Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1896, Page 19

FASHION FEATURES: What Will Be Worn by Those Who | Stylishly Dress. HE NEW SKIRT HAS TEN GORES i Tulle Strings Adorn the Hats and Lace the Capes. ABOUT PARASOLS HETHER THE SUN, according to the old tradition, dances upon Easter morn or no, the big eyes, gray, blue or black, of the pretty sirl of the period will dance With delight when she dons her new outfit for the great event of the year, the Easter parade. ‘There are so many! things to say about| the new costumes! There is the new hat, hourglass siape or with the square, decided crown, or the tiniest toque shaped like three clover | leaves or a butterfly, or otner fairiest freak ef Dame Nature. | There is the new tie, a big scarf of tulle Easter Miners. | the throat, In softer grace thar: any | caressing the rounded chin. | is the new skirt, so systematically cut m the most cxact and exactiag of lines that it needs must have, besides the breaith down the front, ten gores io give to Its wide dimensions the precise degree | of perky impertinence, and leave mere man | the gutter for his theroughfare. i tied at ribbon, ‘There HOUSEHOLD HINTS| Uniess you want te choke up your range and dampen the fire out, don't try burning old papers und trash in it. Familiarity and kindness are two very aiiferent things in the government of serv- ants, buc téo many mistresses confound the two. German rusk is a delicacy not known in s comntry. This is the way it 1s made: fir sugar into your milk bread douga to | it as sweet as you like, along with | two well-heaten eggs and some graied | lemon pec. Mix into a soft dough, shape into a long loaf and bake to a Fght brown after it rises well. When cooled a littie in thin slices with a sharp knife, “rush as little as possible, and retura the | slices to the even to brown with a quick heat. to A prominent actress has become a hope- Jess maniac through using peroxide of «Mid to bleach her hair. Tt ought to be a Tesson to the foolish women who try to make out that God made a mi when he gave them brunette skins dark hair, but it won't. Have some object in fe if you would keep young. Nothing ages one so fast as letting go of the usual occupations ard getting out of touch with the everyday | world. The woman who works six hours | a day has a heap the best of it in the | struggle with Father Time. \ A rainy day dress is an easy thing to} possess, and the woman who can look well | on a rainy day reed have little care about | her personal appearance on a sunny day. The chief feature of the attire would be the dress skirt. Take ore of your dark wool skirts that is too worn to he longer presentable, and cut it off at the bottom so | that it eacapes the ground by at least four inches. Have the underskirt shorter yet. ; Present yourself with a pair of thick-soled high shoes to wear on rainy days only, ana do not bother with “gums.” Take ‘your | old sailor and trim jauntily with ribbon only. Then with any jacket and an um- lia you can defy weather and unkind | omment. The woman who never says anything but good about other people will only hear good about herself, and she never gets into trovble. A vegetable brush is almost a necessity in a weil-regulated kitchen. Lettuce and spinach always need it, and so do nearly all green vegetables. If in doubt about eggs, drop them in a quart tin of water. If they float they are over “ripe” and not fit for use. A good exg has a clean, clear-looking shell. The daughter of the house can make her- self a pretty rug for ker room, if she is industrious, and has to be frugal, out of the seraps of woolen rags in the scrap bag and the discarded woolen underclothes. Have all the rags perfectly clean, to begin with. ¥ rg, sharp Shears the rags into half-inck-wide strips, m!xing all the eclors together, if you Eke, or keeping the very bright ones to themselves. After your rags are all cut, sew them “ts for car-| = | suits meade up | then it is reed: | a glass of sl: | ing will quell THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY; ‘APRIL ‘4; /1896-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. There is the new parasol—~and no one ‘knows ‘how soon a day may come of blind- ing, scorching heat, when the air rises in wavy clouds from the scorching pavement; the parasol, like the Texati's revolver, i one of those things that you. want very much, if you waut it at all—there is, I say, the new parasol daintily ‘trimmed in clouds | of white chiffon or scattered with flower designs, as if it had just come not un- scathed from an Haster carnival. | There is the new wrap, light, lacey, spark- Eng with jet, glittering with steel, gay in coloring and flashing ‘ts banners of lace in the spring wind. There is the new collar made of different,| colored ch'ffon and insertion with big bows propping the saucy ecitin to a seornful angle. There is the new jacket, short, with wide lapels opening almost to the waist, and tiny short skirts standing out at right angles. if ‘There is a great deal of jet in the spring styles. There will be in the parade tomor- row one hat with a fairly wide pent house! coming low over the face and turned high in the back, whose brim is covered all with rows of black and cream ‘tmsertion, and Whose crown ts of fancy black straw, sup- porting in triumph big fluffy loops of black and white tulle combined, peering high over the back of the crown. The milliners’ ‘Stiches hold the thing together, no doubt, but that service seems ‘to be performed by fancy pins of rhinestones and pearls care- lessly disposed upon the front of the crown and by black and white tulle rosettes at the back. The effects which can be produced by the combination of black and white are éx- hibited again in a very odd gown of dlack briliantine, the bottom of whose full skirt is trimmed with a bias band of white cloth and red cloth vest, the jacket- buttened ae on the eee ppngedlat ie eioned es fancy buttons, quite -t0 BUPPO! the weight of that will -be pleced in the tiny pocket just at the peimt uf the vight shoulder, for, 2lthough the new wo- aman has a pocket, she is net yet sufficient- ly advanced to -spo!l it by putting things into it. A tan and brown mixed cheviot whose short jacket has full coat tails is ‘endued with a full front of cream tilk, with tucked yeke and trimmed with smal pearl buttons in clusters, and there ts a -brown silk vest which shows about «um inch on either side. Gowns are essential, hats merely orna- mental. So many women since the world began have gone bareheaded that when the woman of today has a het she wants it to justify itself. And it does! There are huge white garden and carriage hats massed with gay flowers; royal purple and green hats, and hats in combinations of green and blue; big Panama white and black hats with brims draped with black lace em- broidered in white, the crowns almost cov- | ered with seft knots of purple tulle; hats over whose brims the Prince of Wales plumes look so natural that one 4s startled not to find the motto “Ich Dien” about them; little clover leaf toques in fancy mixed straws in two shades of green and brown with wreaths of wild cherries and leaves and tiny rosettes of red and green ribbon, at the hack of which are long ro- settes made of ends of ribbon and sticking out like the tatls of birds, in green, red, black and brown and other tints. Perhaps because the parasol ts even less necessary than the hat, it ts apt to be more gay. The carriage parasols of white | chiffon are the perfection of useless charm, warranted to spoil with two usings, yet some of them are trimmed elaborately with | chiffon @raped tn tiny folds and marked With irregular rows of very narrow ribbon Biased in black. Far more favored, how- ever, are gowns of gayer and lighter colors. One of the most beautiful exhibited ts of Persian silk ground: work in dull pink, wi ereon big green leaves and pink roses are cefully blended, whose full bottomed skirt is trimmed with the same tiny ruffles, and the bodice is made brave with a white satin yoke under a network of twisted ‘Iver tinsel and again the tiny ruffle-on the front. The belt is of white satin ribbon, ending with loops in the back and caught front with a large green enameled buckle. with fancy gold edges, and the collar is juat | the same as the belt, as well behaved col- jars are apt to be. ‘ | ‘There are a great many cheviot and cioth | vith plain full skirt and | orfolk jackets, with three tight pleats cn | front and back. A beit of the same ma- | terial can be worn with them or fancy | belts. The bottom of the pleats of these Jackets is often trimmed with rows of five | tiny buttons In metal or pearl. | A very pretty Easter dress is of light | stay cheviot, with plain skirt, short jacket pet rags, erty mere neatly and firmly: Get a mammeth wocden srochet- hook, and rt h the singie crochet stitch, making n oval or rcurd mat, just which you de- catching the thread under the two threads cach time ard not throwing the thread over at all, beng careful to widen lerately. This makes a very handsome wh'ch may be still dsomer if it res into it with colors. rg but woolen or sii 2°8 For the stoma Only a barbarian w teanot perfectly clea test water. spoonful fa | and {f ct ts: e, don't ‘boif’ tea. > that. Have the . then scald with hot- Put in your tea, an even te: each persor, if it is good tea, den't use it at all; powr over hoilng weter, exactly the anantity that 1 be needed, set it or a hot tea stand or vit a kot towel or w het plate ard th ow ev tea cozy, and let it stend for three minutes, teserve. Ti will ¢ome from the teapot aimcst colorless and will taste Uke the nectar cf the gcds, if you haven't | forgotten to warm the teacups. If your children crave can loaf sugar taken from wili not eat enon; it has the mer‘t of } aid of mest cf t give them a candy box. They t to hurt them, and ig pure, which can't candy ore gets now- yeu went to making ready for the spring pasting and varn'sh- ing, you found the brushes hard as bricks w-ta the last year's neglected paint. Put them to scak over night ina bottle of esa) ol or M turpertine, but coal oil s the cheapest. Tt will take time, but patience and petroleum will accomplish wonders. Eat all the green things you can get now. They are an excellent tonic for a disor- dered liver. Scmetinies the juice of a lemon taken in htly sweetened water on ris- mot ing headache. It has always been covsidered a healthy drink to take at that time. In a furniture store the other day a Young married coupie were buyirg some furniture for their new home. The husbard is in one of the departments ard gets a salary of $1,000 a year. They had cnly about $100 to furnish the hevse with, and were dis- cussing what they could afford. The hus- band wanted a showy parlor set, but the young wite demurred. “I want my kitchen furnished first,” she said, “and then my ded rooms and din‘ng room, and !f there ts any money left we wll spend it on the par- lor. Most of cur lives will be spent in the dining room and elcove, which I mean to have for a brary. The ‘parlor’ will be for our occasional friends, and we will hope that they cone to see us and not our fur- niture.” When you plan to eccremize, don't begin by cutting «ff your @a‘ly peper or your magazines. Always keep good Literature in the hcuse for your ch'idren. Then, too, it is your best wey of keeping In touch with the worid, if you have to be occupied with ‘Your business all the t'me. A Suggestion. From Life. ‘The new woman dceesn't want to forget that the apparel oft proclaims the man. WHEN SLEEVE MEETS SLEEVE. Brem f ; Tiers. j the aniform of white d: of 'ffe-ert colors and with full_ruffies of chiffon wbout the bottom. ure black and white satin parasols with Persian borders; there are white chiffon parasols with tiny colored rosebuds embroidered on them. More sensible, and perhaps quite as beautiful in the long run, are the Persian silk parasols in shades of delicate green and pink, trimmed up in points w:th black chiffon and with waving fringes of chiffon about the edges. There are parasols with fancy handles in the Dresden designs; there are parasols in any color you like with open work borders of laced baby ribbon and wreaths of violets straggling over their delicate expanses; there are parasols with big purple bows upon the taps and upon the handles. I have written of the coming use of white this season. With Easter it has come. Perhaps the daintiest jacket of early spring is @ short one with white cloth revers em- broidered in black. And then there are short jackets and capes of gray, se light that they look almost white, trimmed with black velvet collars and tiny black velvet buttons. Of course, there are capes, very full, but not long, giving the shoulders that wide appearance from which the new sleeve is gradually to wean us, black capes edged with black “lace and glittering with jet, black capes covered almost to their edges with biack and white lace, producing the richest of effects, and wraps trimmed with black lace edged with white and with black chiffon and ribbons. ELLEN OSBORN. WEAR NO OVERCOATS. Classes of People Who Manage to Do Without Them. From the New York Worlil, “Man is a clothes-wearing animal,” says‘ Carlyle in his “Sartor Resartus," but iis description of chese garments would have been curtailed had a certain class of men, who never wear oyerccats, come within the limits of is observation. There are hun- dreds of men in this city who do not wear evercoats at any time during the year. Prominent among them are the letter car- They do not wear cvercoats because it is against the rutes of the Post Office De- partment. A uniform of gray was designed for them, and they have to wear it the year round. Of course the summer uniform is of lighter weight than those they wear during the winter months. The only exception i: the rubber coat, which is considered par of the uniform, and is allowed on rainy days. The writer asked a letter carrier if he did not feel the need of an overcoat. “It wovld be a Uttle more comfortable Just {<r today,” he said, “but this weather Won't last, and so I'll get through ail right without ene. The first winter I was in the department it was terrible for me, and I thought I would freeze, but I've got used to being without one now, and don’t mind the coid weather at all. Anothe- great class of workers seldom seen wearing overcoats are the messenger boys. No vercoat is included in their uni- form, either, but there are no rules prohtb- iting them from wearing these garments if they desire. At times senger with a coat cver his uniform, but he is usually a new boy or a delicate chap who cannot stand the cold, for the majority of the messengers do rot care to wear coats. Since the introcuction of the new unk forms in the street cleaning department the absence of overcoats on street sweepers is much noticed. Prior to this change tnese men presented a motley sight during the winter morths. On cold days they wrapped themselves in all sorts of ragged and tat- tered costs, and even tied bagging about their feet In order to keep watm. Although luck does not present a very comfortable aspect, the men keep warm by wearing heavy ‘short coats and a pair or two of heavy trousers underneath, and 4f they stick to their work properly they will never feel the need of a buiky overcoat. Elevated ratiroad guards, as a class, do not wear cvercoats, althovgh one is includ- ed in the uniform. They uswaily bundle up very snugly underneath their short jack- et, and, as they are s'icwed to pass their time between stations inside the cars, they do not find an overcoat at all necessary to their comfort. Few of them resort to the overcoat excepting in very stormy weather. Sailors rever wear cvercoats, and, more than that, they never bundle up around their necks. It is rare to see a sailor with the collar of hia pea jacket turned up around his neck. Asa rule they waik along in the fiercest breeze with nearly one-fourth of their chests bared, and, .as a class, (hey are free from colds and diseasts of tie lungs. Many health experts have argued ‘bout the use of overcoats, and the consensus of opinion 15 that people wrap up too much in winter time. Many men can afford over- | coats who do not wear them except durme. fero weather. They claim that overcoat wearing is a habit, and not only unneces- | Saty, but detrimental to health. A writer in this ‘ity has not worn an overcoat ih five years, and he has not bad a cold dur- ing that period. ——+ eo Congrcastonnal Pian. From the Philndeiphia North American. Higbee—“You wothen have @ qneer tdcn \| of & debating clad. When I Yooked in last | ‘ight you were all talking at once. one may see a mes- | WITH A GUIDE 4 Bear Reporter is lPetoatilly Coa _duoted” Through, the Capital. WHAT THE AVERAGE TistaR Also What He Leams ‘in Going od 13] Through the Big Building. POINTS OF \INTEREST N E ARE NOW starding on the steps of the Old Cap- itol,” said the guide to the, visitors. whom he was showing around the great American parliament building, “and right belew you there is where .Gearge Wash- imgttn laid the cor- ‘ner ‘stone. ‘“Phis part of the structure.is of Virginia brownstone, obte!ned et Aquia-creek, 2 few miles down the Potomac. It has been painted. white to ccriespond with the two marble wings af- terward erected. As we erter the great ro- tunda you nctice thtse’two magnificent bronze ¢ccrs, commemorating incidents in the Ife cf Columbus. They are famous works of ert and cost the government $28,- 000. The twc docrs weigh ten ‘fons. Standing here, as we do, .inithe center of the rotcnda, you look above you at, the ceiling’ of thé domé and séé Bram! mas- ‘terpiece—the fregoo repreyenting a number of allegorical groups. That piece of art cost the government $19,000, and 4s world famous. Lowering your gaze, the eye rests upon another p‘ece of Brumi!’s work, that frieze exter ding almost around the rotunda half way up to the dome. It was com- menced by Brumidi and is allegorical in character but the work was interrupted by his deeth. Afterward Costagini took ut up, but he o:ly did a small port.on of the work. For seven years that scaffolding has hurg there, an eyesore, while the joint committee on 'brary is making up tts mind what design Shall be accepted for complet- ing the work. Bars “I understand that the connecting link of picture will be a scere representing: the ing of the Central Pacific and. the Unton Pacific railway Imes, w'th Leland Stanford driving the golden spike. “You will observe these eight magnificent paintings encircling the walls of the ro- tunda. Fcur of them are by Trumbull, the others by We'r, Powell and Vanderlyn. There is @ marked uniformity of execut:on | in these paintings, due to the fact that these four art:sts followed the same gen- eral line in their work. Trumbull's four paintings cost $&(4X) -apiere. At the time he was given: the commiss‘on John Randolph of Roanoke dbjetted to an American prtist doing the-work, cla‘ming that rio” Amertean was: well'’enough ad- vanced in art to do justice to the matter, while Johr'' Quincy Adwms ins‘sted that Trumbull should have !t.’When the pa‘nt- ings were put up the tghles were turned, John Quircy Adams sneering at the werk, calling it a daub, and itandolph acknow!- edging the genius of the artist and aiding bis settlement with the governmant. Some Historic Places. “As we stand here in the ceiter of the rctunda, we are on the spot where the bodies of Garfield, Lincoln and of Logan have rested in their coffins, while sorrawing ninl- titudes passed-through and around the place to pay a last tribute to the dead. Now we will go into the Supreme Court. For forty years the Senate held its sessions in this room, and its‘4valls have echoed the elo- Lcnce of Webster, Sumner, Cty and, Cass. “Ttre Supreme Court in the-early days met in whet is now the law Wbrary,on the base- ent floor of the Capitol. While we are go- ing from the Supreme Coert room I am re- ininded of a tact that I dug from the records not long ago, that the shertest term of of- fice ever held by a Supreme Court justice Was in the case of Cushing, who was ap- poirited by President Washington on Tues- day, confirmed on Wednesday and resigned before Saturday. “Here we are in the reception room of the Senate. This is a magnificent apart- ment, as you will observe, and the fresco- ing uron the ceiling is truly a work 6f art. \-It-was‘dene by Brumidi. ™ this figure. rep resenting Washington, Hamilton and Jeffer- son in conference. Washington's face is painted from the Houdin mask. Next we gome to the famous marble room of the Senate. You will observe that this is a long ‘apartment, finished in the finest grade of marble. This ts where Senators may invite “the'r callers for a confidential ‘¢hat: | Next to this room is the private room of the Presi- | dent of the United States. It is only occir: pied at long intervals, once in two years, or probably not so frequently. in the closing hours of the short sessions of Congress it is often the custom for the President to come to the Capitol, so that he can examine and sign the bills that are passed In the last moments of the session prior to adjourn- ment, in order to avoid the delay of sending | them to the White House. The McKinley tariff bill was signed in this room, and a number of great measures have received the | President's sanction here. You see, the j oom is magnificently decorated, and’ fur- i nished in almost regal style. “Works of Art. é “I will now, take you to the. east front of the Senate wiag. Here is another set of | bronze doors, these representing Incidents | in the life of Washington and of the rev- olution. They cost $56,000, and were made i this country. Proceeding upstairs, we come to the gallery corridors of the Senate ‘wing, and here we find a number of inter- esting works of art. Here is a statue of Franklin by Hiram Powers; this painting of the recall of Columbys, by Heaton, and over the door, here, the portrait of John A. Dix, By Mrs. Imogen Robinson Morrell of this city. Dix was the author of that expression, ‘If any one. atiempts, to haul down the American flag shoot him on the apot!’_ That command was given while he was Secretary ‘of the Treasary, and was addressed to the captain:of a revenne cut- ter. Here is Powell's magnificent ‘Battle of Lake srie,’ representing Coramodore Perry transferring his flag from one of his sinking ships to another vessel, after which he won the victory over the British fleet, and gave utterance to that expres- sion, ‘We have met the enemy, and they are curs.’ This painting cost $25,000, and the origina: of it is in the state house at Columbus, Ohio. Powell painted that one for the Capitol, but it was tod small for the space designed. In this corridor we find the two landscapes ;hy Moran, probably j the two finest Jardsc@pes.on canvas in this country. One repypsents the chasm of the Colorado and the..otker the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone. They cost $10,000 apiece. These .pertraits on the wall are of Webster and Clay, executed from life by Darby, and on ;the gther side por- traits of Sumner and ,4’alhoun. The only memorial of the civil war in the Capitol is this picture of the battje betsveen the Mon- itor and the Merrimac,,painted by Halsafl of Boston. Here also isthe famous paint- ing of the ‘Electoral Cammission,’ by Mrs. Fassett. oe “The only works of, artiin the Senate chamber are these busis of, presiding ofi- cers of the Senate, fram John Adams up. You will observe that, they,,are placed in fiches around the gallery walls. We will not remain long in thig chamber. You will observe an animated discussion is being waged on the floor between two Sensiors ‘on the difference betwean tweedie-dum and tweedie-Gee. “This has been going on all day, and will only. end when the dinner hour atrives, and the contest is declared a draw by the presiding officer. re Washington as a Young Man. “Out here'th the corstaor is thé “younges* Ww = ‘Mize. H.—“We conduct our chib on con-} Portrait of Washington in, the bullding. Tt Sressional lines, Henry.” er Saee nares Tee Tromp Wants, ‘siok sister, and “I hope you dia not give that tramp any | money to buy whisky.” “No, indeed! Wester@ay I gave him & nickel to buy postal cards %o send to ‘this -emme back for &|-see some more cf .Hrumid': was painted when he.was forty-seven years of age, and the-artist was Charles Wilson Peale. Washington gave the sittings aur- ‘tng ‘the winter spent at Valley Forge. ‘This Stdirease Is of Italian marble of ‘the, finest quality. At the bottom We find the statue of Hancock, executed hy Horatio Sténe. 1 want to take you into the room of the com. mittee on military affairs, where you will ', work In the there ts Waste frescoing upon the ¢til ng. ington at Valley Farge, the battle of Dan- ‘bury, the of Stony Point and the bettie of mn. This room is sump- tuously furnished, — of the rps com- mittee rooms being thus equipped in prince- dy splendor. ie “We will now pass through a dark and eorridor te the other wing of the Capitol. If there were light enough you could see that these walls are decorated with frescoing, but an economical govern- ment, after spending fabulous sums upon the work, will not provide a tallow candle to enable it to be admired. If I were dishon- estly inclined I might sandbag you here in the darkness of this corridor and rifle your pockets, and, although your cries would resound: through the vaults, I could make my escape before a rescuing party uld come to your aid with lanterns. “Hundreds of people hourly pass through this corridor from one wing of the Capitol to the other, but have to grope their way along, and it is said that the employes who are permanently on duty down here become sightless, like the fish in the Mammoth cave. Those few points of light which you see ahead of you are incandescent lamps, which Col. Bright has succeeded in wresting from the niggardly hands of the appropria- tion committee. In the Crypt. “Standing here, we are in the crypt. This [ttle siar represents the geographical cen- ter of the city of Washington. Beneath it is a vault which was originally intended to contain the remains of George Washington, and is now occupied by the bier which has borne the remains of distinguished states- men while resting in state in the Capitol Let us ascend to statuary hall. The most Rotable work in this room 1s the statue of Washington. presented by the legislature of Virgin‘a in 1788. It is an absolute -re- production of h‘s form and features accord- ing to measurements taken in life, the face being reproduced from the Houdin mask. Over the doorway is the. celebrated $15,000 clock by Franzont. It represents Cle> re- cording passing events. lt is alleged that the government never paid Franzoni for tke clock. “A wonderful feature of this statuary hall is the whisper.ng stones. By standing upon certain of the ilagstones in this hall echoes and whispers come in the most my3- tersous manner. Over in that corner John Quincy Adams was stricken with paraly while addressing the-House in 1848, thi being ut that time the hall of the House of Representatives, and he was removed to the adjo-ning cffice where he ded a few days later. In the House wing of the Cap- itol_ we find a number of works of art. There is Leutze's picture ef “Westward the Course of Empire Takes lis Way.’ The cominon impression is that this represents Pike's Peak, but the artist's son told me that it is a scene in the Wind River moun- tains cf Wyoming. Oa the other side of the wing is a painting representing LincsIn gnirg the Proclamat.cn of Emancipation, This was painted by Frank Carpenter of few York, was purchased by Mrs. Eliz: Thompson of Stamford, Conn., and pre- sented to Congress. ‘She reccived the ‘thanks of Congress, and by that act is Utled to the privileges of the floor of the House, the only woman now living who has the right to the floor while the House ig in sess:on. Dolly Madison was granted that honor for saving the paintings in the White House during the British invasion of 1812 In the hall of the House is a painting representing the founding of the first Roman Catholic mission in California; two large paintings by Bierstadt, a por- tra:t of Lafayette presented by himself. a Portrait of Washington by Vanderlyn, a1d a fresco by Brumidi ————— One Object of Life Insurance. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The subject of the conversation had taken Several routes, and finally the topic of in- surance was reacked by the guests, the Itostess and host at the dinner table. “Papa hus his life insured,” spoke up the Tttle girl, the pet of the household. “Is that so’ asked one of the visitors showing interest in the evidence of pre- cocity. Everybody present looked at the child. and the father and mother gazed ‘fondly and proudly. Yes'm: for fifteen thousand dollars.” “What he done that for ‘So mamma can buy a new husband when he's dead. —seo— Notes of Fashions. Neck fixings are almost as varied as they were in midwinter. The stock is no longer a plain bit of ribbon or satin. It must be trimmed at the upper edge, either with a |. Ample edging of lace or with points. The newest points do not turn down over the collar, but stand out and flare like a Mary Queen of Scotts’ ruff. Some of them turn up around the face, being narrow in front, but standing up in high points just behind the ears. There are grass linen gets with collar and cuffs to match which can be worn with any suit. The collars turn down, have a band of narrow white insertion and a lace edge. oe cuffs turn up, of course, and have w.de ace. Grass Hen Is like violets—it can be worn with anything. Perhaps this is the reason why It is so ubiquitous. There are ready- made revers and collarettes, parasols and handkerchiefs, and the embroideries are simply exquisite. These last are used on all sorts of ma- terials, and are as appropriate on silk as they arc on plain linen. ‘The favorite shirt waist is made of Inen-— the newest being a perforated varicty over some pretty tint of silk or camb: ae Just Like a Woma: From the Rochester Union. In Rochester the other evening a woman got on a street cat, carrying an apple and her purse in her hand. She sat down next to a young man, and, as she supposed, put her purse and the apple in the side pocket of her sack. The young man got out at Union street, and the car went on. A pas- senger happening to look out of the rear aindow saw him rushing after the car, ‘Wildly calling for it to stop. Finally, the bell was Tung and the young man caught up and got on. Going to the woman who had sat heside him, he said: “Madam, here ‘are your apple and purse. You put them in ™my pocket by mistake.” Everybody In the car laughed but the womar. She looked angry and did not even thank the young man who kad rone to so much trouble to return her property. If he had not return- ed the articles she would have been certain that he had picked her pocket. setae “ea A Neolithic Burial Ground. From the Standard. The discovery at Worms ef a burying ground belonging to the later stone age, by Dr. Koehl, the conservator ef the Paulus Museum there, is, in view of the rarity of such graves, an important archacologieal event. Up to the present about seventy graves have been examined, or only a part of this burying ground of neolithic man, “nd already the number of the vessels found, most of them very tastefully orna- mented, exceeds. one ndred. Not the slightest trace of a metal has, as yet, been discovered in the graves; on ‘the other hand, the presence of arm-rings of blue and gray slate is curious. In the most recently opened graves of women three arm-rings made of slate were removed from the up- per arm of one skeleton, four from that of another, and six from the lower arm of a| third skeleton. In a man’s grave there Was on the neck of the skeleton a small ecnically polished ornament of syenite, not perforated, but provided with a groove for the string. The other ornaments from the graves consist of pearls, mussel shells made in the form cf trinkets, perforated boars’ tusks and small fossil mussels. -2e2-— A Spring Beauty. From Harper's Bazar. j - | joke, HOUSE ~ DECORATION Soma Baggostions About Doing a * Great Deal for Little Money. TREATMENT OFTHE VARICUS BOUMS What-Can Be Done in Old and in New. Dwellings. AS .T@-. COLONIAL MODELS T IS A COMMON error to suppdése that dainty decoration is an exelusive posses- sion of the rich and well-to-do. This error is due largely to the fact that in articles and publications devoted to. the decorative arts expensive de- signs are usually chosen for illvstra- tion and description: but, while it is easily possible to spend $5,000 upon the decoration of a room cf moderate size, it is aiso possible to pro- duce for one-tenth of that cost, or even for a far emaller sum than that, an effect ‘ equally good taste. There is no reason why any one with limited means at his command should hesitate te attempt artistic decoration, if it is executed by a competent hand. For myself, I would get far more pleasure in decorating a house of moderate cost, where the ingenuity would be taxed to save a8 much money as possible in pro- ducing, effects, than in execuling one of those carte Manche orders which are 0 often given to American decorators. The profit would be less, but the artistic problems to conquer would fascinate the genuine artist. The decorations of a house should, when possible, receive consideration before it is built, and in the planning of a new house, however inexpensive, the services of a competent architect, should be em- ployed. He Will save two or three times the amount of his fee in, actual economies of construction or in improvements which the house might not ptherwise contain. But to begin with the problems of the decorator. The typical case, we will say, is that of an American family which will this spring move into a house, either new or not,which has been purchased, built or leased for such a term of years as to constitute a real home. If the house is new and was not designed by the owner's architect, it is sometimes possible, at least in the cities, to buy it at a reduced price before the ; wood work has been laid on or the finshing | touches completed. In such cases a house | can profitably be put into the decorators’ ; hands for harmonious treatment; in the | finishing of an ordinary three-story city block house, or of a country house of cor- responding size, $1,000 cen be made-to pro- | duce very beautiful effects. A Dining Roem Efect. Assuming that the house is a narrow one | in a block with the ordinary basement din- | ing room and straight narrow stairs. The ining room can be simply finished with a base and chair rail, between which a dado of blue denim can be applied as if it were wall paper; above the ‘chair rail the wall can be iaid’ with plain cartridge paper with a small frieze of garlands, and the ceiling may be a dainty and delicate cream tint, almost white. The kitchen plastering should be painted in oil, 30 that it can be kept clean ensity. The parlor may be decorated with wall paper in the Louis XVI patterns, which are so popular this spring. the bed rooms in chintzes and in Dresden designs, each in e'different color key. The remodeling of an old honse in a town is an interesting study for a deco- rator. A very successful treatment in al- tering houses of the high stoop and base- ment order once so common in New York is to tear away the stoop and drive a front entrance of generous width into the >ase- ment itself, with a narrow side entrance to the rear for tradesmen. In such a de- sign the front basement will contain a tiny reception room or even a reception ulcove from the entrance hall, the stairs will rise In easy fi:ghts in the square hall in the mid- dle, while behind, reached directly from the side entrance, the laundry end kitchen may be placed. On what was the first floor we find in front_a library or dounging room, the full width of the house; next to that the square hall, then the parlor and, be- hind that, in an extension added for the purpose, a smail dining room, with a but- | der’s pantry, containing a narrow winding stair to the kitchen still behind that. It is no longer common to build houses with such high -cellings as were in favor | tilteen 6r twenty years ago: Some Mistnkes Po! It 1s the greatcst mistake of amateur decorators to apply upon their walls heay- ily tinted, figured or gilded paper; a finer effect can often be produced by a 6-cent plain cartridge paper upon the walls, w a dainty frieze in delicate color: Our colonial builders were wise in thi regard. ‘There must have been, in the dav: when vur best specimens of colonial build- ings were crected, a cousiderable body of cerpenters with the true artistic concept of the beauty of line: The colonial builder left his wall, the pilasters of his mantels ani the trims of his doors severety plain, or, at the most; ‘with perpendicular lines empha- sizing the constructive idea: but upon the capitals ‘of ‘hts columns and pilasters and on the Eriezes of his walls he lavished the daintlest and most beautifal ornamenta tion, It ts because of this artistic reserve that the colontal models are today the sefest and the most beautiful te Tollow, whether in interior or exterior work, cspe~ cially in houses of moderate cost. In more costly work the most popular styles at present are for pariers, Lovis XVI, moditied generally by the use of more delicate tints and lighter and fewer colors. Ladies’ boudoirs are decorated in the style of Louis XV or Louis XVI. Smoking rooms are almest universally treated in the Turk- ish or other ortental styles. In city houses built after the most recent ideas such smoking rooms are generally placed in the front basement; in cider houses a smoking rcom, billiard room and growlery compined mey sometimes be arranged in th> top- most story“of all, or when space ts limited such @ room may be built bodily upon a at roof. For a library an old English de- with heavily paneled ceiling is appro- priate. Tt ts usual, and probably in bett=r taste, to decorate a dining room in duller and quieter tones than those used in the sey and airy parlor. If the room is at all inclined to be dark, as it will be in a base- ment, but will not be in an extension, wood- work in natural cak and cherry tones may be employed to advantage, and upon tho wall paper In light terra’ cotta, without gloss, which really reflects the light better than’ many gilded papers which seem of much gayer and lighter appearance when seen In the Toll. ‘The decorator need make no exc the honest employment of modes developed in past times. Human ingenuity, which has Worked for 6,000 years upon the preblems of decoration, has provided the ideas fr: Which, With due modifications to suit mod. em things and conilistons, the de-orater, like the architect and artist in other de- partments of aesthetic endeavor, draws his ‘best inspiration. Legal Status of a Joke. Champ Clark In the St. Louls Repnblie. 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Erle and Pittsburg trainmen are talking about the curious race between an express train and a wild goose, which occurred the other day between Shadeland and Summit. The veteran engineer, Tony Welsh, was at the throttle, and when the Canadian honker | came lazily soaring alongside the engine and challenged the iron steed to keep up with him, Tony turned on the steam and made it necessary for the goose to flap his wings a little harder, and after getting out of sight of the train he would settle down in a field and wait for the exprers to catch up with him. He waited at Springboro, Conneautville and Summit, and starti after the ‘train ‘from ciose to the coach windows in full view of all the passengers, who crowded over to that side of the train to observe the queer actions of the bird. When the goose at one time got close to the engine, Engineer Welsh puiled the whistle, and the bird was £0 badly scared that he turned over in the air Uke a tumbling pigeon. Ss Abyssinian Stamps. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Stamp gatherers will be pleased to hear that new ones have beea issued, which can be adde@ to their voltections. ‘This time they come from Abyssinia. There are sew- en series, and they are abcut the size of Italian ones, The first four series have on them the head of the Negus in profile, and crowned, and the other three hear a lion very much like the St. Mark's ore of Ven- ice, except that instead of wings there rises from it a flag with a cross. The first series, which are green, have a value of a quarter of a guerche, Yat &, out three farthings; the second, red, cost about cne- half guerche, cr thrve-nalfpence; the third, Lright blue, cne guerche, threepence; the fourth, brown, two guerche, . sixpence. ‘These, with the head of the Negus, have ws nin Amharic, “Menelik I. The other three series with the lion are, the first, dark violet in color, ard cost four about one shillin; the second, light violet, eight guerche, almost twe ehil- lings, and the third, black, sixteen guerche, Rot quite four shilii Making it Even, From Pearson's Weebly. “Why, Tommy, you're not at the jam again and only whipped for it an hour “Yes, mamma; I heard you tell auntie you'thought you'd whipped me too hard, and 1 thought I'd make it even.” From Harper's Bazar. HEALS RUNNING SORES CURES the SERPENT'S STING RL BLOOD POISON Sf $2. te siela to its —s powers. It removes j and builds Cea ee APES izes, an a er q