Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1895, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 5 1895—TWENTY PAGES. FOR SUMMER WEAR What Dame Fashion Ordains as Suit- able for Feminine Use. PREPARING FOR THE OUTING SEASON White Promises to Be the Color for the Summer. SILKS THAT WASH —————— Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. T WILL BE NO time at all now till everybody who is anybody will be hus- tling off to the moun- tains, to they sea- shore, or over the waters blue to the “ continent. ” of course, that means a lot of hard work in the way .of gown- building. A woman never gets away from the torment of is atways and forever dressmaking. “fall gowns and winter wraps, spring dra- Peries, summer dresses.” Says my French authority: fashionable procession of spring and sum- mer goods appear Victoria cloth, Corea cloth, Saxony serges, very beautiful quali- It “In the ties in Henrietta cloth, and in Fayetta, Cheville suitings, satin Berber, Mountain- aire cheviots, creplanes, Lacelle cloth for seaside dresses and crepons innumerable. A feature of French importations for pring is fine woolen fabrics in their natural tints, ecru or gray, undyed and undressed, just as they are taken from the loom. These materials are roughly woven in twill vr basket surfaces. They are warm enough pr service and unique enough in effect to 4nd favor with lavers of novelty.” So there is plenty and to spare of materials and colors to choose the outing gowns from, and the next question is the design. Selecting a design won't be a very hard matter, though, for if you fancy anything in particular, no matter what its age or revious service, you are privileged to dopt it and thereb “set a new style. ‘This era ts truly cos- Mopolitan and com- fortable so far as fashion is concerned; it is what you make elegant or outre, serviceable or silly, as you may adapt it. A lady of taste said the other day that no matter how many capes and wraps, collarettes,visites and pelerines ‘a woman had, she was not quite acceptably gowned for all occasions until she had a handsome jacket. Now there is an idea for you. Really, capes and their sisters have so filled the feminine eye lately that there has been no room for jackets in the range of vision, and it was awfully kind of that lady to suggest that a very necessary garment was being overlooked. Of course there are jackets and jeckets, and the trouble will be to find the particu- Jar jacket that is built to accommodate the big sleeve. (Oh, those awful sleeves! Cut and spread out one of them will actually cover up a modest dress skirt!) Now, how would this jacket that has no sleeves suit you? It is gracefully adjusted about the shoulders and hip, and where the sleeves cught to be as a ripple cape, which will spread out and set in elegant flaring fash- fon over the very biggest sleeves of them all. It is closed to the throat and has two tiny pockets on the hips. It is a mighty pretty garment made up, and the material may be cloth or serge, with stitching or appliqued cloth bands, much in favor just now. Laced bodices are again in vogue. Laced up in the back, at that. Women who have maids will adopt the style eagerly. Women who haven't will have them fastened in- visibly, and even then there will be a chance that they will never fasten up straight. It is said that some of Worth’s last creations were frankly buttoned along the shoulder and under the arm, but the charm of the style is to keep people guess- ing where the thing might be fastened and how a woman ever gets into them. The blouse waist is to be worn all summer. That’s settled. It is pretty, it is comfort able and it is comparatively easy to mak that ought to be enough to make any style go. For waists that are not blouse in ef- fect Vandyke points in lace or passemen- terle are much worn. They are put about the neck in collar effect, and the points turn up from the bottom, with a gentle spreading out toward the bust which makes very graceful trimming. But then Van- dyke points are worn on any portion of the dress where they can possibly be disposed, black on light, and white or ivory on dark. One of the new garnitures to coax money from the yawning pocket books is ribbon velvet, satin faced, with a tiny edge of cut jet spangles. It is beautiful and is to be used for flat band garniture on silk and wool gowns. Nearly all the dress ribbons— that is, those used exclusively for trim- ming dresses—are two faced. Satin with a moire face, or one side of one color and the other a different color, with the faint sug- gestion of the color on the opposite side. Ribbon is worn on everything except tailor- made gowns, and it may get on them be- fore the season ts over. Sashes are sug- gested, in one way and another, and it is Probable that most of the round-waisted summer gowns will have a sash of ribbon knotted about them somewhere. Some of the ribbons for summer hat trimming have a thin silk tissue stripe and then a stripe of gold. Gismonda red thus combined with tinsel makes a stunning combination. Some time ago, when The Star announced that “elbow sleeves’ would be worn on street gcwns before the summer was over, there were some who were inclined to scoff so absurd a proposition. Now the glove parlors ure beginning to show mousquetaire gloves for that purpose! The browns, several shades of tan and black are the commonest, but there are some exquisite light shades, which. will match to perfec- tion the dainty coloring on the organdies and beautiful Irish linens and lawns. It is likely to be a “white” summer. It is al a white summer in Washington, because it is almost the cleanest city in the world, and a woman can wear her white suede walking 1 her white cam- brics, and white dimities, white gloves and white hats nearly all summer, and they will never lose their freshness, but what Wash- ington does, can't ‘ays be done every- where else. The white craze was born abroad this time, however, and brides are going to wear white broadcloth traveling gowns in May and June, and if they don’t quite accomplish that horror, they will at least have their gowns trimmed wth white cloth or satin. It does not sound at all feasible, but there is no telling what a woman will or will not do when she makes up her mind to it. Here are two elegant examples of the white trimming fad: One gown is of brown mo: hair, which is very much in favor just now, and justly, for it is so silky and sheds dust beautifully. It is the old-fashioned alpaca, you know,masquerading under a new name. The vest fastens low in double breasted style, with a cute little point, and is of white satin, with topaz buttons. The old hoes notched revers of the jacket, and the lower part of the sleeves are of white satin, with @ band of the mohair stitched on both é edges. A stiff shirt can be worn with this, but it should be red batiste or some bright color, to give a dash of brilliancy to the rather masculine style of the gown. That it is quite smart looking will be seen at a glance. For a slender woman who likes jackets the braid-trimmed blue and white cheviot will be the shapeliest garment. The bands are of dark blue Hercules braid, and the lining of the coat and the box-plaited shirt are white mohair. A more stylish traveling gown could scarcely be imagined. Now that Lent is over, party gowns, pretty fresh ones that will not cost too much to be worn till the country season opens, will be made of the charming wash and Haba- tai silks. Really and truly they will. You have no idea what perfectly lovely little gowns they make when they are made up with linings and stiffened. They appear to have cost three times 49 cents a yard, and after the freshness is worn off of them they can be made over into the aecommo- dating biouse waists. The illustration pre- sents one made of a fine blue and white check, trimmed with itself and rosettes of plain Yale blue, a little bit of jet across the front of the bodice and a narrow puffing of the Yale blue around the revers. Now, you know jn your own soul that is a pretty little frock, and its cost for a woman who will take eighteen yards of such silk will be less than $12. Women have got so used to wearing flopping things around their necks that it is hard to give it up when warm weather comes. In fact, they don’t intend to give it up, but will wear vhiffon and silk plait; ings instead of feath- ers and fur. It takes yards and yards of either,but when made they are awfully pret- ty. The chiffon should be doubled and two strong shirrs = run through the center, making the fullness about four times the length around tie neck. Let it just meet nic2ly under the chin and finish with a three-inch end of the straight chiffon, to which is sewn a fall of filmy white or black lace. If you use ribbon it should be the soft, light cuality or the pretty tissue ribbons. Double box plait them in wide plaits and make them with lace-trimmed ends also. a IDEAS IN LINGERIE. Some of the Latest Fancies in Articles of Feminine Wear. THE FRENCH WO- man does not take kindly to colored skirts. She prefers white ones of the finest cambric, and loads them down with hand-made em- broideries or lace of her own - making, decorated with rib- bon bows and run with ribbons! Imag- ine such a skirt in this country outside of the ball room or off the stage, except it be on madam as she steps on carpeted walks from her luxurious carriage! But then, you know, the French woman doesn’t let such a skirt get into the mire. She holds it up, and its frou frou of full ruffles tumble in modest billows around her well- shod and perfectly “hosed” legs and feet. American women, so their French sisters say, do not have a care to keep their feet well dressed and permit their skirts to drag to cover them up! What a libel! But it is a fact that the French woman will wear a white petticoat half a season with one laundering—which she prefers to do herself—and when at last it goes into the tub it will be cleaner than an American woman's skirt after two wearings on the street, and that is why the American wo- man prefers the colored silks and black skirts. They like the knit silk vests and the “aftogethers,” too, because they are lighter and make less bulk about the waist, but they aren’t half as pretty as the French trappings. Men don’t think so, either, and if you don’t believe it, just watch a window where the last French frivols in lingerie are displayed, and you will find it will mirror the faces of quite as mdny admiring men as those of women. Of course,. the old-fashioned narrow pet- ticoat has gone out— clear out—and you can buy handsome ones for almest noth- ing, as shopkeepers are fairly tumbling over each other to get rid of them, so as to stock up with the new “umbrella” skirt, which is much wider and has ruffles till you can’t rest. The very latest Paris importation is made with a tiny lace- edged ruffle set in at the extreme edge, and is trimmed with three deep flounces, daintily tucked and banded with insertion and bordered with wide ruffles of lace or embroidered mull. The ‘“pantaloons” are made very wide, with quantities of lace and tucks and embroidery and some rib- Lon, if you like. The robe de nuit, or, in plain United States, the night gown, is an ethereal ized creation that is actually a destroyer of repose, because of its ridiculous garni- ture. You can ac- quire them in . mpire, Greek, Russlan or any other language you like, and when you get them in one you will wish you had them in the other, unless you can strip them of some of their fussiness. : Pretty? Of course they are pretty, but who wants to be tor- tured with thoughts of all that prettiness in the hands of the ‘wash lady,” for, mind you, an American girl isn’t going to run the ‘risk of roughening her hands launder- ing"French fripperies, no matter what her French sister will do. That is too dear a price to pay for prettiness. Then there are fashions in chemises, too. The empire holds sway just now, and somebody back in those days must have had a pretty taste in lingerie, if Josephine wore one like the picture. The “evening” style is made very low in the neck to wear with evening dresses that slide off the shoulders. They are all made long, with a flaring bottom, ruffle and lace trimmed, so as to do away with the small under- skirt, called the “modesty petticoat,” which adds bulk about the abdomen. Corset covers are simply made and flatly trimmed with fine embroidery. A great many women of wealth wear India silk undergar- ments, but they have nothing but their cost to recommend them. The best of silk will yellow with much laundering, and it acquires a peculiar odor when put next the skin that nobody likes. Linen, cambric and muslin, with gar- niture of lace or em- broidery, each as costly as thy purse can buy and express- ed in as much fancy as French ingenuity can suggest, is about the right thing in underclothing. BEAUTY AND BATHING The Source of Good Health and Use of the Tub. THE SIMPLE AND ELABORATE FORMS Suggestions That May Be Useful in Securing the Best Results. THE VARIOUS DEVICES Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. EAUTY WITH some means regular- ity of feature, and with others perfec- tion of form; a love- ly character, though | housed in the body of a dwarf, often wins admiration and love, where mere facial beauty is passed un- noticed, but there is @ charm about a satin-smooth skin . free of blemish, a clear eye, that sure indication of a diges- tion at peace with the world, and a cheery spirit that speaks of contentment, which wins homage and admiration from every- body alike, and you don’t find such attri- butes in a body unacquainted with soap and water, or something closely aliied to it. . It is now considered good form to be healthy, and if you want to fret a woman beyond endurance, just tell her she looks “fagged out.” You'll get a piece of mind that isn’t fagged in the least. The very first step toward bodily beauty and perfect health is into the bathtub. If you don’t believe it, call in your family physician and question him as to the first requisite, and he will tell you that pure water applied outside and in, pure air and exercise, with freedom from worry, will accomplish won- ders in the way ef beautifying a worn-out woman, without a cent of outlay for drugs or medicines of any description. How shall one bathe? That is a vital question, and one that can be answered only by your family physician in some instances or by actual experiment to obtain the best results. If you are afflicted with organic troubles of any character, don’t experi- ment with anything until you have con- sulted with your medical counsellor and learned from him what may or may not be attempted.. But if you are normally healthy you will be able to determine the matter for yourself. Generally speaking, the warm tub bath is best for the normal censtitution. Some people feel the better for taking this in the morning, others find that it suits their purpose better to take it in the evening, just before retiring. The time will have to be determined by the in- dividua Very few constitutions can stand a “red- hot” bath, because it is weakening, but about once a week it might be indulged in with beneficial effect. Soft water is best for bathing, if it can be obtained. If not, beil the water you do use and run it into the tub to cool. Boiling softens hard water, but you will make it hard if you run cold water into it from the hydrant. If your skin is oily use a little ammonia in the bath. But if your skin is inclined to be dry and easily roughened never use am- monia for any purpose, as it is harsh in its effect, and will make your body itch and prickle unpleasantly. Borax is the best drug you can use for softening bath water. Use plain, good scap of some standard manufacture, and never permit a love for bargains to induce you to buy cheap soap, which is oftener than not made from fats of diseased ani- mals. Be sure your wash cloths are clean, and keep them so by rinsing them after the bath and hanging in the air; have clean towels and a care that your bath tub is perfectly clean before you put any water in it. Those are the rules for a simple bath, for the purpose of kéeping the body clean and whoiesome. If you are a child of luxury you may use lavender water or other perfumed in- gredients and instead of plain soap you may use shavings of castile soap mixed with bran in a cheese-cloth bag which will hold a quart or more. This will take the place of the wash cloth and soap, and, of course, it must be emptied and filled afresh every time it is used. If you can be quite prodigal, you may use almond meal, a pint to a table spoonful of shaved soap. Or oatmeal, barley meal or cornmeal can be substituted. Friction of the Skin. If you have good soft linen towels and any strength in your arms, stick to good soap and clean water and rub yourself down well, and you needn’t bother with the meal, as its chief duty is to sandpaper off the dead scarf skin which is loosened ev- ery day and needs to be removed by fric- tion. Friction, after the bath, is quite nec- essary to liven up the surface of the skin, and if you are not able to produce a glow with the towel alone, then you might tum- ble a quart of corn or oatmeal, or bran, or barley into the tub, loose, and rub yourself with it, as the effect produced is pleasant. The flesh brush is too harsh for a wi man’s skin, and often produces an aggra- vating irritation. Not many women can stand the shock of a cold shower bath. If you can take it slightly warmed, rinse your body after the bath that way. If you don’t like the shower bath at all, dash a basin or two of warm water over yourself to take off the soapy water, and then rub down with the towel, which should be coarse enough to take hold well, but not harsh. Some wo.en cannot stand a tub bath at all, and there are apostles of beauty who say that n» woman should ever take a tub bath. Ot course disposition and tempera- ment must settle that question, and I pre- sume it does not make a great deal of dif- ference how the cleansing is accomplished so long ar it is accomplished. It is like go- ing to heaven—“The ways they are many and wide, and seldom are two ways the same;” but after all’s said and done, “we meet at one gate when all's over,” on the common ground that it is sanitary and civilizing. One tub bath a day is enough, and more tnight be injurious to the health of even a strongly constituted person. People of active habits like to take a plunge into a cold bath on rising, and there is no doubt that a cold plunge bath strengthens and smoothes the skin, making it firmer and the flesh more solid, but the same result may be obtained in an easier way. No matter which end of the day you appro- priate for your bath, at the other end take a towel rub. The Use of Salt. For this purpose a coarse huck towel of generous proportions is best. Get a bowl of clean cold water, and put into it a wine- glassful of common salt. Dip the towel in this and wring it slightly, then rub yourself from head to foot, excepting the face; rub till you tingle and glow. You need dip the towel but twice or three times. Let the dampness dry on your person,while you go through a vigorous five’ minutes’ physical exercise, and when you get your clothes on you will feel like a new person. If you are inclined to think that a bath of that kind is time wasted, leave the towel in a close-shut room for an hour and notice its odor when you come back. In twelve hours’ tim the body throws off a vast amount of effete matter, which must clog the pores of the skin and go back into the circulation unless removed in some man- ner. The salt is a splendid skin tonic, heal- ing and deodorizing. In Cleopatra's day, and even later, baths in warm milk were much prized, as strengthening the enfeebled and giving the skin vigor and alabaster smoothness. Once upon a time the Queen of Naples, who was invited to visit the court of St. James, de- clined the honor because she was informed that it would be impossible to furnish her with thirty gallons of milk a day for her baths! You can obtain almost the same result in a sponge milk bath that you could in a tub bath. Wash your skin well first, and then dip your towel in the milk and rub yourself with that, letting it dry in. This is particularly invigorating for a deli- cate child. If you have any stubborf skin disease you can get your physician to pres2ribe medicated baths for you, and these, in con- nection with the regular daily bath, will generally clear up your system in a short case | time. Russian and Turkish baths are de- lightful things, and you can take them at home quite as well as anywhere else, ex- cept that you will, of course, miss the mas- sage. Get a box about three feet square, and just high enough to let your head stick up above the top when you are sitting on the chair that you intend to ocupy in it. Cut a hole large enough for your neck in the top, and have half the top on hinges, so that it will open, and have a hinged door at the side. Cover the outside with ollcloth and stop up all the cracks. Place @ caneseat chair inside the cabinet, a small stool for your feet to. on, and a small oil or alcohol stove in ffotit of the stool. The Various Kinds. For the Turkish bath, tfirn over the stove @ big tin pan that had walf a dozen holes Punched in it; step ingiqe the cabinet un- clothed, close the doors,‘and lay a towel lightly around your neck, so that no heat will escape from the top of the cabinet. You will soon find yourself in a profuse perspiration. Rub yourself vigorously on coming out, and dash cool water over your body; then wrap up and lie down for a time. For the Russian bath, put a pan of boiling water on the stove and let it steam you. In either instance, you should have your room heated to about $5 or 90, and you must avold taking cold. Baths of that kind open the pores, and one is more susceptible to_colds. For those who are much debilitated, an oil bath, following the usual bath, is highly recommended. Particularly for those with weak digestion and for little children run down from low fevers. Olive oil, almond oil, cocoa butter, codliver oil and vaseline are all excellent. The codliver oll is, of course, very offensive, and has to be man- aged carefully, but the others can be ap- plied after any bath, and should be rubbed in till not a vestige of the grease remains on the surface. The skin needs feeding sometimes, as well as any other portion of the body, and those who try this method will be rewarded by seeing the growth of its vitality, the “ironing out” of the dead folds and wrinkles, and a general improve- ment of the whole system. There is a time to bathe, if you would obtain the best results. Never bathe when very much exhausted or when overheaced. Disastrous results often follow an infringe- ment of this rule. You will gain by wait- ing to rest and cool off. Never bathe di- rectly after eating a full meal. At such a time the stomach is busy, and the blood that ts needed there is thrown back to the nervous centers by a sudden immersion of the body in the water, and the shock often occasions death. If very hungry, take a cup of hot milk or some such stimulant half an hour before bathing. Bathe quickly, rubbing and slapping the flesh to make the blood react quickly, and dress as soon as possible after coming from the bath, to avoid possibility of taking cold. SENORA SARA. see. FOR COMFORT A The Latest Novelties in Footwear for Women. It is said that American women pay more attention to dressing their feet than any other nationaiity that wears shoes. It is also a fact that American shoes are the finest made, the shapeliest and the best quality. The English shoe is a car- jeature, the French shoe a burlesque, the German shoe a comedy, the Spanish shoe a tragedy for the wear of other nations than their own, but the American shoe suits every foot and ig bought by every nationality under the sun. Feet, like flow- ers, pay one for cultivation, and the American foot is the best cultivated of all. In the last two or three years there has been a very great change in ideag about footwear, and cramped feet are not so general. Once the ideal foot was short} and high of Instep,as* broad as it was long] and thick as it w broad. Now the nar ‘D STYLE. row foot, long and slender in appear- ance, is the proper caper. Of course the Tril- by freak, a Star writer found, appears . .in shoes, and the We pointed toe carries added terror by hav- ing a sole that is built on a triangle. If Trilby had a foot shaped like those shoes she must have had 2 beautiful bunion crop, and as for corns! Ugh! An oddity in shoes for the early season is black, with colored trimmings. The color may be red, any shade of tan and brown, white, blue, In- deed you can get them to match any cos- tume. They look odd at first, but are rather pretty after the first shock. Laced shoes are to be much worn, and the strings are to match the colored trimmings. A black shoe, with Gismonda red leather cording along all the seams and up the front facings and across the toe, will have red laces! Quite chic, but radical, to say the least. White with black is also pop- ular. If the shoe is a button boot, then the buttons may be of the color. A very handsome walking boot has a black upper with a fancy perforated trimming extend- ing from toe to heel, made of white dress- ed kid. Another has a white upper and patent leather lower part. Patent leather boots and ties are shown in ail styles. For traveling, cloth uppers that nearly match the costume will be the thing. Sometimes these will be of whipcord or ribbed canvas, cloth tipped and trimmed with patent leather or with russet. All boots are higher in the ankle, probably because gowns are growing shorter all the time. For cycling and walking there is a shoe that buckles, buttons or laces almost to the knee, made of calfskin, with hob- nailed sole. Tennis and other sporting shoes are shown in quantities and all qual- ities, but do not differ materially from those of last scason. In low shoes, “you pays your money and takes your choice.” The only thing that is absolutely n is the “tie” that “‘but- tons.’ It comes in all the variations of the leathers and col- ors, but has three big buttons at the side. A few of the low shoes have the biu- cher flap, and are tied with ribbon to match the_ colored trimming. Very odd- looking. The walk- ing ties all have a low, common-sense heel, but those for car-~ riage and evening have preposterous Louis IV_heels. For evening wear the bronze tie and slip- per are to be much worn, but nothing will displace the suede slipper in popular favor, and you can get it in any color you want. Of course the patent leather slipper, with its tip-tilted heel and paste buckles, will be worn, and there are also satin slippers in every color, with rib- bon bows, lace and net rosettes and, if my lady likes, the contents of a jewel spilled over them: The twink of such @ slipper in- the dance, as peeps in and out un; der the rich brocades Gf now worn, is mo: bewitching ard 19 makes one think of el the days when a in drank to the health of his sweetheart from her dainty, dia- mond-gemmed sie.” Men“have more sense now—and women, too. White shoes and slippers will be worni with all white attire, and, as vsual, a few wemen will wear them to market. The woman who owns to wearing twos and gets her shoes in boxes marked “fours, E,”” won't wear them at all, if she has any desite to have her werd believed. Making Himself Agreeable. From Life. ? The happy father was exhibiting his first- born to a friend possessing piscatorial pro- clivities. ee “How much does it welgh,” inquired the victim, after desperately casting about for something more complimentary to say. “Seven pounds and two cunces,” replied the happy father. “Dressed—er—I mean stripped,” the frier.d, anxiously. “Of course,” the surprised father an- swered. “We-ell,” began the friend, doubtfully, “that isn’t very much for a baby, is it? But—er—er—,” brightening up, “it would be @ good deal for a trout.” asked FOR INDIGESTION AND NERVOUSNESS Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. W. 0. HOYT, Rome, Ga., says: “I have found {t both an agreeable aud useful remedy in many cases of indigestion, and also in nervous troubles attended with sleeplessness and a feeling of exhaustion.” FOR NEW HONORS The Fencibles the Champion Milita- ry Company of This Country. PREPARING. FOR THE MEMPHIS DRILL The Officers Who Will Command This Crack Drill Team. A SPLENDID RECORD LL MEMPHIS, OR at least that portion interested in the coming drill, is look- ing forward with in- terest, eagerness and curiosity to the ar- rival in that city next month of the National Fencibles, company C, second battalion, District of Columbia National Guard. An enviable reputation has pre- ceded Capt. Domer and his men. The Fencibles is the champion military com- pany of the United States, the title having been twice earned after the hardest kind of work in competition with the flower of the military from every section of the United States. The National Fencibles was organized June 21, 1887, by a number of young men who had been members of the National Rifles’ Cadets and later of the National Rifles. A few months after organization Congress created the District of Columbia National Guard, and the Fencibles was among the first to be mustered {n. - Their initial appearance before the public in a parade was with the Washington Light Infantry Corps, February. 22, 1889, The or- ganization, attired in its superb full dress uniform of green and gold with the white Capt. Domer. plumes, presented a striking appearance marching to the music of the “Fencibles’ March,” by Sousa, which was at that time just springing into popularity. After competing in a number of small drills at fairs in this city and always com- ing out victor, the Fencibles determined to enter a wider field, and in 1800 took a jaunt to Kansas City, Mo., where the interstate drill and encampment was held that year. The trip was a considerable undertaking for the young organization, as it was necessary for every member to pay his own expenses, which were not small. When the announcement of. the winners was made the Fencibles had second place in the maiden class and third place in the inter- state drill. Capt. Domer was declared to be the “best captain” of the many in at- tendance at the encampment, and Sergt. Charles Edwin Sessford proved the best drilled man in a contest open to the world. With four scalps dangling from its belt the company proudly returned to Washington and was received amid a display of fire- works and escorted to the armory by the entire military of the District. The next interstate drill occurred in In-- dianapolis, Ind., in 1891. The Fencibles at- tended, and it suffices to say that the ma- jority of the men wore crepe on their coat sleeves when they reached Washington one dismal, rainy evening and quietly moved to the company quarters without display of any sort. Fifth place was what the judges at Indianapolis said, and most of the boys to this day are wondering how it happened. Not daunted in the least, however, by defeat, the Fencibles smiling- ly came to the front in the spring of 1892 and took a special train to Omaha. In that contest they carried off first prize in the interstate drill and with it the title of champion military company of the United States. The cash prize in this contest was $5,000, but the Fencibles have received only a little over three-fifths of that amount. The case is still being pushed, however, and there are hopes that the re- maining hundreds will be paid some time in the future. A Winning a Big @rixe. - Because of the world’s fair there was no drill held in 1893, but last summer the city of Little Rock, Ark., entertained the citizen soldiery. The Fencibles had all to lose and little to gain in that competi- tion, and even after the company had ap- peared on the field grave doubts found lodgment in the breasts of many of the soldiers as to the outcome. After a pain- ful delay half a hundred companies gath- ered on the field to hear what the judges had to say. Capt. Domer was called to the front, handed $2,500 in crisp greenbacks and informed that his command had .re- tained the championship. The boys were veritably wild with joy, but twenty-four hours later were plunged into deep grief by the death of Third Sergeant Thomas | Arthur Tomlinson, who was acting as sec- ond lieutenant on the trip. Sergeant Tom- linson was run over and instantly killed by a switch engine at the depot at Little Rock, and the Fencibles returned on a funeral train to Washington instead of taking a triumphal journey through the southern states, as had been arranged. Several weeks ago Capt. Domer sub- mitted to the organization a proposition, which was unanimously adopted, to enlarge the company to a battalion of four com- panies. The “Greater Fencibles” is fast materializing, the organization now num- bering about 140 men. In the midst of the boom came the announcement of the Mem- phis drill, followed by a challenge to drill for the Galveston cup from the Chickasaw Guards of Memphis. A challenge was also received from the Branch Guards for a proposed drill to be held in St. Louis July 1 to 7 next. Although the time for hold- ing the Memphis drill was regarded by the company as decidedly inconvenient, espe- cially so as the brigade encampment of the District National Guard takes place early in June, and the time for prepara- tion’ quite brief, it was necessary that the Fencibles should engage in the competi- tion or forfeit the cup. The boys began drilling Monday evening, March 25, and since that time have been worRing each evening, most of the time in Convention Hall. Drilling in a closed hall three hours every night, with the exception of Sun- days, after attending to regular business pursuits during the day, may appear like fun, but it most certainly is not. The very hardest kind of work is being acconiplish- ed by Capt. Domer and his men, and even should they fail to come out at the head of the list in the Memphis drill, nothing but praise can be uttered for the members of the team, who are devoting their hours of recreation to drilling, in order to re- tain, if possible, the title of champions. ‘The comanding officer of the National Fencibles, as is well known to military men throughout the country, is Capt. Charles Sumner Domer, “the best captain in the United States,” so three boards of judges, composed of officers of the United States army, have declared him to be. Capt. Do- mer was born in Selingsgrove, Pa., and is the second son of the Rev. Samuel Domer, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in this city. The military career of Capt. Do- ner was begun in February 1881, when he organized the National Rifles’ Cadets,which body attained an enviable reputation as a youthful military organization, He re- signed the captaincy of the cadets in 1885 and entered the National Rifles, with which organization’ he participated in the May drill in this city in 1887, and also repre- sented the company in the individual drill at that event. Capt. Domer organized the Fencibles, and has always been at the head of the organization. His strong forte is in interpreting programs, the boys declaring that he can go through at sight the most difficult puzzles prepared by army officers, as though they were set down in plain English. Capt. Domer ranks third among the thirty-nine captains of the District Guard. The officer of the Fencibles second in ccmmand is First Lieutenant Lee Mosher, but because of business in New York he will be unable to accompany the team on the coming trip. Second Licutenant Wil- liam Wright Mortimer will act as first lieutenant in his stead. It was in 1885 that Lieut. Mortimer be- came a soldier, join- ing one of the leading military organiza- tions of Washington, but resigned in Au- gust, 1887, to enter the "Fencibles as a private. He was suc- cessively elected cor- poral and sergeant, and in 1889 reached the rank of second lieutenant, and at present is the third senior second lieuten- ant among twenty three in Gen. Ora- way’s command. “Billy” Mortimer is a Washingtonian by birth, and an expert draughtsman, holding a position in the United States patent office. He also holds an unusually warm spot in the hearts of the boys. The vacancy of second lieutenant, due to the temporary promotion of Lieut. Morti- mer, has been filled by assigning Private Harry A. Dunn, a soldier of several years’ 5 experience, to that position. “Mr. Dunn was captain of com- pany I, High School Cadets, in 1890-91 and held a warrant as first sergeant in the Logan Rifles for some time. He was transferred to the Corcoran Cadet Corps as a sergeant, and later to the Fencibles basa private. In the Omaha team and at Little Rock was fifth ser- geant and also repre- sented the company in the individual drill in the competition held in that city. When it was found that some one in the ranks would be required to act as second lieuten- ant of the Memphis team the unanimous sentiment of the company was in’ favor of the appointment of Mr. Dunn to that Position. First Sergt. Robert Creighton Rice first saw the light of-day in. this city. Sergt. Rice was a member of the National Rifles’ Cadets and helped organize the Fencibles, at which time he was elected a sergeant. He has had an experience of several years in “forming the com- pany,” and probably of all the non-com- missioned officers of the same rank who will visit Memphis not one can be found who is able to sur- pass him in that line. = The right guide ofethe drill team is Sec- ond Sergt. Charles Edwin Sessford, a sol- dier clear through, and it is said that there is none better than he in the universe. Sergt. Sessford is af- fectionately styled “Daisy” by the boys, and never has he been known to ex- ceed by a fraction the direct, short, back or side steps as pre- scriged in tactics,and when timed it is found that he main- tains perfect regular- ity of step. Sergt. Sessford entered mil- itary life as a mem- ber of the National Rifle Cadets in 1881, and is a charter mem- ber of the Fencibles, having served as pri- vate, corporal and sergeant. Against all comers he carried off the individual prize drill at Kansas City in 1890, has held the title of best drilled man of the company and has also come out ahead in numerous rifie-handling contests held in this city. The third sergeant and left guide of the team is James Page Cromwell, always designated ‘“Chimmie” by his comrades. Sergt. Cromwell first donned a uniform as a member of the Cor- coran Cadet Corps October 26, 1887. He was_ transferred :to the Fencibles in Jan- uary, 18%, and has participated in every competition where the company has been represented since that time. In the In- dianapolis and Oma- ha teams he drilled as corporal, and last July at Little Rock, when Third Sergt. Tomlinson was call- “ed upon to act as second lieutenant, Corp. Cromwell, on short notice, took the left of the company and drilled in the unfamiliar position without error. Sergeant Cromwell was the best drilled man in the Corcoran Cadet Corps when he was a member of that organiza- tion, and at present holds the medal and wears the plume as the best individual driller of the Fencibles. He has successful- ly passed the brigade board of examination of the National Guard for the rank of first lieutenant. Private Samuel Clarence Redman is the soldier who has been appointed by Capt. Domer to act as fourth sergeant and left guide of the first platoon on the trip. Mr. Redman served in the High School Cadets and was cap- tain of company E during the school year 1892-93. Early in 1892 he enlisted in the Morton Cadets and shortly there- after was appointed first lieutenant of that company. Upon the successive resig- nations of two cap- tains, Lieut. Redman was in command of the Morton Cadets. He resigned his com- mission to enter the Fencibles about eigh- teen months ago, and accompanied the champions to Little Rock. The selection of Private Redman to act as a guide is re- garded as a proper recognition of ability. Another expert has been taken from the Private wear ranks to march in the file closers. William K. Nottingham will chevrons of the fifth sergeant, and hold up the right of the second platoon in the Memphis field. He also is a High School boy, having served two years as a cadet at the Central High School. Mr. Notting- p< ham joined the Fen- Yh . cibles in 1891, and ( was a member of the ~~\\ ~ Omaha team the fol- 3 i Sa lowing year. At Lit- ™ S tle Rock,without pre- paration, he took Mr. Cromwell’s position as corporal in the fourth set of fours, when the latter was temporarily promoted, and served in a perfect manner. Mr. Notting- ham is a thorough soldier and the com- pany has the utmost confidence in him. To again win the championship title is what the Fencibles are after, and those who have watched the preparatory drills claim that it will be an impossibility to defeat the Memphis team. ——.__ In April-Tide. From Harper's Weekly. Be ye in love with April-tide? T’faith in love am I! For now ’tis sun and now ’tis shower, And now ’tis frost and now ‘tis flower— ‘And now ‘tis Laura laughing-eyed, ‘And now ’tis Laura shy. the Ye doubtful days, oh, slower glide! Still frown and smile, O sky! Some beauty unforeseen I trace In_every change of Laura's face. Be ye in love with See? = T’ faith 1 in love am SCOLLARD. HALL'S HAIR RENEWER IS PRONOUNCED THR it preparation made for thickening the growth of the hair, and restoring that which is gray to its original color, A LIVING SHADOW. @rom the Greenville, N.C., Reflector.) The fcllowing interview has just been given our reporter by Mr. G. A. Beker, the overseer at the farm of Col. Isaac A. Sugg of Grecnville, N.C. It will interest eny one who bas ever had Typhoid Fever. Mr. Baker guid, in part: “I was living in Beaufort county, and on the 24 day of October, 1893, I was stricken down with typhoid fever. I had the best physicians to atterd me, and on the 15th day of January, 1804, I was allowed to get up. I was emaciated, weak and had no appetite. I could only drag along for a short distance, and would be compelled to sit down and rest. This continued for some time, and I be- gan to give up hope of ever getting well. I lost any position in Beaufort county, and, having se- cured one in Pitt county, clerking in a store, I un- dertook it, but was so weak I cculd not do the work, and had to give it up. The disease settled in my knees, legs and feet. I was taking first one kind of medicine and then another, but nothing did me any good. I was mighty low-spirited. I moved out to Col. Suzg’s about four or five months ago, and commenced taking Dr. Williams’ Pills. I took three a day for about three months. I began to regain my appetite in a week's time, and then my kness began to disappear, and hope sprung up With a Dlessedncss that is beyond all telling. At the expiration of the three months I was entirely cured, and could take my ax and go into the woods and do as good a day's work as any man, I was troubled with dyspepsia, and that has disappeared, It fs also a splendid tonic for weak people. I say, Mr. Editor, God bless Dr. Williams, may he live for a long time; I ki he will go up yonder to reap his reward, for he has done a wonderful lot of good. Tell everybody that asks you about Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Psle People that if they will come to me I can certainly satisfy them ag to their merits. I always curry a box of pills with me, and whenever I feel bad I take one.” We are forcibly struck with the earnestness of Mr. Baker, and lis statements may be relied on. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elenents necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nérves. They are an unfailing specitic for loco- motor ataxia, partial px lysis, NW ° donee, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of Ja gmppe, papluzuou ov we heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness, either in male or female, and all dis- cases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent, pest paid, on receipt of price (60 cents a fox, or six boxes for $2.50) by addreesing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. SAM HOUSTON’S GENEROSITY. = How the Famous Texan Treated a Man Who Had Settled on His Land. Many are the stories told of Sam Houston, the first president and afterward the first Representative from Texas. There was a stretch of country near Quincy, Lilinois, known as the “Indian tract.” Sam Houston had title to a great deal of it, a real estate fact which it would seem many of the earlier settlers of that region—a careless pioneer brood—were unaware of. One of them, a writer for The Star was told, came to Richardson, Representative at that time from the Quincy district, and asked him if he knew Sam Houston. Rich- ardson said he did, whereupon his con- stituent confided to him that he had in- advertently settled on 160 acres of Hous- ton’s land, and that every dollar he was worth stood in barns, house, fences and other improvements on the land. He had just iearned, after living there eight years, that Houston had title to it, and that he did not. He wanted Richardson to see the conqueror of Mexico and make the best terms he could. As it stood, he was ab- solutely at Housten’s mercy. Richardson, on his return to Congress, met Houston, and told him the story. “and now, Houston,” said Richardson, “the question is, what will you take and give this friend of mine a quit-claim deed to the 160 acres?” “What sort of a man is this constituent of yours who has blundered upon my, lard?” asked Houston. “Good, square, honest man,” replied Rich- ardson. “When I turn him off my land,” said Houston, hopefully, “I reckon he and his family will be beggars.” “Utterly ruined,” responded Richardson. Houston thought a moment. “What's this farm worth now?” he asked. “Improvements and all, about $6,000."" “What was the bare 160 worth when your fellcw went on it?” “About $5 an acre; $800 in all.” “Good fellow, this man of yours, Rich- ardson?” “Best in the world.” “Tell him to send me $800, and I'll make him a deed.” In the course of time on came the $900 in a New York draft. Richardson sought Houston, who promptly made a deed, and ha1.ded it to Richardson. Then he took the draft, and, after he had looked at it a moment, turned it over and indorsed it. ‘ou say, Richardson, this man of yours is a eed camped “First-class man every way,” respond Richardson. Z —— “Send him back this draft,” said Hous- ton, “and tell him Sam Houston’s changed his mind. What can he buy a good young horse for in that country, as good a saddle horse as you have out there?” “Two hundred dollars ought to do it,’* said Richardson. “Well, then,” said Houston, “you give him back the draft and tell him to buy a first-class saddle horse, about four years old, and keep him for me. When Congress adjourns I'll go home with you, and when I get my visit out I'll take the horse and ride him down to Texas.” Richardson complied with this new ara rangement, and the man in Illinois received. back his draft and bought a saddle horse. Just before adjournment Houston came over to Richardson. “That fellow that’s got my horse out in Illinois, you say, is a tip-top, good man?” “One of the test men in my district,” re- plied Richardson. “Well,” said Houston, with a sigh, “T would have liked first rate to see him and also my horse. But I’ve got to go straight te Texas es affairs turn out. I’ll tell you what you do, however, when you get home. Go over and see this man for me, and say to him to sell the horse and do what he pleases with the morey. And, by the way, Richardson, I wish you’d write me and tell me if it was a good horse or not.” The curious can read the copy of Sam Houston’s deed to the 160 acres in the record of the Quincy land office. ne Couldn’t See It. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. “Has Bilkens’ sight been completely re- stored?” “The doctor thought so, until he pre- sented his bill, when he couldn't make Bilkens see that it was worth $200. At a Recent Examination. 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