Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1892, Page 8

WOMAN A the Summer Girl. THE MARVELOUS CAPOTE. A Most Important Part of a Woman's Tollet— The Hat an Indicator of Character—Head- gear for Different Occasions—The Simple Sailor and the Wonderful French Bonnet. Bpecia! Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yonx, July 22, 1892. OETS HAVE BEEN found audacious enough to describe women’s gowns, but, eo far as I know, 20 poet—not even a maker of society verses—bas been daring enough to attempt to tell exactly what » Parisian bonnet is made of. Men asa rule are awed to silence by the sight of one of those tiny capotes. ¥ which the lady of fashion sets between the frizzed fringe on her forehead and the twisted chignon perked up on her occiput. I don't wonder at it, for who | sm would think that a bit of gold-embroidered lace about the size of s manly psim or a miniature coronet, with a tiny sprig of flowers in front, could produce such an effect? And yet it does im some mysterious way set the dotlet on the i of style and add another hue to the rainbow. It ts an egregious error to say that it is not the bonnet. but the woman. I would almost go so Fist st present this question of hats is of pine imporiane to the summer girl and to lady of fashion. They feel that, no, matter how elegant a gown may be, it is the hat the ‘woman There is thie strange “eo You meet the summer girl on the veranda wearing a shade hat, and you forthwith conclude that she is on mischief bent; that her demure look out from under the brim fs only an which put on to ao fas but wait till you see her the afternoor her driving hat. You re D HER HATS! A Question of Great Importance to | consequence, {rain failed to recognize hie own "wife if abe was ing anybody on the train. Hi “No one of no good to her frivolous helpmeet. cai me from fenctiogiy trimmed with sprigs of oate and sheaf, large mauve poppies grouped at, the bottom of worn at garden parties, but the garniture will harmonize with the toilet. At the r f i LACE CAPOTR. The first bonnet in these pictures iss lace espote for a married lady no longer young. It fs composed of two pieces of ecru lace sewed upon a circle of tulle. Between the Ince you pat of small flowers, using one for an aigretie, and at the side and at the back you place bows of double-faced satin ribbon. A$ the Monmoath Park races the anew although I couldn't \miring the c! Little capotes worn by the married ladies, yet it ‘was very evident that even the married women are to thrust aside every style of head- that suggest= ‘bonnet of a year ago. Wee hat ie tumpbant at thisend of the cen: tury, and now no woman, excepting, as I have said, those no longer young, wears a capote, ex- cept, of course, on occasions of ceremony. ‘This is the work of the summer girl—that spril of that child of the day, who changes her modes as she does her mind. She is coy and maidenly in blue, lively in pink, sub- and thoughtful in yellow, a romp in red and quite devotional in black. ‘She absolutely chooses her beaux to suit her hats and gowns, and she scolded her mamma for introducing & Young man to her while «he was dressed in Pink. “You should have waited, mamma,” she til I happened to be wear- FLORAL caPoTE. ‘The second charming bit of headgear is in the line of capotes, on!y this ore is floral in char- acter. being made up of a diadem of shaded sillifowers. The strings and ttes must match one of these dominant Tae TOURISTS’ maT. Quite « novelty in the hat line is the tourists’ het, made up in straw openwork or lacework, similar in chape to the popular tourists’ hat in felt or cloth. The crown is medium tall and hep the creed tect of the original, and the brim. while «tightly project in’ front, eurled up at the sides and very narrow at the back. Some are in black straw, meshed, the brim being bound with « «trip of plain braid and the crown trimmed with a band of straw moss gailoon wound twice around and endit Under s moss rosette set off by three feathers of the golden pheasant. These 4 are quite dressy enough for the and very well with any quiet costume. I need y add that our old friend, the sailor hat, is more a favorite than ever, although it is not made up in lace straw as yet. THE SIMPLE Sarton. I mast say that the sailor bat is an enigma to me, for women who would look a hundred times Detter in something more ornate insist upon wearing this most simple of hats, both as to fermand garniture. Simplicity is the domi- nant ides in the sailor, and it eerves most yy to set off a face that has delicate features and a fine skin withal note gn inclination to depart from this idea of T trimming with a towering bow or seen @ bow with » bunch of flowers or wings or some @ther feather Se cust couple Se succeed. I should t, t! now and then. For instance, I have | in July the summer girl reaches her bloom; she is a superb'work of art. In August she becomes sensational. She empties her paint pot on the canvas. She is not « Picture; she is an arrangement. > sue PROGRESS OF PASTEURISM. Heroic Treatment in Italy in Cases of Hy-| drophobia. Irom the London Iiustrated News. ‘What appears to ms to bea very noteworthy step in connection with Pastenr’s treatment of bydrophobia has been lately undertaken in Ttaly. My readers are aware that Pasteur, by ‘using hypodermic injections of the spinal mar- ows of rabbits, containing the virus of rabies in varying degregs of strength, prevents the development of hydrophobia in man. He has had his non-successes—cela va sans dire—but only irrational opponents of his system de- mand that every case treated should be a suc- cess. When we reflect on the differences in the constitution of patients, in the Iq; timé whieh may intervene between the bite and the beginning of the treatment, and in the de- sev sustain to be itn, we ceariy eco hat ‘Posteur’s ist of rec. which he has no control. This, at any rate, is true, that the mortality from hydrophobia has been markedly reduced in those treated by Pasteur compared with the death rate in cases left to ‘y treatment. Little Joseph Meister, torn and lacerated seven years ago by ® rabid wolf, remains today well’ and happy, Hie would be a bold man, I think, who wi venture to affirm that, left to the chances of would not have died the most painful of deaths. fi The treatment up to now has been preventive. Pasteur's artificially cultivated germs tay be presumed to get to the nerve centers before the germs inoculated by the bite can gain access to the centers, and when the germs arrive on their mission of death they find themselves forestalled by the injected germs, which last are increased in intensity and strength as the treatment pro- Grosses. Now, on March $ a young Italian was itten on the calf of the left leg by a rabid dog. | He was treated by Pasteur’s method at the in stitute of that name at Bologna by Prof. Murri. This treatment began on March 7, but on March 26 or 27 ing symptoms appeared, and on March 29-the patient was in extremis, suffering from all the symptoms of hydropkobia. Then, asa dernier resort, Dr. Murri injected the Pas- teurian virus directly into a vein, and this mod- ified treatment was continued practically till April 7. By April 10the patient, previously at death's door, could got up. ‘and from that date on to April 17 (the Inst date recorded) his im- provement was most satisfactory, his symptoms having disappeared, and bis “nervous system having almost recovered its normal functions. Now, it may be too early, it is true, to be fabilant over the success of ‘scionce in saving juman being from one of the most terrible of impending deaths, but I think we are Justified, at Teast, in presuming that the bold treatment of Prof. Murri must have operated in « fashion appreciable enough to those who have studied Pasteur method or germ science at large. ‘The opponents of Pasteurism, who are not nu- merous—among scientific people, I mean—but ‘whose opposition finds in repetition of already exp ideas what it lacks in force, will, of course, be ready to assert that the patient here was made ill by the treatment he received at Dr. Murri's hands. This view is one which dis- counts and overlooks completely the fact of the tient’s actual injury by a dog proved to have Been rabid. I have read with grept care the Paper written by.Dr. Hime on this caso, and I he establishes his conclusions that not only was this a case of actual cure of hydro- hobia by the emplorment of Pasteur's method [n's new fashion, but also that itis both certain the patient had developed the disease and that the discase was due not to the original treag- ment first pursued, but to the bite of the dog. eee — Victoria as = Mother-in-Law. From the New York Evening Sun_ However shorn Queen Victoria's authority in-law. Asher family is large her opportuni- ties are great. There is something formidable in the idea of s mother-in-law who is also a queen, when she is disposed, as is the queen, to even unto her cl "s children of the and fourth generations. The details of a into sweetest communion and sympathy, but those in the of Louise of Wales the een took entirely into her own hands and set- d altogether to her own satisfaction. Doubt- lems she prescribed the infant troussean of the Lady Alexander Duff. The English journals do not hesitate to allude to the satisfaction of coped mecacsing in Raghan Soe toe Deka of royal mourning in En: rr octonag wedding ot Marie of Edinburgh to the Crown Prince of Roumania may take place i at Coburg, which the Edin! regard as their home. The reason plainly is that the duchess will be free to make own arrangements without the interf of the n. The same motive, it is , keeps Sis branch of the royal family out of Eagiand #0 far as etiquette will permit. peauanasrioonn= 1 cea Se A Jelly Palace for the Fair. The women of California are going to build » jelly palaco at the fair—not a shivering, un- steady structare like a new custard pie, but solid building, with sides of ginsses full of rainbow hues. The building will be thirty-one feet high, surmounted by a in diameter, full of jelly. trances fe eter and 1.048 of assorted sizes, making a total of 4,688, The women estimate that this ‘will cost $2,400, of which $1,000 will be for the P steel frame. cesses must be subject to conditions over | of recovery under ordinary medication, this boy | sll exercise her rights, both natural and inherited, | 7 THE ROYAL GEORGE. “etboded| Her Loss at Spithead Over a Hun- dred Years Ago. A DISTRESSING DISASTER. The Biggest Ship in the Brtish Navy Went Down With About Twelve Hundred Souls om Board—The Incident Recalled by the Appreaching Amnivereary of the Catae- —————__ ‘Written for The Evening Star. N THE 29TH DAY OF ‘catastrophe was the loss of the The Royal George was a line-of-battle ship of i i carried 108 guns, neafly all brass ones; she had tallest masts, the heaviest metal and fiags hoisted inher than Ad- Howe engaged in writing. hoisted his the vedsel the month of April previous to her loss and wi in pro- fessional wi and it one of, the first naval officets in the world, par- ticularly in the art of maneu' . necessary that the ship be careened over to port, suficiently to the mouth of the ipe, which went through the ship's timbers be- yw, clean out of the water, that they might work at it. The following the weather was fine, with a stro1 breeze from the west, and ‘in the roadatead a on board the Royal it was found that the water-cock must be taken out anda new one put in, to do whjch it was necessary to ive the ship a heel (ortilt over) on her lar- joard side, enough to raise the outside of the ‘above the water. To effect this the the larboard guns were run out as far as they could be, thus leaving the larboard lower deck ports open, and the starboard guns rete alto run in amidihipe and, secured by the tackles. The shifting over of this great weig! of metal brought the larboard lower deck port sills just level with the water. The workmen were thon enabled to get at the mouth of the pipe to the water eock on the starboard side, as it was clean out of water, and for about an hour they were working hard at it, the ship remaining all on one About 9 o'clock, just after the hands were tarned up, when » victualing lighter came alongside, having on board s ram for the ship's use, and the men were ‘detailed to unload her. She was sloopof about fifty tons burden named the Lark, and belonged to three brothers, two of whom were drowned when the vessel went down, the third bei saved. She was secured to the larboard side of the ship, and some of the men went into her to sling the casks, others were at the yard tackle and stay falls, holating in the eee ‘away in the spirit room ot Be, man Sealy ii thivepin woes an board side of the vessel, which brought her down still more to port, |The water in to geta le rough, & Stisen, and some of be: ve lower deck ports, and of course had no escape, 0 that there was very soon @ good weight of water in the lower deck. ‘THE DANGER PIRST PERCEIVED. The carpenter was the first that perceived danger, and went‘on deck to the lieutenant, who was officor of the watch, requesting that he would be pleased to order the ship to berighted sermon, oa tg Sor nat, bear bud re: ceiving a vi ‘answer y he went Geen below. ie ‘Manes Lower, Gan te water was now coming in'so fast that he could plainly see she was getting past her and he therefore came up ® second time on q “If you please, sir, to sell you that she may be as a queen she retains it all as a mother- | 82 daughter's marriago bring mother and ebild | "°° the first-class, and at the time of the disaster = was the largest ship in the British nevy. She mahal Saas Tagrans eee ees * Hon of the scene'on board at tie JAMES [NORA'S STORY. “I Was stationed at the third gun from for- ward on the starboard side of the lower gun eck. I said to Carroll, who was second captain of the gun, ‘Let us try to get our gun out without waiting for the drum, for the sooner we right the better.” We bousted out our gun, had run in amidships, but the ship had heeled ‘over 80 much that, do all we it ran in again upon us and at the same time the water mide a heavy rush into the lower dock Tiny hota of the Fingbol li Sampath, wound tan out; we all’ be ‘He for move either one way Icaught hold of the sheet just above mo, to prevent my falling back in board, when ‘@ woman struggling st the port T caught hold of her, dragged her out and threw her from me. The A MAN GRABBED HIS SHOR. “A man with long hair tried tograpple meas I went up; his fingers caught inmy shoe, between the shoe and my fout. Isucceeded in kicking off my shoe, and thus got rid of him, and then I rose to the surface of the water. “I could hardly take my breath when I came to the surface, for my head came up through « quantity of tar, which floated like fat ona boiler, and it smothered me, for you see there had been a few onsks of tar on the deck which had stove when the ship wae going down and the tar got up to the top" of the water before I It prevented me seeing at first, but I As the fring — of distress, clear tar from my eyes I I ‘ang held on to the hal- ed about me I saw the admi-’ degiR FE a the port rolling about The baker was an Irishman Cleary, #0 I called out to him. it your handand catch hold of that woman, she isnot dead.’ Hesaid, ‘Shé is dead enough, it is no use to lay hold of her. T answered, ‘She is not dead.’ He caught hold of ‘the woman and hung her head over one of the rattlins of the mizen shrouds, and there she type pl her chin tili a wash came and lifted her off, and then she rolled about again. Just then one of the captaine of the frigates came up in his ont and raved aay band toward the woman: He sto} P , the men dragged her into the ferns was ard taken on board the Victory with the baker and many others who were clinging to the rigging. ASAD, STRANGE stoHT. It must have been asad, ‘stranj have witnessed, and one that the thereof could never have forgotten. Hi iF g mi 33 Tho ship had a lot of live stock on board, the hencoops, &c., were floating about, and the sheep, pigs and fowls were swimming in all directions. There was a poor little child saved in a strangely curios manner. He was picked up bya gentleman who was rowing about ina let | wherry. The child was holding on to the wool Miz | ofa sheep which had eseaped and was swim- ming about. His father and mother were drowned, and the boy did not know their names. ‘All that he knew was that his own name was Jack. so théy christened him John Lamb and took care of him. As previously stated, Admiral Kempenfelt at the of the accident was engaged in writ- ing in his cabin. ‘The barber, who bad been in to shave him, came out just before the ship be- gan to sink. ' Capt. Waghorn, who commanded the Royal George under him, tried to acquaint the edmiral that the ship was sinking, but the heeling over.of the ship had so jammed the doors of the cabin that they could not be opened. So “Kempenfelt went down with twice 400 men.” Capt. Martin Waghorn, after vainly attempt- ing to save the admiral, rushed across the deck, leaped into the sea and called others to follow his example. Not being able to swim he would have perabed struggling in the waves, but bo- ing held up by a seaman was at last picked up bya boat from the Victory. The captain's son, a midshipman, being below, was drowned. LIEUT. DURHAM'S NARROW ESCAPE. Lient. Durham, afterward Admiral Sir Philip Durham, had one of the most fortunate escapes on record. Hoe was returning from the shore and had got within a boat's length of the Royal George when she went down, ond ho was drawn into the vortex. He had just time to throw off his coat and scramble on a beam, from which he was soon washed as the ship sunk, and was left floating about ae men and hammocks, He was caught hold of by the waistcoat by drowning marine, who held on so fast that Dur- ham was several times drawn under the water. Conscious that neither could be saved if he did not disentangle himself from his burden, he clung with his legs around a hammock, with one hand unbuttoned his waistcoat. and, sloping his shoulders, committed it, with the unfortunate marine, to the merciless ‘waves, He then swam. to the rigging and was shortly after rescued. ‘The body of the marine was washed on shore a fortnight after, with the waistcoat so firmly t around his arm that a pencil case bear- the initials of Lieut. Durham was found fe in the pocket and restored to the owner. Admiral Durham lived until the year 1845. Maj. Graham of the marines and several other marine officers, thrce lieutenants, the surgeon, the master, many midshipmen and some ladies who had gone on board were drowned. The men canght hold of one another and thus drowned themselves, those who could not swim catching hold of those that could, As many of men that could cram themselves into the ich got into it, hoping to save themselves that way, but they went down in her all to- gether. Outof 300 women on board but one was saved—a Mrs. Horn, who was living in 1834. The admiralty ordered £5 a man. to be ; | given to the seamen who were saved asa recom- Pense for the loss of their clothes, but onl; seventy-five claimed it. ¥, THE WRECK BLOWN TO Pieces. One or two attempts were made in after years to raise the Royal George, but they proved un- successful, and in 1840 Col. Pasley of the royal y plosions of gunpowder, proved quite an obstruction to naviga- t very ablo engineer officer succeeded ing, and it is thought that by this time not « vestige of the ship now remains above the ocean's bottom. Numbers of her una were recovered, her bell and much of her an —_ nt, and some of these me- morials are Be seen at Portsmouth dock- pieces it hay 1 i onalit i ad EI 5 jelly. These glasses will be transparent and of | !°™! "tee THE SUMMER RESORT. How It is Built Up and Made Popu- lar, WHY SOME FOLKS ‘GRUMBLE. ‘They Try Some Manufactured Resort and Find That the Announced Attractions Do Net Matorialtze—What Gives Newport and Other Real Resorts Their Standing. ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE WRITER FOR Taz Stan met a Wash- “‘A hotel with » wide piazza and sevoral hun- dred fools." This reply was still unsatisfac- tory, so the ground was shifted and he was 4 | asked how summer resorts are made. “Oh,” he said, ‘that’s easy enough. Here's your receipt: Take a piece of rural scenery,throw alot of planks together so as to form a shed, serve it to tho public plontifally sprinkled with’ false representations and call it a summer resort.”" DELIGHTS AT NEWPORT. Now, it is obvious that this gentleman is prejudiced and unjust, for while some summer resorts are, perhaps, worthy of the severe de- nunciation he heaps upon them, they are not all so bad. Take Newport, for instance; nobody can denominate its houses as mere sheds of rough plank. There is probably no summer resort in all the world ae rich as Newport. For mile upon mile palaces stretch along the ocean front and ck oe are hundreds <= other which have no opening on sea, vfhen the hour for driving tomes there is @ veritable’ procession of weilth on wheels down the ocean drive. It reminds one of Connecti- gut avenue or upper 6th avenue in the winter. ‘There is the casino and there is the club, there are good shops and fine restaurants. When the evening copies are parties to gu to, and they are generally very magnifies’ parties, Now, what s curious summer resort this is! a has cha 4 and e scenery has |, but people who live at Newport are simply living over again the life they led all winter. It isn’t a country life at all, and so far from being a retired life there is probably more grand entertaining at Newport in summer than there is in any but a few of the cities in winter. Perhaps, in view of all facts, it is hardly fair to call Newport a summer resort, since it isa city of considerable size and the life there is hardly more or less than a:city life. ANOTHER TYPE. Bat now let us take another type, and it will hardly be necessary to name it, but it is a splendid place, in a certain way, and Washing- tonians are very fond of it. In winter there no «uch placeip existence. The post office closes, the houses are shut up, the hotel is not running. Early in the summer it begins to revive. A few owners of cottages appear on the scene, the hotels open, and early guests come straggling along. Still it is slow and very quict and there isabundant time fora long nap every after- noon. This sort of thing keeps up until about the month of Augast, when, all of a sudden, this famous southern summer resort breaks out with a wild whoop anda hurrah. The band of music that has been playing ina half-hearted way now thunders out its enthusiastic strains; the jinzzas of the big hotel, which held only a few sad people, are now ablaze with people, young and old, all bent upon pleasure; all re- resolved to “have a good time.” Then there is daneing—dancing in the morning, when they havea german, dancing by the children in the ball room in ‘the afterndon and dancing at a ballevery single night but Sunday. Old fel- lows who stopped dancing “before the war” dance when they get down there, and ladies whose domestic cares and comfortable lives have expanded their waists almost beyond the dunensiong where round dancing is convenient make an effort and get through somehow. WHY THE PLACE 16 POPULAR. There are splendid mineral springs at this place, and it is saidongoodauthority that people have been known to go there for their health, but that isn't why the place is so popular. Nine people out of ten go there to enjoy themselves, and they do it,and when the wild rush of gayety is over they rest. No summer_resort is complete, of course, unless there is flirting to be done, and at this particular place it has been declared by close observers there is more flirt- ing done than at any other resort on the face of the carth. The women are all beautiful and they are all lively. That is, it is needless to say, an exaggeration. as there are some women there both ugly and solemn, but beauty and vivacity are so much the rule that every one is struc! with it, and cherishes the memory? of it ever afterward. This is certainly a summer resort much more than Newport is, for the life is not like the life of the winter. ‘There is no for- | mality; there is not much exclusiveness; the People are thrown together pretty promisca- ously and accept the situation good naturedly. MANUFACTURED RESORTS. But these places are old-established resorts and time has m their individuality. It is the new resort that the growler who was quoted at the beginning of this article was aiming hia ill-natured remarks at. ‘These manufactured summer resorts thrive through the advertise- ments they throw out. A certain proportion of the population have to go away from town every summer—or they think they have to which is the same thing—and they are hard put toit toknow where to go. So they get the flaming circulars relating to summer resorts, and finding the Bigneck House on Bigneck bay is a place where/one can enjoy surf bath- ing or still water bathing, can go sailing or row- ing, can hire horses for a mere song and boate for a faint warble, can live off of ‘the delica- cies of the land and all the while enjoy the finest society—finding all these and many other attractions offered for a very moderate sum, they pick up their traps and go. It is needless to say that they go only one summer. Next season they get fooled again. for it must be re- membered that the American public, as the late P. T. Barnum used to say, likes to be hum- bugged and seems to have a firm belief in its own good luck and to hope that eventually it will find all the luxuries of life.with the society of millionaires thrown in, at some summer re- sort where the guests of the hotel are taxed the moderate sum of $1 a day. Now, a good summer resort gets a fine adver- tisement from the people who go toit. They tell their friends and the place is boomed, but these paper summer resorts manage to hold to- gether for vears morely by the false allurements that they old out. THE COTTAGE RESORT, There is another variety of summor resort that must not be passed over, and that is the one that is peopled by “‘cottagers,” i.e., people who have houses that they own or rent and who do not live at hotels, At these places there are, of hotels, and the plazas of the big of | hotel is the common ground where all the cot- tagers meet one snother, but the hotel is not petcag aap ed. gion gpm any one who oes is not of much consequence unless knows the c or is a cottager himself. The term », by the way, must be under- stood as em! almost every kind of raral summer resort residence. To the unsophisti- cated the word Lnmgrstntrgrig bagels yd a especially meant for use of the word, and now it is considered perfectly allow- able to of Vanderbilt's white marble 2 f] 8 ¥ PIPES OF AGES PAST. Quarry From Which They Cane Visited by an Agent of the Government. ‘THE GACRED DEPOSIT OF PIPESTONE IX MINXE- SOTA — WHERE PRERISTORIC PIPES WERE ‘MADE—GREAT COPPER MIXES WORKED BY IN- DIANS BEFORE COLUMBUS LAXDED—A NUGGET WEIGHING 12,000 rouxpa, N EXPEDITION SENT OUT BY THE North America have got the material for their pipes since very ancient days, long before Co- tumbus landed upoa this continent. From that time down to the present the working of this same mineral deposit has been kept up continu- ously, even the savage Sioux traveling annually 200 miles to spend a month at the quarry. For ‘contaries the place was regarded as sacred and all tribes met there, preserving peace religiously while on the spot. av THE Quamnr. For miles atound the quarry the plains are covered with the rings which mark the sites where Indian lodges were once established, and everywhere are scattered fragments of pipe- stone, representing the waste of manufacture. This material seems to have been selected by the savages because of its beauty and softness when fresh. The latter quality renders it easy to carve, while sul tly it becomes ex tremely hard. Its color is an exquisite “Indian red.”, Much of the carving work done on the is of highly artistic quality. Some of specimens secured by Prof. Holmes, who made the collections referred to, would do credit to the most skilled workers in meer- echaum. THE PIPESTONE DEPOSIT described is the only one of ite kind in this country. It isastratum of an unusually hard red lay, the edge of which is exposed along the side ofa hill. At the there could have been no difficulty in proc it from its ee but the labor of quarrying it has 6 very great owing to the fact that the cage of the stratum has feen removed, and in order to get more it is necessary to dig down through several feet of quartzite. The stratum being horizontal the slant of the hill covering itmakes the toil incidental to working the UaTTY Progressively more severe, Pickax and jovel are the implements utilized for the pur- pose by the Indians, who havenot as yet learned the art of blasting. ‘TRE VALUABLE STRATUM. On account of the difficalties attending the mining of the pipestone it is quite @ precious substance, a piece one foot equare being worth from $2 to $3 in the crude. The stratum de- scribed is about twelve inches in thickness and seems to be evenly continuous for an indefinite distance through the hill. However, only two inches of this thickness is of good quality, being smooth to the touch and free from ge Of recent years the Indians have learned how to inlay the pipes with silver and other metals, performing this kind of work ina manner very artistic. v do all the pipemaking, the labor involved being too great to pay the white man for his time. White people buy the pipestone and make many other articles out of it for sale, from a comaplete house down to miniature pieces of furnituce and trinkets. The fact that this pipestone quarry was re- garded ns sacred is indicated by extensive pic- tographs on the rocks in the vicinity of certain huge boulders found on the spot, Feprosenting aboriginal gods and other things of religious sign! ce, PREHISTORIC COPPER MIXES. Prof. Holmes also visited the wonderful pre- historic copper mines of Isle Royale, in the northern part of Lake Superior. These were worked long before Columbus was born by the Indians, who procured from them metal for their implements and ornaments. The copper occurs there in masses of the pure or “‘native” metal, imbedded in the volcanic rocks. and the primitive miners were accustomed to dig it out with no better tools than stone sledges. Al- though the island is not adapted for human habitation tribes from allghe surrounding coun- try gathered there in ancient times for the pur- of obtaining the yt ages eS ler to find it a great deal “prospecting” tobe done, and thus the surface of the bills today are everywhere found covered with old piteand trenches, partly filled up and over- grown with pine foresta, STONE MINING TOOLS. Tn these ancient holes are discovered numer ous stone implements which bear the marks of tools scattered about that not less than 50,000 of them are to be seen on the surface of the ground, affording an illustration of the exten- sive character of the work that was carried on. The copper was sometimes found in masses 80 big that lend could not be removed, and many such gigantic nuggets of pure metal have since furnished bonanzas to the whites, who for years made a business of exploring the old workings in search of them. One nugget weighed 12,000 pounds, and because it was not practicable to cut it up or blast it irfto pieces it had to be con- veyed bodily to the lake shore and carried away in @ vessel, requiring much ingenuity and the best modern py for the successful ac- complishment of the task. ' HOW THE INDJANS WORKED THE METAL. ‘When the Indians came across such a mass of copper the best they could do was to greak of a few projecting pleces of it. The business of rospecting for such abandoned nuggets was foaly given up bythe whites because they ecaged to find enough of them to pay, although more than one thousand pits remained un- touched by them. After the miners of antiquity had got the copper they hammered it into tools and ornaments, which were carried to all parts of North America and distributed by trade. Such articles, for which the material was origi- nally obtained from Isle Royale, are found y in mounds an®graves throughout this country. This exploration by the bureau of ethnol of these great prehistoric workings for metal first that has been made and the results, which eo by ——_ = red nt took fair, throw a new light upon the aboriginal peo- ple who have Toft “behind them proofs of such gigantic labors. GENERAL SYSTEM OF TRADE. the vast extent of the country andthe lack of any but the most primitive means of transportation it is certainly astonish- ing to discover how general was the system of trade e: ‘among the savage tribes of North pipes for which ts material ees prosored The for whic! mat was atthe quarry previously described, were dis- tributed by barter from the Atlantic to the just as was the case with the copper ornaments and tools got from the mines of FLINT QUARRIES IX ARKANSAS AXD THE INDIAN ‘TERRITORY. Prof. Holmes on his recent expedition visited prehistoric quarry in Arkansas, where flint for flaking into tools and weapons wag procured on so extensive a scale that in’ places the hills gnd mountains bare 4 use as mining tools. So thickly are such rude | ME NOTIONS ABOUT LUCK. Burning Shoes to Bring Good Fortune—Hoo- dovs Removed to Order, nif. HORRIBLE SMELL THAT CAME IN at the Library window made the visitor “Goodness me!” exclaimed her hostess dis- gustedly. “There is Susan burning shoes again!” te barmine shows? What dows she do that “She dose it. for luck, she says, and I Reve tried in vain to break her of the habit. All of | the superstitions of her ancestors «he seems to have faith in. She insists that to burn old shoos brings good fortune,and so I am afflicted with this kind of nuisance about once a week.” ““How very funny!” “You may well say so. Thad most absurd conversation with Susan yesterday on the #ub- | Jeot of hoodoos, She told me that on one oc- ‘casion not long ago she was taken quite sick and ‘© professional “‘wise man” whom she called in told her that she was bewitched by & certain woman in the neighborhood. This woman, he declared, had sueceoded in getting hold of a Part of Susan's spirit and had put it in « bottle, which was thrown into the fire. Theonly thing to do under the circumstances was to procure some of the ashes from the fire, which were to be found ins heap in the woman's yard. So Susan did as she was bid—got the aches by ‘tealth, gave them to the wise man and paid him to'remove the epell from her and put it on the enemy. He did so, and, as Susan told me, the person who bewitched ‘hasn't had «| well day sinee.'” “Ridiculous!” “Poor Susan had to pay the wise man $20 for removing that hoodoo, and she never feels any | confidence that she will not at any time be as- Sgr earereet inv by ill-disy As well as Tean find out ouch mine then ama | wise women make their living in Washington by going about among the i the colored i on the subject of luck, opposing what she re- farded as practical experience to my incredu- “What did she speak of in particular?” “Well, her talk was chiefly of what she called ‘sharp luck.’ She told me that the best way to ———— AN INFANT'S NERVE. Drawn Up From a Deep Cistern Clinging to a Pitehfoite, | Prom the Providence Journal. | Little Charles Lee Bardon, the twenty-five: months-old grandson of Lee Burdon, the seam- Jess wire manufacturer, and Charles H. Thar- ber, the agent of the Society for the Prevention of Crucity to Children, is being petted caressed by the citizens of Elmwood, both as masical profigy and more particularly in rec- ‘ognition of his wonderful prosence of mind and courage in the presence of death by drowning which he recently displayed under the most trying circemstances even to one of maturer years. Charley was visiting Grandpa Burdon ‘on Greenwich street a few days and, clad ina summer ulster and a tight- bonnet, the yard, by his was playing in dd grandmother. There is s cistern in the yard, ten feet in depth, about eight feet in circum- ference and containing seven feet of water. It is supplied with an iron cover, and vations have been taken to have it securely fastened Charley, with the inanisitive tendencies which abnght and persistent temperament tnvariably produce, decided to make an investigation. His | grandmother left him for an instant, and the | child, in some unex manner, either mnccerded in tilting the cover by partly Taist it or else as he stepped on the edge it was sufficiently to make an opening through which the adventurous imfant was The grandmother retu: she had left called out to to Probably fallen into the cistern feet foremost ‘and his clothing had bouyed him up, #0 that he was able to float tem y. The frantic parent called to him and he ravely. She besonght him to raise heed # little and then called out to the gardener to | Some to, the rescue, Peter hastened to the spot and in his perplexity could not devise am immedia ‘of ac | j te tion. | Mrs. Burdon realized the dire of the | situation and seeing small pit meer by she seized it, and with Peter's assistance made a desperate ‘effort to fasten it into the infant's clothing. The cistern was dark and ‘it was with extreme difficulty that the exact location of the child could be discerned. All the while the grandmother was urging Charlie fetch it was to take two pins, two nails and two needles and stick them in the ground—the | needles with their points up and the nails and pins with their points down. Next, I must | name the two needles after myself and the friend | of whom I was most fond, at the same time | naming the pins and nails after four of my enemies. was sure to bring | fortune to my ‘and myself and very bad luck indeed to the foes represented by the pins and nails,” od CARE OF THE HANDS IN SUMMER. Suggestions for Women Whe Dislike Tan, Freckles and Su@burn. From the New York Sun. The young woman who values her smooth, soft, white hands leaves silk and lace gloves behind when she starts onan outing or rele- gates them to boies containing house end evening finery. She believes that what hands |meed most in summer is protection. They | must not be exposed to the effects of atmos phere when moist with perspiration, nor must sun and heated dry air be allowed to parch and brown them. Soap is not necessary for oily skins or for thin, dry skins. When the hands are soiled, dry or even unpleasantly moist, dip them in warm water in which a drop or two of eromatic spirits of ammonia has stood for a few momenta. Once wet, dip them ina jar of fine corn meal, and, turning one within another e few times, immerse them . ‘Then of skin and to prevent puffiness or wrinkling. Dry them with soft linen and dust over them fine. pure rice powder. ‘The effect of warm water is to open the of the skin, thus emitting more ‘il than fe de- sirable, but the rice powder counteracts that and is among the most harmless agents to check perspiration, undue moisture and shine on the skin. While corn meal has ee pe wie er htm" Hie powder mat bs added to their whiteness. may be SS ee wood sachet. Creams, glycerine or emollients, preparations of cucumbers and other fatty substances should be@voided by oily skins. Acids like lemon, astringents like benzoine, the more harmless ywders and starchy preparations are beneficial Yo them at night, when s loose pair of kid gloves face is often, by contact with unblemished, not so much the sun is not allowed to shine on for frequently does in the house, as that they are spared the action of air on their ane faces, ‘ially after the of water, and is that which works havoc with the In their stead many society women who have transparent skins provide Danish skin gloves. Reindeer skin acloser texture than other skins, yet it pos- senses a softening power on hands. After a dip in the ocean the hands should be immersed in a solution of borax and ammonia. | ‘The action of the sun on bands wet with water is to draw the contents of small beneath the skin to the surface, ‘and sometimes freckles. ‘The i | ammonia ce. in the following mixture: Oil of almonds, one ; Tectified spirits, one joweg water, one part For stained hands try citric rosemary and Blycerine, and tilled water. ———_+-e-+—___ fondon Fog. From the Contemporary Review. It is not necessary to describe the misery of a London fog to any one who has been compelled to reside in the metropolis during « few days of ite prevalence. ‘Te painful irritation to the i acid, spirits of gether with the general depression of spirits and many other ailments, are the lesser suffer; in it few who are exposed to it oscape. it fs not yet realized what an amount of serious illness or how many deaths one week of London fog causes, It may be accepted that every ten days of this terrible visitation kills 2.500 people, and if we calculate nine serious cases of illness ‘to each death we have 25,000 duad — 25,000 people upon id f i o ut i be i ¢ i i i H & Ht | i i : fi 38 8 tf E I F 8 Ht | s ¥ i Hi A i il i eyes, the choking sensation in the chest, to- | head fo keep Np courage and uttering words of | loving solicitude and the little fellow reaponded | with lisping assurances. Finally the handle of | the pitchfork was thrust within reaching dis- tance gnd Charlie was bidden to cling fast to it. | He is a vigorous, well-developed boy and he | quickly clasped “his little hands around the | staff and clung to it with dogged determina- Slowly and steadily the weight was lifted to the surfacqof the cistern and the wet and dri ping figure was clasped in the arms of ie iverers. Charlie was cool and self-porsessed and was quickly taken into the house and supplied with an outfit of dry clothing, and hot drink was administered to him. He lixped that he was retty wet, but that he wasa smart boy because Eevewimmed in the water. ‘Then he anked te be taken home to Grandpa Lee, and while beit | trundled along in his carriage he law forth with his favorite song, “John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering in the Grave,” with ine fantile fervor and enthusiasm When be reac! Ouse © proceeded to gives gesint and amusing story of his pichap, cod nded a new suit of clothes in place of those which had been wetted in the well. git is need- less to say that he has been #u; with the suit, and he is holding receptions daily to ad- miring callers to whom he relates his version of the accident, and rogards it as a sor®of joke. The little fellow will probably abandon the repetition of the experiment, but his miracnlons ‘escape, coupled with his coolness and lack, to make him the youthful hero wood for some time. Fashions in Jewelry. Jewelors' Cireniar. Silver gilt funnels are only recently shown. New card cases are covered with fine ailver tracings. Candle shades of finely perforated enamel are to be had. The atomizers in silver are now luxurious with silver with raised work. Small hairpins come in sets with one pin, They have tops of trefoil and fleur- faceted in and rim- Large services in cases of individual salts, eee salt epoons and butter Exites are now lavishly presented. ‘The dainti- ness of the gilt-lined salt spoons and the lovely little knives makes them desirable wedding presenta. Mines Under the Sea. From Iron. There are in England several coal and metal- liferous mines which extend and are worked at ‘4 considerable distance out to sea, But perhaps the most remarkable submarine coal mine is that at Nanaimo, on Departure bay, Victoria, British Columbia. This mine is fi Hip cath if Hi Had i ! i 4 | ! j i { } ais. 7 bt Hil? : if