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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE CANDIDATES FOR SPEAKER. Bluff Tom Reed of Malne Doesn't Blarney Anybody. BY SHEER FORCE OF (3 BRAIN, How the House fus of O derson and Burrows. 1e Maintains fHis Leadership in fcKinley Has the Gen- mmon Sense—Hen- ‘or the Speakershin. righted 1850 by Frank . Carpenter,) WASHINGTON 25, —[Special Corres- pondence of Tur B “Tom Reed says he felt during hs first six months in congross like a fly in & bowl of molasses—there was plenty of swectness, but no light."” His con- dition is about the same today as to the speakership, and this is the sitnation of his compeitors, Tafly flows from the tongues of McKinley and Burrows, and Henderson and Canaon are moving about the hotels smiling on friends and enemies alike, with all the enthusiasm of a cat chewing wax. Promises are plentier than blackberries in August, and committeeships are being ar- ranged.on the basis of the successful con- testant. Who will it bo? This is where thelack of light comes in. I don’t protend to say. 1 give you pen pic- tures ofall of them. You get the lot for u nickel. You pays your money and you takes your choice. of Olio is one of the n in cougress. Five fect soven inches in height, he is as straight as Micbuel Angelo's statue of David, aund a line dropped from the crown of his jet black head would just touch the heels of his pol- 1shed boots. Broad shouldered and well padded, his form would serve as a model for the Washington Athletic club, and his tlassic, smooth shaven face would not be outof place among the signersof the de claration of indevendence m the painting which bangs in the rotundaof the capitol. Major MeKinley undoubtedly looks like Napoleon Bouaparte, though he once told me ethat he did not like to be reminded of the resemblance. He has the same grave, dignitied mouth, the same high, broad and full forchead, and tho same kocavy iower + faw. He is a batter looking man than was Napoleon, and h oright, dark eyes shine out under brows which are less heavy than those of Bouaparte, and his frown is by no mweans so terrible us thavof the Little Cor- poral. He appreciates, however, the vulue of dignity, always dresses in' a double breasted trock coat, aud crowns his classic bead with a tall 8i'k hat. He generally walks up to the capitol, and 88 he goes along with his chest to the front * and bis tall hat in the air‘ he is onv of the strikiug figures on Pennsylvania avenue, It was during such walk that I once passed him in the street car in compuny with two Maryland congressmen, These m ‘were froe traders, and they naturally aisliked Mc- Kinley. As we went by him one of them pointed to the street and said in o most sig- nificant tone: “*Some men are born great, and some are born—in Ohio.” ‘The other two congressmen laughed and said, “just s0,”” and the two conuinued to mmlln over the remark for the nexu toree ocks. McKialey was born in_Ohio, and he made hus first specoh one cold Fevruary morniug Just forty-five years ago, Whether born great or mot, he has succeeded in making himself so in the eyes of the people. He is ot a man of extraordinary natural ability, but he is possessed of the genius cf common sense. He knows how to take advantage of a good opportuuity, and he never makes a mistake. ~Ho does not speak often in con- aress und his speeches cover but few sub- jocts. He prepares himself weil, however, aud when he does rise the houso and the country kuow that he has something to say. He is well posted on the rules of the house, aud he would make n good speaker. His election might bo looked upon as o declara- tion to the country that the republican party proposed to run its campaign on the protec- . tive tariff busis, and he would be just the _Opposity in every respect of the former speaker, Mr. Carlisle, He would in many ways make a much grealer speaker than Mr. Reed, and the party it is urged, could much easier spare him from tho floor than the bright-eyed, vitriol-tonguod genius from aine, Tom Reed is a genwus, His braiu weighs more thau that of any other man in public life, and it is of the finest intellectual tex- ture. He can say more bright things in the space of ten minutes than any other man n congress can get off in the compass of an hour. He knows what he knows too, and he is not afraid to say it. He has the same con- fidence in himself as he had when he was a boy teaching school and applying for admis- sion to the bar in Califormia, Tom Reed tells the story himself. His admission oc- curred ut the timo wheu the constitutional- ity of the legal tender act was being dis- cussed by the greatest lawyers of the state of California. ‘““The first question the judge asked me,” says Reed, “‘was: *Is the legal tendor act unconstitutional or constitu- , tional? 1didn't hesitate a moment but re- plied coolly and emphatically, ‘it is constitu- tional’ This ended my questioning. ‘You can pass,’ said the judye. ‘We always pass @ man who can settle great coustitutional questions off-hand.’” 7Tom Reed has been settling constitutional questions from that day to this, He settled s cases well enough to make a success as 4 lawyer, and his self-confidence added to his remarkable ability has made him the republican leader of congress, No ono disputes Reed's leadership, Me- Kinley, Cannon, Henderson and Burrows all follow bim, and when the fight is on in the house 1t is Reed who watches for and is pre- pared for every surprise. His long term in congress has awply fitted him for the posi- tion. He is posted on all public questions, and his reading has covered nearly ever. fleld of kvowledge. He is a fine Frenc scholnr, and his Shakespeare is botter thumbed than his bible, though he knows the latter well. He has an analytic mind, and when he gets hold of a fact it arops inio one of the little pigeon-noles of his brain, ready - %o slide off his slippery tongue at a second’s ' potice. He has -the bump of humor largely _developed, and ho can't resist saving u sar- castic thiog even it does cut the man at whom it is directed. It is this element of his “intellectual ature that will hurt him in his candidacy for the speakership. Many of the sharp things he has said in the pust are re. . membered now, and sowe of tuose have lost him votes and trien I remember oue in- stance respecting & promment member of one of the committees of the Fiftieth con- firflu. ‘The man is dead now, and I will call im Mr. Blank, us Reed's remark concern- iog him 18 not crediwble to his memory, RReed was asked his opinion of the committee to which this Mr, Blank belonged. Ho re- plied: *O, 1 like the committee very well. + Jtis cowposed, in the n, of good fellows,” I like therm all except what little squirt of & Dick Blank, who is good for nothing in God's world but to be stood up in a corner and spit upou.” Of course this created a laugh at + Blank, but Blank was by no weans a non- . enuty. The story was repeated 1o him, and | Blank never forgot nor forgave it. His ex- i ience is sinilar to many others in the 0use of representatives, lhmlih they are mainly on the democratic side. Tom koed is . mothing of a diplomatist, and g leadership | hus not been gained by’ the obstinacy whic gave Rundall his rank among the democrats, or by the Oily Gammon actions which made Morrison a leader. He &muulu his posi- tion by sheer force of brain, courage and elo- quence. | Tom Reed looks anythis but the tradi- | tonal leader. He has n‘llllh.nl aJap- nuese wrestlor, aud his head mught serve for i that of @ Chinese giant. He is fat and tall, . 8od his big-boned body is padded b every , bolat with m) flesh, I bave never Been him stri but’ bis fist, under John Sullivan's traiu would fell an ox; sud !w:.hu » la:t wh wufl":’ -nha' \:Lm Nurll:'! v ?I.!fl s 0 e world, His fuce is broad, fair ‘wnd fat; the cheoks 5:“. wod .&-Ir of half-almond eyes | Sbwe i diawonds under a broad forebead, | Which woes on and on uj d unbl it fades ‘Away iowo @ fumy uess about three Major McKinle finest looking m inches in front of Reed's crown. Reed's mouth is a strong one, and he has a strag- gling red musthehe on his upper 1ip contain- ing about enough bristles to mako a camel's- hinir brush, Reed's hair is thickest at the sides and at the back. It is not luxuriant at any place, und he combs the saudy locks wellup and back of his aers, so that the ends of them just touch the collar of nis cont. This big, round head s pasted down upon Roed's broad, fat shoulders with n fat, wafer-like neck, and when Reed sits in his chair in the house, with his hands up under his chin and elbows leaning on his desk, you wonder whether he has any neck at all, and you can nardly imugine him to be the great est man among atl the membors surroundiog him, Let a discussion come up and_you wonder no longer. Reed’s eyes degin to_ twinkle, & queer smile hovers around that big mouth, and a moment later you see him throw his six feet into the eon of debate, and n a sharp nasal twang he pours sarcasm and ar- gument out at friend and foe. As he goeson with his speech his cheeks change from ite to red, his semi -bald pate becomes the color of a boilea lobster, and he gestures violently with his arms, emphasizing every sentence with a shake of his head. He cares but a lit tle for appearances, and during the quicter part of the session he walks about the house with his hands in his pocket, stopping now and then to tell a story to a crowd of brother members, and making laughter wherever he oes. He s always ready with a story or a socech, He nover writes out his speeches for the Record, und scldom corrects the vroof of them us taken down by the senogra- phe He can make as good an after-dinner SO a8 u congressional one, and he enjoys the good things of this life as well as any other man in congross. Tom Reed is, however, simple in his hab- its., He is not'n money suver money accumulator, and ho would be a richer man if he had remaimed out of congress. During his past career he has lived very simply in Washington. Hisquarters were at the Ham ilton house, a private hotel frequented large. v nders. Keed had a couple of rooms up near the attic, and he worked y at his desk against the wall and undor a gas-jet. The only picture in the room was aprint_of Abraham_Lincoln, whom Reed admired greatly. You never found him loafing about tho hotel, and he has spent the chief part of his leisure in study. 'I'his he has changed his quarters, and he w at Shoreham, which is more comfortable, but which'will be quite as retired as the Hamilton. His quarters Liere wre not far from those of the Hou. Joe Cannon, who is making a livoly fight for the speakership, and who thinks he will got it. Cannon is as uncon- ventional in his appearanceand habits as Roed, but he 1s an entirely different kind of man.' Of medium neight, ho is lean and wiry, and his fair, rosy fuco, with a pair of bright blue eyes looks out from under a slouch hat, which he pulls down over it. He is i westerner in appearance, and, like RReed, ho frequently moves ubout with his hunds in lis pockets. He isa great swoker, and is seldom seen without a cigar in his ‘mouth, the end of which 18 always well chewed. He does not weigh as much as either McKinloy or IReed, but his frame has become iron through exercise, and it has been bis custom to take a horseback ride overy day during his stay in Washington. Mr. Canaon is now fifty-three years of age, and he has been in cougress for the last sixteon years. He has always held a good position on the floor, and he is noted us a fighter. His favorite alti- tudo in speaking 18 with one foot on the chuir nearest him. Then leanme over ho shoots his words at the rate of 200 a minute at the opposite side of the house, gesturing as L docs so by shaking his fingor at the demoeracy, and by now and then violently throwing his_haud at them Ho is n good speaker, is well posted on the rulos, and ho hos many frionas. There is nothing snob- bish about him, and everyono knows him as Joe Caunon. Mr. Cannon has not as many enemies as Reed, though he 18 by no means so mealy- mouthed us one of his Illinois constituents. Mr. Cannon tola the story of this man the other day When talking about ‘the babit of “taffy giviog,” which so largoly prevails at Waushington, said he: *I have in my district out in Iilinois a man who ought to have been a \Washington socioty ‘woman. He has a good thing to say about every man and everything, and he comes in_especially strong at funerals, I will call him Jones for short. There is never a funeral in the country but that Jones is there, und in talking ubout the virtures of the deceased there is no praise sa protuse nor tongue so glib as Jones. He can flud virtues in the worst of reprobates after they are dea d, and he is packed full of the milk of buman kinaness from the bottom of his flat cowhide boots to the top of his bald crown. This peculiarity of his has become a matter of county talk, and two young fol- lows of Danville made'a bet upon the death of a veprobate of the county thut Jones could vot find anything good to say about him, ‘I'nis man scemed to be altogether bad; he had been a_worthless, good-for-nothing, lazy fellow during s whole life, and he was one of those idiosyncrasies ot nature which seem to have no good in them. At the time of the funeral the young feliows muk- ing the bet stationed themselves in the window near which the procession going by the cofiin must pass, aud waited for Jones. He came along in good time with his handkerchief 1 his hand. He stopped the procession as he stood beside the coffin and looked down on the reprobate's face long and earnestly. At last with a sigh he ex- claimed : “{Veil, any way, he had good teeth ! The two other candidates for the speaker- ship are Henderson of Iowa, and Burrows of Michigun. They are both reaching out thetr hands after the gavel, and there may besome dark horses which may come in at the lust moment. Burrows and Henderson aro both built on the Brutus order, though Burrows has been christencd by his parents Julius Cesar. ‘They are plain, blant men, and a large vart of toeir capital lies in the open-nanded, hail-fellow-well-met style pos- sessed by each. Burrows is a Pennaylva- nian by birth, and a Michigander by adop- tion, Fie hus been in congross from Michi- gan for ten years, and ho thinks the sun rises and sets in tho groat northwest. He 1 o mau of more than ordinary ability; is a ood spedker and i good stumpor, and T am told that the campaign which he' has just finished in Virginia nas nadv bim very pop- ular with the republican element of that state. He talked to the people of the back counties as though he were teuching o kin- dergarten, aud gave them their firat plain understandiog of the tariff. General David Brenner Henderson is a Scotchman, who.was brought to Illinois at the age of six yoars, and got his education in Towa. He was only an ordinary member of congress until about three years ago when he made a great hit in his defense of Colonel W. W. Dudley as prison commissionor, Henderson does aot look untike Dudley; he has the same dark hair combed up from a high forehead, the same dark complexion which turns to the color of the moss rose as be tulks, and the same half-limp walic due to the wooden leg replacing that which. he, like Dudley, lost on the battlefield. Henderson is o good speaker, ho gestures well, and has lungs equal to' those of the famed bull of Basban. He is @ lawyer by profession, and he lives at Dubuque. " He is one of the hand- somest men of the house, and ove of the well-dressed members. He wears a slouch hat and a cutaway coat, and notwithstanding his wooden leg he walks well without crutches, He 18 & man of greav industry and unlimited awbition. All of the speake) p candidates are mar- ried. Mrs, Reed is a finely educated woman, and the daughter 6f Rov, 8. H. Merrill, one of the noted Congregational preachers of Maine. Sheis of wmedium height and has dark hair and eyes. She is possessed of much social ability, and she wil be a ‘fit leader for the ladies of the congressional circle. Mrs, McKinley has uot been able to RO into society for some years on aceount of her bealth, She isa very pretty woman, and is, like her busband, of Ohio birth. Her father was one of tue oldest newspaper men of that state, and the founder of the ugwn Repository. - Mrs. Cannon comes from Ohio. She is noted as a society leader, and she will bring to her aid two duughters, who are very well educated as well as very pretiy. Mrs. Burrows met her husband when the two were at school together, It was a case of love at firstsight, aad Julius Ciesar married ber as soon as he came out of the.aroy. Mrs. Burrows is tall and slender; she has sparkling eyes and & rosy complexion. She is fond of society and society is fond of her. The sawe may be said of Mrs. Henaerson, Who is & pretty, cntertaining lowa lady; and, however, the fight for the gavel ends it is certain that the house social circle will not luck an accomplished leader, Fraxk G, Cauvrextes, GOSSIP ABOUT THE FAIR SEX Modjeska and Other Aotresses Tell ‘Why They Don't Wear Coraets. WOMEN WHO WEAR TROUSERS, Rosa Bonheur and a Famous Femate Soientist Are Among the Numb e England’s Future Queen—Sug- gostions for Girle. These Actresses Don't Wear Corsets. ““Corsets upon the stagn!” exclaimed Mme. Modjeska the other day. “Why. no woman can be graceful in a corset. Iue wenr ono in a part. Letme show you what I do we: t's an inven- tion of my own,” Carlessly throwing aside her loose moruing wrapper, an exceedingly Ru sian rovbe of white cashmere, with trimming of black fur, she showed a tightly fitted bodice of buckskin that came up to the armpits und well down over the hips, “You see,” sald the swayod her boay to and fro, “that what- ever pose 1 assume the contour of the body 15 preserved. I wm supported without being restricted, as every one is in a corset.™ The buckskin either side, and fectly, yet there stiffness. “I wear this in all ny parts,” tinued Modjeska. gested to me by w uctress, as sho ‘ment was lnced on fitted the figure per- was no suggostion of con- “The iden was sug- aving an outer gar- ment of buckskin in my role of Rosa- lind, I discovered that | could move with greater ease, and also that [ made a better appearance than in any gar- ment L had ever worn,” The preservation of what is known as ‘*the line of beauty” is a great fad with some of the leading stars. Mary An- derson, in_her statuesque roles, makes a great point of this particular. “*I think a corset is an instrument of torture,” she said once, when asked to give an opinion. “I am perfectly mis- erable if [ put one on for half an nour. All my dinner dresses are made to he worn without corsets, and they are con- sidered by good judges to be ve tistic.” “What do yoa wear instead of a cor- set?” asked the correspondent of the Philadelpnia E **Noting when off the stage, but in my parts 1 wear this,” and she held up a_roll of stout linen, cut in a stri about four inches wide. It looked e actly like a surgeon’s bandage, and she puts it on exactly asa bandage is put on, rolling it round and round ner body, high enough to support the breast and low enough to cover the torso. I ventured to remark that I should think 1t would be very stiff. It moderately so,” said Miss An- derson; “it neeas to be in order to'sup- port the body, but it is not like the bar- ricade of whalebones.” In some of the difficult movements which she executes upon the stage Miss Anderson says that this bundage is so much of a support to her back that she could not do without it in such parts as the in “The Winter’s Tale.” *Then it 18 not so easy as it looks,” [ suggested. *No,” said Miss Ande smile; *‘very few things are. Mrs. Potter wears neither a corset nor any substitute for one. “I wear just four things,” said Mrs. Potter. ‘A ‘union suit’ of heavy white silk underwear, a broad bandage round the torso knitted of heavy red wool, a flanpel” skirt and my dress, I never wore a corset in my life, nor did my mother.” Mrs. ‘Langtry says that the idea of going without a corset, or of substitut- ing something else for it, is all non- souse. ‘‘There is nothing,” she says, “so ensy as a perfectly made French corset.” Talk about the ‘line of beauty,’ there it is,” and she turned her boay just enough to show the curve of her superb hip. Miss Jessie Millward, the English actress who has just come over, does not wear a corset on the stage and sub- stitutes onty tight bandages worn below he waist. Sara Bernhardt wears a tightly-fitted waist of flannel, *not as a support,” she suays, “‘only because it is comfortable and healthful,” Mr. Boucicault says that the aspect of grace is dependent entirely upon the movement of the nody at the waist. $*Watch the Oriental dancing girls,” says this gentleman. **You will observe that all their subtiety of grace is the swaying of the body by a peculiar move- ment of the hips. There is nothing else in the world so seductive and so en- trancing. It is very simple, and yet there ure hundreds of wonten with al- most faultless figures who move like wooden images.” n, with a They Wear the Ahsm—Trousers, The wearing of masculine dress by women is, when one counts up the num- ber of women who do it, not such a very uncommon performance after all, says the New Yorld. Another famous female scientist and explorer, Mme.: Dieulafoy, a French woman, always wears coat and trousers while she is journeying in strange lands, She substitutes a skirt for the trousers when she gets back to Paris, and the savants assemble to listen to the results of her travels, but the cont she retains, with its attendant shirt and waistcont, and she does not allow her bair to grow. She declares that woman’s dress has done more to hamper woman’s energy and brains than all the scoldings administered to independent women by men from the time of Isaiah, the prophet, to_the present day. Our own Dr. Mary Walker, with her trous- ers, her long braids and her high silk hat, 1s familiar to every American who has ever been in Washington, Rosa Bonheur, the painter of the ‘‘Horso Fair,” wears trousers while working. She has a thick mop of short hair that hangs in _confusion over her square, masculine-looking brow, and she weurs o pair of wide trousers- linen in summer and tweed 1n winte) with coat to mateh, when she is tramp- ing about her farm and in the helds watching and sketching animals. She also wears this costume when painting, for she says thut while standing before the canvas so long the weightof her skirt tires her, and, as she usuall paints such big pictures, there is muc walking backward to be done to observe the effecy of brush strokes, and that here again her skirts hamper her, She always returns to skirts in the evening when her day’s work is done, and never sits down to dinner in trousers. Any one seeing her tramping about the fields in male attire. wath short hair and a wide, soft hat pulled over her eyes. would never imagine her a woman, 8o strong and heavy modeled is her face. -Louise Lawson, the sculp- tress of ‘‘Ayacanmora,” also wears trousers and coat when she works, for her labors in the clay with her bi statues would be much interfered witl by skirts. A well-known Kuropean courier, Louis Herman, fell ill the other day,and the doctor discovered SULBAY, DECEMBER 1, 1889.-SIXTEEN that “he™ A woman—so to speak. She confosd that she had worn male clothes for forty years, and the truth had never been suspected by any one. A Doctdr¥or the Complexion The patron is seated in an adjustable chair and a hand glass placed on her lap, writes a Paris correspondent of the New Yorksfress. By degrees the shade is rolled down_from the window and madame looks her customer over and knows the things to bo done in an nstant. A greasy, gray face is thoroughly' ‘whehed by steaming it, to epen the poars and eruptions. Blotches and sorenessiof the lips are treated with sweet oil and cream. Inflamed lds are anointed, lashes are combed and clipped, oyebrows shaped to de- scribe pretty curves, and where there is a tendency to meet, the bridge of the noso is cleaved of straggling hairs by an clectric needls. She trains the hair to grow about the tomples in the manner most becoming to the face, and “scolding locks™ and “ear pieces’ ure effectually dealt with, A pour complexion is made the sub- ot of dietectic philosophy, and if nec- ury she will make out o bill of fare which, if adhered to for a year, will uly prove benelicial not only to the Tface, but to the general health of the body. She has great faith iu pres- piration, and advises long walks, even the hottest weather, with the faco vily veiled, - Kitchen work is also preseribed. Not long ago a lady in so ciety who paysa cook $2.000 a year, was told” to go wto the kitchen and shell peas, mix a cake or knead bread for an hour every day to freshen up her com- leplexion, ~ Madame is an enthusiast on the subject of eleanliness, and argues that there degree of personal neat- ness equally as fascinating as beauty. gland's Futurs Quoren. I hear from a high English source, says a Paris letter to the New York bune, that the Princess Feodora of Schleswig-Holstein, who did the Eiffel tower the other days chaperoned by her clderly maiden aunt, Amelia, of the same house, is in all likelihood the coming Princess Albert Victor of Waules. She is a sister of the German empress and a niece of Prince Chris- tian, the dull old husband of the best of Queen Vietoria's daughters, isgoing on sixteen, 100ks n géod sort of girl. and is ulmost pretty. But she is not likely to improve when the bloom of youth de- parts, and she wants winsome graces. Iividently she has not come to her full height. When she do he will broba-~ bly be as tall as her imperial sister. The queer would like to secure the crown of Great Britain, be is descended from her majesty the duchess of Kent,” whose band was Prince Leiningen. Princess Feodora has been a great denl hero with a party of anistocratic Bnglish friends, some of whom are connections of her int-in-law bn the maternal side, Coun- Count_Gleichen uban- his high-boen German status to mour, und is a profes- sional high in the queen’s avor. Agninst German etiquelte she been litterly styling them both serene highuesses. An objection to the proposed royul mateh is that the young lady’s mother is in & madhouse. There isalrendy morethan a touch of insanity in the royal family of England. her 18e she moth first hus- Susgesions to var Girls, Girls ‘shouid be taught to cook Much misery,comes from bad cook writes “An Old Bachelor” to an chavge. A yuuug man marrviesa g who eannot cook @ decent meal. Then mischiel begins. He works hatrd, earns money, gives most of itto her. She takes the money; “buys victuals, cooks them badly. He and she eat them. The victuals are so badly cooked that they will not sustain” the fires of indus- try. He seeks stimulants, drinks. She, poor and ignorant creature, gets consolation from the nearest sewing so- clety. She can’t understand the chango that has come over him. He knows it will do no good to acquaint hor with the truth; it “would be stranger than fiction to her. There are thousands of cases em- braced in this outline, all caused by the prevailing inability to cook well. Boys rained for practical duties of life. nrls need & more comprehensive edu- cation, They should be taught how to cook a decent meal, one that sustains the fires of application, without which no man 1 succeed in the battles of life. Fvery girls’ school should among its fuculty a competent cooking teacher. Koyal “Skeletons.' The queen, it is known, is ver, ticular in many matters of dress, and it seems that the princess ¢f Wales und her daughters are no less so. Low- necked and short-sleeved toilets at the proper time have never come under royalty’s frown, but the queen his al- ways insisted on a bona fide sleeve, and no princess has“over been allowed to withstand this very sensible regulation. In the mattor of hirh-heeled shoes. too, some slight tribulation has risen at times, fashion’s requirement and the queen’s moderation being very difficalt of reconciliation, The princess of Wa! has not _to con- cern hervself much about the dress of those around her, since she is to a great extent tne arbitress in the highest cir- es of what g, correct. She always dresses well, and yet we learn that not till the last minute does she decide what her toilet shall be. he princess and her daughters have each their busts and dress stands, the former moulded exactly to their figh These royal *‘skeietons” arve of wire, beautifully padded, and covered with brown hul{nud,thu uame of the original being distinetly written on each shavely back. This takes considerably from the difliculty of dress-building at high pres- sure. Princess Victoria of Prussia had an accurato *wodel of her figure made during her récent stay at Windsor. Chinese Girid Onj o Marrying. English and American girls occasion- ally commit giiglde through disappol ment at oot getting mavried; but 1t will surprise themtalearn that the Chinese young landiesihave such a dread of the matrimonial ehinin that they frequently prefer death fo'marring Of all q{:\»xlc.” said Confucius, “women are 1hé most diflicult to man- age. 'If you gpe familiar with them they become Joryard, and if you kee them at a distanee they become discon- tented.” bulo So many ane the disabilities of mar- ried women''thwt many girvls prefer going into Budtihist or Tauist nunner- ies, or even committing suicide, to trusting their future to men of whom they can know nothing but from the in- terested reports of the go-botweens, Archdeacon U“iy' in his work on China, states that iu 1878 eight young irls residing near Canton “who had en affianced, drowned themselves in order to avoid marriage, They clothéd themselyes in their best attire, and at 14 o'clock, in.the darkness of the night, having bound themselves wgetgur‘ they threw themselves into a tributary stream of the Canton river.” Some Women's Oocupations, At Martha's Vineyard a dumo woman owns and manuges n schoonerand earns o living as a fishorman, says the New Orleans Picayune. Between times she peddles threads and buttons along the coast. At Ciocinnati there is alsoa boat woman who earns her nving on the water. In Maine many women are farmers, working from two hundred to three hundred acres and, of cour: finding time to read the Atlantic Monthly. At Louisville a Mrs. Shelhy is sexton of St. John's cemotery. At Gardiner, Me., Mrs. Proble is a marble and granite cutter, employing ten or twelve men. In New York city Mrs, sillis a shoemaker. The best of her work is cobbling. Alsoin New York, Mre. Emma Yewdell gots along fairly well keeping a livery stable. San Fran- cisco and Brooklyn have ench a woman blacksmith. Mrs. Lena Seigfried, of New Orleans, is a bird hunter, living on her father's schooner, and abls to kill, clean and prepare more birds to the hour than any male hunter along the coast. In New Orleans, more than in any other ciiy, we have women en- gaged in occupations unusual to the sox. Here are 1o be found women edi- tors, merchants, florists, farmers and manufacturers in great numbers all earning good sums of money, HONEY FOR LADIES, The small bonnet is moribund All sleeves are loose above the elbow. Waists grow shorter and less peaked. ‘The basque waist is almost a thing of the past Tartans than ove kirts grow longer in the back but shorter in front. Old rose and black are a fashionablo com- bination. Table covers no longer hang all over and all around the table, Elogant sashes are made of passementerio finished with deep frin The craze for ant gold furniture1s on the increase. Brown, tan, gray and black gloves ar the correct wear with all out-of-door toilets. Panels remain a fashionable and popular feature on most gowns for stroet or carriage wear. Ostrich feather tipnets in colors to match evening and dinner gowns aro seen in the best houses. All waists have surplices, brotelles, plastrons, waistcoats, or rovers of one kind or another. Do not purchase a seal cap unless your features are regular, In such case one will be very becoming. Tartan shoulder capes in triplo folds, with long, square fronts, also triple fokied, are seen among the utility short wraps for carly fall wear, The cape-sleoved jucket, simulating a cape and waisteoat in front and a jacket 1o the back, is a new and favorite light wrap. Mantel lambrequins of delicately tinted China silks fringed with vari-colored silk tassels or with gilt baneles aro the latest ucy in mantel drapery fads. A pretty skating costume would be of eiffel tower red plush, trimmed with fur. chilla would look weil, and suould be set on a3 a baud around the skirt and trim a half- fitting jackot. v Quuker gray is the most fashion- d almost the most becoming shade of Ly ng color, It combines well with iffcl, pole’ ros:, blue, water green, canary yellow, fluningo red ‘and other shades of bright and positive color, with cream, pure white, black, silver and gold, copper and steel Combination costumes are in remarkablo fator. Among recent ideas is that of a skirt made wholly of side plaitings in alternations of two colors which appear of course on the corsage, 1n some onc of the many different methods at present in vogue. On tho subject of corsage adornmneuts, moreover, a modiste can hardly go astra, nco they are still more intricate and lavish than during the summer. The old-time method of closing by buttons 1s almost abandoved in conse- quenee, and the fastenings on sinuous wind- ing, often prove a trial to the patience of any but devotees to the cause. ~Conbinations haveextended to cloaks which never were so fanciful or in such variety of shape. The use of elezant brocades is marked, while gar- ments of thick, soft camel’s hair 'woven in large, flowered patterns. are offset by addi- tions of fur, velvet, silk or ribbon. “Turned-up collars are in truth particulurly stylish, in view of whica some are ready wired, but the greater number may stand erect, or lie flat at the wearer's option, and us u consequence seal caps are being pur- chasud to an unwonted extent. The uniting of two furs in one garment is, moreover, according to Lord and Taylor, an_especial featuro this winter and is séen in muffs, which, although for the most part small as formerly and of one ftur, arc sometimes varied by trimmings of another sort. Irim- ming furs are either black, quite dark or quite light; the medum' shades ure not in demand, and it can bo added that fur as o gatiture is not only 1 extraordinary vogue, but 1s often combined in the same garment with trimmings of quite opposite nature, as for exumple, lace or vassementerie, this being true not only in respect to cloaks, but costumes where fur trinmings and even combinations are a feature, Loug, tlufly boas were nevermoro fashion- able and the same can be asserted of fur caps. Kither are suitable for ladies of any age, provided only, that the wearer be not to0 stout; where thie figure is well developed, one like' the other is ill advised and both should give way to the short scal ' wraps which ‘come in jaunty shapes for young ladies, and for matrons, in becoming styles short at the back und having long pointer-le, Elegant long garments in scal, displuy also such changes in cut as may render viem su abls to different persons, whether stout slender and for the former, show sleeves be- ginning at the back scams, while for the lat- ter, come those which fitted or half-fitted, huve sleeves just large enough to admit the arm easily and commencing at the shoulder. Seal juckets do credit to the makers' s kill, by reason of exquisite fit and tiis season arc ndered novel from tne use.of natural or or plucked otter or .astrakhan, which is placed in V shape at the back, appears on the cuffs and lines the coliar that may be turned u to exhibit such combinations. THE FIGURE “9", The figure *9” in our dates is h us and has come to stay, No man or woman now living will ever date u document withont usig the flgure 9. It now stands on the extreme right—1580. Next year it will be in the third plac where it will remaiu ten years, It will then move up to the second pluce~1900—and there iv will rest one hun- dred years, There is another 9" whicn has also come tostay: itis called the No, “0.” It is not like the figure *9" in our dates in the respect that it will have to wait until next year 1 third pluce, or ten years for second place, as it hus this year stood in first place, and it will not move irom there; it is the new “No. 0" High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sew- g Machin T'he *No. 9” is not au old style of machine having some slight chango made in it and then called “‘new improved,” but it 18 an en- tirely new wachine. 1t was invented by the best mechanical experts of the age, What better proof is wanted of that fact than tho following cablegram direct from the Paris Exposition, which was published in all the Chicago newspapers of Ocl EXPOSITION 0c The hig prenuuin grand prize for sewing muchines as wwarded the Wheeler and Wilson Manufac, turing Company, ‘The *No. 9 has taken the frst preminm this year at the State fairs of lows, Mione- sota and Wisconsin, and the first premium atevery county fair where it has been ex- lobited. No womau, if she desires to be happy should be without a *No. 9" No man should be bappy until he has purchased the lightest rooning lock stitch machine in the world, the **No. 9" for his home. No agent is happy unless he sells the *'No, 9.” No dealer will be happy and prosperous in this age of progress unless he furnishes his custo- mers with the only perfect sewing machine mechanism for famiiy use, the **No. 9.” We are Lappy, for our trade has more thau doubled since the birth of the **No. 9." WHEELER & WILSON M'¥'G CO, 185 and 187 Wabash ave., Chicago. and stripos are in higher favor © onk and white and R I $5 =, §5 SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER For Five Dollars. DR.R. W.BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Blok, 16th and Farnam Streets. 'W‘e Are Here tO Stay and having within the past two months largely increased our office room, are now better pre ‘ared to turn out the best class of work, and much more rapidly than heretofore. We make a full set ofteeth on rubber for FIVE DOLLARS, guaranteed to bs as wal made as plates sent out of any dental office in this country. Do not let Ulh(l‘l influence you not to come, but make us a call and see for yourself. Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIN, and without using chloroform gas, ether or electricity. Filling at lowest rates, Remember the 1o= cation. DR. BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Bloek, Open evenir lako elovator on 16th streot, 16th and Farman Cut this out. A3 JAMESMORTON & SON, Agents. Telephone 437, 1511 Dodge St. DON CARLOS LUMBER (0., Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Yellow PPine. To denlers only. Mills Southern Missourl. Rooms, 1, %ands U, S. 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