taken off recklessly to accommodate | used. whims and party costumes. for women is of very recent date. Fifty years ago it was not woven, and there are women still living who have’ never worn it who have lived to great age, who have reared ilies, who have worked very hard an succumbed to sickness, and yet been very in- —- clothed, according to our ideas of OTHER PICKLES AND HOW THEY ARE PREPARED. Apart from tomatoes, the pickle manufac- turer said, the staple vegetables for pickling were the small green cucumber—that the chiefest of all—the cauliflower, th onion, the green pepper and the red cab- bage. Then there was also the “martino,” which looks in « pickle like a pickled mouse wi! whole principle of pickling appears to be first a soak in salt and water and then a soak in First take your pepper, for example, and disembowel it, aa it were; in ‘other words, Then fill it with a mix- ture, previously prepared, of chopped-up cab- bage, pickled cncumbers, beans, tomatoes and spiced onions. Then tie it up and let it lie one night in brine strong enough to float an egg. The next morning put it in vinegar and let it remain there for ten days, at the end of which it will be as good a pickled pepper as Peter Piper himself ever picked. Some vegetables require for pickling a longer time in the brine. than others, An onion, for instance, ought to have six months. This is the general plan ickles are turned out for the urg isa great place for manu- the scavenger-man re- tance of a mornit you get an extra toothpick? My Lost Youth, ‘0, but I've got a hairpin that's never been most temptingly ‘oolen underwear a long tail. The notice that stylish dress at lunch?” “Did you think cy was stylish? Well, sorry for ix taste. “Now, I thought the as jow ia your broter soc ew take out the inside, ou hear that Fannie at dude over in the es, and I think the dude is to be pitied.” my rubber's gone aguin.” haven't got it, that repartee, Then he Radway was to marry Grand street store?” RECKLESS CHANGES. But these women were inured to hard lives, hard work and hardliving. Theirclothing did not vary in warmth or protective quality. was not wool and fur in the morning and tulle and lace at night. It was not a woven wool garment covering the body on rising, under a ded gown, and this thr. silk vest at night, under a Jeaves arms and shoulders bare. It is the reck- less changes and contrasts which injure the health, especially of those who lead hot house mething husgot to be done,” said a leading physician not long since, “or we shall have no next generation, except that comes to us from Ireland and Germany.” TRE PROBLEM OF THE STEEL AND TRE PAD. which will assail the pay wish some of the geutiemen would close indows. That draug! gna five minutes and then closes dieu ‘What time is it?” ‘Just ten minutes of 4.” “Well, let us go home, I'm just too tired for on meat. Vegetables are much chea tas just too drewd- serging waves, meat, also, and that is likewise an Iget my vegetabl my diet, very che: them for nothing. You have seen how I do it. Lam impelled to practice this method of pick- ing up a livelihood not merely by a motive of economy but also to teach a valuable lesson by example. By instinct I am opposed ta| raste is vulgar; it is I will discourage it in so far asIam able by the expression of my disapproval. Not a day that I do not afford a valuable lesson in to the hucksters about the ow away enough every twenty-four hours to support one hundred yed they chuck it into the tomato exhibits symptoms of incipient decom- to the offal heap, and so wit This isan abuse of bounty, which I do my best to rebuke basket, gathering the best of ejected and making the results luxurious meals per day.” ticed that you did not pick up the dead man, t I was too proud.” the ecavenger, hastily. “Pray do not think me guilty of entertaining 80 false a senti- ment. But the rat, though good to eat, is not 8 vegetable, and for that reason did not find iking has made me vei have another drop of the corn Yours to command. and fruit. which compose wn aside for a low fact, I procure ne i market. Pitts! en bodice which facturing them. —_—_--—__ WHAT YOU LIKE FOR A PENNY. Boomaladdies, Baseballers, Toys, Can- dies, Fireworks, Groceries, Etc. a plunge as one’s own chamber—broad shelves, lichen- | embroidered and bay! golden-rod stalks like tightful couches on which to read or dream or From the rooms in the hotel one looks across green island-points to that ever-beauti- ful sight—the far sea line, where ships seem to ‘Between are ragged lines of dazzling foam, and in the near foreground, in absolute contrast, lies our fair green meadow with its grazing cow; busily changing. by cow alchemy, tufts of lusl clover into cream for our coffee and desserts, DOWN THR BAY lie still other islands and Harpswell Neck, by which one can journey by carriage road to Brunswick and Bath and anywhere elsé, as to that, stretches far into the sea and is the most distant point reached by the Casco bay steamers, W. F. Burts. aL 4 tufted, lighted with Now and then one of the young men «nw- candles, making de- ed in the office is found dead im bad taste, and | the coroner always attributes it to apo- aw — Couldn’t Collect It. From the Lawrence American, Tradesman (giving note to collector)—°T should like to have you coliect this.” Collector (reading it p— sight to John Smith the sum of $50, value r.- ceived. Signed, Thomas Brown.’ here, Mr. Smith, you've beeu cheated —I can't collect on this, ‘Tradesman. There was a kind-looking old woman seated on a little three-legged stool at the door of the small shop, rapidly plying an indeterminate number of knitting needles, as a diminutive boy in knickerbockers rushed breathlessly up and shouted: “Got any Buffalo Bills?” “No,” replied the proprietress of the estab- lishment, calmly, “but ['ve got boomaladdies and baseballers.” The youthful customer looked disappointed. “No,” he said gravely, ‘‘those won't do, I'm sorry, for I wanted the Buffalo Bills very much. But you may give me a top and string and one One of the difficnl fashionable dressmaker when her clientele pears is what can be done with last winter's gowns. There is always a certain amount of making over every season and the modiste usually suggests in what way handsome left- overs can be turned toaccount. But steels and nt many difficulties, The first in- © fabric, the last “take up” the mate- rial, so that greater le: is required, and this must be disposed of. If women are wise the: will get rid of the obnoxious for the topof the As & Su; to the habit bodies of teen mee It nd tains the fluted folds in which the back of the skirt now bangs and is Peete nomge pos while it ir grace or om movement and is ‘not in the least burdensome, NO FLOUNCES AND RUFFLES. Fortunately there is no movement toward the restoration of flounces or ruffles, or those addenda which make a woman's life more of a burden than it need be, and which are not in the least beautiful, only receptacles for dust and a costly way of destroying the long, aines which a woman's dress should naturally form. If flouncing or ruffies are used at all it ought not to be cut off the length b: them round the skirt of a dress, but fo: nally in wave-like lines, that would follow the motions of the figure and blend with its move- and therapeutical hypnotism, which has just | ments. There is a tendency in this direction closed in Paris, an important subject discussed | 20 was the relation of suggestion and eomnambu- lism to medical jurisprudence and the respon- sibility in hypnotic states. This report was read by M. Liegeois, professor of law at the faculty of Nancy. The author classed the aif- | black and white will be used this season—white ined under four | in very rich materials for evening wear and principal heads: 1, criminal suggestion; 2,| black for more useful purposes, The reason medico-legal reports; 8, criminal jurisprudence; | for this is the utter hopelesmess 4, various questions. The first, the most | those who can afford to employ great artists important of the medico-legal questions raised | their costumes reaching by hypnotism is, he said, the suggestions of ~~ crimes or other felonious acts that can be made | the to persons in a somnambulic state. Dr. Lie-| ferent. The plain old pii blue and corn-col- bault of Nancy was the first who signaled the | ored silks bave disaj ‘gestions page not a color, an ussed litical sci- | Ww it is preserv: wats made, that | There is no difficulty about all black. Itiss various means a | Mere qu silk sail into the mist; dicious econom: reefs, marked by market, who +L promise to pay at Srerytniog clear stick and mark —___—_ CRABS’ ARMS AND LEGS. Their Power of Voluntary Amputation ious Old Gentleman. ntleman, with a blue cotton umbrella under his arm and goggles to match, stopped at a Washington fish stand yes- terday afternoon and attentively examined a lot of healthy crabs, evidently just out of the scrambling about in a shal- low box with the crackling noise peculiar to this interesting crustacean under such circum- stances, Selecting for particular notice the biggest of them all, the aged person deliber- ately began to tickle it with his forefinger nail on the second joint of the left large claw, tak- The old woman gathered up her work and went back into the shop, where, from behind the counter, she handed out successively a top, a A SAFE GOLD INVESTMENT. SHARES NOW EALNING DIVIDENDS. Present price, $3.75 per share. Soon to be advanced 85. Stock non-sesessable. No pervonsl lighility to OCTOBER DIVIDEND 50 CENTS PER SHARE. THE SAN MIGUEL GOLD PLACERS COMPANY, No Bonded Indebtedness, JAMES GILFILLAN, Treasurer. (Ex-Treasurer of the United States.) Competent experts estimate the gold values in prop erty of the company at FIVE-SIXTHS of which will be received by stock- bolders Utilized by an In, A funny looking old ‘ing with a wooden button on the end jiece of candy. these articles the small boy released three co} grimy paw; then ith the piece of candy, pickde up the top and string and gleefully In payment for juice. Ah! That's not so bad. from an unusuall; going; trust we'll meet again. tended one cheek water, which wei HYPNOTISM AND CRIME. An Suteresting Question as to the Re- sponsibility of Mesmeric Subjects. At the international congress of experimental “fhe pennies of the children pretty much this store,” said the old woman with a smile, in response to question from & STAR reporter who had come in just after the boy. “We try to have everything in stock thi little people can possibly want to buy, and there's not much that’s lacking, as you can see k around the shop fully bore out the as- sertion, for every shelf andcounter was heaped shandise of the most astonishi: varied description. Nothing that coul bought for a penny seemed al a fairly endless confusion of kites of the cheap sort that never actually fly, popcorn of uncer- tain age, torpedoes. whistles, flags, candies of all sorts, nuts, zels, honey cakes, wooden — mot oranges, apples, pic! girls; everything imaginab! that gives inexpensive in the way of toys and the use of lace, and it comes to us from e Vienese, who are always jue in their employment dress, ing care at the same time to avoid being seized JAMES GILFILLAN, Treasurer, of the accessories 41 apd 43 Wall st., New York, ‘NO, W. CORSON. JRO. E by the rather formidable nippers. This he continued for a few seconds, when the claw suddenly dropped off and the animal scram- bled away for a short distance, out of reach, while the old gentleman coolly picked up the abandoned member and put it in his poc! Then he stepped around to the other side of the box and began to tickle as before on the other claw; presently that fell off likewise and was looked as omg the oli to repeat the opera’ but ie was cut short Ted eran e 0} man from pee appearanc the latter inquired. the slightoet dovoes or embarassment the aged stranger wav ‘ietor with his um- BLACK AND WHITE, mt, There was There is every evidence that a great deal of Ero, ten for a cent; | ferent questions to be e CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. ¥. Ww, ‘Bankers and Dealers in Government Bunda, the same crab just jointed and other . rit on sticks, trum] ptly pocketed. It gentleman was going ition on others of the | Summer one may wear @ white cotton gown in crabs, gern by the unex- anda dark blue be dressed, but in rt, iness to early youth ibles, More costly too, such as five-cent base japted to the ex- fantile capitalists, “But I see none of the boomaladdies which you said were in stock,” remarked the newsps; man, after surveying the sale. “Pray, what The old woman from it several lon; on which were tri “Boomaladdies are plained the old woman. cut them out and pas! feet on little wooden b: 4 % balls, paper-cap “What yer doin acting demands Without exhibi Spore et ee has since of moral and It results from e: with certain subjects and EPTEMBER AT Sagenons. ATLANTIC. a e®- Gi e's HOME, oa Open ail the year ods displayed ® drawer and took ips of thick white “My worthy friend,” he cea Paes dhe forming an experiment o' je utmost treatment. ‘be persed illustrative of a curious physical func- sugges- Dest part of. the de. reg tris ee beginners at shaving is | P¢F wer for # foot rest. ballers, too, in the same way. If | catcher and pitcher and : gE black silk has obtained upon the feminine mind; the traditions of itseem to be handed down Z 4F 4 es es a member by @ le goes awa’ without it. oe 8 ig tf Sa yuickly as ives tows ‘othervise, , it will exert the | Th necessary and, limb, off rejoicing. the fsiman. good man,” went i s & ‘5 E Be se f E A 5 ii J F = ee i Fs € i : ! ef ut i F E i HT 2 | 2 ° a a Se a Z i gee t a ag EB iF ei E g g i at ra eg i