Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY,, JULY 21; 1894--TWENTY PAGES. 18 FEMININE DEVICES To Fool Father Time and to Improve on Nature. ACROWIOP DISTINCTION IN WHITE HAIR Everything Has a Yoke and is Trimmed With Lace. a OF FASHION nfo FANGIES Written Exclusively for The Eyening Star. HE PRESENT fashion for the necks of bodices reminds one of the story of the little girl and the fittle curl. When they are low they are very, very low, and when they are high they are horrid. If a woman has 4 Jong erane-like neck, and runs to bones, she will crowd the collar of her frock up around her ears, and deciare that high- necked bodices are the only ¢hic thing at present. Her plump sister will cut hers vut as low as the law and police censors will allow. and wonder how anybody can so of- fend good taste in hot weather as to wear @ high-cut dress. You can pay your money and take your choice, and your dressma”«r will charge you just as much for one as .ur the other. She will tell the thin woman *that it is atrocious taste to wear a low-cut bodice, and she assure the plump wo- man that it would be a sin and a shame to cover up as pretty a throat as she has— and she will tell the truth to both. Thin women do not suffer from the heat as steut women do, and they can wear high col- lars, and folds, and frills without end; they ought to wear them. It is nothing but right that they should. Nobody likes to see skin and muscles, bones and wrinkles, when a fold of soft silk, a shirr of lace or a crush collar will hide them effectually. Not only hide them, but make the wearer look pass- able. The plump woman would look like a pil- low with string tied around !t in such neck “tixin's,” and she is acting wisely, as well as comfortably, when she makes her bodices with a pretty V back and front, and has soft ruffies of lace to fall away from her baby white flesh. It is the same way with sleeves;everybody wears big ones. ‘The bigger the better. But the thin woman wears hers high up on the shoulder and the stout one lets hers drop over the elbow. ‘The thin woman stops hers at the elbow, perhaps, but she covers the lower part of her arm with a full ruffle or flounce of lace or chiffon. The frili has to be very full—a yard or more in width, to be artistic, so that whea the arm Is lifted the ruffle falls im folds about the wrist, concealing its knobby joints instead of clingtag to them ani spiaying them. The plump woman can her sleeves at the elbow, with a nar- row trill, and let her gloves come up to meet them. or if it is a house dress, she knows that her round white arm is not an unpleas- iug sight. 1 ied to Conecal Defects. 1 have never had the felicity of meeting any member of the reyal family of Eng- land, but | imagine that the fair Duchess of York, who has been convulsing the World of soctety for something over a year how, must be a flat-chested, narrow-shoul- dered woman. who. like the Princess of Wales. needs a good deal of building up to make her presentable. She has set the pace for so many of the fashions that are meant more to hide defects than to display charms of persom that one who pays much attention to fashion mrst reach such con- clusions. The immense sleeves, for tn- stance, are particuierly kind to a narrow- chested, flat-backed woman, and the new Peach Blossom Sill. Ingements for the neck are quite as faa to a sews wae Sas as Gast an te these the empire gow which require and (ho fly-away shoulder sttes, and you have a lot of ¥ invented fe man of this kind in a white he put it on gained wonderfully in ' y fre and it Simpie ia desig: a wide flare, and t>= fea with white ribuen end bts The coat = nd is laid in the back. sre cibow at temmng per over the very Tull plaited’ raffle of infinitesimal bonnet, has U'eck vel- the wrinkles icll every year y end also the muzeles of throat, in ts sow through the as we will about it, there ng how to dress LIM a3 Oe pos them in the face up one’s de- tole never notices them. Attempts to Cheat Time. Too many women make the mistake In cords their “artistic” attempts, nowever, of ing to gull the little world in which they move into believing that they are Venus and Aphrodite combined. They dye their hair, or bleach it, in a vain attempt to dls- guise what seems to betoken approaching age. It Is such a sensaless thing to do, for stiver or while hair is the prettiest hair ia the world. There are society women in Washington whose beautiful white hair is a crown of distinction tiaras of diamonds could not bring. But if those women had ever made the attempt to disguise the fact that the golden hair was turning gray it would show in the snowy locks now. ‘it fs a singular fact that when hair dyes have once been used they leave a yellow tinge on whitening locks that never can be effaced. Another common effort to cheat time and hide the ravages of a life that has been lived far too fast is found in the resort to “bloom of youth” and kiadred lotions. Some women make hideous caricatures of themselves in their heroic attempts to look as young as their grandchildren. No reasonable person objects to the moderate use of powder—it is cooling and pleasing tn effect when properly dusted over the face—but there Is no excuse whatever for rouge, and less for variety theater lp rouge. A slight touching up of the eysbrowa where nature has been de- ficient is rather pleasing than otherwi but there never wes the remotest reason why the blackening process should b2 extended to the under part of the eye or the corners. It ts only people who are deficient in c culation of the blood who are da>& about th: eyes and It ts a fair symptom of impuired health. Im fact, the woman who uses such i | In Black and White. palpable subterfuges to hide the fact that she ts in a fair way to live the allotted time of man bears about as much relation to the sweet, womanly womin, whom everybody loves and admires, as a Prang chromo does to a Carot. This difference in artistic per- ception Is quite as noticeable in dress as in “make-up.” The Marie Antoinette fichu ts one of the fancies of the hour. It looks well on both stout and thin people, when properly ad- justed. For a stout person, it should be made of chiffon or some other thin matertal, and the folds should be lafd in fine plaits cver the shoulder, widening out as It passes over the bust, then narrowing to a point at the waist line. The V in front should be long and narrow, and should be not quite so long in the back, with the folds laid over in a perfect miter. The folds both back and front should lie close and be firmly fastened down. For a thin person, the folds should be loosely lald, spread out well over the shoulder, have no point In the back, and it should come well up around the neck at the sides and front. It will be much hand- somer in effect if the edge is finished with a deep ruffle, which ts put on very full. The ends in front may run to the foot of the dress, a3 they do In many instances, and belted down at the watst with ribbons and long loops and ends. As the long fichu is much more graceful than the short one it is altogether probable that you will see most of the stout women wearing the long fichus and bringing them inte disfavor through their small sense of the artistic in dress. An extremely pretty way for a thin, graceful woman to arrange the Marie A Restful Tailor Gown. Antoinette fichu with the long ends {s to tie it at the bust with a knot of ribbon and let the long ends swing free. It takes a woman who knows how to wear her clothes to accomplish such a feat, however. Reign of Yokes and Laces. Nearly everything has a yoke now. It may be made of lace, ribbon and inserting, silk, velvet, or the material of the gown. But it does not matter what the fabric, or its make, it has a yoke. Yokes end epau- lettes go hand in hand. And you can be pretty sure that the gown minus both is not perfectly new. Very pretty sokes are made on a thin foundation, and having a deep fall of lace at the edge, can be ad- justed to any gown. They make a very dressy addition to any costume, and when one ts going away for a few days and does not care to take many gowns, one or two such accessories of the toilet will take the place of two gowns. “Among the trimmings most conspicu- ous lace is paramount,” is about the way that every fashion writer puts it up just now. There never was a season when lace of every kind was worn on everything way it ts being worn now. It is made in every design, and its name is legion. Some ts as heavy as embroidery, and has very elaborate patterns. The Russian laces if any one kind can be are the favorites said to have the by bourden and point de gene. An odd fancy that will rot be long lived is the mingling of yellow beige and pale green- ish threads on the same piece of lace. The possessor of a piece of real lace ts just as prowl of it as ever, but no one now minds wearing the imitations, for they are ex- quisttely fashioned, In the real lace designs, and it would puzzle an expert to tell the difference sometim A very pretty lace- trimmed dress has all the seams overlaid with insertion, through which the bright peach-blossom silk shows with charming effect. At the foot a ruffle of embroidered green chiffon falls over a ruffle of white jace, all headed with a row of the white ace inseriion. The bretelics are of green ik with a border of the lace. The dot the taffeta silk ts of bright green, and the effect is quite pleasing. and white ts as chic as ever. One this . made with a plain front, and thea lal in finger-wide plaits to the back. The platts wore heid down at the side by straps of white moire, ending in lead, and are followed | MIDST OF THE STRIKE Senora Sara and ibe Girls’ Recent Experience Traveling West. CAUSED SUFFERING AND HISERY Fatal Delay in the Journey Away From the Heat. LIBERTY NOT LICENSE Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. SANTA FE, N. M., July 14, 1894. HERE'S A_ DIVIN- tty that shapes our ends,” and I know it. I doubt not that Shakespeare would feel gratified if he could know the re- markable manner in which I proved the | truth of his asser- tion. I might go on with the quotation in the spirit of the! day's unrest and add “rough,” stop ping there, according to the new version cf Bacon's Shakespeare, but I am no pessi- mist, and I don’t believe that divinity is rushing round trying to find me to strew my path with any more tacks than it is that of my neighbor. If a true history of human events could be written it would show that a far larger proportion of our actions is the resalt of suiden impulses | and accident than of that reason of which we are so fond of boasting: so I ‘think it quite unfair to shove off on fate or destiny the blame for our own unconsidered ex- ploits. When Nora's mother went off to New Mexico to find health among the mountains around the historic city of Santa Fe, near which she has a brother, who is an officer in the regular army, we had po idea that divinity was lurking around the landscape waiting to pounce on me ix next victim, and make of me a living cation of at least a part of Shakespeare's wisdom. It came about in this manner. Nora's mother was taken ill, and wanted Nora to come to her. I had made all my prepara- tions to take Elaine, Dorothy and Nora to the springs; we were on the eve of start- ing when the message came, nnd de to go to New Mexico tnsiead. Now, fam sure that that action on our part was the result of accident and impulse, and neither reason nor judgment entered into the dect- | ston, We were just one day changiag our | plans end getting ready to turn our faces toward the land of “poco tiempo.” We took from our trunks all the sitken and muslin finery the girls had got ready for | the Springs, and put in its place heavier Wools and wraps,better suite] to the higher, cooler air of the Rockies. Nora and loro- thy were amazed at the quantity of iunch that Elaine and I prepared for the trip. It seemed enough for a regiment; but I have had so much experience with traveling cn those far western roads, with their scant | accommodations, that I did not care to| trust too much to them in the Way of get- ting something to eat. Away From Dining Car: “ “It does look an awful lot,” said Elaine, laughingly, as she began to stow It away, “but we haye all of us healthy appetites and we will use the most of it before we get through. All these things will keep for @ week or more, and we must have a large bottle of alcohol and a small spirit stove, so that we can have hot tea and coffee. As long as we are on the eastern roads, the dining accommodations are good, though costly beyond all reason, but when we get | west of the Missourl! river we will find :hat. the conditions are changing and growing more primitive all the time. They are far between, and tf there is any delay, we simply have to go hungry, shculd | Once mamma and I} were caught out in the center of a big | our lunch give out. prairie, twenty miles from a town, with a broken engine axle. We would have suf- | fered from hunger had {t not been for the Kindness of some people who had sense than to start on a trip across the con- tinent without a week's supply of provi- When we started out on the Journey we did so without realizing the force of the | strike, which had just been inaugurated by the young man who registers from In. diana, and whose power for limited. Dick was not able to necessary to have a man along, anyhow. I have been through the west a great deal, and I have found that a woman nm get along very weil there without an cscort; | quite as well as she can in the east; in | fact. I believe she can travel alone with more comfort, for men are not us indif- ferent to her comfort, generally speaking, as they are i not “Jewelry,” as Redtop used to put it, and again western men are not given to ogling a woman who ts traveling alone as 1s the custom of a certain class of men in the east. First Contact With the Strike. We got along very well until we reached St. Lou There we were obliged to leave our comfortable Wagner car and take a common day coach, because the men re- fused to take out a train which pulled a with the strikers against | the Pullman system of sleepers, and had no grievance against the Wagner company, but the ethics of the situation demanded the dog-in-the-manger policy. We waited in St. Louts, In the black hole of a build- ing called a union depot, crowded with all kinds and classes of people, not daring to | Ro to breakfast, lest the train pull out | without us, yet not permitted to board it, | till the strikers had decided on a plan of action. We were tired out with two days’ and two nights’ travel on delayed trains. laine was the only fresh one in our party. She has seemingly mastered the power of making herself comfortabie under all con- ditions and circumstances. I find that one has to be educated to travel with the min- imum of exhaustton, and until such educa- tion is acquired, traveling ts small pleas. ure. I had been noticing the crowds of workingmen about the depot, and was not | surprise? when a youth whom we had be- | guiled into carrying our baggage for us | told us that most of them were “strikers.” “They are down here a watchin’ to see that no scabs ts allowed to take a train out," he remarked, -cheerfully, as he de- | posited my vallse on the dirty floor and hitched up his trousers, which were hang- ing by one strap over hés shoulder. “We | ain't allowin’ to hurt nobody, but we won't stand no monkey business. Goin’ tur?" he asked, as he wiped the coffee stains off a small table with the remains of his shirt sleeve and drew tt up to my side for us to | spread our lunch. I told him our destina- | tion, and received the delightful urance | that my hair would be grayer than it was | right then before I got through, unless the “cormorants that was a feedin’ on the lite | ‘ood of the nation let go thelr holt.” While we were talking [ noticed an elfish looking child sidling up to Rose-in-dloom, eyeing with almost wellish greed the piece | of cake that she was mincing over. ‘The talkative youth and in an in’ leaning again: | left me at that moment, | was | tant the half starved the table. ful good,” rosettes. It was certainly an ‘odd-looking tose was skirt, but rather pretty, despite its sug-jat her. The child was a_ little gestion of = possible return to hoops. The! when she ned walst vas made perfectly plain in the back, | to her ows instantly with a high straight collar, and ihe sleeves | wake in the bir 3 were the regulation tonieg affairs, puff-{ “Are you hungry?” sked in wide- | ed to the mtr, with cuffs of white matre. The simulated vest wes of white moire, and an entirely new ripple arrangement of the Louisine was lined with the white motre, form! @ remarkably pretty front. The crush belt was also of moire, with,] rosette fastenings. The big Neopolitan was caught up ta a immense bow of cream motre ribbon, and a wreath of pink velyct roses lifted the pretty confection off the fair hair. BELL BALL, eyed amazement at the way the cake disap- Ain't had no breakfus’, an’ 1 no grub las’ night but a hun bread. n-bloom was horror stricken and began to hunt out the box of sandwiches. “Here, you can have this,” holding a t fat chicken sandwich out to her. “Are you alone? Where is mamma” Ain't got none,” was the guttural re- sponse, ag the elf crammed her mouth. | support. Dining cars | are not attached, and we will have to de- | pend on the eating stations along the road. | more | evil seems un- | leave his | business, and I did not see that it was | the east, where women are | They said they were acting | | met by a determined mob, which brutally “Surely you have ly to care for you!” insisted Rose, wl all her shel- tered life had never cerfé Yn contact with anything like that before. The girls and myself had taken no hand-4n the conversa- tion, being rather curious to see what Rose would do. The elf paused pefore filling her mouth a second time, laid with a iong- drawn breath sald contemntuousiy,“What'd I want of anybody? Iint-no kid. Course there 5 daa, vul oe ain't ho gud now. We re strikin’ an’ dad he's hongry as the rest of usuns now. From the Strikers’ Stnndpotn “Ilow many of you are there?” asked Blaine, as Rose-in-bloom, drew back in frightened disgust from the tough little creature. “Six; all on us girls,” she replied, uncon- ce:nedly, setting her teeth in the breast of chicken Elaine had given her and tearing it as a dog would. Just then the youth re- turned with the welcome information that he and the rest of the strikers had con- cluded to let us go om as far as Kansas City. “1 kain’t teil whether you'll git uny | furder er not,” he remarked, as he fired a | stream of tobacco juice over my shawl strap. ‘We are gittin’ mighty tired of this fool’ an’ are liabie to make things inter- «stin" most any minute.” The elf child was trudging along at Nora's side, talking a straight streak. Appeasing her hunger had unicosed her tongue, and her ten-year-old wisdom was something pitifully ludicrous. “We live most any- wheres,” she said. “Dad, he sweeps out cars, but he ain't a doin’ of it now, He has struck agin the plutecrats, he has, an’ now he's mighty busy watchin’ that there ain't no scab gets put in to take his piace. Dad's *ristocratic, an’ he won't work ‘long of | Would you, now?" she asked, sol- ag she gazed earnestiy up at ‘Nora through her tangled mat of hair. There was no time for an answer, but Nora thrust @ box of biscuit In her hands, and as we | pulled out of the depot we saw “dad”, pze- sumably, and the “six on us,” greedily de- vouring ‘the biscults, as they sat on the | platte . Al along the route to Kansas | City we saw bollow-eyed men and half- | starved women and children “strike work lying under their very hands, yet wit the wolf at the door and starvation staring them in the face, they were stolidly sitting in squalor waiting—for> ¥ ? Now and then there would be little knots of people gathered on the platfo: and from our train a professional agitator would | alight and harangue them, urging stand firmly against the “devil fish tions,” and uttering anarchistic which weze applauded to the echo. ctuous and oily agitator got bac train they parted with hira as the of Israel might have parted with He rolled on his way, comfort handsomely dressed, and his expen. by the very to be them to corpora- thre: S pal men whom he was counciling rm even to starving to death for their principles, yet I heard him say to ne men with whom he was disc ing the situation later on that the money of the A. R. U. was going to give out pretty | soon, unless matters were adjusted, and | then he would drop the thing. He could ' not afford to work for nothing. And this | was the character of the man for whom nol ntly sacrifice everything on earth, believ- that he was working for’a g-eat prin | The Train Hands Strack. At Kansas City we were speedily sent on west. The poison of unrest had not yet inoculated all the railroad mea, and the had some thought for the wives and little” children who were depending on them for They represented the practical side of Melville's theory; “We cannot live only for durselves, A thousand fibers con- Rect us with our fellow men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our ac- | dons run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Bur I don't suppose that any one of them would have known who Melville was. It was only’ sterling com- mon sense working out. Ata little town away out on the Kansas prairte, where the sky shuts down over the fat earth like a big blue china bowl, our train came to a standstill, and we had our first actual taste jof the strike. The engineer and fireman | were ready to go, but the brakesmen re- fused, and they would not move the train with green men, or, to use the more fa- millar term, “with scabs.” For five hours we stood there under the broiling sun; there was nothing to eat except the lunch we had prepared, and there were dozens who j had not been as thoughtful as we were. So we divided with them; the ice gave out, and the hot winds swept over the cars and through them fairly scerching our lungs as we breathed {¢ in. The girls got restiess and uneasy; they had read all their books, and the supply of the train boy was speedily exhausted. friends with everybody; Elaine and Nora got some new books from somebody, and finaly settled down, but Dorothy and Rose- In-bloom failed to return, so I went to look them up. I found them in the second-class coach, Dorothy holding a little weazened- faced baby in her arms, and crouching in the corner of the seat was the child's mother, sobbing her heart out. Rose-in- bloom was down on her knees bathing th | hot Ittle head with cold water, broug? from the water tank, and half a dozer. w | men were standing around in tearful aym- pathy; it was a pitiabie sight. The woman | was on her way west, hoping that the cool- | er mountain air would help the child. Half a day would put her in sight of the health- | | giving hills, yet there we were on the sun- | burned plaina, and death hovering over the , little thing, rgac¢y to swoop down at any m “Baby so sick,” it gasped in childish ac- cents as I bent above it. “Dirl dood to | baby,” and the thin little hand wandered | lovingly over Rose-in-bloom’s face. But It Was Too Late. “I can’t stand it, Sara,” cried the child ‘at Inst. “It is wicked to kill people this ; Way. If those awful men knew that they were just murdering a baby maybe they | would go on. I'm going to tell them about it.” And Minging the wet cloth into my hand she flew out of the car. As soon as 1 could, I went to see that she did not get into mischief, and found her talking eager ly to the conductor, who had brought us that far, but had left us, as it was the end of the division. Before T reached them they | | Went down to the knot of men, who were | standing, yet undecided what to do. 1) j don't know how she accomplished it, bat jin less than five minutes she was back, her face shining like a full moon. “We are going,” she cried, as she ran b | ine to the poor mother, And sure enough | we did start in a few moments, but it was | too late to save the baby. In lesa than an hour its frail grasp on life was loosened, and Rose-in-blcom’s, eyes looked for the | first time on death, as it came to the child, whose little fingers were tangled in her curls, while she bowed in an abandonment | of grief above it. At a lonely wayside sta- | and forsaken by God, the stricken mother | with her precious burden was put off, and as we rounded a curve in the sandhills on our westward journey I saw her standing in silhouette against the sky, an image of | the desolation of sorrow, a stranger in a Strange iand, “weary with disaster, tugy'd with misfortune.” Through all the years to come she will carry with he: the thought | that but for that awful strike which held her for half a day under a burning, braze sk her baby might have lived to comfort | in her old age, and it was her only child. ! ¢ Professional Agitator. At the end of the next division we were to declined let anybody, union or nen- rion, scab or tenderfoot, go'on west with the train. We were on the ‘extreme west of the arid belt, and becaus? of the dis- turbance neither feod nor fuel had been brought to the little hamlet for over a week, a hausted. Everybody was. f and the laboring classea were It was the desperation of anarchy ever, and for the first time we hea talk’ of fire and ploodsned. We dered to leave the train. “We ain't makin" no fist on women children,” one of the great, rough be said, as he Came through the train how- rd open were or- “but | likewise we ain't bindin’ ourselves to no m if they den’t keep out of the wa questioned him out of curiosity, our baggage, and he was another professtonal >» had probably never done a d t labor in his life. Indeed, 1 found t (ie most malignant of the so-called strix- ers were not railroad men at, all, but tramps pure and simple, who had ces and fortunes with'a few of tho rail ad ontents. ‘The agitator informe nt gir, that he was ‘laboring for the rights of ‘suffering hii mantiy and the oppressed of the eart And then, with a sneering laugh, he passe? on out to the platform, shouting to the snarling mob to keep a stiff upper lip and not wilt when a woman cried! the miserable litvle station house we 1 was picking up th: | more ado, he teok Rose-in-bloofy and went | the wreck of a burning freight car be clear- | ed away, and we found numerous o People wandered from car to car, making | ment. | | tent soon shows Itself in the fa | e st of thi | on, which looked to be deserted by man | MAke the best of things Don't try to see how much noise vou can make in the honse, but how little. Don’t forget or try te shirk your duties—little | things that know are your regular joined | q the mountains. Little children were scream- ing with hunger and weariness, and their Parents were worn out with the worry and fatigue. Far into the night we heard the shoottug and frenzied howls of the desper- ate strikers, and learned later that night that six men paid with their lives the pen- alty of their lawlessness. About midnight a train wes mysteriously backed down to the station and we were all ordered aboard for the west. We hoped that our trials were over for that trip at least, and when day dawned and found us almost in the shadow of the eternal hills we were quite happy though hungry and worn with our : word came that Nora’s mother was worse! Poor child, how white and wan she looked, when the yellow message fluttered from her hands. We were almost desperate after that. Under the open window by which we sat we could hear the sting controversy and an- archistic utterances and knew we were yet at the mercy of the strikers. Suddenly Rose-in-bloom, who was on the ether side of the car, gave a scream of delight and dashed out on the platform. I chought the excitement of the night had driven her crazy and started after alarm, to meet her at the door hanging with both hands on the arm of no less a personage than Redtop! Redtop to the Rescue. “Well, this shore Is a picnic!’ he said beamingly, as we all reached for him, and he tried to shake hards with all of us at once. “Lord, but it air a sight for sore eyes to see you ail! Now, Rosey Posey, you quit that bawling,” he re trated, fur- Uvely wiping his own eyes, as he saw us all using our handkerchiefs, but she only laid her tired head on his arm and cried the harder. We were so Ured and dis- heartened, you know. Your stuck, I sabe, an’ you want to git out. Come, Kiddie, we'll investergate, an’ you kin tell me all about it.” And, without off, assuring us that everything would be all right in a ‘jifty.”. How he managed it I shall never know, I presume, but in less than an hour he had everything arranged, and with our baggage and ourselves piled promiscuously in a way car, Elaine, Doro- Nora, Rose-in-bloom and I, under the | tedtop, were climbing the grade he great coal clty of the west, Trinidad. Our single car was attached to the engine, and at every station there were angr mobs to impele our protress, and we ¥ often greeted by a fusillade of ston@ brickbats, but Redtop seemed to the open sesame, for we passed triumphar ly by them all. We had to stop once to tru tions on the --overturned engines, box cars and ties—but Redtop assured us that a trusty hand was at the throttle and cool heads behind the brakes, and we nee! have no fear. We did not talk much en that perilous ride up the hillst We were too | tiredly happy at our deliverance out of is of the Philistines to question our At Trinidad we were emph caliy informed that only the engine could go through the tunnel! iy some dubersom@ abort this nlay.” said Redtop, thouzhtfulty. hole in the sro: is K bite out of seems like. ‘fore git throueh ft. i's Yad enough when you're shut in the car. If You're a bit squeamish, itl likely do you up | to take it on the encine. but Blackie will put you through on the fs | A Dash Through a Taancl. We declared fer the engine trip, in prefer- | ence to ihe longer suspense and sejourn ameng the black-browed strikers about the | smoky mountain coal city. What a trip it | was. Packed in the cab of the great Mogul engine we went whizzing through the bow- els of the earth, the clanging bell and screeching whistle adding power to the pan- demonium created by the pounding of the | great crive wheels as we labored up the grade. Through mountains whose summits are always snow capped; past rippling streams of clear snow water, and over huge boulders that looked like pebbles, they were so far below us. Then down great gorges biasted through solid granite, till the blue | sky tooked like a ribbon stretched above. | | At last we reached the tunnel. Here there | was a mile of inky blackness, coal cinders, smoke, flashes from the blazing furnace un- der the monster mountain climber, hot close air, the black stretches echoing and re- echoing with the ciangor of whistle and | |, till we began to think that Redtop was | right, and we had struck at least one divi- ston on the road to hades. Then we! emerged once more, and saw that the world r: Ahere “That | het, | | was indeed good! | | And such objects as we were when we got | | through! Smoke begrimed and travel stained, we dastied out of darkness into the light of a glorious morning among the mountains, and sped down the hills into the tiny valley ere a good hot breakfast and | an “extra” were waiting for us, thanks to Redtop's thoughtfutness—and pocket book, in alt probablitty. And he did not leave us ti Nora was safe in the arms of her mother, who was by that time on the road | to recovery. | I dread to think whet might have been our fate if kind “divinity” in the shape of | Reitop had not interfered in our behalf and s.arted him out with 2 bunch of cattle for irarket. He makes light of it, but I know that what he did for us was not easy to accomplish. Actwal contact with the ers has taught mo several things. ©» that we need strong hands at the ‘ both of state and nation. Sympathy with | labor does not necessarily mean condone- ment of lawlessness. Men whose motives | ray have been honest enough in the start | permit thelr minds to become inflamed with passion and prejlice, then reason deserts ne, and Judgement fices aghast. We | nember that liberty is not synony- license, nor freedom of enarehy Some day 1 shall, perhaps, write a book ebout what [ know of strikes. But it will not be a happy story, becanse there will be ithe dead baby's s grief. And try I shall never be able to keep out | an, haggared faces of those other women, whose only heritage from these agitations is more suffering SENORA SARA. _— 10 1 Were a Girl. From Ladies’ Home Jonrpal. I would take care of my health by living outdoors as much as possible and taking tong walks in the suushine. English girts | understand how necessary this is for the good coraplextons end cheerful spirits. Wear | simple clothing, that you may climb moun- tains and breathe freely. 1 would secure the best education Go to college by all means, if it be ible. Read good books, and thereby become intelligent I would cultivate cheerfulness, Discon- If you are cramped for money, be thankful that your lot is no worse than ft is. Learn to An unhappy wo- man is a perpetual cioud in a home. A fret- ful girt has few friends, and the number lessens year by year. I would say kind things of others, es- pecially of the gitis, A girl who makes un- kind remarks about other girls would bet- ter be avoided by young men. She will not make an agreeable companion for life. I would learn to be self-supporting. Es- pecially in this country, where fortunes changeit is wise for girl to Le able to take care of herself. Helpiess women are not a comfort to others, and usually are not to themselves. 1 would try to be polite everywhere. True courtesy is more winsome than a_ pretty fave or fine dress. Loud talk or loud dress does not betoken the lady. Be appreciative and sympathetic, and you have two keys which will vnleck almost all hearts. see A Few Don'ts for Boys, Home Journal, "t forget to be polite in your manners. Don't | sir,” and “No, sir,” in older than yourself, or and “No am," as the ; be. Don't call an cld gentleman nd-so,’ but always say, “Mr. So- Don't be overbearing and cross to unger brothers and sisters; remem- the oller ones treat you From Ladies’ In the first place, de and gentlemanly forget to sa speaking to per ma’ “Yes, case “old So-d m, me and distastef, arn to be maniy. an excellent mott soll to remerber. much distile , ands if they sre a little tire- : that is the way t ‘uty before pleasure” to do, do them, hy by conquering each one, yu had won a vistory what you really would be, iow over self, and a quite a little hers And finally, do forget to be perfectiy truthful, so that your word may be relied nd as you grow older, don't borrow y of the “other boys,” if you have to do without. Money is oftener more casily found a motley crowd cf travelers, some on business and some on pleasure bent. while a dozen or more were being carried on beds to seek a longer lease on life among borrowed than patd. and beside such a Labit makes short friendships; and always romember that “An honest man is the noblest work of God.” | without | soda, applied. freely to the stai ‘ting the goods soak in ¢ | temperature all the time. 7 fe | Show platniy. - . | grow with che gr HOUSEHOLD HINTS Something That Will Tempt the Languid-Appetite. GREEN CORN FRITTERS AND CAKE The Physical Health of Children is All Important. alpina TO CLEAN HOW FURS Written Exclustvely for The Evening Star. When you are going to use soda—suieratus —in cooking, pour boiling water on it to dissolve it, and you will be pleased to find that it will not taste In the cake or bread as it will under almost any other condi- tions. o 8 © e If you want te make clear, pretty jetly, and be perfectiy sure that it will “jell” trouble, sclect for tne purpose fruit thet is not quite ripe and which is without a suspicion of rotten about it; jelly made of over-ripe fruit is always slow to harden, and will never be quite clear, do what you will. . It is often the case that when one is iil with stomach, mouth or throat trouble, the use of solid food is almcst Imposstble.and the “nt runs down for lack of nourishment because there are so few of the “spoon victuals” that are palatable to him. A long ago recipe which smacks of the good cid- ime housewife was given me receatly by a ive old lady who interests herself in pre- paring appetizing things for the sick. Beat a@ raw egg to a suff froth, add a icblespoon- ful of white sugar and a half a glaks of home-inade verry or cherry wine, and beat well. Add a half a glass of cream, beat all thorcughly and eat at once. It is pnsilered a good meal for an iavalul, and is appetizing and nourishing. Of course, home-made blackberry wine is not vs to be procured, for, sad to relate, the pure wines and cordials that were once in the medicine closets have given way to the impu but it woukl be well to make sure vast the article purchased is perfectly ©. The purity of sli foods and wines used in the k room should be thoroughly blished pu before giving them. os ew ee yorms come, often, to a perfecily person, and with no provocation whatever. They are stubborn things and treatment very slowly. One of the y best remedies is borax. Make a strong solution of borax and het water, and wash the ringworm three times a day with it; the ugly thing will disappear almost by mag! ee e eee Grass stains are numerous at this season f the year, and unless they are removed | before Washing, they are almost tneradi- cable. An old-time remedy is soft soap and After let- for an hour, wash in the usual m: . ee A tablespoonful of turpentine in a boiler | of water will go a long way toward whiten- ing the clothes. . + > ® Very few housewives seem to understand that fruit in glass cans should be kept in the dark. If you cannot put your fruit jars in a dark closet, wrap each can im a piece of brown paper, which will answer about as well. Canned fruit should be kept moderately cool, and at about the same se If you want to remove the skins of peach- | es without taking a large portion of the fruit, scald them exactly as you would to- matoes. ee © we To varnish an oll off painting, wipe the canvas well. with a soft. damp rag, remov- ing every speck of dust. Use @ large, flat bristle brush and the best picture varnish; apply the varnish with a long, quick stroke. and work rapidly,as the varnish dries quick- ly. Be sure that every spot is covered; you can ascertain by turning the canvas side- ways to the light,when untouched spots will es 8 8 Here is a splendid recipe for green coru cake. Grate from the cob twelve ears of orn; mix with this two well-beaten ezes, fait and pepper, and a tablespoonful of bui- , and bake In a hot even till brown, stir- ring it down about twice. Send to the table hot and weil browned in the dish in which it was baked. ee ew we ome cooks never know just + to serve with different meats as a relish. Fol- lowing is @ table of things considered the proper caper: With roast becf, grated horse- | radish; roast mutton, currant jelly; boiled mution, caper sauce; roast pork. apple sauce; ‘bolied chicken, bread sauce; roast lamb, mint sauce; roast turkey, oyster uc®; venison or wild duck, black currant Jelt brojied fresh mackerel, sauce of stewed gooseberries; bolled bluefish, white | cream sauce; broiled shad, polled rice and salad; compote of pigeons, mushroom fresh salmon, green peas with cream roast goore, apple sauce. . . . Green fritters are @ delicious dish Grate twelve ears of corn into four well- beaten eges; salt and slightly pepper: then beat into ik hn flour to @ bat almost too thick to drop readily; drop poonfuls in het lard. and fry as you joughnuts. is apt to make them greasy. -. os A mother of my acquaintance broke her little Saughter of crying In a unique man mer. The child was five years old, and bright as could be, but a perfect little pest, because she Waa such a cry baby. One day riead took her to have a pictare taken, unnte howled at some fancied slight or cross word every time she was posed by the artisi, Finally the mother instracted = artis( (9 icke a pleture of her crying. | aid co, and on Minnie’s sixth birthday. h came had hung in her room, where the weeping little maid -eould sae_it themoment she waked up cvery morning, a crayon copy of the Minnie is very proud, and herself, with her fac arled in and knotwerying for noth- at all, she was heartily sorry and eda new leaf at once. If she looks at all stormy her mother has but to mention the picture to bring the sunshine. Pride docs a great deal for people sometimes, . . Wier the colcr In a fabric has been de- Stroyed by acids, It can often be restored by dipping the fabric iu emmonia and then applying chlorcform. Leh ob The Russians clean their furs after this favhion: Rye flour is placed in a Pot and heated upon the stove, with constant stir- ring as long as ue hand can bear the heat The four then spread ov the fur and rubbed tite tt with a vigorous hand. Afte: this treatment the fer ts brushed, or. bet ter, is gently beaten until oM the fou is removed, Furs treated in this manner are id to resume their natural color end luster and look like new. oe 8 ee Remember that without physt-al heali> ment tainments ar> no acesunt yha:- ever; lez happy, free lives rengthen the bod: and be sure that the montal attributes owth of 3 © . Reprove and p i] tale bearing. A from the kitch parlor to kite a gowsip and the bud! irsn for who will bear teles to the perior, aa! from | n, is fairly star: andl ins: Splaches of pair glass hy wetting In water A remeved tre yeu obligel to use nails to ha r clothing on. get ing ones, and drive em into the wal! through empty rpeols: the nail i635: rough looking ec thing to hang clothes ce 8 © ew tins should be sei over Ghe fire wih boilins. water in them and be kent het f several hours before using them, else taint the food with the sultering. se 8 Be as careful to the members of 30: fomtly a cheery good morning asad a Lind good night @s you a: the guest of your house. se e 8 that yeu are iar Bear in mis ° Stuffs sold ever the drug counters, | Some cooks add a little | but I like them beat without, for it | %4 pink. hortly. afierward, her mother | it make | Nip it 2 | which somebody gave me. | dollars a year was considered a handsome eT sponsible for your children’s inherited dis- positions, and bear with gentleness and kindness the faults and failings for which you are alone to blam . “ Very pretty rugs can be made out of the best parts of a nalfwarn carpet. Seicet that which ts he least worn, line it wth coffee sacking and put a scalloped bur Jer of flannel around tt. If the flowers or pattern fs faded the effect can be heis! outlining the Fr: yarn. Another pretty bo: by cutting the carpet len gtiwi ing out the strips on one other edge on the mat witha strq: of flun- pel pinked on both edges to cover the oll ng. - . * A fine cherry stain for a f of three quarts of rain wat of annato and a plece of polish as big a inut. Put the annato in the water Voll in @ copper kettle for toa or fifteen minutes. Then add the potach. Let stand for an hour before using; or it may be bot- Ued for future use. Have the floor perfectly clean and smocth as possible. It would be Well to have it dressed down a little. Ap- ply the mixture with a paint brash, as you would paint. Some think that it soaks im better if it is applied aot Fie jag Same or ts made four ounces Wool fat is the latest wrinkle eradicator. It ts obtained frum befling w: been clipped from the she a course it would be quite uniind to try to boll it before. The ofl which is thus ob tained és said to have wonderful properties for restoring youthful looks. The oil cam be obtained at the big drug stores. It i harmiess. ——_+2-__ FOR RAINY EVENINGS. A Geographical Pronunciation Com test Afords Amuscmeat. From the Philadelphia Times. To pass the time pleasantly and generate a little “Fivalry nothing ts better than @ contest for an evening's entertainment. Our grandparents reolized this whea they had their spelling matches, and at apple parings and corn-huskings strove wo see who could get the biggest pile. A grandchild of the spelling match is @ eographical pronunciation contest.” For this two “captains” are selected, whe “choose up,” person being left to act as leader. When all are ready the leader pronounces some letter from ihe alphabet— any letter he may happen to think of—an@ at once commences to audibly slowly count five. Before he has finished the captain previously greed upon must pronounce some geographical name commenving with the letter mentioned. Failing to do this he must take The leader nother I on the other side must thee is up, and » om, a ing down each ie. The last one @ declared the victor. Another cowtest work and rapid correctly the which thinking misplaced letters For each guest prepare a Het of ‘iftesn oF twenty words—names of flowers, noted countries or animais are <ood —with the letters of each worl transposed. an@ atter distributing the lists and pencils give twenty minutes for the contest. TRis come test requires work, amd ihe one correctly making out the greatest number of names is well entided to a prize, witch, in case ihe list is of flowers, may very appropriate- ty be a bouquet in a pretty vase. The “booby” also should be rememb= i One would little think at first glance that the words ‘gerantum, violet, chrysanthemum are hidden tm meurieua, ¢ivtte and mcurke- tynameh. Some Queer Desneris. College girls were discoursing the other evening upon the various queer things which appear on college menus. One was a des- sert of dates and milk, a thing popular at Wellesley,.and another was peanuts mixed with figs. These horrors recalled a summer ish which sounds equally queer, but ds really very good. It is maple sugar served in various ways. Yes, until you have eaten maple sugar and cream on strawberries, and black raspberries, blackberries peaches you have not lived. The writer has introduced many epicures to these datnties, Bach one was dubious and un! Bach timorously took the first Each closed his eyes and sighed an inefiable rapture. A shortcake is quite as delictous, while orange.red and black cakes are almost as good. With however, powdered sugar should be used. A dainty and refreshing dessert for a hot right Is made of sitced oranges, bananas and pineapples, thickly powdered with sugar and kept all day in the ice box. Serve with whipped cream. Never cat pineapple. Shre@ it with a silver fork. —-— Sitting Reom and Library.” A cozy room, that Is to be both library sitting room,is furnished with « calor combl- _ nation that has impressed me as both cheer- fal, artistic and net too fine for Wally use The walis of the room are a light serra. cotta. The Moor Is covered with Ingrain Ml- ing of warm olive and over it 1s one large eastern rug that contains many colors, but the prevailing tone of which ts terra cotta that Inctines to de=p old pink. The daven- port is of dark mahogany corduroy, wi many-colored pillows. This study table mahogany has ormulu mounti-es. hogany reclining chair, much ike a see chair, has the back and seat cushioned with figured corduroy that ts neither green biue. A large wicker chair that ts stain mahogeny has a cvshton of the same color, There are several smailer chatcs of malty any. The book shelves, which are in” on each shie of the fireplace that croswes the end of the room, and the curtain them, are of flax velour in olive drapery curtains are of ecru grenadine, with cross stripes of light olive and a hairline of ——_—ce2-—___ Dresses tm 1849, From Lippincott’s Magazine. Dinners were handsome and the talk delightful, but the sparsely furnished with light and chaira, The Mlurstnation was of wax or stearine candles, which used to send down showers of spermacet! on our shoulders. Dress was very much plainer. I remember my father calling me to Aim one evening, as I wae 4ressed for a ball, and saying dsughter, you look very nice. have you cost me?" 1 said “SS @ tarlatan dress of white. which I ha@ made myself, and a camellia in my half, One hundred very soctal, bells were allowance for a young girl to dress on. { am afral? I have never looked so well since; certain!y my costumes have never eost so Uitte An old lady once showed me a brocade dress which she said she had worn since Gen. Jacksoa"s Lime. Women 4 net throw way or alter Gresses a as now. They bought good stu%s and wore their dresses carefully, Very pretty bright chintres, and whet we called mousselin laine. were our spring outfits, and always whtte dresses of cambrie and muslin. The jewels worn by Madame Bodisce ani Lady Lytton Bulwer were great curlo:itics Co us simple people = Sash Curta! of solving the curtain question conventent and by no is to have twe sets of sash cur- the upper and one for the sone for tatna lower half of the window. Both are hung en rods and consist of two parts, so that they can be parted in the middie. The up- howls be n inch ovet de long cnowgh toa he top of the lower set, Trey may be wade of mustin sitk, or any ic with edges hemstitened, frilled or trimmed with lice. The arraagement ty @ s00d one for smail bed rooms or for kitchem window coe The Womanly Art. ing is a mont womanly ert, A woman more feminine tan when she has @ * and threed t her hand is the of every little girl te be ta to cow even if f costs Uhe mother rome nem are wholly he contrary, or lem Machin »ves, replace | is an necessary, If moi mor : of a ta, arity of women th le girl de (aught early how ile, vewing will soon become a sort of cond mature to her. haa boom made to grow a natural i brads in Chousamda of casce, by using ADs Maly Reeser, sly wlll 1 aot te your case?