Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1896, Page 22

22 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY MAY 16, 1896(--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, YACHT CLUB RACE Regatta on Decoration Day Under the Auspices of the Local Organization. BOATS OWNED AND SAILED BY MEMBERS A Pretty Spectacle Afforded by the Contest on the River. START AND FINISH NE OF THE IM- portant features of the celebration of Decoration day this year will be the re- gatta of the Capital Yacht Club. The start will be made at a comparatively early hour in the morning, so that should there be any sort of a breeze all the boats will have a chance to cross the line within the time limit. The start and finish of the race will be on an imaginary line drawn from the Arsenal Point across stream. In this way @ good view will be had from the shore of all the interesting parts of the contest. The yacht club, while not one of the best-known institutions of the city, has had a steady and healthy growth ever since its ception, nearly four years ago. The club was organized October 19, 1892, and its effect has been felt in a considerable ine in yachting on the Potomac. are about twenty active members, > of whom are yacht owners. ts are owned by members ¥, while one of the members own two yachts, so that the fleet numbers al- together fifteen boats. Headquarters of club during the season are at a wharf ar the arsenal, but a club room is also kept up in the National Theater buik where the members meet during the wi ter and talk over the sport they have hed and are going to h e. ut it is in the » their element. Then the: scou re of the Potomac, venturing as as the t and many the they have on their little out- every Saturday a number start off for a trip down the e Sunday ni or early ning, and every r the ma- members spend their va- cruises down the Potomac. number of the yachts are fitted ample " accommodations, so cir crews are not compelled to go re are yachts of any trip to i ed upon nd Charles F nd the a lau yachts ch), Ir sop), C. Ce J. No m; Greyhound (sloop), Dr. A. (sloop), Charles F. K launct), D. Knowlton: Townsend; Roojum (canoe), Ja- ob Diemer; Jim Jam (sloop) and Jennie (sloop), Edward M. Cleary; Hermit oc), Charles A. Davis; Frank Page, Charles P. Deardortff 1 . Libbey Vernon C. Cook: Undine, Dr. W Frankland a ~ C.J. Hopkin: ir, and W. H. H. Dyer: Hilda, Alfred Doolittle. A Fine Spectacle. To the Poin those people who visit about 9 o'clock on the mi tion day a pretty sight will be pre- 1. Just inside the point, promptly on our, a puff of smoke will be seen and the boom of a gun will be heard coming from a handsome steam yacht anchored in @ straight line off the point. Those who are watching will see the white sails of a fleet of yachts that have been maneuvering and jockeying inside the imaginary line from the steam yacht to the point take a Boojum, eudden straightening as sheets are trimmed and tillers put up. The shaking canvas and irregular movements of the boats will cease, as with well-filled sails and foaming bows order will come of chaos, each will dash for the line. and the annual regatta of the Capital Yacht Club will have be- gun. The morning of the 30th will he a busy time for the members of the club, though, for that matter, the preceding few days will be equally busy. Yachts will be scrubbed down until top-sides and bet- = toms are as smooth as water and elbow @rease can make them; ropes will be taut, blocks willl be oiled, decks will be washed and running and stending riggings over- hauled and put in perfect condition; and when all is ready, and the measurer of the club has made his calculations, each yacht of the fleet will be given a chance to show her prowess and justify the confidence her owners and friends have placed in her. Last year a change was made in the original rules, and the handsome silver cup offered for a prige to be kept by the yacht winning it the third time was by this change to be owned by the yacht winning it that year, and the Spartan, owned by Mr. Charles Karr, was the for- tenate competitor in the fleet of seven that sailed the race. The Prizes. Notwithstanding that handsome silver cups do not grow on trees all ready to be plucked and offered for prizes, and that the club was one of the sufferers by the , Knox fire, when all its club room furni- ture was lost, and the club was conse- quently under the necessity of drawing on its bank account in order to refit, yet the prizes offered this year will be well worthy the enthusiasm and rivalry already mani- fested, though it is safe to say that were the prize only the typical laurel wreath each yacht commander would be willing to capsize his boat in an effort to win. The prizes will be: First, a silver cup: second, a silk ensign; third, a silk pennant. The race will be sailed barring weather and fog and lack of wind. The yachts that will line up for the race in the order of class and size are as fol- lo} Cabin sloops—Grace, who is worthy of her name, a handsome yacht, designed by that king of designers, the late Edward Burgess, and owned by Messrs. C. C. J. Norris and E. C. Ruebsam. She is twenty- five feet racing length. Her crew will be Messrs. Norris and Ruebsam and W. E. Lehr. Jennie S., late Shamrock, owned by Mr. Ed. Cleary, given a reefing wind, will cause all the boats to hustle. She is twenty-eight feet on the water, and her sailing master is Mr. Cleary. Spartan, the winner last year, will, if necessary, bear defeat with fortitude, but her crew are whispering to each other that Grace. ot be called upon to do it. e feet in length.. Her com ider and owner is Mr. Charles F. Kar: s her first as a cabin sloo ore been an open boat. Mr. Kar ed by W. J. Kettler, A. } W. A. Fenwick and ‘Eugene Yawls and Sloops. awls.—There is only one represen- this class, namely, Boojum, th foot canoe owned by Cap- tain Jacob Diemer, whe will handle her. if there should be a blow the wind ts such that she gets a chance ad he} enormou v-sail, she will very likely cut off a large portion of the view of the other he actua seed the line or cn second but unt of the time she had to give secured only Boa useful wort ¥ people is general —Of these tes, ome (of the gilling skiff type—the terms fer and do not always apply to small by Mr. Vernon enty-two feet over all ty) rerigged and n owrers —Mess. the latter of w al racer. She was arred last yea AL Smith anc then Francinn, the commodore of the club. Owing to a misunderstanding she was withdrawn last year from the race. She will be command- ed by Mr. Cook, and her crew will be Mr. Heeke and two others. Undine (also a gilling skiff) is owned by Drs. Charles J. Hopkins and 5 Frankland. She is nineteen and a half fest ever all. She will be commanded by Dr. Hopkins, and her crew will be Dr. Frank- and Mr. R. B. Randolph. This will ne her maiden race and her first appear- ance with the full sloop rig, having last year the modified sloop rig, without the topmast. She has been entirely overnaul- ed, rerigged, resparred and refitted this year, and she hopes to give some of her companions an opportunity to read the on her stern. tle will not be in the race, and tho -r of second place lest year must look on now only as a spectater, with her pinions shorn and her tall topmast dis- mantied. She was owned by Mr. Frank Page, still an active member of the club, and though last year she brcke her bow- sprit at the commencement of the raze, she walked in second. What ‘might have been” had her bowsprit held is only con- Jectur>. At any rate she was forced to carry a small jib, while the others were throwing balloons to the breeze. She was sold, has been changed into a catboat, and is used for renting purposes, but she de- serves recognition, and though she would prove a dangerous competitor all the mem- bers of the club are sorry she will not be in the fleet. Float in a Heavy Dew. Francina was built In this city two years ago for Mr. F. C. Townsend, from designs furnished by Mr. Arthur B. Cassidy of the bureau of construction, Navy Department. Mr. Cassidy has gained a national reputa- tion as a naval architect, and his designs have been awarded prizes In both the United States and England. Francina is a light draught centerboard sloop, carrying no topmast, designed espe- cially for the shallow waters of the Poto- mac, and will float where there is a heavy dew. She is 22 feet on deck, 18% water line and 8 feet beam. A finely finished portable cabin fits over her cockpit, making Acme, her more comfortable as a cruiser. She is the quickest boat in stays in the fleet, and though she has a large sail area, earries no ballast of any kind. She will be com- manded by Mr. Townsend, who will be as- sisted by Ranzle Brown and D. J. Flynn, and as they are thoroughly familiar with her peculiarities, she will be in sight at the finish. Hilda is a pretty little sloop that is owned by Mr. Alfred Doolittle. She has no top- mast, and carries only a mainsail and jib, but, owing to her design, this will probably prove her best rig. She is but eighteen feet over all, and will be sailed by her owner. Providing she has the wind to her liking there is no doubt that she will give a good account of herself. There will be but one catboat, and that is appropriately named Catfish. She is owned and will be handled by Mr.Leonard Huntress Dyer. She is small, being only sixteen feet leng. She carries an enormous mainsail, ard in order not to pose as an acquatic acrobat Mr. Dyer has a sliding outrigger by which her crew (all of whom must nec- essarily be accomplished athlezes) are pro- Jected nearly ten feet to windward, and if a boat is seen sailing on her deck’ beams, with her crew not in the boat, but hang- ing outside, it is she, and if the wind light she will be among the first. She can, however, only carry her whole mainsail in light weather, and a moderate wind will seé her reefed. In addition to the boats named above that will race there are other boats in the fleet. ‘There is Greyhound, owned by Dr. Arthur Raiterburg. She is a large, hand- some sloop, and is at present down the river. The Jim-Jam is the baby sloop of the crowd, and belongs to Mr. Ed. Cleary. She will probably not be entered in the race, and if she is it is hard to telk whether, as a sloop or a cat, as she is quicker than a chameleon in changing from one to the other. Hermit is the rather unusual name of a handsome little cance yawl that was d signed and built by Mr. I. P. Libbey, a mem- ber of the club. She is owned and sailed by Dr. Chas. A. Dav She entered the race last year, but will not be with the flyers this time. Being a small canoe, she is hardly fitted to race on the same condi- tions with the lareer and heavier boats. In her own class, however, she would be right at home with the leaders. Of the steam yachts, Alert, owned by Dr. Rauterburg, is the flagship of the fleet and is a beautiful boat. Fal r. D. Knowlton. On the day of the regatta she will possess an extra raction for the rs from the fact e has been selected as the boat and on her will be the regatta time limit for the race will be seven hours. The course is down to and around y off RiverView and back to. ‘senal it, making the entire distance to. be | ed in the neighborhood of twenty mi nould no boat cross the line ithin time limit, » race must be sailed off some other ¢ The start will be made at A good view of both start a > had from the arsenal or 4 o'clock, dependir the wind, will be the time to look fer return of the boat —_ SRMAN “COURTS OF HONOR.” Senndalous Deci- y Often Render. pateh fn the London ‘Times. ing part played in the Kotze ed su stitutions rather ke is than re haps not be n to a eir methods. in west Germany y to answer for a cow- had made upon a dueling, but it will pe to Place to draw atte! ce of th a court gross i Be: ih | fourth person. < heard the case expressed the opinion that the conda fot th used y not gentlem: but, of the a who pr . on scandal by the courts of honor has furnish- | proof of the fact that th. ov had e of honor or} i accept the cha ined true to h s removed fro: tated in the ins howeve and his name Ss Was Aid not folio e court of honor.” i by the authorit w E only too again that the root of the wh in the officers’ tions and motio = worth nothin here by the one person cay wielding it. No more instructive exam could be given of the complete blindne these court! lerations but t touching that 7 and exclusive po: session of avistocratic and military circie: “honor.” Of what description, one must ask the honer of that officer of the rese: who had banded himself with the two other accused to make a brutal attack upon a single person? And yet this the man whose challenge as: r was required to accept because he had with perfect jv tice criticised his action. The assessor had to pay dearly for defending the inde. pendence of his profession, and, as tne Vo. sische Zeitung says, “What is to be the er of it all, considering that frictions will eve arise in court if a judge who consciention ly discharges his duty must expect to be challenged to a duel with pistols?” There is another consideration which perhaps worth noticing. For those circle. which have the monopoly of honor in G many, and for those which take their chief delight in tmitating them, the assessor has a blot upon his character, and it is scarce. ly to be expected that his future career in the legal profession should not s t = ace uffer there. is —-s@0 How It Started. From the New York Sun. Pinkney—“How lovely! I see you have one of those splendid new Nonesuch bikes.” Ethel—“Yes, isn’t it a dear? What make do you ride?” “Oh, I ride a Scorehem.” ‘Fhey're magnificent.” es, so light and durable.” Ethel—‘How much does your wheel weigh? Pinkney—“Twenty-two pounds.” Ethel—‘I'wenty-two pounds? Why, mine only weighs twenty-one.” Pinkney—"But then yours, you know, is not so durable. Ethel—“The Nonesuch not durable? Why that Is admitted by every one.” : Pinkney-—“Nunsense! A friend of mine bought one and it went to pieces in a mor.th.” Ethel—“ don’t believe it” Pinkrey—“What? You don't believe me?” Ethel—"No, I don’t. One Nonesuch will outlast a dozen Scorchems. They're the worst-looking rattletraps I ever laid eyes on. Pinkney (furiously)—“You’re_a_ horrid, contemptible thing, and I hope you'll never speak to me again!” Ethel (complacently)—“Don’t worry. I wouldn't compromise myself by speaking to any one who rode a Scorchem.” ———_+-e+-__ Resented. From the Chicago Tribune. “Your dad has to work fur a livin’,” said the boy on the coal house. “That ain’t so!” replied the boy in the back yard adjoining. ‘All he has to do is to set on @ bench and mend shoes. SEWING AT HOME : Pauline Pry Questions Either Its Wisdom or Economy, STRUGGLES OF THE AVERAGE WOMAN Bearing of the Clothes Question on Domestic Hhppiness. —+i— LABOR NOT VALUED SE AM ON THE WAR path, and I tell you right here there is going to be blood shed. First, I am go- ing to kill the woman who persuaded me I could save a great deal by making the baby’s dresses my- self, and then there are ever so many other women of the same sort I mean to kill later, but now, to begin at the beginning and tell you why. The woman who urged me to make the baby’s dresses is the same one who, when I appear in a new gown, asks me who made it, and when I name the tailor, she sighs as wretchedly as if I had confessed the seven deadly sins, and asks reproachfully, “Isn't he very expensive?” Of course, my conscience begins to vi- brate unpleasantly at this suggestion that I'm extravagant, and I don’t get a chance to be lucid in defending myself before she has settled me completely by telling me with a saint-like cast in her eye and a flash of her halo that she makes all her own clothes. As a matter of fact, anybody would know this without her mentioning it, but the way she tells it has the effect of convincing me that my only chance of saving my soul and incidentally keeping my dear husband from going to the poor house is to make my own clothes, too. The Woes of Sewing. 1 know perfectly well from past experi- ence that all I shall ever accomplish in sewing will be paresis and spoiling valuable dry goods, which aren't fit even for patch work when I'm done with them. Besides’ the destruction I have wrought myself trying to sew, there are all the horrible examples I have witnessed in other women of just what this practice leads to. I am not going to say a single mean thing, though I could write volumes, of how the seams of home-made dresses skew-gee down the back, of how the skirts hang, and of how the whole air of the creation is such as to ruin the reputation of goodness in a woman, The deluded women whose nse of duty impels them to make their own clothes, are fagged until there’s noth- ing left of them but their goodness so frightfully dressed that) upon my honor, they mike me shuflder and vow that if soodness looks like that, why, bless me! Til be wicked in the fitterests of art and the Leauty-loving 6f men. Let me tell ou something: Women who make their own clothes take awful chances with theirhusbands, atic Unhappiness. y any man pour into supposedly mpathet the sad of how his wifé!is not capable of ap- ear | preciating him, that,] dig not find upon In- quiry that this unappreciative wife does her own sewing, or what amounts to the uh as it done in the house with old maid or y to help h au to show you after a bit how thf trodden operates to estrange woman ¢ whole famity, but I also want to understand ‘Sometbing of | philosophy of ies and clothes making. Briefly, it es have sou > from the creative genius that brings them into being, and when yeu have put the fal end of yourself, coupled with the fa of a disappointed old maid or a di widow into your. froc identified yourself with a pitifu power that not only operates to diminish your ability. for appreciating 1, but for dreadfully to incapacitate tend k ting y Then th sof your fe econotny! own in numbers, but just now I'm thinking of companion illustrating the subject, waich I d upon rect The woman Koi 1 for the She had had nan in five weeks, a { sewed with odd moment ud get during y whit kK to r talk and her to get woman w but is a degree of suicide—n. the othing tha Lord's work Ss sinful. tives of Economy, What in the world do load of clothes over th “when you can get ever, cheaper after you get th “Oh, but it is such a to help make them if," she a “and then you know T run a bill at the—dry good tore, So that il doesn’t scem like spend 5 as much as if 1 paid the money fo: The © of this economy would h 1 y, if she hadn't looked y done to death by it. Then the other picture. It was her hushand—hollow- eyed, hungry for bette , his soul arved and his bor ned to the ut- mest, serving: Mammon for wherewithal to y the bills that are part of his wife's Yet clearly as I know the truth about this asted domestic virtue of doing your own wing, a sort of “after-shine’ of the con- science of my grandmother so endure me that about r the only w: me to be a r-v-real “womanly woman to quit writing and go to sewing. “But I yow how to sew, and all tried, T can’t learn,” I ihe good woman in ‘the is warring upon my y n. “But surely you can make the baby’s dre she replies. ‘‘Have a girl come to run the machine, and if you will get a few Butter and Breaderick patterns you will be delighted.” The Fateful Habit. This was a lie, and I had proved it. But, just as a man who is born to be hanged may escape the gallows repeatedly and yet has it In him to commit, the crime that finally ends him, I suppose: I will never learn to quit doing what undoubtedly will one day drive my husband from me and cause my sons to grow up and curse me for the home- made pants they had'to ear as babies. Those patterns! It' was never any differ- ent. As soon as I began turning over the book for boys’ dresses I saw one picture after another, that, now the spell was fairly upon me, looked so easy, J concluded I would make a lot of things. T bought a pattern not only of the baby’s dress, but of a shirt waist for myself, a wrapper, a cape—the cape looked simply ‘‘dead easy"—and a ga‘lor suit for little Lord Fauntleroy. Then I com- menced buying materlals to go with the pat- terns. There is one store in town I shall not dare go into again till next year, when they've had time to forget me. These patterns are so lucid in their direc- tions that a one-eyed, deaf and dumb idiot couldn't help mastering them, and they are positively tender in their concern for giving details. In buying materials for each I had something like this to guide me: “A lady of medium size will need 16% yards of material 22 inches wide; 145% yards of material 27 inches wide; 12 5-6 yards of naterlal 30 Inches wide, or 9 9-10 yards of material 42 inches wide." Calculating the Material. The great trouble was the material that should have been twenty-two inches wide to tally with the patterns was always twen- ty or twenty-four inches, and everything I would naturally expect to be thirty inches wide was invariably thirty-six inches. Then I would have to borrow the clerk’s pencil and a piece of paper and figure out the number of square inches I really needed. The clerk would fidget so {t made me nervous, and other women would joggle me so that it was impossible to hurry, and after a long and painful intellectual effort I would finally look up and tell the clerk I would take three, or two, as it hap- pened, whereupon the simpleton would g0 and cut me off three or two yards, when, of course, I meant three or two dresses of as many yards each as the pattern di- rected. Surely he ought to Know these patterns, for every woman who does her own sewing swears by them. Iam not a woman given to tears, I cried in a newspaper office once, and the editor discharged me and said he'd ‘never have another sniveling woman about the shcp.” I haven’t wept since, and yet, when I had bought all the material all my patterns needed I was so tired I went off to a res- taurant by myself and cried in the ice cream I tried to brace up on, Already I was that much of a wreck from sewing, and not a stitch taken. When the Goods Came Home. When the dry goods began to pile in about 6 o'clock there occurred the first of the ravages home sewing works upon wed- ded bliss. I can’t tell exactly how it came about, but from my lord and master first grumpily telling me that I'd kill myself if I tried to do all that sewing, and that more than I'd save would go for doctor bills, somehow in his vain endeavor to arii that it wasn’t the doctor's bills. but killir myself, that he minded, I got him so apolo- getic and mixed up that he set to urging me to sew all those dry goods and mor if I wanted, with the result that I charge him with insisting that I do my own sew ing. This topped the whole thing « completed the situation. I stuck to .h GOOD DIGESTION Means Long Life,Good Health, AClear Head and A Bright Eye. The New Discovery, Stuart’s DyspepsiaTablets, Gives Good Digestion to Everybody. 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I never knew one who didn’t, the minute she got tired and cross, accuse her husband of being too stingy to let her hire her things made out- side. I began operations bright and early in the morning—began cutting out by my pat- terns. I am not altogether without’ in lectual ability, and, if I say it myself, I'm patient as a worm. But there's a pro- fundity about the direciions of these simple patterns that addles @ giant intellect end corrupts the enduring spirit of a saint. Agony of a Pattern. Listen to this: “The pattern is in eighteen pieces; the two pieces having clusters of six perfora- tions are for the collar—turn-down portion and neckband; the four pieces having clusters of five perforations are for the cuff —two inside band sections to be used if the cuff is to be removabie, turn-up portion and outside band section; and the remainin twelve pieces are for the shirt waist—front, under front yoke, back, back yoke, back- yoke lining, belt, neckband, strap, overlap, underlap, wristband and Sleeve. 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It is prepared by the Stuart Chemical Co., of Marshall, Mich., and any druggist will get it for bled with any stomach you can Il afford to be without ft Send for free book on Stomach Diseases If you are tr trou by Mrs. From the Literary Digest. One of t abused women of her day, and perhaps one of the least understood and most misrepresented, was Amelia Bloomer, after whom the short dress for women, known as the “Bloomer costum was named. The wiole story concerning this dress was told by Mrs. Bloomer some years ago in the Chicago Tribune, and is in part as follows: 5 “In January or February, ISd1, an article appeared editorially in the Seneca County Courier, Seneca Falls, N. Y., on “Female At- tire,’ in’ which the writer showed up the in- convenience, unhealthfulness and discom- fort of woman's dress, and advocated a to Turkish pantaloons and a skirt reaching a little below the knee. t the time, I was publishing a monthly per in the same place devoted to the in- ests of Woman, temperance and woman's rights being the principal subjects. As the editor of the Courier was opposed to us on the woman's rights question, this article of nis gave me an opportunity to score him one on having gone so far ahead of us as to udvecate pantaloons, and in sue I in a half-serious, pe! The paper the patterns are ma finest tissue, and just as you have struggled ull you're black in the face finding the piece with the requ number of perfora tions in the right e, and have laid it on} the right fold of cloth, you breathe, and the miserable thing is blown across the room. I will not go into the hz rowing detail jof how I cut my first and only shirt wais le of is the I will not say a single word about how brutal I was to the } and to poor little Lerd Fauntleroy, who at the start thonght it was going to be great fun to st aresi” | sew. Along in the afternoon the battered, Lruised darlings timidly crept around the | corner of the house, and, like frightened | deers ready to fi at a sound, peered | curiously and cautious dew at the dangerot ars In hand, making havoe of ti paper patterns and dry goods. 1 heard their plaintive voices later asking the cook how long mamma was ¢ ing to s going to sew “all this day and ly through the win- animal inside, who, ster- nd the next day and every day more'n | 4 million years and mamma and Mary wouldn't them any SUI 2 Domestic Occupation. Talk about a profession unsexing a woman and taking her out of her family! Why, If I were to do police on a paper I wouldn't begin to be unsexcd and estranged from my family the way that eminently domestic occupation, sewing, unsexed and estranged me. I did not fully realize how I w crificing every tras of the Madonna in me until I came to trv one of the dresses 1 had cut and } (how I hate that word busted! of the evil essence of sewin, I couldn't blame him for daily It's so full #) on the baby fussing at put ting the dress on, for it certainly looked Gueer enough. Yet to finally get it on and have the thing hang any way but the Way it should, and to ha little, soft, to fit it to; make the experiment you: if you think sewing is calculated to pi serve a gentle, loving mother. The young ster was finally bribed to stand still by giv ing him a paper of pins to hold and pull pins out of it as they were needed in the Hitting process, This went beautifully until, following the example of his reckless and Gepraved parent, the baby filled his mouzh with pins, and one went down. No, it did nothing but a U0 ming, squealing something elt not ill him, but it ended my sewing for 1 1 trust, forever. It also ation to constitute my- «lf a missionary to rescue other women from the folly of doing their own sewing. It is false economy; it is false art, and 1 think it is also bad morals. Home Sewing and Economy. I might suggest that the woman who does her own sewing spe for ma- terials than another woman spends both fer materials and work who goes to first- class professionals. She docs so becau: having in her mind the notion that sewing costs nothing because she does it herself, she makes her capacity for sew- ing the measure of her scif-iniulgence in buying. Furthermore, she is forced soon- er and oftener to replace her home-made clothes than is the woman who Wise and prudent enough to employ skilled labor. All this, however, is of little account in estimating the character and effects of her economy, compared with the fact that a woman, working like a slave at sewing or at anything else in the home, and counting the value of her work nothing in estimating the cost of what she has produced, thus, degrades every conditicn of woman's work and debases the value of her every product. What it is worth nothing to do, it is to nobody's interest to improve doing, and what a woman can do for nothing at home nobody naturally considers worth much if she is driven to do the same work for pay outside. For the industrial advancement of the sex, and, indeed, for the industrial ad- vancement of society, women need to learn that no work they do in the home costs nothing, and they need to study what this cost is. I don't know 2 better beginning to this end than to 0° © work in the home on the principle hh secures suc- cess in the busin wor Don't do anything for yourself that you can pay anybody to do for you. One woman, I can tell you, has sworn to run her home on this plan, and if you care to know, her name is PAULINE PRY. —— Desirable Tenants, From the Detroit Free Press. “Are you a chess player?” asked the landlord of a prospective tenant. “I much prefer to have my houses occupied by chess players. “No, I am not a chess player, and I can’t account for such a singular prefer- ence.” “It is simple enough. Chess players move so seldom, and only after great de- liberation.” |and the papers of that c | the work of the press. I stood ama the furore I had unwit < New York Tribune c tice I saw of my sted t article of some length. ject in should tre He took up the sub- 1 surprise th a y than ving his t of woman's costume when the readers of the and the r were interes’ d over the discussion, Llizabe! laughter of the Hon. Gerrit Smita c yore Y., appeared on the stre of our vil ed in short skirts and full Turkish trot to her cous Was then a rm Miller had been wearing the c two or three months at home Just how she cam gotten, if Il ever knew. with the father and husban. term in Congre She came on a visit some road. he wai Wa: dese appearance on the stree! tume “A few days after Mrs. Miller's arrival in Seneca Fails Mrs. Stanton i But the cook, who had not been on speak- { e ied our ee oa a ae that pamela: jing terms with anybody since my cruel | little above the knee and trouser: 1 ; nee my cr le above sers of the | tment of her gentle inquiry, what | Hlawiiie HiaAlgnit | would.T like for dinner, snubbed my. or- Having had part phaned children, and, hand in hand, they | eeties [va 1 off, the declaring ina | mS aaeeon | Minor key that they were going to “get on |? MaGhiea eee | the steam cars and go way, way, away tb ie fa | nd in the ne: Xt issue of m3 : nounced that fact to my At the outset, I had no idea of fully he style; no thought of setting a f no thought that my action would cre t e due civilized name and was throughout to the Mrs. , and the credit ught it up and ha it abou es all had somethin nd some blam me ridiculed and condemned. ‘Bloom n,’ ‘Bloomerites’ and ‘Hloome the heading of many an article, item am squib; and finally some one—I don’t hnow to whom I am indebted for the honor— wrote the ‘Bloomer Costume,” and the name has continued to cling to the short dr. spite of my repeatedly dis to it and ng Mr: of the originator or the first to wear dress in public. Had she not come to u that style, it is not probable that either Mrs Stanton or myself would have donned it. “My paper had many contributions on the subject of dress, and that question was for some time kept before my readers. Mrs. Stanton was a frequent contributor and ably defended the new style. She continued to Wear it at home and abroad, on the lec- ture platform and in the social parlor, for two or three years; and then the pressure brought to bear upon her by her father and other friends was so great that she finally yielded to their wishes and returned to long skirts. “Lucy Stone of the Woman's Journal adopted and wore the dress for many years 11 occasions; but she, too, with advane- ars, saw fit to return to the old style. We all felt that the dress was drawing at- tention from what we thought of far Sreater importance—the question of wo- man's right to better education, to a wider field of employment, to better remuneration for her labor, and to the ballot for the pro- tection of her rights. In the minds of some people, the short dress and woman's rights were inseparably connected. With us, the dress was but an incident, and we were not willing to sacrifice greater questions to it. “* * * | have not worn the short dress for thirty years, and it does seem as though in that time the interest concerning it must have died out. My reasons for abandoning I have in substance stated above.” ———_+ee. Not a Water Color. From the Kansas City World. Bryce—“Old Soak's nose is really a work of art Gryce—"W water color.” d ll, you can be sure it isn’t a From Life. Wha. noticed him and his pro- | half-playful adopt it I have for- | But she wo fall sanction and approval of During h ii were | | ) Ping it oper FABIES FOR THE TIMES—THE ASS IN ; in mind; ff I sat in = = = —— — THE “BLOOMER” COSTUME. THEY GOT THE Lion, An Interesting Account of Its Origin | Exciting Adventare of Two Colorado Bloomer. Miners in The « From the New Orleans Times-Dem “The mountain lion,” remarked an ol miner some time ago, becoming rare in the mountains of the west. When I first went seeking after the gold and silver of ‘olorado, these animals were rather plenti« ful. They were met in pairs, and were common enough to make it ha dous for @ man to walk in the valleys alone nd un- protected, particularly after dark. I re- member on one occasion having a slight adventure with a lion that almost scared me out of my wits. With a pal I was working a claim in the mountains near Ouray. Wint on, day fore the very cold weather set in, we went to the town to get supplies, leaving our lit- ule cabin on the mountain alone. It came on to snow soon after we got to Ouray and we did not get a chance to zo to the claim for fully a week. As we slowly climbed the hills I noticed the tracks of a mountain lion leading toward our calta, and when we reached the house found t had forgotten to close a v. indow in We had lost sight of the t acks, ight of the open window rget all about the a ence. I started for th. about to put my hes when there came next instant a gee through the ope its claws gE, ‘atching my to my we pletely over and int whipped out his eu urned on him, maki tion. re he coul 8S upon him, and seizin, Jacket, shook h en a rat. I was on my feet nd drawing my revolver, I put a bullet right thee 4. He drop E h freely onc hurt, but th week, was serving a GLIMMERTONS BESETMENTS. Troubled Most Just Now Over a Whats Not in the Parlor, From the New York “In her latest re lor,” said Mr. Glimm, ton, daughter has placed in front of t not a comfor' I have al © rockin to sit. y structure on leg Wabble when you 1 shelves thers many vases and ll off. are lly ke own I cheerful spirits; even as it is I manage keep my head above he slough of despx but I have a preity rd time of it, w h on, wh other, and j parlor is one of my most ts. One cannot sit in the hout danger of knocking r. The first time I tried i ed back and brought up az All the bottles and jars and vases on the shelves nodded violently, many of them beyond recov and these went down j with that slight but com: crash that thin china makes when it f “Then I had to keep the w the rocking ¢ all I had to sit in it carefully. Once I had forgotten about the great and had jumped up rather suddenly chair rocked back and touched the not again; this time, however, not so hard; only a few things fell. But now I have given up that chair altogeth for with the what-not af its back it is no longer a comfort to me. “I look at the big chair longing)y, and I fancy it looks with sympathy at me; and I wait with patient cheerfulness for the Next new arrangement, when the flimsy what-not shall be on one side of the room and the comfortable rocker on the other.” sar o> = Reason Enough, From the New York F ined “It isn’t,” began the thin man, “that my children ask so many questions that makes me mad.” “No?” insinuated spring cough. returned the thin man. What, then?” the man with th fy ccugh wanted to know. It's because,” the thin man explained, “they ask so many things that I don’t know.” The man with the spring cough murmure ed that it was apt to be that way. eo = Fashions in Pinto From the New York Weekly. Gentleman (in Chicago gun want a pistol.” Dealer (polilely)—“Yes, sir. Here is @ small, plain weapon, usually bought for de- fense against footpads. Here is a silver- mounted beauty, very popular for shooting sweethearts; and here, sir, is our shef- dcover, full-jeweled, rolled-gold plate, all the rage now for shooting wives. the man with the store}. THE LION'S SKIN, ws An ass, by some means unknown to the writer, having managed to get into @ Non's skin, ran around the neighborhood frightening the beasts into fits, brayed they said: “Jupiter! what a_magniftic When hi and he was nt bass voice he has the pantaba of that district until he died of cld age. Immoral—A good bluff well chucked is liable to do considerable execution,