Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1892, Page 10

10 AWAY WITH SOMBER GOWNS Why Shonld the Garb of Woman Be 8ad- Eyed When Nature Suggests the Color? PROGRESS OF WOMEN AS POLITICIANS A Doctor of Masle Wed—The The Lost Gallus Button ~Women Who Want t Latest Fashions—Femin- ne ¥ raonalitios, It {8 said of tho fair sex that they dress well, not to caplivate the masculine fancy, butto outrival each other. The compliment mplied is rather doubtfal. But the love of the fair ones for novelty and change of stylo 1s not to be questionad, As to street gowns, Ward McAllistor is quoted as saying: +'Women never looked so beautiful on the stroot as they do now. I am very fond of Jooking at a protty woman, and when she is prettily arossed she 1s all the more attrac- tive, Ilikotosee her in the gown which best sots off her style, and the colors she wears, if becoming to her, rest and delight the eye and add to the pleasure of livine.” Barry Wall is in favor of tho vlack street gown, and whilo we admit that it hae its ad- vantages, yet we prefor the taste of Mr. Mo- Allistor, who most admires colors. Mrs. Kendal's advico i peak to na- turo and sho shall teach theo.” 1f we look 1o ner for guidance we find predominating the fashionable color of three seasons— green, to the tired eye the most refreshing, nature’s summer dress for tree and shrub and fleld. Then what can bo moro beautiful than the oxquisite bluc of the sky floating with rag, dged clouds of lacy white. In the western sky atsunset we obscrve the shifting liguts of brilliaut orange, tender piuk and glowing crimson, purpling into royal shodes, Weare all familiar with the yarying tints of the autumn leaf frow green to russet brown. These are the colors of which nature teaches us we can nover tire; each human being since the world began has looked upon and provounced them perfect. But do Iadies who gown thomselves slmost exclusively in black ever ston to think that the somber hue 18 not u favorite of naturo and raroly does she presentitto the eye! Tho lightning leaves a black stroak whero 1t burns the old oak’s heart. *Nignt drops hor saple curtain down and pins 1t witn a star.” But nowhoere do we admire black unless 1t be in the heart of the blue larkspur or where it is necessary for a contrast. Let us put away the bluck gown for rainy days and dark weather. Lot us protest against its universal wearing. We aro told 100 that 1t is moro liable to receive and retain disease gerins than hight colors. By the way, do vou notice how tho gentlo- men are blooming out in tans, and blues, and grays, sucl a rohef from the conventional black, they look so nice und cool. Let us fol- low sult. Greack H. . The treatment of wives of politicians on the hustings in Eugland is i marked con- trast with the galiantry shown the sex at conventiops in tho Utited States. Tuose who attended the Minueapolis convention will never forget the wave of enthusiasm for Blane started by Mrs, Carson Lake. The waving of her parasol was a signal for choers and wild yells that for a time threatoned to affect the desired stampede to the mun from Maine. 1t was succoaded by like cheering for Harrison lea by Mrs, General Now. At the Chicago convention a most iuteresting specwaclo was presented by Dr. Mary Walker, who, clad in a natty black, mascu- line cut, and staading on an elevation back of the chairman, stimulated the choering Hill men by waving hier immaculate cambric, while thunder resounded and rais failed to drown the roars of aamiration for the bachelor of Elmira. Women took a foremost part in the deliberations of the prohibition convention. At the people's convention the Irreprossivie Mrs. Mary Lease not only helped to shape the policy of the party and deliver eftective speeches, but to her skillful manipulation General Weaver is largely indebted for his nomination. In all ocases the ladies were treated with ctiaracter- istic national gallantry and their assistanco cheerfully accepted by masculine leaders. How different their treatmentin England. Mrs. Henry M. Stanloy ondeavored 1o vain 10 save the political fortunes ot her husband. Her reception was shockingly rude and in- suiting. Mrs. Cornwallis West received similar treatment. Soveral times both had to fly to escape harm at dhe hands of ruffianly political mobs. She was & beautifil girl, upon whose lus- trous curls twenty summers had laid their rosos in showers of color and fragrance and upon whose fair shoulders the decree of tashion had placed a pair of suspenders 1f any who reud these lines have not yet @ot themselves upon this fad they should at once look ub tho latest fashion plates, says the Detroic Free Press. Sho was radiant in_hor loveliness, and tho young man who sat beside her wheu the shadows of the evening fell was as happy as she was beautiful. It was an iridescent combination. He had proposed and been uccepted and he had just concluded awild, impulsive embraco that’ uow was tapering off eradually in a tender, ono-armed hug as lingering as a case of the grip in & hard winter. “George,” she murmured, “will you do me a favor{’ “A miltion!" he exclaimed, with tropical luxuriance; “a million times ® million, darling.” “One 1s enough, dearyv,” she said, with a soft littlo smile of joyous contentment. “What is it, awriing!" ho whispered, draw- fug hor closor to hin. “Will you lend me a horseshoe nail#" lisped, bioshingly. “We bave bustea kalluses.” she my orge’s groat heart yearnod and broke then, for he had come to the trysting place without a horseshoe uail, Ono of the very foww” women in tho un verse wbo bave the richt Lo wear the title of musical doctor is Aunie Wilson Patterson. Bho is a native of County Armagh, lreland, and is the only femalo doctor of musie in the British kiugdom with the exception of the princess of Waios, Sheisa young woman of fine attninments. Before sho was 15 yeurs of ugo she was proficient in the Grock, Latin, French and Italisn languages, At that age sbo decided upon music s hor 1ife's profession, and entered upon its study av ihe Royal Trish Academy of Music, and sub- sequently becamo conductor and wusical di- rector of tho Dublin Choral union Her carecr, from a scholurly powt of view, bas becn a brilliant one. Sho has written songs and cantatas, received u silver medal for proticlency in the natural sciencos and a £0ld medal for organ playing, and 15 a poet and essayist of oxcellont talents, Sho was graduated from the Royal Irish uni. versity as bacholor of music and bachelor of wrts in 1857, and was graduated as doctor of music at the Royal Irish academy in 15589, Over the desk of N. (. Creoede 1 his pri- vate office is o letter rack, made of wire, ‘Thero are not many letters, says the Creedo (Colo.) Chronicle, but a great many photo- gruphs of women. Iu most cases the sender has written her name 10 her own peculiar style on the back of the picture. A St. Louis Iady added “taken in 1852, have changed some sinco that time,” but she failed to say whether the change was for the better, Au- other buxom looking blonde writer from the amo city 1noldsed & photo, to suggest that Mr. Creede owed it to the world, to himsolf and to ber, to try and become the father of some *‘rollicking, rompiug children.” *“Tnat lotter,” giia Mrs. Creede, *'1 arswered wmy solf, and referved the lotter to Mr. Croode's pepbews, who are much younger. *This Indy,” she contlnued, “is uow envaged to one of our leading citizens, a gentloman well fixed aud who is atthe head of one of our larkost stock compauios. Mr. Creede hus Tound time to socure very good husbands for some of his lady fuiends, but don't say any- thing about it, for it will only encourage oth srsand bis mail 18 beavy onough now." Among tho ist of applicants who were wil ling to share Mr. Croode's fortune was a Han Awtoulo ballet duncer, who sald she sould “'ride & bioycle, break a broncho or play pokor and could kick a chandelier with uny waman in Lue wild and wooly wost."" Mrs. Kobert Anderson, the wife of Major Anderson of Fort Sumtor fawo, 18 00w an oid isdy living quietly in Washingtou eity, Bihe nas two possossions she values greatly, and they aouropriately hang above Lhe por- Arait of Major Anderson. These are the fags of Fowk Sumter. Afior the surrendor of Fort Buwter Major Anderson wrete Lo the War what disposition shauld be made of the flags ho trought away with him, Tho reply was that they could not be in better hands, and s0 they have remained with the Anderson family, except when the wrapped the cofin of Major Anderson wh he was taken to West Point, where ihey ro mained for some time. Tho Washington Star recently gave a portrait of both the storm and tho earrison flags, and Mrs. An derson celated to the writer how, on the first day of the bombardment, as tho flag was lowered to salute the federal floet in tho offing, it was struck by a shail which cut the halliard so that the flag would have come down with n ran if the ond of the rope had not caught in the staff, so that on the morn ing of tho socona day the flag was still there though the staff had been struck seven times This is the incident to which Major Andor- £on afterwards referred when he said: “God Almighty nailed that flag to the mast, and I could not biave lowered it if I would.” department asking The French bicycling costume for ladies consists of a tanic and knickerbockers made exactly ltke those worn by men, oxcopt that the tunic feminine is a littlo longer than that worn by men. The most_approved costume for the maid-a-wheel in KEngland has o full divided skrit, supportea from the shoulders by susponders, a light sillk blouse beld in piace by a rubber band, a Windsor tio at the newk, a jacket liko tho skirt, beneath alia “‘union suiv”’ of wool. Late Fashion Notos. Infants' flanvel shawls have a hemstitched hem, Pink, in ull its twenty shades, favorite, This yoar ribbons aro used to a groat ex- tent for trimming. Canvas chatelaine of dark blue and black for the outing costume. Patent leather tios, in all colors, are to bo the thing for this season’s wear. Black sucde shoes and gloves to bo worn with the stylish suit for mourning. For the summer skirt rainbow flounces of ribhon, pleated, gathered or ruched. Artificial oats or oats dyed in various col- ors are quite conspicuous in milliner ‘There is a great deal of point de gene and Irish point lace used on gowns this summer, Many of the pretty summer gowns have the lower part of tho sleeve close fitting and made of laco without lining. Cream, 1vory, putty, pale blue, very light greon, buttercup, awber and corn shades are finding places in the heart of the summer girl. The most daring color combination is that in which two tones of rich hued violets are brought into direct conjunction with vivid scarlet velvet. To pull a dress tightly over the abdomen and thighs, says Eleanor Kirk, s an act of coarseness and vulgarity which could not be excelled by the commonest ballet dancer. “*What do you think of my new hat, John#" is a gront “Ob, Tdon't know. What did the thiug cost? “Nothing, I mado it myself.” “By Jove! IV's simply stunning, Mamic,” Ono of the prettiest new blouses is made of gay colorea Scotch plaid surah to be worn with a plein sergo skirt. Tbey are nearly all draped on u fitted lining with an abundance of frills and ruflies. Delaines are parucularly protty this year, and run the muslins very close as first favor ites. Tnerois ouly one objection to them. When thby got eveu a little soilad their beauty 15 alwost gone, Hops, thoir stalks forming the crown, are ngeniously used in the composition of a Parisian model. 'I'ne stylish trimmings avo avlack lace coquelle, a jet and diamond tipped pin aud strings of the palest yellow unt. B Lownecked bodices of many summer danc- ing dresses are trimmed with recamior £ids, draped berthas, and long, dainty scarfs of Detit point, sk net festooned asross the ton at the back, and carried in breteiles down the front. Suspender dresses are still worn, but they are not in the best form. They arc too man- nish and neglige. ally when the young woman substitutes geuuine suspenders for the usual ones like the siirt, as occasionally is seer It ouly requires a pretty face to render a last century hat, of drawn lace with sea col- orgd lace linings, quiwe perfect; and the fall of grass at tho back is natural enough to have boen but just picked up in some swoet green Hela. Sheer yet very aurable Fronch muslins are worn this sumuer that are wrought all over with tiny white dots and printed with very delicate single blossoms or line clusters, with foliage of violets and rosebuds, which are still tho favored blossoms for tneése muslius, The Russian stripes, ecovred with cross stiten embroidery, are among the latest noy- eltios. The mauner in which the sleeves ara vut in is one of the distinguishing charac- teristics of these Russian garments. The sleeves commence at the necik and are not in- serted at the shoulder in the ordinary way. Charming little seaside hats are of tho “Ninicne' shape, the broad brim slanting down in front, from which protrudes a very narrow dainty edgo of Oriental I'hiaso hats are made of fancy straw in all the fashionable colors, and are decorated with standing loops of ribbon or large Alsatian bows of broad, gayly siriped silk grenadine. ‘The beautiful laces now in vogue make vhe short sleeve u special temptatiou, as the wide lace ruftlo falling ovor the arm is its most characteristic feature. The sleeve above the rufiio may be fushioned to suit the wearer, or her dressmaker, as, if it be pretty, it may be anything elso that it chooses. The more original iu design the more it will be admired. If you wish to have vour drawing room protuily decoratod with flowers auring this hot season order the floral decoration to bo of hydrangeas. They havo becomo quite popular, and do not make the room stufly, as tney are scontless. A hot drawing room, fill with the odor of flowers, 1s not ex- uctly the place one would wish herself in at this'time of the yoear. Camels'hairand Enghsh serge will be largely used for autumn and winter costumes, snd marine blue, silver blue and the rich shade of Neapolitan blue will be very popular; also the hatdsome dablia dves, the browns both goldon und in dead leaf tonos, the Vandyke and wahogany unts of reddish cast, and the genuine old rose that is of the exact color of a slightly wilted Jacqueminot, With white canvas or suede shoes ono should wear white stockings. There aro many tancy stockings with black feet and colored tops in all sorts of desiszus, points or stripes or solid color. These are u little showy, but are sometimes very pretty, sionally bright scarlet shoes with silic hose of tho samo hue are scon with dark dressns, but they are the exception, css0s of pure white crepon luce, crepe cinne, ote, with whito chip bonnets trimmod wholly in white, form olegant toil- ots for guests ut summer weddings and re ceptions, China po dresses are very charmiog, also those of satn siriped cluir- otte, and the small French bonnet is trimined with clusters of white violets, lilac, or other fine white flowers like elderverry or auemoue, intermixed with white watered ribbon, Muany of last sumier's gowns may bo re- modeled by gathericg a deep, straight skiry to the round or pointed waist, thus convert- fug it into a Russian blouse, or, as a skillful but not very ocultured modiste writes it, “cushing” blouse. The popular blouse ha 80 many modilications thut slight peculisri- ties of “cut are not unpleasantly noticeable, and much hiberty is gatned by those who are trying to make last year's dresses “do,’” What Women Are Doing., Mrs. Hatue Brodks of Maine is conducting an cxtensive foundry and locomotive building establishment noar Duukirk, which turns out a locomotive a day. Mrs. Bishop, teacher of Delsarte, insists 4L *if we want to keep young we must learn how to rest Aud some old persous would be very apt teachers of the speclalty _Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the talking woman of Kansas, 15 4 tall, spare woman with a very manlike and commanding air about ber. When her husband is along he doesn’t count. She registers and sottles the biil while he carries tbe band baggage, At the concluding session of the regents’ couvocation of the University of the State of Now York, at Aloany ou Thursduy, the vrize Of §100 for the best essay on *‘the Helation of University Extension o Local Libraries" was awarded to Miss Katherine Sharp of Chicago. 400d heath, calm nerves, good friends and modest opiulon of herself’ are the resuit: of & college education to & girl, n the opinion of Mrs. Alice Freeman Pulmer, and o botter judge of the results of such train iugcan bé found than the ex-president of Waellesley. The Kothschilds have a pretty way of pro- vidiug » birthday present for all of the girls of the family when they come of mge. At THE OMAHA DAILY the birth of each littie girl six _pearls, val- ued at $2,500, ara put aside. Six more are added at everv birthday, and when the young lady reacties the age of 21 she 18 pre- sented with the valuable neckince, France has a national council of women: in Finland the national bodies are foderated turough the efforts of Baroness Alexauder (Grivenborg: the threa Scandinavinn coun- tries, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, have formed a Seandinavian woman’s couteil and in Italy a national elub of women has been formea, with Queen Marghorita as its leader and ehiof ofine Miss M E. Finnegan, county supertendent hools for Chotsau county, Montana, has jurisdiction over an area of 27,500 miles, while Miss Alize Cavanauch of Dawson county looks after the schools of a county covering 30,000 square miles an aroa cqual to that of South Carolina. greater thao that of Maine, and nearly four times that of Massachusetts, Miss Ella T. Knowies, whom the people's party of Montana has nominated for attorney genoral of tho state, is a succossful practicing lawyer in Helena, ~ She was born in New Hampshive, and was graduatea at Bates col- leze, Maine, in 1584, Sho has an extensive practico among miners and workinginen, and it is thought that they wera influential in se- curing for her the nomination, which came to her entirely unexpectediy, Patti has several pst birds at Craig-y-Nos, which she brought from New York. One is a parcot that accompanies her sougs, not merelv imitatiog the trills and roulades of his mistress, but putting in some original toucnes of his own, Another of the parrots for n long timo kept mute until finally one day a doctor appeared on the sceno to attend 1o a sore throat of his mistress, when he ex- claimed: *“Oh, doctor, I'm so sick.” Tuo Russians are keenly alive to the vatuo of women in wedical work, and vhe Russian imporial council has, by a large majority, de cided to establish a medical sehool for women in St, Potersburg. Thoimperial government and the municipal council will contribute §158,500 for the purvose. The municipal au- thorities will also give tho site for the build- fags for the scucol and clinic. The late democratic wigwam at Chicago has been sold to the Women's Board of Man- agers at the World's fair, Itis the intention of these women to ouild with ita series of big boarding houses for women, convenient to tho fair, where lodvement may be had for 5 coris a day., They give notice that large parties of women, teachers and the like may write ahead and eugage time and space, This will not only facilitate their gotting sveedily to work secing the great show, but suve them from the extortions of a crowded season aud a rapacious people. Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby, who has the credit of starting the first woman’s campaign clup, is a lady of considerable executive abil- ity and of fino poctical tastes as well. Much of tho verse she writes ftinds its way into the magazines. Mrs. Ormsy tells an intor- estinganecdote of Longfellow’s latost years. Sne visited the poeta few woeks before he died, and as he escorted her to the door and stood there looking over the vacant ground across the si to the Ctarles river she asked: “Mr. Lonefellow, why did vou cat down ail tho (roes thers betwoen the nbus and the river®? I did it, madam,” said the poet, “'so that nothing sbouid stand be tween meand those purple hills in tho dis- tance.” Boston Transcript: I have hoard of the orthodox minister who was thought to be a little too liberai,” said aman who was not his parishioner, “and there was an agitation in his church. Ask him to leave! Give bim a trial for heresy? No, indeod. ‘The richest wan in bis church has invited him to go to furono to stay all summer. Tuey are going to raise s salary when be gets back, and ho is going to give them sermons telling them how much wmore he believes in the power of the loveof the Lord than the hate of the devil. That congregation will enjoy a chango from sermons about the sizo of the tabernacie and other nondoctrinal subjects that minister has felt himself forced to preach about while he has been growing.” w York Iribunc: A colleze professor ently dropped into a prayer mecting 1o a district where dairy interasis aro supremo and heard a gaunt 6ld dawryman pray as fol- lows: *Helpus, O Lord, to follow Thee, no matter what John, Mary, Martha, Bill, Tom and all the rost may say. Make us through traivs for the Lord, not’ stopping at_every littlo station where they happen to have a milk-can put out. Don’t let us firo blank cartridges ut tho devil, but load up with shot re and shell. Help us to cut off the corns and tiie bunions that keep our feet from walking 10 the way of the Lord.” Atlanta Constitution: **Where's Brother Jones ! asked the preacher. “At the ball game, “And Brother Brown " “On tho vigilance committee.” “And Brother Spinks ! “Runnin’ for sheriff.” nd good old Brother Williams " “Lynchin’ a nigger for hoss stealn,” “And where's Sister Jones 7 “Backin’ up the home team with the mis- sionary mouoy." “Let us pray ! Religious Critic—ITere's a piece in tho paper about the clergy Koing off for a long vacation. What & humbug religion is, any- Hore's o list_in tho paper of the churches that will remain open all summer, What chumps tuo ciergy are to suppose that any one wants to go to church in summer. Why don’t they givo themselves and us a vest!” 3 e Indiauapolis Journdl:" “The largest coin I find in the collection basket this morning," said the Rev. Mr. Wilgus, “is a 10-cent piece. If the members of this congregation Are expecting 1o pay their way into the bet- ter laud on the installment plan, it seems to me that they are caleulating on a much longer mundanc life than hos been allotted to muu siuce the days of Methuselab.” <y "ou belong to a vaseball club,” recently said w smary Aleck of a lawyer to a uni- formed Salvation army man, who was o wit- ness in court, Yes,” roplied the man, I belong to a club that bats the devil aund strikes bim out.” “Samuel,” sald tho wife of an Baglish la- borer, “'we must go to sacrament next Sua- day. The rector has given us two shillings sinco we lust went, and I can’t abide to take his money and give nothing in return.” ‘'Are you going to give your pastor a vaca- tion this summer?”’ “Not exactly,” replied the membor who has trouble in koeping awake, *We will send him away and take ono ourselves,’ " Minister (to dying ‘miser) —F am afraid you won't go to heaven. Misec (dolefully)—Ob, Lord! And 1 gave 82 to the church lasy year. Has that mouey been thrown uway for nothing? —_—— SNORTS FROM RAM'S HORY, A man with a short head needs long legs. The devil sometimes wears a white neck- tie. Whatever stifles liberality chokes religion. ‘I'he man who is true to bimself 1s & friend to everybody. Buttertlies make a great show, but they dou't make any honey. 1f nobody ever got mad there would never be su lotentioval murder, Putting mittens on a tiger will never make him lose bis taste for blood, No man can build & house without telling others & good deal about himseif. If the road to the pit dian’t begin in spectability it wouldu't be so erowded, If stingivess is a disease, there are too many people in the church who are not bealthy. ‘I'ho reason some mon remain houest is be- cause they are watched too close. The big head is oue of the hardest things 10 this world to cure wen of complotely. ‘Pheroare 50 maty folks who ure always wanting 1o piok out crosses for other peoplo 1o carry. re- BEE; SUNDAY, JULY 17 LESSONS IS ENGLISH ROADS | I M- How the Farmdfls, Profits Are Favorably Affaoted By Tmproved ¥ikes, A PLEA FOR BETTER AMERICAN HIGHWAYS vonshire to Exetor and an Ob- for Walking Through e the Thoughts Suggested to servant A —A it World's Fale Directory. [Copyrighted. 19921 Exeren, Eng., July 2. -[Correspondence of Tuk Bre. | —Nature wears other aspeots than those of sunshine and glaluess in these “‘tight little” British islands. The rain falls as though tumbled upon you by nisohievous elves wao have watched for ¥our unwary coming, and the fogs and mists flap about tho hills und mountains and slap the faces of the glens and valleys like a ship's unstaid sails pounding its deck in a storm. But you find a sovereignty of elation and exultation in wandering along among the his- toric and sconic glories of any land, A good staff or stick, a stout pair of legs, a receptive mind and above all a choery and sympathotio heart, whatover your luck, are the regul com- panions for such loiterings. And nature nover fails to appoar to singln devotees at her myriad doors and windows with radiant welcomings, How witching is even this foggy morning, half disclosing the wondrous chiarms of valloy, mead and stream! At times scarcelv can your haud be seen before you for the strange eddies, curl- 1ngs and fantastic convolutions of the fog Tuere is your roud, hard as *‘British con- servatism,’ benoath your feet—ono of tho best and surest and most beautiful ways in all the world, bringing to the heart of tho American wanderer upon it the keon ana patriotic pang that tuose of his grander land are shamed by honest comparison, In the klish Fog. Drip, drip, drip from the leaves of the hedges into water basins of rock, the great drops striking like silver pellets upon olds of an 1892-SINTEEN books, all tho nowspapsrs, all tho battles, all the railways and all the governments had ever accomplished for them from the davs of Micczysiaw and Bolesias to the duy these roads were done. A Suggestion, Cannot some of the expensiva and high art { frills of that groat Columbian exposition at Chicago bo trimmed a littio, and_thus make room for a road exhibit—not in inaccossible dabs and bits in a dozen different depart- ments. but nerous and comprehen- sive departmonti Tho miilions of visitors, including eity and suburban folk overy~ where whose hes asure lareely de- vend on good roads, as well as farmers Whos0 battermont and comfort would be in- catculably augmentea by wood roads, might thus carry away with tham a knowledge and puarposo which would not oniy add billions to our national wealth, but ma<e, in good time, our broad land bloom and blossom fairer than the sweotest garden spots 1n all this old aud wornout Europe, With such thouehts as these I came, with tho carts aud curtmen, ulong the brow of tho hills skirting the noblo valley of tho Exe, to anciont Exeter, which looks far away to the warm groen sea that beats upon the red cliffs of Davon, 1t was in ancient days an old British towa, built long before Casar, and called Uaer lsc, or the city on the river. Antiquarians ob- serve that, liko most Celtic trading towns, it was built, for safety, some little distance from the sea, and just beyond whero the river Exo coases to bo navigable. Discov- ered coins of the Greelk dvnasty in Syria and Egypt prove that Phaaician mdrchants wust have come hero many years before Christ to trade for Cornish and Dartmoor tin. T'nen tue Romaus marehed in and mado it a great station. Lastly, the Saxons fortified own on fho kxo, and traded tcre with the Cornish Britons across the Tamar, cIn the Elder Time, The Kxe was the frontier then for tho Damnouiuns, but Athelstane came and drove thew pelimeil into Cornwalt and rebuilt the walis of Exeter. ‘The Cornish Britons, cooped up among the rocks of Cornwall. s00n had their avengers, Tho Danes came crowding up the Exo with thoir black sails and black banners and winterea 1 Exeter in 876, rejoicing in Saxon beoves aud_ale. The old rod tower, stiil seon in the Rougemout ruins of today, was always getting beaten about by stonos from military engines aud chipped by crossbow bolts. William the Conqueror” besieged it, wishing to seize Citha, mother of Harold, and her aaughter, swinging glass; until the very chimes of the fairies ara rung in your ears beside the rond. Not a rod away, but invisiole, rivulets of the night's muking wimple from rocks to pools, in all manner of melodic runs, from the staceato of tenor trills to tho barytone minors of stately psaims. Just at your side, perhaps, a goose will sud- denly hiss, as if reaching 1ts long nock from fog-hldden door puddie to suap at you from bebind the curtaining mist. Beyond or be- hind some chained dog, makingaoismal hew- gag of kennel acor aud chaiv, leaps in and out, baying to his peasant master of untimely footsteps. Over your head the restless abra- sion of boughs whisper that .he leaves, from their weight of fog cups, sigh and moan as if impaticot of their sunless prisoning. - Hedgoe branches crackle fro i the water weight, as in the frost battles of approaching winter. Here and there, as the heavy breezes move a trifio, come tho hesitavt pipe of stirring virds, the patter of wiid hares’ feet unon the slippery the shufling scamper of some pheasant, the complaining chatter of rooks and daws, the half-caught. honrse resonance of bidden waterfall, while faint and far and stranvely muflied, from little hawletd 1n'the distance, the notes of school bells steal faintly along the folds of the clinging mist Comforts of “Mine In Making vour wiy 15 somotimes like push ing throngh impalpable banks of snow. But in the cheery old , Inglish iun, in tho pres- enco of muftius white as snow, bacon crisp and brown, an omolet.as yellow as a frost- painted beech leaf; o jug of “‘clotted” croam as sweet as @ nut kernel, and a fragrant brewing of tea in the delft pot undcs the '’ you huve reason to rejoice in the blood tingle that comes from doing a huif- dozen miles before breakiast over a perfoct road, through a genuine English fog. It was on such a morning that [ came over the cast Devoushire hill and halted ata wayside inu, still, Bigh up among their woodad hitights, as L heared the old cathed- ral town of Exetor, As the fog lifted 1 could oo from my inn window cart after cart jogging comfortably on to the Saturday morket day sales in Exeter. From tne bustling ood wife of the inn I nquired the nce they had come. com ‘round about Bow, Copplestone and North Tawton,” she unswered. “And how far is the fartnest of those places!" I asked. orth Pawton may be like ten or twelvo mile, sir, at least from Exeter.” 1 told ner I thought that & good distanco for a heavily laden curt drawn by only one norse, “Contrarywise," sho retorted cheerily, “many comes from fur beyond Egglesford and Chumleigh, twentg-five mile, sir, by hitl and dio; and many carts, sir, do ve loaded as heavy as a ton and a half and two tons, sir. American beasties 'avon’t tho miglit of Devon cattle, Iam tola, sir,” she sald half quizically, Praise of England's Turnpikes. Quite right she was. 1 told her, And I clipped the wings of her Devonshire pride by also relating, may the saints forgive mo! how we do not requiro that sort of cattlo in Am; icu; ns we had railways between all villages, all ‘over our farms, id chores ou roller skatos, and went 10 the milking and _visited neighbors on tram cars propslled by clec- tricity; for all of which she made mo pay nandsoniely at the reckoning. “T'hat morning,all the way to Exeter, along- sido thoso huga carts which bowled along undor their groat loads us easily as over a cathedral floor, and in a thousand other places on the highwavs of England, freland and Scotlana, I bave inexpressibly longed for tho power to bodily transfer somo of these graad old roads to our country: to make American millionaires, who may still bave American pride left in them, seo’ their boanty, magnificence und utility beyond thoso of all things mouey and patriotism can give to communitios; and to compel American farmors o kKuow what might ba the mateh- Ibss independenco of their lives and livie with theso perfect defenses for their toil and homes and "granarios against most of the monopolistic and *‘corncr’ avominations ot our land. Al I set out to write ) Farmors' Folly, bout Exeter; but this subject of better American roads will not down. In five vears time [ have tramved along 3,000 miles of Hritish roads. iach timo I stop my feet upon their broad, firm, even surface svery drop of American’ blood in me tingles with shame at the thouzhy of the mud pikes and bottomless rona sloughs of our own splendid couatry—rich, great and strong enough to, match the . roads of Europe without s week's aelay. And yet for five months of every year, and in a losser degree for the other seven, half of tho peoplo of our farming commwnivios are imprisoned and impoverished %q plessly at howe. As one result tbe padgle of the whole country pay, lu ap indireckyaad tax. through annual sharp advances owaliifood necessities of life, all of which thesfarmers lose, a sum each year enormous ewough o maintain as superb roadsus Fnglund anywhera pos sesses, around every, section of cultivable land in the entire 1Talted States. Butour wise American economists, and our unwise and -eften suspicious and shiftless farmers who! in the fall, winter and early suring menths, | prafer to' resentfully brood over their fillad acd rotting granaries and build new poitifagl parties rawner than build good roads, both retort : “Al, but the grand English roads you so ghbly ' talk ubout have been centuries iu building. How caif we accomplish in a year or @ gencration what it hus required 2,000 years lavor for perfoction there !’ What Ggdd Roads Can Do, Tnis would be & good argument wero 1t true. But it is not. Thoreis not s Brit ish, or for that matter ® Kuropean, stone road in existence that was not originally at once constructed to absolute completion, whenever beguo and ‘however loug it may have been maintained. And, with European goverumental and social conditions incon ceivably bard wpon peasant populations, wherever Lhesc roads exist the coudition of the poople is iucomparably wore bappy and prosperous than where they do not, while ‘The woman who marries @ man to reform bim uudertukes & Joo that will ruin ber complexion. A preacher with & praylng church bahind him never has to lie awake at night thinking about his uupaid salary. —— President Eliot speaks of Harvard as ‘‘the ouly university of this continent wgch has bad the privilege of graduating at suc- cessive generalions of meu iu 0ue bouorable and servicesble fawily,” aud values bavo luvariably been increasod from 100 to 1,000 per eent. Not 80 maLy years ago Austria built nearly 2,000 miles of stone highway up and down and from end to end of Gallcia, or Austrisn Poland. Previous to that time, materially, @ no more wrotehed, Godforsaken land ex- isted on ihe face of the earth. What was the result! In lees than Len years' time theso roads did wore for the 6,000,000 peopel of Austriau Polsad 1a material and socia advancement than all the churches, all llmJ but they escaped safely to Bruges, whilo Porkin = Warbeck, Ricnard JV.," when Jomned by the Cornishmen of Bodmin, be sieged the place but unsuccessfully, and was tinally hangea at Tyburn, And 50 on and on runs the grim story thav has left just enough scar and hardness on the lovely, leafy old city to add a mellow charm to all you may see and know. Fifty thou- sand folk do not hive towether in a more win- somo spot 1 Eugland. The smbowered Deyon hills which surround it, the glorious valleys which reach their greens and blooms 1o its very doors, the grand sweop of the Exo vale to thesea.the city’s nobie old antiquities, its beuutiful streets, half in the shadows of o remoto architectural past and hall in the sunshine of modern elegance and adoramont, give everything upon which you look a sweet and winsome face, Substantial Folk inn Sabstantinl Town, Tt all biends in that fine sunset glow which somo of these old catedrAl towns take on so fittingly. The pleasant sceming smiles back to you from polished panes, from snow-white Id arches, from bright rod roofs and brighter red banks of roses, from marveiously clean stene steps and aroaways, from bits of an- cient tilings, from doorknoos and brasses glittering liko burnished gold, from -tho snuggest and trimmest of shop Windows; in- deed, from all things that can tell of substan- tial, woll kept age without the semblance of a wrinkle or a frowa upon it. You feel this sense of radiating heartiness und amplitude again 1 Excter uround the market pluces ou these pleasant market All the couatry folk gathered here are well garmented, comfortublo and cbeery, ) ey all look as though they had steped out of tho “merrie old England” of the books, now so bard to find outsido of the covers of those books. Pride glows in their faces for old Dovon and kxetor, its cavital, aud ju thom- seives. They do say Dickons found his “Fat Bov,” of Dingley Bell, among them. And well he might, for thev'are fat and tine ana staunch, oune and all. Rosy. overlapping jowls and big paunches, suggestive of plum puddings und the famous “clotted cream” of Devon, are every where among them. You' are thus in love with Exocter long beforo you have many times wandered up and down Queen and iigh streets, sauntered throurh the arcade of Chapel street, peering into the old half timbered structures that cluster in stately fashion around the wide cathedral close, ana have at last come among the silences within the great cathedral walls, Exeter Cathedral, A pedant can alone tell another tho exacti- tudes and measuromonts of such a mossy, massi marvelous editice. Coming one by one to Engluna’s splendid cathedrals, you will at last surely rememuer of them all thoso impressions upon your mind ana heart which seemed most powerfully cnaracteristic of each. In the sense of architectural distinetive- ness Excter cathedral will romain 1o yonr momory remarkably distinguished from all other English cathearals. Their plans in- variably comprise a nuge central tower and at the west end. H small lowers towers crowning the transept. Th away with the usual four cumborsome arches architecturally separating nave and choir, and permits the graudest uninterrupt- ed view of vaultand vista of the entire nave and choir to be found in ngland. Two other structural peculiarities are seen in this cathedral. The choir and the nave are of equal length, and throughout the whole edifice the openings are wide and low, rather than narrow and lofty. Tho latter fenture contributes greatly, along with the emphatic feeling that the structure is uot a hodgepodge of ‘restoration,” but one great desizn, 10 4 sense in the beholder of inde- seribable breadth aud spaciousness, What- over else you may feel within Exeter cathe- dral, which bas stood here practically as you now see it for certainly more than 600 und perhaps more than 800 years, it will remain in your memery as the one cathedral of Eng- land which must stand as the highest expres- sion in cousecrated stone of perfect diguity and repose. E0GAR L. WAKEMAN. ‘DR. J. E. 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