Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1893, Page 13

THREE BRIGHT GIRLS Are Those Who Adorn the Home of the Vice President. THEY ARE TYPICAL AMERICAN MAIDS, Washington Society Will Not Know Them This Winter. THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. B¥ritten for The Evening Star, E VERYBODY LIKES to read about the American girl. She has been sung in song and rhymed in versed, satirized in novels, cartooned in periodicals and class- ified in types—in fact, \\! she has been theo- pss rized and themed un- til one begins to wonder if the Ameri- can girl is a type all or the embodiment of the best of all types, as the summing up of her various phases as presented by her versatile biog- raphers would seem to indicate. “ In foreign countries royalty and rank, by right of heredity,monopolize the lion’s share of notoriety, and my lady this and duchess that, whose one endowment of cold beauty renders her arrogant, supercilious and dicta- torial, is generally without cleverness or wit; hence their type runs to style and sta- tion, never to heart or brains. In our own country there is a difference vastly in favor of our free institutions. Every few years the turn of the political wheel brings to the front new faces, new blood, new theo- ries. There is no chance in a government like ours for effete ideas or “faded blood to body. One of Miss Julia’s it beauties is a mane ae bry brows half Glossy and well seems almost @ burden to the small stately ‘Nead, held so regally Miss Julia Stevenson. above well-shaped shoulders. That crown- ing glor7 of woman is possessed in abund- ance by all the Stevenson girls. Miss Julia is literary in her tastes. She turns off some very clever things with her pen, and has a decided penchant for that class of work. Although not quite as apt with her needle and brush as her sisters, Miss Julia does excellent execution with both and has her ideas concerning the artistic in gown- e youngest daughter of the Stevenson family, Letitia, the mother’s namesake, is a slender sylph-like maiden with sunny face, dimpling in the first flush of girlhood. A laughing, romping, dainty maiden, for whom life holds as yet no hint of tragedy. She is very much in earnest too, and looks on lif problem with serious eyes, but for the life of her she couldn't keep back the laugh that poison the fountain of freedom.” Our pub- Me men are forced to’ live under the field glasses of public opinton, and the women of their households come under the same Jenses. They do not always find it pleas- ent, nor can it be considered quite just, but it is one of the penalties of official position, and right royally do American women do Mrs. Stevenson. the honors thrust upon them by the exi- gencies of the occasion. It is at a time like this that the American girl comes out in bold relief and asserts her natural suprem- acy. Under the administration of Mr. Harri- gon one of the most delightful houses in ‘Washington was that of Vice President Mor- ton. Mrs. Morton's charming hospitality Wade their house extremely popular during the social season, and not the least of the @ttractions there were the beautiful daugh- ters. If Vice President Stevenson should set up his household goods in Washington, and rally around him his trio of young daugh- ters under the chaperonage of their mother, there would be no more popular house in the capital of the nation than theirs. It ‘would rival that of the former incumbent of the presiding officer’s chair in the Sen- @te, though the ciphers in the sum total of ice President Stevenson's wealth are three or four short of those accredited to Mr. | Morton. There is no probability, however, | that the Stevensons will take a house this) winter. The trio of daughters are in school yet, and Mrs. Stevenson is not strong enough to enter alone upon sociai duties, such as a Vice President's house would en- tall. in many respects Mrs. Stevenson resem- bies Mrs. Morton. Although not so tall, she) bears herself with gracious dignity of man- ner, and nas the same winning suavity that made Mrs. Morton so popular; her gowning, too, is in irreproachable taste. Her face is) attractive and interesting, and she looks) ‘with kindly eyes upon all the world. Mrs. | Stevenson's daughters are beautified types of herself. Miss Mary Stevenson. Miss Mary Stevenson is a slender, fra- gtte girl in her twenty-second year. She is fair as a lily, with brown hair and eyes, and a face as pure as @ child in expression, yet full of character. She has not the ro- bust health of her younger ers, and is quieter In her ways. Being the oldest | dau er she has been also her mother’s close companion, and has the same gra- cious manners allied to a gentle forgetful. ness o if that endears her to all. She quite domestic in her tastes. The Steve fons girls are all well grounded in domes- tie accomplishments, and are perfectly competent to direct the affairs of even an official household. That is one of the things that they ha Jearned in their own well appointed time. Mrs. Stevenson is one of the notable housekeepers and believes that one of the first best accomplishments that a woman can possess is a thorough knowled: household economy. Miss Stevenson fond of the study of 1 ees, and it is her desire to complete urse in college where she will apply herself to that study and She has achieved con: erabl, in of] painting and the winter abroad for the rable success Probably spend urpose of studying among the old masters, joth she and her youngest sister, Letitia, @re especi i in the use of their fingers, and there is no kind of embroide ing or art fancy work that they do not ex- Miss Letttia Stevenson. follows fast on the heels of purpose. She is the veriest optimist living, and though ob- serving and critical, is never caustic. The artistic sense is very markedly developed in this youngest scion of the Stevensons. She sews, embroiders and paints with equal facility and delicacy of execution. She is @ skillful designer, as her own gowns attest, and her young mates often avail themselves of her exquisite taste. She excels as a plan- ist, and when it comes to singing she has the throat of a bird. Clear, sweet and high, her yoice is a possession to be proud of, and she is always graciously willing to gratify her friends by using it for their pleasure. Miss Letitia, although in her sixteenth year, has no desire to be thought other than a school girl. Happy, light hearted and care free, she burrows in her books and reso- lutely puts out of sight the coming-out parties,and long trailed gowns, that at her age begin to lure so many less judiciously trained girls, Mrs. Stevenson is a model mother as well as housewife, and has very positive opinions on the subject of young girls entering su- ciety so young. She thinks, and very wise- ly it must be admitted, that they should complete their education before society is permitted to engulf them. She wants the characters of her daughters to be well form- ed and their judgment to be matured before they come in contact with the allurements of official life, which might else undo years of careful training. So none of the Steven- son girls will be in society this winter. Miss Stevenson may come out next winter, but Miss Julia and Miss Letitia will not make their debut before the last winter of the neon, if they care to do so even en. Their Home Life. The home life of the Stevensons has been simple and quiet. For eight years their home was in Washington, Mr. Stevenson having served Illinois four years as Con- gressman, and Mr. Cleveland four years as first assistant postmaster general. Mrs. Stevenson appeared very little in society at that time, as she felt that the first duty of a mother was to her children. That her loving care was not misplaced her daugh- ers and son give ample evidence. At the pretty home in Bloomington the library was the center of attraction in the evenings. Mr. Stevenson usually read aloud from some favorite author, so that the children grew up in an atmosphere of good books, and are familiar with the standard works, both in prose and poetry. While education in lit- erature and the arts and sciences has gone steadily on, so, too, has the higher educa- tion of the soul. Very early in life the chil- dren became members of the Presbyterian Church, of which Vice President and Mrs. Stevenson are communicants. “In His Name.” these daughters of the King “are instant in good works,” and the affiicted unfortunates who have to drink only the lees of life's w find in the Stevenson girls strong allies and aids to a more com- fortable existence, and gentle guides to a higher and noble life. In Bloomington they have their work of charity well arranged, and some portion of each week was given up to it. The King's Daughters, of which Miss Stevenson was president and Miss Julia and Letitia enthusiastic workers, were loth to part with their efficient officer and aids, but the scene of their labors was only changed; they always find work for their helpful hands, and the Master's course is theirs, whatever skies above them. Miss Julia and Miss Letitia Stevenson are now pursuing their studies in Wellesley College, which they entered in the fall. Hearty, healthy and happy, with courag to dare and will to do the difficult things of life, “‘so that they tend toward honors way the Stevenson girls belong to the true American type. ISABEL WORRELL BALL, 2. NEEDLESS COUGHING. Don’t Irritate the Bronchials, bat Let Nature Relieve Them. From Youth's Companion. In all bronchial affections the paroxysms of the cough should be placed, as far as possible, under control of the will. The old idea that disagreeable sensations in the throat indicate the presence there of “something which ought to come up” has been entirely displaced by the more rational view that the continued and prolonged ef- forts to expel that “something” are often productive of more mischief than would re- sult from its being allowed to remain. There is attendant upon every disease of the bronchial tubes a greater or less amount of mucous, which exudes from the membranous lining of the tube. Of course, there are the accompanying signs of in- flammation—heat, pain, swelling and red- | ness, but it s the mucous exudation which ‘is, for the most part, responsible for the disagreeable sensations which we instinc- tively attempt to alleviate by coughing. Now, it is certain that, in a great ma- |Jority of instances, where the general | heaith of the patient is not attacked, this jexudation undergoes what is called ‘reso- | lution; that is, it is reabsorbed through the fine network of blood vessels about the tubes into the blood, where it is taken care of, and complete recovery Is effected. On the other hand, let us suppose that we eel in. They can copy and make any gown that pleases them. In fact, one of the most attractive things about the S! is that they are never dressel exactly alike, Ror just like any other girl. They design their own gowns and in doing so adapt them to the individual. This gives a@ certain style Impossible to obtain through any other avenue. It also gives the f Pression of lavish expenliture of money when it fs. simply due to good taste in se- lection and com on of materials. Miss Julia Steve ter, might the beanty of the family, thou unger sister, petite Letitia, will soon push her hard for that honor. The charm lies not h in con- tour cs in the coloring a nm. She has a brilliantly ‘ace, her bright browr = hing with quick thought and tle wickedness In everv dimple.” Ped lipped and rosy cheeked, the blessing of zood health shows in every movement of her supple and well rounded them | the second daugh- | do not wait for resolution to take place, but | that, on the theory that every particle of evenson girls | the exudation should be expelled, as being | of a poisonous nature, we strain to exhaus- | ton cvery muscle of expiration and, in fact, | the whole system. What follows? We may have accomplished our tmme- | diate object, or the seat of the inflamma- tion may have been out of reach. In elther event. if we could see the point at which cur efforts had been directed, we should } discover that they had been productive of the results anticipated. Instead of the in- |flammation being In any way allayed, we |shouid find that an effect had been ‘pro. | duced similar to that which follows scratch. ing and itching scre. The irritation has fer a moment been relieved, but it is only a | question of time when it will return with | Tenewed energy. The habit of endeavoring to expel the exudation than will come maar eink gentle and infrequent coughing *s hausting and idle one, fae THE EARLY WORM. The Story of a Characteristic Texas Panhandle Oourtship. MISS PENDLETON AND THE CROWD How They Hunted Her in a Body and Got Left. HANK PEARSALL’S SPEECH ‘Written for The Evening Star by Alice MacGowan. E WAS ALWAYS earning success and receiving failure. He did everything he ought, just as his friends and advisers would have wished, and some unexpected circumstance depriv- ed him of his re- ward. So proverbial did the excellence of his deserts and the poorness of his luck become that some cowboy philosopher finally accounted for it in this way: “It ain’t in what Nort Willis does,” said the oracle; “it jest hain’t down on the cards fer "im t’ win. Ye see the books say thet it's ‘the early bird 't gits th’ first worm’; but in thet game two can’t win, an’ I take it he’s the early worm.” This explanation appealed to the whimsi- cal side of cowboy nature, and as that side is well developed, the name and reputation stuck to Nort even after he had, by strength and perseverance, wrenched a few crumbs of success from the clenched hand of Fate. He was managing the Half Moon ranch, to get capital to stock one of his own, when the niece of his next neighbor on the south, Floyd Pendieton, at the Bar 6, came out to visit her uncle, Miss Eula Pendleton had the unique—and as she found later—rather uncomfortable Position of the only girl in Harter county. Its ten eligible bachelors were sighing for her and dying for her before she crossed the state lire. As none of the enterprising swains saw any individual profit in standing back to see the others make the running, the Pendleton parlor of an evening soon eame to look like a Jury room with an ob- stinately hung jury—Miss Eula serving as the sheriff who, apparently, held the recal- cltrants in durance vile. When the young woman was pleased to attend a roundup, or to ride to any gather- ing, she never went with less than a cor- poral’s guard; a crowd more like a sheriff's posse usually surrounded her while there, and accompanied her home. Such being the state of things, it is no wonder that the report that the Early Worm, otherwise Nort Willis, had been seen all alone, except for the presence of the two ponies ahd a steer, at the south of the Bar 6 corral giving Miss Eula lessons in roping, awakened scornful mirth. “Tha\ just it,” said the storekeeper at Prairie City, who was bald, fat and fifty, and hadn’t roped a steer for ten years, but who was one of Miss Pendieton’s most de- voted and obtuse suitors. “That's just Nort Willis! Runnin’ over there because he lives near and tryin’ to keep the young lady all to himself. Pesters her to death, of course, and hasn’t sense enough to take a friend or two along to take the cuss off the situation when he gets left. They talk about Nort Willis’ luck; but I tell you there’s more in his lack of common, ordinary horse sense than there is in his luck. Look at ’im now, fixin’ to git left ag’in by settin’ up to court a girl that hez her pick of Harter county, a girl that can have the pick an’ choice of men of means, with ranches an’—an’ stores, an’ sich.” As no more of these lessons were heard of, after the first, and as Nort never presented himself in the Pendleton parlor of evenings when the solemn gatherings were held, nor attempted to join Miss Eula’s little court at any of the roundups or excursions, it came to be an accepted opinion that, with his usual luck, he had gotten his “vamuse”’ even sooner than might have been looked for. Miss Pendleton carried herself as one used to homage, and made use, mercilessly, of he ains. Pret Somers, surnamed “Pret- because he was ugly enough to scare a team of Texas ponies into running away, spent a week up in the breaks of the Cana- dian hunting; letting all the boys get ahead of him while he was gone, as he bitterly realized when he came home with the moun- tain Hon’s skin she had expressed a wish for. The storekeeper had his eye out to buy her an old rosary, such as she fancied, from some of his Mexican customers. The boys brought her so many polished steer horns, deer’s-hoof ink stands and such jike, that she might have set up a store for the sale of Texas curlosities when she went home, had she felt so disposed. Prairie City, the county seat of Harter county, consisted at this time of a name and three buildings. The main one, a mcd- est ‘dobe structure with a frame porch, con- tained the store, post office, and in une back room, which was also the storekeeper’s bed room, liquors were dispensed with the prim- itive aid of a tin cup. This store was the gathering place for the gay and gallant element of Harter court: One evening about three months after Mi: Eula Pendleton's arrival, its circle of loun- gers was electrified by an announcement from the storekeeper. He had felt of late that he -vas falling be- hind the younger men in the race, and he spoke in “a personally aggrieved tone, as though the entire matter might have been arranged to compass his defeat. “Do you know, gentlemen,” he sald, “that bcp Eula’s goi 0 leave us! She's agoin’ ym said a tall, thin man who claimed to hail from Indiana, and was suspected of having been a lawyer back in the east, “I say that is the fault of this crowd, all and severally.” “Don't see how you make that go,” growled Pret Somers, from where he lay on the counter. “She's had her pick of Harter county, and none of Harter county don’t suit her—that’ I see in it.” “Now really, gumentatively, “do you think she has her pick? I’m not a marrying man my- self’ (it was believed that he had left a wife east somewhere), “but it really seems to me that you gentlemen fell over each other and stepped on each other, and nat- urally stood in each other's light in trying to please the lady. Candidly, have any of you asked her to stay?” There was a somewhat blank silence. “Ah,” said the Indiana man, “I thought as much. I—thought—as—much! “You see, each one of you has been so afraid that some one else would get ahead of him that you've done more at trying to defeat each other than at advancing your cause.” “Looks 80," said the storekeeper dejected- iy. ; “It might be, now,” said the Indiana man insinuatingly, “that if the lady was asked she'd settle here.” The company looked furtively at one another, as though each one were covertly calculating the chances of being the first to slip away and get a chance to put this mo- Mentovs question unhindered. The Indiana man laughed. “No.” he said. “you're all in one boat now. You're all watching each other and nobody's going to get the chance to go out to the Bar 6 alone.” “The best thine for this yer crowd t’do,”” said old Hank Pearsall, from a back seat, where he had been quietly smoking. “is to come "long ‘ith me in a body un to the Bar &. Most ell the available matrimontal tim- ber o* Harter covnty’s hver. I'm _ well ‘quainted "ith the lady an’ I'll engage t’ ask her. free an’ confidenshull, !f there's en thing In the lot she can make out with.” ‘e really ought to go over to say caod ve.” said the storekeeper anxiously. “You hovs can come in my room here and fix yourselves up.” Tf the storekeener favored the plan he- cause he thoueht It might heln him to at nose of a curtons drift of “gents’ furniah- |ines” on hie shelves, which seemed to have acenmulated there some time during the piineane neriod. he was highly succe-efnt Purchases were solemnly and judicially in Ae. Mirra hasin, towel. broken mirror end blaee nomh in the eorner were In ronstant ena violent requisition. and for hel? an honr the Tear end of the store looked like the green room of an amateur theatrical Then the shutters were put up, the its out, ponies mounted the calvacade took its ‘way, with courage that ebbed at every step, to the Bar 6. seemed somewhat awed and as- tonished, not at the visit—such calls had been common during her stay—but at the manner of her visitors. They might, the number been sufficient, have been ly taken for the pall bearers going to a funeral. When the party was seated there fell a solemn hush. Old who seemed to consider himself ele: chairman of the meeting by the ailent suf- frage of the eye, deemed this a fitting time to speak. Rising,he waved his hand toward his com- ions like a showman exhibiting a col- Fection of curious animals. “We heerd, miss,” he said, “thet you wuz thinkin’ o’ leavin’ us. Harter county’ll miss ye. They ain’t nothin’ Harter county wouldn't do to try to keep ye. ‘T seemed to some o’ us thet ef ye wuz pervided weth a sadisfactory pardner, ye might be more in ther notion hyer. settle “Now this,” with another comprehensive gesture, “ez the layout.” He spoke with scme eerie as though the goods, on the whole, did not look as well aa he had expected. “You know ther tricks an’ gaits by this time, ma’am, an’ whether there’s anything in the drove t’would do ye. Some’s old, but p'r’aps they're stiddier; none o' ’em don’t handsome very much, but they're all tol- lable sound an’ kind, an’ if th’ one y’ pick don't travel jist to suit ye, here’s th’ rest o° us oe him into shape fer ye—can we trade?” Some years ago all well-conducted females were represented, in literature, at least, as fainting upon receiving a proposal of mar- riage. It is to be recorded to the credit of Miss Eula’s nerves that, on receiving a round half dozen at one ww she neither fainted nor screamed. “Why, the fact is, gentlemen,” said she, divided between amusement and “that your proposal overwhelms me; it’s 80 —so Texan—if you'll permit the expression. I really think too much of all of you col- lectively to accept any one individually.” This sounded well, but somehow it was rather unsatisfactory. The band of suitors looked one at the other to see if any com- fort might be extracted from it, and finding none, looked gloomily down and twirled their hats. +, Seeing unrelieved depression, Miss Eula tried again. “The fact is,” she said, “that your kind cffers—or offer—comes too late anyhow. I'm engaged already; in fact I'm going home to be married."”” Deeper gloom on every face. “Some ten- derfoot chump,” confided Pret Somers to the depths of his sombrero; “some feller t’ ‘ad run from a cow and couldn’t ride a live a or rope a steer if his life depended on it.” “Why, no,” answered Miss Eula with some embarrassment, “I’m going to marty @ gentleman that you all know right well; a—a—a fellow citizen of yours,” They looked at each other in consterne- tion at the mention of a dark horse. They had thought that all the eligible bachelor- hood of Harter county was then within four walls. It's Mr. Norton Willis, our neighbor on the north here,” she added, blushingly. The worm! The company rose with solemn alacrity, shook their hostess’ hand and filed out. “Well,” remarked Hank Pearsall, cheer- fully, “you'll hev t’ let up talkin’ ‘bout reckon he ain’t no Nort’s luck after this; I early worm in this trade.’ “I don’t know,” said the storekeeper, with that acrid cynicism which one Aesop informs us a certain fox once displayed in a Se of grapes; ‘‘mebby she's the early ————+o____ Strictly Domestic Wives, From Harper's Bazar. The union of many couples would appear to be rather a disunion, so rarely are they seen together, so little have they to show in common. Such of their neighbors and ac- quaintances as take it on themselves to criticise their relation are apt to blame the husband for neglecting his wife, for seek- ing recreations and pleasures in which she cannot share. While the blame may in such cases be generally deserved, it is not al- wa) There are women, and not a few, so absorbed in their own homes, in. their children and all household details, as to leave small space for any large considera- tion of their husbands. They are the women known as entirely, strictly domestic. But their idea does not embrace his in- tellectual needs, his wholesome appetite for variety, his reminiscent love of his early married days. Having no executive power, they are with- out faith in subordinates, and, as a result, they are overwhelmed with tasks that they might better have delegated to others. They are acquainted with the exact condition of the larder and the sons’ and daughters’ wardrobe, and they plume themselves im- mensely on such knowledge. It belongs to thelr domesticity, about which they are easily flattered, and of which they are ever prating. The virtue of domesticity, indeed, as they practice it, acquires a strong seasoning of vice—at least in the eyes of their husbands, who can seldom draw them away from its contemplation. A husband wants some dis- traction, some hint of novelty, some whiff of the outer world. If he is not impelled in self-defense to seek the sofa and brief ob- livion, which is a negative solace, he goes to a neighbor's, to an adjacent hotel where his professional or business associates re- sort, or to the club, for company or enter- tainment. But he does not generally adopt such remedies for relief—men who intelligently are not easily weary of their homes—until he has tried to beguile his wife out of her settled moods and occupa- tions. He may have invited her to short even- ing strolls they were once so fond of; to hear music, to see plays, to take journeys endeared by association. When read to, she grew drowsy. When she read herself, she was soon tired. After one or two strolls, she found that she had neglected some household duty. Musie made her nervous. The theater wearied her. Journeys interfered with the materni plans she had performed. “After all, an ig) her husband fully realizing the literal truth of her citation, and seeing that he only bored her by his laudable efforts to enlarge her sphere, relinquishes his object with sorrow and mortification, “Why strive for the impossible?” he men- tally asks. 2 He quickly and clearly perceives that she is more contented in her self-mposed bond- age than in the comparative freedom he has vainly sought to press upon her. The mass of husbands, it may be con- ceded, are not aflictively domestic; but many, reasonably, healthfully domestic at the outset, have certainly been healed by the excessive domesticity of their wives, JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE. —_+o+—____ The Overlooked Gold Fields South. From the Age of Steel. ‘The decline of silver values has resulted in a revived interest in gold mining. The search for the yellow metal being thus ac- centuated, some of our older sources of supply that for various reasons have been overlooked or neglected are likely to come once more in the range of enterprise. In this revival the southern gold belt will have its share. The discovery of gold deposits in the south antedated by many years those of the Pacific slope and the Rocky moun- tains. In North Carolina, Georgia and Ala- bama, more than anywhere else, prospect= ing and mining have had a respectable though intermittent history. In mining and milling appliances the equipment has been necessarily primitive and crude, which, with scanty capital and a limited knowledge of gold metallurgy, has had an unfavorable effect. The richer deposits of the west and political events handicapped what enter- prise might have been left in the impover- ished and practically ostracised south. The dormancy was unfortunately followed by the boom fever running wild from 1862 to 1878. The result was injudicious invest- ment, blatant and inflated ements, with the usual squad of charlatans and sharpers, who fattened on public credulity and pock- eted its cash. No industry can thrive on iNusions or intoxicants of this kind, nor public confidence, so essential to prosper- ity, be maintained on a spider-and-fly pro- gram. It is not likely that for some time at least the public will suffer from this too oft-repeated folly. It may be said, or at any rate hoped, that we are settling down to a more steady and healthy basis of growth, in which the mining interests of the south will share its advantages. It is true that southern ores are of a low grade, but this is compensated by their abundance. It has the advantages also of such economies as low-priced. labor, abundant water power and vast resources of timber for fuel and mining purposes. That capital ts not blind to these inducements ts evidenced by the more careful examination of gold deposi the reopening of old mines and a more di gent search for new locations, With science and enterprise hand in hand, with more perfected and efficient equipme: and such | economies as are characteristic of modern methods, what there may be of gold deposits in the south may yet become @ promising and remunerative industry. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1898-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. LATE STYLES FOR WOMEN. Novelties That Suit the Tastes of the Modish. Large Sleeves Are Holding Their Own and Paniers Overskirts Are Here Again—Ideas in Headwear. Written for The Evening Star. Large sleeves are holding their own, but it is rumored that the latest is materially reduced in size; in fact, it resembles the tight-fitting tailor sleeve of a year or two ago. One of the latest sleeves, however, is called the chatelaine puff, made extremely full and draped on the arm. No one can deny, however, that the large sleeves are stylish and becoming, and add materially to marrow-shouldered women. Accordeon- pleated leg-o'-mutton sleeves of the middle ages, slashed sleeves and others too nu- merous to mention are all popular. Paniers and overskirts are here again, and if they become as popular as in former Gays tall women will have an advantage over their shorter sisters, as it improves the looks of a slender figure by increasing the @pparent width of the hips and also re- @ucing their height. The round, full over- skirts, draped on one side, the pointed shaw! and the circular overskirts are all to be used, as the Paris fashions will soon show. A great many of the winter gowns of cloth are being made without lining; they have a separate foundation skirt, which is cut a trifle shorter than the outside skirt, al- though cloth dresses lined with taffeta or other soft materials are preferable. A style that bids fair to become very popular is the wearing of handsome bodices and jack- ets of fancy silks or velvets, with circular skirts of black silk, satin or figured silks. Street suits are still mede narrow at the top and flare bottom, stiffened quite high enough to escape the ground. For rainy weather they are still further abbreviated, nearly reaching the instep. A pretty finish for the edge of a skirt is a heavy cord of twisted silk, which is both handsome and Reception Toilette. useful; or a pleated or twisted velvet, which is both pretty and substantial. An improved idea for binding skirts is to put candle wicks in the velvet binding to form a thick cord, which makes the dress stand out and prevents it wearing. Another method used by the more stylish and artistic habit makers is, instead of hair-cloth facing, to put feather-bone, a very pliable material, which is more effect- ive and wears better, beside being much Ughter in weight. On the back width of many gowns wadding is used to give the proper fullness and set to the pleats. A Handsome Tollet. A handsome toflet worn at a reception re- cently was a reseda green broadcloth trim- med with lace, velvet and fur. The skirt ‘was cut the new double style, draped on one side to form a box plait, slightly raised, re- vealing a velvet band underneath. The waist—a short jacket—forming a ripple skirt, was tallor-stitched. A high, flaring collar of velvet a darker shade edged with fur, formed a surplice front to the jacket, and opened far enough to show a chemi- sette and tight collar band of velvet. The Jace collar was arranged to form a it in the center of the back, on th oulders and on each side of the front. Full puffs of velvet with tight cloth lowers trimmed in lace and bands of fur completed the simple but elegant toilet. Walking Gown. Figure two represents a walking dress of cloth and velvet combination. The cloth skirt has a narrow ruche of vel- vet around the bottom. The jacket, of vel- t, is tight-fitting to the waist, with full fox Seated skirt sewed on and cut to points. A pointed girdle of jet inser- tion joins the two. ll leg-o’-mutton Sleeves are used and a collar of ermine pointed back and front held at the neck by @ band of velvet ribbon with large rosette in the back. A revised edition of the redingote of yore is ornamented around the bottom with satin cut in pointed scallops edged with fur. ‘The back is cut all in one, princess style, falling from the waist in two full box Pleats. On the front of the waist are two Fevers of braided satin turned back on three ruffied capes of velvet edged with fur. The lower end of each rever is finished with ro- sette streamer of velvet. A band of wider fur gives an attractive finish to the ‘The Improved Redingote. Much taste may be displayed in the selec- tion of finishing materials, and the varie- ties to choose from are many and attrac- tive. Buttons are in in vogue. Mother of pearl, cut steel filigree and colored ailk buttons covered in black crochet all ha their uses. Some of the very latest waists are buttoned up the front. Jet insertion over a color is very effective on black silks, fur is much used, silk guimps, hercules braid, soutache braid combined with gold braid and moire cut blas edged with the narrow form very handsome finishes for skirts. The Lote Fuller braid is very popu- lar; {t comes in all colors. Evening cos- are tri extensively with ac- cordeon pleated muslin, chiffon, &c., with "Sine iridescent colorings iridescent colorings are in favor. A Word as te Headwear. The felt plateaus were very popular at the beginning of the season, but since they can be bought as low us seven cents apiece their popularity is waning. For those who have a full face the con- tinental shape is very becoming, ond with the addition of feathers and pompons, ac- quire a very military appearance. In hat ornaments birds and wings seem to héid first place. A very fetching bat shown in one of the fashionable milliner’s on F street is a flat shape of biack velvet, on the front of which is an Alsatian bow of black lace spangled in gold and silk reses of a pale magenta and small black ostrich tps curling on the brim. Perched.on the back is quite a large black bird, with a few roses nestling underneath on the hair. Feather bands are used on felt and vel- vets, but not as much as last season. Following the lead of the idea of the pet chameleon ornaments (7) the kins of all creeping things are finding favor. A hand- some purse is one of rattlesnake skin, with its markings of brown and white mounted in silver. A new conceit in cum- bination card cuse and is, instead of the usual square frame, a curved one ts used, which increases the depth and size of the purse. Some ornamental pins are shown also, car- rying out the reptilian idea; one shows a lizard of frosted enamel, with six tiny emeralds down its back and a diamond in the center of the head. Another is a beetle of like material, with ruby studded feet and pearl crowned head. Some inexpensive but acceptanle Xmas novelties are the umbrella clasps of silver or gold, silver hat and book markers. The clasps and ladies’ shoe clasps ond the world’s fair souvenirs in shape of rings, spoons, &c., are finding ready buyers. Pdi ns =~ teem TENNYSON’S DEATH BED. Sir Andrew Clark’s Graphic Descrip- tion. From the Westminster Gazette. Lord Ternyson was dead; from Hasle- mere came confused rumors that the death- bed scene had been of unearthly beauty, and that Sir Andrew, who had watched with his dying friend and patient through the whole of the last day and night, was on his way back to London. When I step- ped out of my hansom at his Goor, Sir An- Grew drove up from the opposite direction. He could rot see patients just then, the servant told me very politely. I wasn't a patient, I replied, and gave him my letter of introduction from the editor. And then I was told Sir Andrew would see me pres- ently. I had to wait some time, end then he himself came in full of apologies, and ready to listen to my requests. “Come along into my den,” he said, very kindly; “I am tired, but I would like to oblige your editor. Your editor is my editer, for yours is the only evening paper I read regularly.” This, by the way, was in the last days of the former incarnation of the Westminster Gazette. “And now listen aod I will tell you what I think I may say,” he said, as we had set- tied in the famous consulting room. A red- dish light from the fire lit up the gloom of the dull, wet, autumn day, and in the per- fect silence of the house Sir Andrew's ac- count of that most wonderful of death- beds was almost as a story from another world. He looked very sad as he was sit- ting in front of his bureau; incessantly twisting a pencil between his fingers; but for one moment he brightened up, looked frowningly at me and said: ing me tc do what in the medical profes- sion is considered ay ye breach of quette.” And then ot up, and in bit- ter disappointment I rose to go, with only sufficient courage left to say that certainly i this was so I was sincerely sorry. In one second the frown turned into « genial smile, and with hig hand on my shoulder tell such thi down on the and fell, and often grew husky and un- steady, he told me of the last watch by the bedside of the poet. “I have stood by the bedsides of thousands of fellow creatures,” he said, “and have seen very grand and solemn deathbed scenes, but never one like that from which I have just come home.” Sir Andrew, when he grew this—and I sat in told of the glorious of the autumn storms and rains, dawned over the world as the poet lay on his death- bed. One sentence I remember of the scription. which he then gave distant hills, shrouded in mists white, could be seen through the dow of the room where Ten! that the dark,” and then he and walked up and down the rose to go. est them today. But the secret is this: He lived a quiet, laborious, simple life. It is a secret which few men learn In time to profit by it. I was his friend before I was his physician. Metaphysics drew us together. Gladstone, too, is deeply interested in that subject, and we all three agreed in our taste for a simple life, and a life of work. “Half the disease of the generation is due to people's idleness. Idleness, the beginning of all evil. The mother of a pampered darl- ing of a Gaughter sends to me. The girl ails, no one knows why. I am to come and prescribe. I know before I go what is the matter with the girl. “Go to your local medical man,’ I say; ‘he can manage the case very well.” But no, it must be Sir An- drew, the grumpy Scot, and Sir* Andrew prescribes long walks and less rich food, and regular meals and early hours. And Presently, when the young lady has re- gained her red cheeks and high spirits, they think I have performed & Gerful cure! “Now let me tell you how 1 myself have managed to live at = It = sixty-six. Over thirty years ago, when I was a young and obscure Scotch practitioner tn London, T applied for a place on the medical staff of the London Hospital. The authorities there said: chap ; he won't last jong. Let us, in pity, give him the post.’ Well, I have outlived nearly every one of them. All my life I have been delicate; I have several times been at death's door, but by reason of a simple life and @ life of work, I have managed to get very close to three score years and ten.’ I got up once more to take my leave. “Sit still,” be commanded once as he put on his glasses and a profess: air, “, so you are one of those ladies who write? They tell me all the younger generation of women on —— Do = smoke?” (with a le emp! is on the personal pronoun). “No, Sir Andrew, I don’t.” “ You don’t smoke? Look here, let me tell you one thing. Don’t! Don’t!” I took my leave, and jumped into my hatsom; but I was recalled. “Come back! Make haste! Young woman, come this moment!” Bir Andrew called after me, and showed me again into his room. “I only want to tell you one thing. my name in connec- tion with what I have tolé you, rii—ri haunt you. Now shake hands, and forgi garrulous old man for keeping you ss Be ee en at the time in conn Wi orma- tion. He sent his “Well done!’ down to me when he saw my article, and that was the last I heard directly from him But if the threat of haunting me for revealing who was our informant about Tennyson's deathbed scene was meant to be indefinite, then—but I do not think Sir Andrew went 80 far in his prohibition. —-—+e+______ Pulse Coolers, From the Philadelphia Record. A lady residing in the older part of the city, fond of all the comforts afforded by the latest discoveries in the arts and sciences, holds a theory regarding healthful temperature of the body which she has car- ried out in a practical manner. During the summer she wears what she calls “pulse- coolers,” her theory being that the entire blood circulation may be raised or dimished in temperature by wrists. The Boose penal fn teat tt ked together with filigreed in diameter, lin! silver and forming a handsome bracelet. The spheroids were cut by a local » and their quality of absorbing cold in pref- erence to heat is remarkable, For winter, the pulse-warming bracelets consist of a strip of asbestos, a noted non-conductor, an inch wide, enveloped in gold-embossed velvet, buckled with a loop of diamonds. The lady claims that when wearing these she is proof against any suffering caused by extreme variations ‘Weather. ~ FOOL PASSES FOR A WISE MAN ONLY BECAUSE BB ‘We don't want any sch to visit our establish READY-TO-PUT-OR WINTER CLOTHING For Men, Youths, Boys and Children. O CENTS ON THE DOLLAR—And in that way distribute ow Kmas Gifts . To all who may see fit to embrace the opportunity them. thus aftorded MEN'S PANTALOONS—$6, 85.50, $4.50 Kinds—Now... entirely surrounded by tempting you'll be at @ lous to determine greater, VICTOR E. ADLER’S Tex Pex Cexr Crome Hoven, 927 Ax 929 Tsu Sx. N. W. CORK: SETIS AVE FTRICTLY ONE PRICK Until January 1, "4, this store will be opens SSE oon. 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