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PREPARE FOR XMAS. ‘Bome Suitable Gifts and How to Make Them. AVHEN MONEY I8 -SCARCE Angenuity and a Little Work Will Answer. ‘TO REMEMBER FRIENDS. “Writes for The Evening Star. OW THAT INVISI- bie hands have be- gun to paint fantas- tie scenes upon our window panes, and there is a pleasant crispness in the at- mosphere, we can better realize that winter is at hand,and the holiday season, with its delightful air of mystery and prep- aration, rapidly ap- proaching. & few methodical persons have already partially filled their bureau drawers with 44 shaped parceis, but for some inscruta- Ble reason Christmas steals upon the ma- Gerity of us unawares. We think of it, be- fore Thanksgiving, only as an event in the shadowy distance, but that festivity well over, we realize its proximity all at once, swith @ little shock of surprise, and the dis- tracting question of suitable gifts for the Gifferent members of the family and various friends has to be met in earnest.with lit- fle time for preparation. ‘With unlimited means to draw upon it is wnly @ matter of selection, but when one’s expenditures must be kept within a restrict- ed sum, lists must often be revised a dozen times as the articles first decided upon are found, upon inquiry, to cost more than the price set aside for them, and the problem becomes more difficult. Mest of the shops have put on their holi- @ay attire, and counters fairly overflow with ell sorts of dainty and useful novelties. Leather, chamois and linen are the mater- fals most used in their construction, and many of the prettiest can be easily fashion- 6 by deft fingers. . A Hanging Cushion. A pretty hanging cushion can be made of fWelvet, lace and ribbon. The colors of the one here illustrated are emerald, green and yellow. A circular pad eight inches in diameter is covered on one side with the vel- vet, and on the other with yellow siik. Ex- tending diagonaliy over the velvet is a wide Band of gold embroidery, and around the edge is 2 narrow row of fancy gold gimp. A flounce of lace eight Inches deep around the lower half of the cushion is caught up at both sides with loops and ends of wide Yellow satin ribbon. The cushion is hung to the wail by means of a t ited rope of \ the ribbon, with a huge bow at the top to bide the hook. Mat for Lamps. Now that lamps are used so extensively, damp mats are called into great requisition. ‘The prettiest are made of tinted chamois, and require a circular piece, twelve inches fm diameter. Two and one-half inches from the edge, mark off a second circle, and three {inches from the second draw a third. Slash the edge at intervals of one-eighth of an fuch, to the first circle, to make a fringe. te as illustrated, with pansies or bachelor buttons between the second and third rings, and outline the divisions made ‘With gold or dark paint. Fan Bag. A lovely fan bag is made of ribbon, and is Simplicity itself. Fringe out each end of a yard and a half of ribbon, four inches wide, to a depth of one and one-half inches, dou- Die, and sew together the edges. Cut small @lashes about an inch below the fringe, and fun in narrow ribbon or cord, the same color as the bag, to draw up with. If ex- pert with the paint brush, long graceful ray of flowers or some appropriate little So gives a beautifying touch. Pincushions are larger than ever and fairly smothered in lace and ribbons. The best size for a bureau is about eight inches equare. They are stuffed very hard and full, and all around on the seam is shirred @ very full ruffle of lace three inches wide. Loops of narrow ribbon the color of the eushion ornament each corner. The mat, four inches square, usually of lace _or open- ‘work embroidery, is aiso surrounded by a full ruffle of the lace and so placed on the cushion that the straight sides of the mat cross its corners. le and Work Bag. Bor a very small child the daintiest rattle imaginable is made of ribbon. Around an embroidery hoop, five inches in diameter, wind narrow pink or blue picot-edged rib- bon closely, covering it completely. Across the center of the hoop stretch two rows of the ribbon, two inches apart, and where they join on to the sides cover with bunches of loops. All around the outside of the hoop sew to the ribbon, at intervals of one inch, tiny silver bells, pails, lanterns, etc. They will jingle most musically every tim: the loop is moved. Leather Picture Frame. Novelty picture frames are of leather, very rich and ornamental in appearance. The most elaborate are large with a fanciful brass frame work all around the edge. The opening for the picture is usually a little above the center and the space below Is re- served for decoration. Lighter and more delicate in appearance, however, are those of glass. Directly under @ piece of glass, seven by eight inches, is placed a piece of water-color paper the same size, having in the center a circular opening, usually formed by a painted wreath of flowers. Inside the ring the paper is scal- loped out around the petals and makes the most fitting environment for a pretty face. Magazine and Book Covers. Book and magazine covers always make acceptable little gifts and are very easy to make. For the ordinary sized paper-covered novel @ piece of linen canvas sixteen and a half by eight inches is required. Turn down the width of a seam all around the edges and press flat. Fold over three inches on each end and sew the edges together, over and over. Magazine covers are similarly made by first taking the exact dimensions, allowing half an inch to turn down all around, and four inches more on each end to hold the covers. Blank books for household receipts, note books and laundry lists may be beautified by the addition of a cover, and their utility enhanced by fastening to the cover a pencil. Envelope Sachets. In Meu of Christmas cards, envelope sachets are much used this season. Place inside the envelope two layers of sheet wadding the same size, between which a liberal sprinkling of sachet powder has been piaced. A simple spray of flowers and the name of the perfume used is painted on the top of a small bunch of paper violets, or tiny roses, tied with narrow ribbon, is equally pretty. To Scratch Matches. A match scratcher is made by gluing to the back of a card, four by five inches, a plece of sandpaper. The card is made of heavy water-color paper, with ragged edges, and finished by a ribbon to hang it up by. A little remembrance that will be appre- elated by those who wear glasses is an eye- glass wiper. They are usually made of chamois. A piece of tan or any of the del- icate tints in which it now comes, four by six inches, is scalloped out around the edge. Two pieces of the undyed chamois or flan- nel, three by five inches, are also scalloped all around, and tied inside with narrow rib- bon. Fold in the middle, and with brush or pen write the verse: “The world will never seem quite right Unless you keep your glasses bright.” These things can be fashioned by little fing: Pretty Portfolio. A pretty portfolio or blotter can be cov- ered outside with either chamois leather or linen. In making articles of this kind glue is used instead of the needle, and to be sat- isfactory they must be very exact and neat. It is a good plan to have the cardboard that is used as a foundation for these things cut into the required dimensions by machinery at the shop where it is purchased. To make a portfolio like the one here shown it is necessary to have four pieces of cardboard, nine inches wide by ten inches long, and three layers of sheet wad- ding the same size. Place a piece of the covering for the out- side, nineteen and a half inches wide by twelve long, on the table. On each half of this lay a piece of the wadding, and on the wadding two pieces of the cardboard, leav- ing about one-quarter of an inch of space between. Glue the edges of the outside material over the pasteboard, pressing the corners perfectly flat with a warm iro! Cover one of the remaining pieces of card- board in the same manner with silk. Next tri; lar piece of crinoline and glue over the lower left- to form a pock Cover a strip of crinoline four inches wide in the same way and glue across the top. Cover three small triangles of crinoline with silk, and glue one over each corner of the re- maining piece of cardboard. These hold the sheet of blotting paper. Glue the pieces with the pockets over the left-hand half or the outside, and the other over the right-hand side. Fold over and place under a heavy weight until thor- oughly dry. Decorate the cover in any manner desired. Made From a Cigar Box. Boxes are used almost exclusively in place of the flat cases so long in vogue. They are all covered with linen, in the de! {cate art shades, and lined with silk of a contrasting tint. One of the prettiest ideas was a cigar box. These are tedious, but not at all diffi- cult to make. In its construction four pieces of pasteboard, ten by five and a half inches, four pieces five and a half by | four inches, and four pieces ten by four | inches. Cover two of each with silk and two with linen as directed for portfolio. Glue those covered with linen to the cor- responding dimensions covered with silk. Place under a heavy press, and when dry sew the edges together to form a box, and decorate the top. If needlework is preferred to painting, an appropriate design can be stamped and worked on the linen before it is made up. The other boxes here shown are made in the same way. The dimensions of the cravat box are twenty-two inches long, five and a half wide and three high. The work-box is eight inches square and four inches high, and the letter-box ten by seven inches, and four high. Pretty Work Bag. A very pretty work-bag is made of one yard of light-blue silk and an embroidery hoop, six inches in diameter. Sew the selvege edges of the silk to- gether, and turn down at one end three inches for a heading, running in an extra row of stitching three-quarters of an inch from the edge of the hem for a shi Tike. othe! end sew the silk around the hoop. Run a gathering thread along the edge, and draw it up tight to form the bottom of the bag. For Invitations. A lovely receptacle for invitation cards has as a foundation a piece of heavy card- board, fifteen inches long by eight wide, covered with pale-blue linen. Double pieces of linen, six inches deep, are glued diagonally across at intervals, as Mlustrated, to form pockets. A graceful spray of flowers on the right side and the form suitable decoration. A ribbon to hang it up by and a pretty bow complete this useful article. ———_ — 0+ BECAME AN INDIAN PRINCE. Career of a New York Irishman Who Married a Hindoo Woman. From the Brooklyn Eagle. A notice from the surrogate’s court, pub- lished in last evening's Eagle, recalls the Singular history of a former resident of te eastern district. The citation is Issued to the legatees of the late James Darragh to appear in court here on Décember 21 to at- tend the judicial settlement of the account of Enoch L. Fancher and John McCann, ex- ecutors of the last will and testament of James Darragh, deceased. Darragh was a remarkable man. born at Turgan, Ireland, some sixty years ago, and came here a poor boy. After some years he engaged in the manufacture of coir or cocoa mats and matting, and with small success. He could not compete with the finer fiber that came from the east. He sold out all his belongings, and with the little money thus realized sailed to India, leaving his Irish wife and two daughters here. This was some twenty-five or twenty-seven years ago. He settled down In Allepy, a port on the west coast of Hindostan, ruled by the Rajah of Travancore. ‘The latter state runs in a narrow strip down the coast to the extreme point of the great peninsula, Cape Comorin being situated at the extremity of Travancore. Here the Brooklyn man re- sumed the old manufacture of coir fiber into cordage, mats and matting. He pros- pered and gained the confidence of the rajah, to whom he finally became indispens- able. He was allowed to coin money, and gradually acquired extensive tea, coffee and cotton plantations and established fac- tories in Allepy and Madras. He estab- lished the importing house of Darragh & Smail at No. 177 Water street, New York, which does an extensive business in tiger and other skins, Indian and Persian stuffs and rugs, cocoa fiber manufactures and, in fine, all the products of the orient. In the meantime Darragh forgot his ties here and married a high-caste Hindoo woman, whose daughter was married to Mr. Smail. The latter is a Scotchman and was Darragh’s| bookkeeper and manager her Mr. Darragi son-in-law, he his partner and looked after the end of the business. A factory was erected on Spencer street, which was burned down some time ago and rebulit by Mr. Smail. The first Mrs. Darragh and her daughter returned to Ireland, where they now reside. Some twelve years or so ago great trouble arose between Darragh and his consignees here, who were then George W. Dow & Sons. They brought suit against the East Indian for a settling. Judge Fancher was his counsel. Darragh won and the case was taken to the supreme court, where he was ultimately successful. His counsel wired nim, and he got the dispatch in forty-eight hours. He came on here, and on his return went to his old home in Ireland, where he made his will, appointing Judge Fancher one of the executors. As a matter of fact, if the stories told of him on the ships he used to send here were true, James Darragh lived like full-fledged East Indian petty potentate and kept a regular harem in true oriental style. About four years ago one of his ships, an old Black Ball liner, came into the Atlantic dock with an immense cargo of coir pro- ducts, skins and Indi tea. She was a wonderful flyer, too, and passed one of Skolfiel crack American clippers in rounding the Cape of Good Hope as though the latter was anchored. It always was a grievance with him that his ships had to sail under the British flag instead of the stars ard stripes. Although the Spencer street factory 1s still running in full blast, few Brooklynites now think of this remark. able and adventurous exile from the City of Churches. ————+e+—______ America in the Book of Daniel. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. “The United States, in the Light of Prophecy and History,” was the subject of an interesting lecture delivered by Judge Doolittle yesterday afternoon in the Peo- ple’s Institute. The speaker took up the Prophecy of Danisl, dealing with the vis- fon seen by Nebuchadnezzar, and proceed- ed to show that as the gold, silver, bronze, and fron in the image represented the As- syrian, Medo-Persian, Grecian and Roman kingdoms, so the e hewn out of the mountain, which was to destroy all the other kingdoms, represented the republic of the United States, which should rise up last of all and endure forever as the final and lasting form of government on the earth. In the first part of his discourse he gave a vivid picture of the greatness and magnificence of the City of Babylon, the capital of the Assyrian empire, and’ said the prophecy uttered in regard to that city had been literally fulfilled, as had also that relating to the kingdoms of Greece and Rome and the ten kingdoms of Europe that at present compose what was the Roman empire. The other kingdom represented by the stone which was to rise could be no other than the great republic of the western emisphere. Becoming iso became Yew York oo A Matter of Do From the Detroit Free Press. Riding along the Clover Fork of the Cum- berignd one day, I overtook a mountaineer, and we jogged along together. We talked of timber, ercps and politics, and finally got down to personalities, ‘Have you always ved here?” I asked, No,” he replied, “I come from Perry county. “How long have you lived here? “Five ye'r, goin’ on six. “Married, I presume ‘Yes, but I wuan’t when I fuss come. 1 worked by the day for the Widder Stevens and boarded with her. That's all the home I had. It's that farm with the two. ‘story house onto it you passed about four mile below here.” “It's a very nice place, I noticed.” ‘Fust rate. I run it. I married the wid- ” I said in surprise. . me and her hitched inside of a = good deal cheaper than the old isn’t it?” “Well,” he said doubtfully, “I ain’t shore. In course the property’s worth sumpthin’ but countin’ in the widder fer a man uv my peaceable dispessition, it ain't sitch dern cheap livin’ ez you might s'pose it wuz,” THE INDIAN MOUNDS. Interesting Relics From Far Back in Prehistorio Ti MAJ. POWELL TALKS OF THEIR ORIGIN. Strange Things Found in These Ancient Tumuli. . CURIOUS CONTENTS OF CAVES. Written for The Evening Star. O SUCH AN EX- tent has the mystery of the ancient mound builders been cleared away by the recent investigations of the bureau of ethnology that it is actually known what tribes of Indians constructed many of those works, which are scattered to the nurnber of hun- dreds of thousands over the greater part of the United States. “We know that the mounds of eastern |Tennessee and ern North Carolina were mostiy butit by the Cherokees of cen- taries ago,’ said Maj. J. W. Powell yester: day. “Indians of the same tribe were prob- ably the authors also of most of the an- jelent works of this sort in the Kanawha valley, West Virginia. The tumull in north- days of the week on the left of the pockets | He was | ern Mississipi were constructed by Chicka- |saws chiefly, and those in the gulf states were created by the Muskogee tribes. The | 3hawnecs made the box-shaped stone graves and the mounds containing them in Ken- tucky and northern Georgia, while similar graves in the valley of the Delaware and in Ohio may be safely attributed to the Delawares, “As might be expected, in digging into the mounds some very extraordinary things [Were discovered. In a mound in Iowa was Tound a skeleton of a giant, who, judging from actual measurement, must have stood seven feet six inches tall when alive. The bones crumbled to dust when exposed to he air. Around the neck was a collar of bears’ teeth, and across the thighs were ozens of small copper beads, which may have cnce adorned a hunting shirt. The latter were formed by rolling slender wire- like strips of metal into little rings. One skull obtained from a mound in Alabama was completely filled with snail shells, though for what purpose cannot be imagin- ed. “In another mound in Iowa was found a entral chamber containing eleven skeletons, which were arranged in a circle with their backs against the walls. In their midst ; Was @ great sea shell which had been con- |Verted into a drinking cup. Smaller cavi- |tles in the same tumulus were filled with a fine copper-colored dust, which, when first uncovered, gave out such a sickening odor that operations had to be suspended for & while. This dust was supposed to be ashes from burned flesh—perhaps that of |the individuals in the central chamber. A |bottleful of it was carried away for subse- |quent examination. In other mounds hol- | lows were found lined with a peculiar black |telt-like substance, believed to be the re- |mains of human flesh. Many tribes of In- |dians in ancient times made a practice of |removing the flesh from the bones of the ead—commonly by exposing the bodies on levated platforms, where they were permit- ed to undergo the processes of decay. Very ikely the practice had its origin in an ob- ‘lous precaution against the digging up of -orpses by hungry wild beasts, Found in Caves. “Some of the most interesting material or investigation was found in caves. Fac- ng the Mississippi river, six miles south of New Albin, is a great cavity in the vertica! ace of the sandstone bluff, 50 feet long and |12 feet high. The walls and ceiling are literally covered with rude etchings repre- senting quadrupeds, birds, bird-tracks and ymbolic or fanciful objects. The floor is ipread to a depth of two feet with the bones jof fishes and beasts, fragments of pottery, charcoal and ashes. Obviously, this place Was used for residence purposes during a long period of time. Yet more remarkable is a cave near Guntersville, Ala. Evidently it was utilized for many generations as a cemetery, and the number of dead deposited in it m have been very great. Though much of its contents has been hauled away in sacks for fertilizing land, the floor ts yet covered to a depth of four feet with mate- rial composed chiefly of fragments of human bones. In Tennessee and Kentucky the flesh of bodies stored in caves centuries ago is sometimes remarkably preserved, “On a farm in Bollinger county, Mo., is an area of considerable extent surrounded by an ancient wall of earth about three feet high in places. Inside of it formerly were many remarkable mounds used for burial purposes by the Indians of prehis- toric times, but forty years of continued cultivation of the soil have nearly leveled them. However, the mass of material com- posing them was so great that even now the land within the inclosure is two feet higher than that outside, and so rich is it that it yields seventy-five bushels of corn ber acre in good years, the owner says, while that outside yields only fifty bushels. Ploughing over ot of the mounds a few years ago the owner struck something, and, on digging, discovered two stone coffins, each containing a skeleton. In one of the coffins he found a gourd-shaped vessel filied with lead ore so pure that he afterward turned it into bullets. “In 1879 people in the neighborhood of a town in Mississipp! discovered that the pot- tery, in which the mounds of that region were unusually rich, had considerable com- mercial value. A regular mining fever at once broke out and spread so rapidly that as many as twenty-five or thirty men, women and children could be seen digging for aboriginal bric-a-brac in a single field at the same time. The specimens obtained were sold to merchants, who in turn fur- nished them to museums, scientific institu- tions and relic hunters. The trade brought several thousand dollars to the town. All Made by In: a “Agents of the bureau of ethnology have explored and made excavations in more than 2,000 of these mounds. Among the objects found in them were pearls in great numbers and some of very large size, en- graved shells, bracelets of drawn wire, sil- ver brooches, pins, needles, a silver plate with the coat-of-arms of Spain, a gun bar- rel, a Roman Catholic medal, a copper ket- tle and a fur-covered, brass-nailed trunk. Of course, many of these articles were ob- tained from the whites. They demonstrate beyond a question that mound butlding and burial in mounds went on for some time after the whites landed on the shores of America. In fact, I myself have seen such mounds in process of construction by Indians. There has never been an atom of evidence to prove that any other race than the Indians themselves was concerned in the creation of these works. “Articles of Caucasian manufacture, ob- tained by barter on the coast or from wrecks, quickly found their way to the in- terior of the continent, passing from hand to hand in the course of traffic between the tribes or by capture in war. The system of trade which existed ancienuy among the Indians was surprisingly efficient and satisfactory. Aboriginal drummers actual- ly made their way on foot from the gulf of Mexico to the headwaters of the Mississippi river. The products of the native mines of copper, flint and mica were distributed in @ manner sufficiently business-like to be worthy of @ more advanced civilization. Dried oysters and other shell fish were shipped inland, just as the same mollusks are sent from the Atlantic coast to cities of the interior today. Thus, sea shells are found in the mounds of Illinois and Wiscon- sin, while articles of native Wisconsin cop- per occur in the tumull of West Virginia. “That the mound builders were great smokers is proved by the large numbers of pipes found in their mounds and graves. So numerous are these and so widely distribut- ed that pipe-making and pipe-smoking may be considered as a marked characteristic of that ancient people. This will serve in a way as supplementary evidence that they were Indians; for the Indian is par excellence the man who smokes and bec eet is essential to his happiness. I should not forget to mention that most interesting testimony re- | specting the manner of living of the bufld- ers of mounds is afforded by many of their caches, centuries old and lined with bark, THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1898-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. which have been found to contain large quantities of corn. Maize was the chief food product of the Indians of antiquity, as the contents of the mounds show. In the tumuli clay vessels with prints of cobs are discovered; also lumps of clay bearing the impression of ears of corn, and even charred ears and cobs. “The bureau of ethnology has worked on this problem for the last ten years with great energy and earnestness. The work has been thoroughly done, and leaves no room for doubts as to the accuracy of its results, It has utterly exploded old theories as to a more ancient race of superior civilization which was imagined to have been responsi- ble for the creation of the monu- ments in question. It has been demonstrated that the objects yield- ed by the tumull which are net of un- mistakably Indian manufacture were ob- tained from the whites. The few exceptions have been proved frauds. Because it was impagsible to dig into all of the hundreds of thousands of mounds scattered over the country, typical ones in as many different localities as could be attacked have been investigated. They seem to be of every conceivable shape, though the usual form is a low, broad, round-topped cone. Some of them attain a height of eighty or ninety feet, with a diameter of 300 feet at the base. Others are like walls, from twenty to forty feet wide and three or four feet high, reach- ing a maximum length of 900 feet. These latter were seldom used for burial purposes, and their purpose remains a mystery. The Effigy Mounds. “The most interesting of these works are the so-called effigy mounds, representing birds and many kinds of mammals, which are confined almost wholly to Wisconsin and a small part of Iowa. The whole of the val- ley of Prairie du Chien township is dotted over with these ancient animals—deer, bears, rabbits, antlered elks, &c., in droves, all heading to the southwest like the river. They are enduring evidences of a dense population and long occupancy in past time. Scme of the birds have a spread of 250 feet from wing tip to wing tip. The mounds which were formerly supposed to represent are probably swallow-tailed birds. The osed elephant mound—which portant, because ‘h a Likeness would indi- cate Uiai the authors of the work had lived Su '$ ago as the time when beasts of the elephant family roamed this continent—is probably a bear. One of the most remark- able features of these effigies 1s the imita- lve curving and rounding of the bodies of the animals. Looking over a specimen which has suffered but little wearing away by weather or other causes, it is dificult to get rid of the notion that the builders actually had the animal lying before them when they constructed the mound. “Among the general conclusions which have been arrived at as a result of this in- vestigation, I would mention that the mounds of most elaborate patterns, such as the effigies, are the oldest. Those of later tmes assumed simpler forms. Such tumuli were never bulit for sacrificial purposes—an error which has possessed singular vitality, being accepted by one writer after another. There is no doubt that the tribes which built these works were sedentary in the main. The Indians did not adopt the habit of roaming until after they had been dis- turbed by the whites. Before the Caucasian invasion they were, as a rule, agricultural. »y no means depending wholiy on the chase for food, after the manner of the most primitive savages, they cultivated the land. ‘Traces of their kitchen and market gardens, in which they grew corn, still remain. They Were laid out in geometrical lines, though thei> modern descendants have relinquished this careful method and practice no special order in their planting. The aboriginal hill of corn, however, a smell mound in it- self, sufficient for many stalks, and was used for several years in succession. “The quetion as to whence the Indians originally came is still in dispute and likely to remain so. Dr. Brinton, a recognized au- thority, thinks that they made their way hither from Europe, during or before the great Ice age, by way of a land connection, which once existed over the northern At- lantic. Other ethnologists are of the opinion that some of them arrived from the Atlantic and others from the Pacific side, long iso- lation on this continent molding them into a homogeneous race. The people were al- Ways split up into tribes. There is no truth in the attractive notion that once a mighty nation occupied the valley of the Mississip- pi, with its frontier settiements resting on the lake shores and gulf coast, nestling in the valleys of the Appalachian range and skirting the broad plains of the west—a na- tion with its systems of government and religion, which has disappeared, leaving be- hind it no evidence of its glory, power and extent, save the mounds and what they con- —_—__>—_ SELECTION OF COLOR. Combinations That Should or Shoulda Not Be Made. From Jenness Miller Monthly. Rose-red cannot be put in contact with the rosiest complexions without causing them to lose some of their freshness. Dark- red is less objectionable for certain complex- fons than rose-red, because, being higher than the warmer tone, it tends to impart whiteness to the skin, in consequence of contrast of color. A delicete green is, on the contrary, favorable to all fair complex- ions which are deficient in rose, and which may have more imparted to them without inconvenience. But it is not so favorable to the complexions that are more red than rosy, nor to those that have a tint of orange mixed with brown. in the latter case, a dark-green will be less objectionable than a delicate green. Yellow imparts violet to a fair skin, and in this view it is less favorable than the delicate green. To those skins which are more yellow than orange it imparts white; but this combination is very dull and heavy for a fair complexion. When the skin is tinted more with orange than yellow, we can make it roseate by neutralizing the yellow. It produces this effect on the dark. haired type, and is particularly becoming to brunettes. Violet, the complementary of yellow, pro- duces contrary effects; thus it imparts some greenish-yellow to fair complexions, aug- menting the yellow tint of yellow and orange skins. The little blue there may be in a complexion it makes green; violet, then, is one of the least favorable skin, at least when not whiten the face by contrast of tone. Blue imparts orange, which is jusceptible of allying itself favorably to white and the light flesh tints of fair complexions that have already a more or less determined tint of this color. Blue is thus suitable to most blondes, and in this case justifies its repu- tation. It will not suit brunettes, since they — already too much of orange in their color. Orange is too brillant to be elegant: it makes fair complexions blue, whitens those that have an orange tint and gives a green hue to those of a yellow tint. Drapery of a lusterless white, such as cambrics, muslin, harmonizes well with a fresh complexion. But it 1s unsuitable to complexions which have a disagreeable tint, because white always exalts ail colors by raising their tone. Black draperies, lowering the tone of the color with which they are in juxtaposition, whitens the skin; but if the vermilion or rosy parts are to a certain point distant from the drapery, it will follow that, al- though lowered in tone, they appear, rel- atively to the white parts of the skin, near to this same drapery, rosier than if the con- tiguity to the black did not exist. ——_+e+_____ Does It Mean the Divorce Courts? Dear reader, we will not tell you what he is saying to her; but that is his wife listen- ing. Let us hear what she says to him when he comes out. SC “Oh, George! Could you persuade her? Did she promise you she would not leave? Oh! she did! I can see it by your face!” A WAITRESS TALKS. Two Styles of Interviewing Sharply Contrasted, FACT AGAINST A VIVID IMAGINATION. A Newspaper Man and His Friend the Orator. ef E tS f s i ft if does a habitue the pee eat ee PLAIN TALK AND RHETORIC. | “Ail of which makes Gee meetera ae Some Suggestions for Gites, i One of the reporters for The Star knows an orator. He also knows a convict and a Congressman. In fact, his acquaintance is Quite extensive, if not select. The business of the day, however, is with the orator. The orator has a flow of rhetoric at his command that daily brings a blush of shame to the ghostly cheeks of a gentleman named Cicero, who used to think he was some shakes himself. On many occasions this orator has transfixed the reporter by a flow of lan- guage, a dazzling display of similes and a corruscation of metaphor. Yesterday he did it again in a new way. The Orator Makes a Remark. The reporter was having lunch with him. The orator had eaten some hot cakes and a piece of pie and they evidently went to his head. “The trouble with you newspaper men,” he said, “is that you are not literal enough. You allow your imaginations to soar up into the emperean above, instead of confining yourself to life’s dull reality. You interview a man and then make him say things as foreign from his nature as these cakes are from terrapin.” Coming from the orator this was amas- ing, and the reporter got right up and pro- tested. “That's all infernal ” said the reporter. “The trouble with you is that you don’t know an interview from a cold boiled potato, See here, I'll interview our waitress and you can write it up.” “I'll do it,” said the orator, “end for once in your life you will see an interview ac- curate In every particular.” The Waitress Interviewed. The neat dispenser of cakes and sausage was thereupon assailed with a formidable lot of questions, which she answered briefly and clearly. Afterward the orator wrote it all out in his own sweet way. The girl had said her name was Susan and that she lived with ber father, who drove a street car, and her brother, who hoped to some day. All this, however, was too common- place for the orator. He said it was per- fectly ridiculous to call any girl Susan, and it that waitress was not named Etta, why, she ought to have been. Then he evolved the following introduction: A Rhetorical Introduction. “Etta is a cafe attache. She jots down your order and sees it served. Etta is as bright, quick and merry as a twinkle. She is business from the crown of her coiled tresses to the soles of her Cinderella feet. She waltzes all along the borderland of flirtation, but never oversteps the bounds. you make a‘ ‘break,’ you wilt. Etta is as pretty as the sweetheart in ® novel. Her oval face is @ heaven of ex- pressive smiles and blushes, lit with the sunshine of blue and honest eyes. Etta ap- to The Star man to possess some idees and the interview was as follows. Now this was a sweet sort of Way to talk bout a red-headed waitress whose idea of @ joke was to say, “What'll yer have, poy or paz poy?” The first part of the real interview was something like this: What Was Actually Said. “What do you think of men?” “Oh! They are a tough lot. Most men haven’t got any more morals than a tom- cat.” “You don’t mean it?” “You bet I mean it. You've all got more conceit than anything else.” “Not” “Yep. I just tell you, if women could see men as I do there would be a merry old time in this town.” That was the first part of the talk with alias Etta, but. this is the way the orator with his love for being literal put it: What Might Have Been Said. “What do you think of men?’ said the reporter. “Well, very little. The morals of the av- erage male are not so well developed as his conceit. I do not think that the species man has hade any great advance in cour- tesy since his wayback ancestor ate his Quota of the apple and burdened all the blame on Eve. think if mothers could see their sons, those sons that are superior to all other sons, in the light in which I see them, seas of tears would flow; if sweet- hearts could look in on their faithful lovers here their life would be a of heart- ache; if wives could see their husbands in my light Cupid’s occupation would be ne.” now about that from a girl who made $3 a week and did not know whether Vas- Sar was a state prison oran insane asylum? ‘Two Kinds of Freshness. In another part of the talk Etta-Susan had said, with directness, “Men are too fresh for anything. They think because us girls works for our living that they can say what they please to us. At home men have to keep the badness down, but it gets away with them as soon as they get out, and you know it as well as I do. You're all alike.” That is what Susan said, but the orator made Etta use the following classic lan- guage: “Nearly all men are coarse. Their lack of attic salt makes them fresh. They think that because a girl competes in the sphere of work and wages and hustles for her quail and manna that she is his legitimate prey. They lack that reeption which Prompts some people to for @ cause, rather than to simply rest content by look- ing at an effect. ¢y do not think of the domestic necessities which may have com- _ her to enter this work-a-day world. ie does not think of infirm parents and younger children who may be dependent on the girl's effort. It does not occur to him that there is nothing essentially abas- ing in work. She has to work to live, and he is perfectly willing to take advantage of her necessities. The reason of this is that he has thought of himself so much that himself has become his sole idea, and he cannot get away from his Ego, even though {it should ever occur to him to try. He feels that he is the center of the human system, and he is so slavishly conscious of himself that it never suggests itself to him that other Pane, are not. In the so- ciety of people of equal or greater authority with him, he must obey certain repressive Dreasure is Temoved, and I see hits press pressure is and I see pretty much as he is. The animal in his natural state is before me. Off-colored stories and rancid jests are his delight.” The idea of Susan talking about “attic “quail and manna,” “cause and effect” “Egos.” It was enough to reanimate the dust of Sappho, but the orator stuck it out that Etta said exactly as quoted. Notes va. Imagination. According to the reporter's notes, in another portion of the conversation, Susan had further expressed her opinion of men, and especially of men with a salary of $6 @ week,who made believe they were million- aires. In this conversation Susan said: “If there is one thing above another that makes me tired, it's these six-dollar-a-week dudes, who try to throw on so many lugs You'd think, to see ‘em, they owned the earth, buying beer for each other and coming in i The orator let out a notch anda it the following in Etta’s mouth: ie “Why do these young men, with salaries of six dollars per week, come here?” asked the reporter. “Let me tell you,” answered Etta. “He starts out after the close of day with a firm resolve to keep his ducats in his pocket. He meets a companion. They say they are _ to see each other, but I don’t believe it. Their greeting is apt to be very demon- strative and hearty, because it is thought to be a woridiy way, and this is the proper caper. Then they like to do this to attract bystanders and give out the impression that they are men of wide acquaintance. One, in order to have the other say of him that he is a genial, generous and good fellow, says “Let's hav They take it Another round evens up th ‘ore. it ts ® bard matter for them to break away.