Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1892, Page 15

EMULATING EVE'S FIG LEAF The Airy Summet Toga of the Maids and Madames of Fiji. THE WELATHER SHARPS AMONG PLANTS & the Imperial Fam- Symposium of Women are shion Notes. Early Marriage Amo of Earope—A ninnities—What Doing—¥ During these torrid times some comfort may be gained from a description of the airy costumes worn by the faraway Fijis. A traveler who recently roturned from a genu- e resort of perpetual sumimer says that twenty years ago there was hittle cloth ex- cept the rough native staff mads from the fivor of a plant which grows on the isiands, resembling horschair. It served its purpose, However, and had tho added advantage of being practically inaestructible, The fortu- nate femalo who was possessed of a strip of calico was considered in the helght of fash- fon when she strolled out with it wrapped about her. But the cost of it Was so great to them that they were necessarily very frugal in the wearing of it. Wow it is nothing un- common to see a girl or woman employed as a field band go to the tield wearing her recious pioce of ¢ and when there get bebind the friendly sha i & banana plaut and oxchange it for an improvised one made out of a broad and ample banana leaf, which 18 some two feet wide aud six feet long, wrapped about ber waist, The banana leaf makes a cool and comfortable working costume, ono which costs neither money nor {abor in its preparation, aund which serves its purposo admirably. There is seen a disposi- tion on the part of some of the islandors to adopt dresses and European coats and trous- ers, but it is by no means general. Most plants show some indication of the weather chunges by leaf and flower. Much has been written about the African *‘won- derons weather plant,” theabrus pricatorius. We have on the western prairies two plants thut look very much liko the abrus pricatorius_ana show characteristics very sunilar. These are cailed in wcstern lan- gunge the buffalo pea and the shoe string. The shoe string is very common on the up- land prairie, and gets its name from a Jong stringy root, while the buffalo pea is a more raro plant and found mostly wost of the Missouri. Both of these plants, like the frican weather plant, have a long pinnated oy having twelve to twenty small loaves on th side of stem: also a terminal leat which drops, Whea the weather is clear the leaves will stand pointing upward and stem up- ward, When the stem becomes straight and leaves lie flat they indicate achange, If the stems curve downward the leaf indicutes a local storm, When the shoo string leaves bend or droop down it ndicates rain, but it does this alsoat nightif dew fulls, The buffulo pea being a nore sensitive and plisble piant will turn upside down when itindicates woro general rin “The buffalo pea blossoms in May, having large blue flowers; aua it zets its nan.e from a bunch pod holding its seeds. T'he pods are aninen long and three-fourths of anineh wide. The pod has two cavities and holds from twenty o forty plisteniug seeds. The seeds are ripe about August 1. They sliould be planted in the fall, boing very bardy, growing wild on the open praivie. . The buffalo pea is the most desirablo plant, and can be transpanted. A short obseryation will teach its predicting powers. ‘e shoe string blossoms in July and 1s tresh later. E. J. Covcn, Corulia, 2ob. who bas made a highly thus discourses in the I never would have got my husband if I bad not shown myself a goou fellow. My husbana first made sure that instead of be ing 8 clog on his diver- sions 1 could be his companion in them. In [ fnct, 1 could help them aloug, The nie- teenth century. woman to be successful in mAtrimony, which is quite a different thing winuing & fellowship at Yale, writing odes al Harvard, being senior wrang- must be able to walk a social tightrope without fultering. She must be able 10 1ook down abysses without fulling in,' Ste must be the mistress of all situa- tions, She must be capable of extremes. heis merry she must kuow how to 3 when be is sad she must be able to sing psalms. My experience is that my foet perform more service than wmy voice. KEs- pecinily she must be learneg and skilfal in eating and drinking, and afterwards b\v_ll'JlB 10 bind up his head with ber crimps fresh and smooth. The place, you see, is no sine- eure, but it has its ml\;ulum'u\.” A voung woman Prosherous marris New York Sun: Sinco the aceident o Mr. Evarts his wifo has felt great solicitudo for his health, and devotes herself most assiduously to his hap- piness and colnfort, spending much time with bim in conversation, reading nloud, driving or visiting some of their childreu domiciied near, writes Lilian Wright in an interesting sketch, with portrait, in the August Ludies' tiomoe Journal, They have traveled extensively in this country and in Europe, ana have been much in Wash- ington and New York society, but Mrs. Evarts finds her chiof happinss in _ner home and family, acdis bappier in theso than in her abundant worldly possessious. Mrs. Evarts does a great deal in a quiet way for the sick and unfortunate, her daughter assisting her in her work among tho poo and both taking special interest in the weil- fave of formier scrvants. Mrs. Kvarts is very much futerested in the Episcopal church, and does much to s1PPOFL it #ud its charities. Her summers are spent very quietly at SRunnymede," gaining health and strength for the more wearing city life. and all social obligations aro laid aside, only occasional in- Tormal calls on w very few old friends being paid. Unknown she may be as aleader in fasbion or art, for her hfo work has been Wwholly domestic, und her sols aim and pur- / pose Lo bie & dovoted, self-sacrifieing wife and mother, receiving the loving homuge cf those who constitute woman’s kingdom, her buspand and childron. There is uo class of civilized people among whom the wolen WATTY S0 young s among the royal aud imperial “families of Kurope, writes Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago News. Thus the princess of Montenegro was only 13 years and () months old when sh ried, her busband bimself being only 10. became a mother at 17 and a grandmother at ii7, ‘'he duchess of Mosemnsier, sister of ax- JQueen LaabfMa of Spain, was wudded when a littie over 14, She became a grandmother at $3, and » great-grandmotuer at b, “'ho comtosse de Paris was nou 16 st the time of ber merriae, aud sho becamo a graudmother at 39, whilo the ompress of Aus- tria was married ut 15, and becamo a grand- mother at i, Princess Clotbilde Bonaparte, the queen of Greece. the queen of Ttuly und the duchess of Anbalc wero all of them in their 16th year at the tiwe of thelr warriage, aud the Arch- duchoss Charles of Austria, who was wedded 8L tho suiwe age, was left o widow au 17, 1t is worthy of uote that, in spite of the Buving Lhut eirly marringes causes & woman's beuuty to fade prematurely, all tho above- nawed ludies aro marvelously well preservea and have retaiued ot merely tracgs, but very considerable remuants of their youtnful charms. Nor1s this immunity from preiaturo agze and 1083 of beauty o privilege coufined to voyal ladies. For 1 may add, with all mod- esty, that | was married at 15, apd that 1o 8pIto of seventeen vears of wedded life I do uot you look quite like a grandmother, An artist's rulo us” fo color is: Choose carefully of only thoso tints of , which u du- plicato may ve found iu tho baiv, the oves or the complexion. A° woman with blue-gray eyos oud & thin neutra-unted complexion is nover more becomingly drossed than fn the blue shades 10 which gray is mixed, for in theso complexions thero s & -cortain delicata blueness, - A brunetio is never so exquisite as in oream coior. for she has reproduced the tintiug of bor skin in her dress, Put the samo drass on @ colorlexs blonde, aud sbe will bo far from charming, while 1o Rray 800 would be guite the roverse. The reason 15 plaiu—in the blonde's sallowness there are tiuts of gray, and in the dark woman' r thore are niways yellowish toues, the as predomiuate in” the creswm-colored omen who have ratber florld com- plexions look well iu various shades of plum and hellotrope, @lso In certain shades of dove gray, for 10 & trained oye this color has @ tiuge of plok which barwonizes with the | flosh of the face. Blondes look fatrer and younger in dead black like that of wool izoods or velvet, whilo brunettes require the sheen of satin or the gloss of silk in order to wear birek o advantage. There are fow flowers that will keep beau- tiful more than two davs, according to Celia Thaxtor. Drammond’s phiox is an excep- tion. 1 have kown it to be frosh for a whole week, and I have kept a bon silene and also a la Franes rose fully that time, growing more exquisite every moment till they shed their delicate shell tinted petals over the snowy linen cloth of the littie tableupon which they stood. The golden coreopsis cor- onats wili keep a week, Of course this means changing daily the water in which they are kept after the first twentv-tour hours, in all cases, Sweet peas go off-color in a day and night—the white ones keep a littjo longer; nasturtiums also, unless a bit of tho vine with buds on it is gathered, when they go on blossoming for days and will very likely throw down roots. Forget-me-nots are wonderful in_this respoot; they will last indefinitely, and almost every stem will send its ciuster of clean white roots down into the clear untainted water. Mignonette becomes a_norror_after the first day. Pop- pics always keep for me twvo whole days, perfectly frosh till their potals loosen and fall. Pansies last two days and more, but the charming things have & way of shrug- ging their shoulders and twisting and turn- ing themselves about and presenting their backs to the audience in spite of all you can do, after a few hours. Mothers should make a point of seeing that their daughters acquire business-1ike habits, says awriter in the New York Tribune. Every girl should be taught aud required to carry into practice in her own expenditure, a certain amouut of bookkeeping. It is quite lumentable to seo the ship-shod way in wh most women keep their accounts. The writer does not know whether tho following story be old or new, but it certainly “points a moral,” 1f it does not adorn A tale A young husband finding that his protty but extrava- gant wife was considerably exceeding her income, brought herhomeone eveniug a neat little account book, nicely bound, and 1ook- ing very attractive. This he preserted to her together with a hundred dollars, “Now, my dear,” he said, “I want you to put down what I give you on this side, and on the other write down the way it goes, and in a fort- night I will give you asother supply.’ A cougle of weoks later he asked for the book. *“Oh, I have lept the account all right,” said bis wife, producing the little leather volume, ‘‘See, here it is:” and on one page was inscribed: “Received from Algy, $100;" and on the opposite, the com- prenensive littie summary : *Spent it all." Molly Elliot Seawell aud Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson are carrying on an in- teresting midsummer controversy on immor- tal women. Miss Seawell says thero are haraly any, and Mr. Higginson is indignaat. That I Whitney and not_his wife, the widow Greene, mvented the cottou gin, that we haven’t enough of Sappho's poems to know whether she was really a great writer or not, that Fanny Mendelssonn’s “Songs Without Words" are the embodiment of stekiy sentimentality and that “Uncle Tom's Jabii’? 1s *the most commouplace of books" are some of Miss Seawell’s propositions. Irish women are boginning to claim that tho wholo boou of higner education should not bo reserved for men. They have ofgan- ized u petition, signed by 10,000 women, to the voard of "lrinity college, praying tnat the ter-centenury of the collsge may be markea by tho wnspicious beginning of a new ora of increased uscfulness for the college. The petition is backed by the signatures of omi- nent members of the English and Scotch universitics, wiio have scen tie actuals work- fug of university education for wouen. Miss Tsabel Hamplon, superintendent of tho trained nurses at Johns Hovkins hospi- tal, Baltimore, has been appiuted a member of 'tne Maryland commitice on women's ex- hibits at tho World’s fair. A great featurs will be made at Chicago of the work of Marylund nuvses. Of Miss Hampton the Baltimore American sa! “She is well known as an carnest advocate of tho higher education of women and the enlargement of their sphere of usefulness. Sheisalso known in the literary world by many excellent ar cles she has contributed on the subject of her profession.” Mrs, Martha Anno Ri'x. tho aged negress who 1ecently went all the way from West Africa to Windsor to see the queen, had put aside her small savings for fifty years to accomplish the trip. She 15 10 years oid and one of thirteen children who, in their youth, wore all_sold into slavery' in the United States. What becamo of her brothers and sisters she never heard, but her father, long sinco dead, managed to buy his own and her Iiberty, and they both went to Liberia, the froostato 1u Africa. Among the unknown heroines of the world's _aark placos aro tho brave womea nurses of North Brother Island, in the Now Yorik harbor,where the city paupers afilicted with contaglous diseases are sont for caro, Their matron, Miss Kate Holdon, has for ton years led a life of solitude~ and sacrifice, frequently spending months at a time with: out crossing to the mainland. When the fifty Russian typbus patients were sent in a single day 1o this island hospital Miss Holden spent forty consecutive nours among them without sleep or food. Late Fashion Notes, In Paris, pale fawn color and moss, or the paler pino greeu, are used iu combina’ tion. Crocodile will form the material for the majority of in low shoes to bo worn this seuson. Hava you a black dress among your ward- robe! If not procure ouo at once; they are all the go. Fan chatelaines are of twisted gilt or'sil- ver wire and are attached to the side with a strong pin, Cheviot blazers in mixed cloths and those of dark blue or white with brocho figures aro pretty and stylish, White flaunel blazers with pin stripes of & color are useful for country wear, as they are ensily laundriod when soiled, atin wiil be worn by most brides during the coming month, and already the wodistes bave finished somo exquisite gowns, In thin dresses there is a fancy for placing puff sleaves reaching to the elbow of licht colored velyot. It 18 incongruous, but the effect is pretiy. White pique blazers are quite the thing for tho heated season:there are also box coats of corded or striped pique which fasten witn great pearl buttons, A frilling of fotded silk makes a very pretty trimming, and as it suves the trouble of hem- ming ruffies, is sure to be popular. For cush- ions It is particularly adaptable. . Giack chip nats are pretuly trimmed with black velvet ribbon striugs, two or three rows of white luce and two of the new biack Mephisto feather ornaments in front. Sheath skirts of crepaline, china silkc and silkc granadine are draped with lace, caught up with @ay ribbon knots, or trimmed with accoraion-plaited ruffies of the wa- terial. Batbing stockings of stout jersey cloth, with s0ies sewn on, are vory usefui and do away with the necessity of wearing bath shoes, which are usually left on the beach. Lot the stout sister wear the neglize waist if she will, but by all means let her girth in her all too generous proportions with a pointed girdle which will give ner length to ber walst. Some women wear bathing corsets in the water to proserve the trim appearanco aaa FIVO the support Lo the figure which is needed by masy acoustomed Lo constant de- pendenco on sLays. Polka-dotted batiste or Swiss muslin is in high voguel for pretty summer afternoon toilets; cream eolored ~batiste dotted with bright red is made up with cream Chanully 1ace and cherry ripbons, Sashes made of wide moire ribbon or of a splitand hemmed width of changeanle or dotted surah, are tied at the back ana quite a8 ofton aLthe side of dresses: they are proity with the outing suits. Some of the newest bishop slceves of dia- plinous fabric are accordion pleated, and tbere is a nartow pleating to mateh on the corsage in the shape of @ frill, falling from the shoulders, a jaboted front, et A note of black still adds uistraction to colored dresses. Pale neutrsl fabries in fawn, gray, boigeland pale amber are stylishly aud effecuvely made up with sleeves, vests and narrow frills of changeable silk. Big straw hats, turaed up in a cavalier fashion at the side, have a long ostrich plume about the crown and & Joweled buckle ou one side; sometimes & balf-blown rose, & kuot of | lons there THE OMAHA DAILY B I ULY 31, violets or & bow of ribbon is placed beneath the brim, For hats the blossoms most 1n vogue are forget-me-nots, orchids, poppies, blue and yellow flags and clematis. Fancy Tuscaa hats of plaited reeds include among their decorations velvet ears of ripa wheat and bows of wide greon grasses, Silver lace 1s a new and charming trim- ming for ball gowns; it is wrought 1n deli- cate flowers, leaves ana tendrils, with here and there a scintiliating spangle:. great ros- ettes of tkis lnce trim white and. bink gowns of siik crepon with charming effect. A haudsomo bathing costume is made of black satin with full blonse, short slecves very much puffed up on the shoulders, and full’ trousers with most bocoming ruffies around the knees. The blouse is out quite low in the neck with a pleated rafle of satin falling over the shoulders. Among the summer dainties aro pretty gar- den fichus and capos of whito silk batiste and lace, to be worn with shirred hats to match. These light mantles are verv sheer fn quali- ty and measure about three yards in length, Some have scarf fronts thay aro kuotted loosely; pthers are finished with pointed ends, Allpaca is rocommended as a most service- able material for bathing gowns, 1t holds less water than flannel or serge, and comes 10 & greater variety of protty shales, A pals gray trimmed with bands of white makes an effective dress. Other bathers of less Puri- tanical views chooso smarter gowns of black silk, whicl are inclined to cling closely to the fizure when wet. At some of the bals blancs now popular in Paris it is the mode for young girls to wear satin duchesse dresses, with shovt skirts edged with a ruche of gauze, and made with modest half high bodices with crossed folds disappearing in a corselet of moiro or velvet. hey make excellent dancing dresses, with sless draveries to tear and crush in the whirl of the davce. A novelly in cutting n dress skirt has just been produced. 1t is the same plain skirt in front 1o which we areaccustomed, but in the back 18 inserted a separate breadth gored on enchi side, which is met by tha. front breadth also gored, and this back is fastened to the velt in three box-pleats which make the skirt stand outin u dashing manner. This is particularly yood for stiff sik ora soft skirt lined with taffota glace, What Wom Are Doin There are about 11,000,000 women in Italy, Most of the men are grinding hand-orzans over here, ‘The suspender crazo has boen taken up by Cheyenns girls. Two voung iadies at o danco tue other evening had this addition to their costuino, Six successful hospituls have been founded for women by women physicians in Phila- delphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapolis. Baroness Buraott-Coutts still takes n keen and active interostin philanthropic sub- jects, despite her advancing yoars. The Ladies’ Theatrical Guild recently started in London is oue 0f tho euternrises which sho has materially aided. In Sweden, whero many bread-winning employmunts are open to woman, a recent bitl to the logislature asks for permission to hold office as sexton in the State church, A school of norticulturs has also been lately estab- hsn‘eu to propare women gardeners and florists, ¥ Maria Delna, the new peima donna who has captured the fickle Parisian fancy, is a voung girl less than 20, who bogan her life- work in a Paris restaurant, where an artist overheard her singing to uerself as she wiped tho tables, and took her to Pars and edu- cated and introduced her. Annie Wilson Patterson, asomewhat prom- inent musical composer and conductor in Dublin, is the only woman doctor of music in the kinzdomw, with the excoption of the vrincess of Wales. Dr. Patterson is con- ductor and musical divector of the Dublin *horal union, with which an orchestra is as- sociated, and is a writer of poems and essays, as well 4s a cowposer of music. The queen of Greece is presidevt of a sisterhood devoted to the - reformation of criminals, ard visits personally the con- demued prisoners in Athenian prisons. After public religious instruction Is finished the ladies of the association make visits to tho vrisoners whom they insiston seeing alone without the presence of the guards, and talk with thom on matters pertaining to relizion and repentance, Queen Christina of Spainis bringing her intluence to bear against the national pastime of bull fighting. Since the deatn of her nus- band she has been seen but once 1n tho royal box of the arena. However, her attitude of aversion has as yot accomplished little be- sides emphasizing the factof her being & woman of strong and true_character, for every Sunday the apena at Maarid, accom- modating 16,000 people, is filled to overtiow- ing. An 1ndustrious searcher after recondite facts has prepared a list of musical composi- tious by women, extended frém 1675 to 1585, Itincludes fifty-five serious operas, fifty- tureo comic operas and two oratorios, besiaes afew caututas, ballad operas, etc. Songs and detached piccas for pianoare not in- cluded; yet the b>st known musical compost- vions by women, Frau Schumann’s contribu- tions to her husband’s song collections and Faouy Mendelssobn’s _assistance to her brother in bis _“Songs Without Words,” are comprised in these two clnss; ‘I'ne cable announces that Dr, Talmage has shaken hands with the czar. Happy, happy czar! St. Martin's, Canterbury, 18 said to_be the oldest church in England. It was built about 360 A, D, Under the will of the late Mr. Franke of Charleston, S. C., over $100,000 is left for the establishrient of a hospital and home in that city for the benefit of the Luthorans. Only two congregations of the Armenian church are in this country—one at Worces- ter, Mass., and the other at Hoboken. That at Worcoster grew out of what was, porhaps, the earliest immigration of Armenians to America. @ bishop of London has raised a small tempest in a small teavot by appointing dio- cesan lay-readers, with the right to preach in pevish churches. ' Some of the elorgy think that the innovation will lower the dignity of the cloth, The Rev. [dgar L. Sanford, rector of Zion churct, Douglasston, L. L, has resigned and accepted an appointment’ as rector of St, Mary’s church, Nebraska City, and archdea- con of the South Platte convocation, in the diocesc of Nebraska. He will take chargo August 1, 180 Perhaps no religious sect in this country is more vigorous, considering its size, than the Jews, During the last ton years they have nearly doubled the number of thewr congre- gations, whilo the membership bas-increased from 50,000 to 130,500, and the synagogue property from $3,519,607 to §0,754,25%, Rov. H. H. Benson, viear of Barwing, Eng- land, would not do as a model for the Sabba- tariaus who try try to close exhibitions, muscums and picture galleries on Sunday. He is liberal enough to throw open his bean- tiful grounds, gardens and conservatories to the public every Sunday, and not only wael- comes all who visit them, but provides a brass band o discourse sacred musio for their edification, IRev, D, Jacob Fry, for the yast. twenty- soven yoars rector of ‘the Trinity Lutheran church at Reading, PPa,, and & member of the faculty of the Lutheran seminary at Mount Airy, is a uoted figure in the old school Lutheran pulpit, as well as & remarkable preacher. His church has passed tho ‘con- tury mark as a buildiog, and als congrega’ tious are generally the ‘Snl‘nefl in Teading, lero being over 1,400 communicant mem- ers. Tho American Bible society in its seventy- sixth annual roport just issiied, gives an ac- couat of 1ts work during the past ycar. 1t appears that it printed 1,208,196 copies of the bible, of which 501,015 were issued i, foreign lgnds. During tho seventy-six years of its existenco the Bible society has' issued 55,631,008 volumes. There weére printed by the Chinese agency duving the past year 180,- 398 volumes. According to the recent census of the re- ligions of Australia, the Church of Englana bas by far the most numerous following in the population; the Roman Catholics come sec- ond, the Presbyterians third and ‘the Ws- leyan Motbodists fourth, Of the Episcopal- are 504,034; Roman Catholics, 256,917 Presbytor 100,383; Weselevan Metbodists, 57,450, Thero are other Methad- ists Lo tho uumber of 22,580, with 24,118 Con- erbgationalists and 13,115 Baptists. “The groatost galn exhibited by any denominsion 18 shown by the Church ‘of England, which has increased from 342,350 to 504,084, Among the returns are 846 agoostics, mtidels, skep- Uas, soclalists and free thinkers, ~— - If you nave no appotite for breakfast, a pint of Cook's Extra Dry Imperisl Chatn- pague will give you oue immediately, ) bly exclaim, IN THE HEARTOF ENGLAND v Vivid Desoriptions 6f*‘Some Interesting Out-of-the-way Places in Briton. SHADOWS OF ‘A GRAY'OLD ABBEY TOWN —p Quaint Bulldings More Than 500 Years O1a —~The Villagers are Slow-golng and Contented—Anctent Worcester Wakeman's Withderings. 1 PR\ [Copyrighted 1892 by Edgar L. Wakeman, | Cinexcesten, Eugland, July 18.—[Corre- spondence of Tue BeE. | ~One does not know a hundredth part of Eugland even after years of travel among hor historic scenes and about her countless shrines, 1feel this more aud more when, after tir- ing of grand old beaten paths, Istep aside, but a step 1t sometimes seems, and find mazo upon maze of sweet old nooks, wonderfully winsome in colinctive or individual aspects; and these ocould -never be exhausted, if one s0v out to exploro for such as those and know them never so little when found, during tho natural course of a lifotime, 1t seems to me that the west of England, say the westorn of the midiand counties, fur- nishes the most extraordinary number of these half mountain evries. You need not go 30 fur south or west as Devon and Somersot, uor even into Wales, whore sconery hus more the elements of wild and savage grandeur, and where the good folk wiio can speak Englisn as well as you can pride themselves \f making you beliove they can not speak it ut all, and that Welslk was the language of Adam and Eve, Neither will you have to go so far as tho lake district, which is all sublimity and hotel and posting bills: nor to Northumberiand ‘and Durham, verdureless and suggestive of coal, nor again to Yorkshire, where the stiuddering fogs flap along the grewsome moors, In the Henrt of England. But here in the very heart of England, where anybody that has two days’ time, though he shoula have two qonths instead and two stout legs, cun come'Yrom any reat English city almost as in a holiday stroll, are these myriad places of restfuluess and beauty, hidden coy from the globe trotters' lorguettes in the glons ana hollows of ‘thase midland hills, with histories reacbing far- ther back than the time of the Saxons' first comiug, with the moss of agoes upon them, and yeu all of them as sweet and fresh as the dew trickling from the' loftiest grasses of Cleeve Clouds and Broadway Boacon, which stand like grim old towers avove tho Cots- wold-hills, I know the “live” American tourist is hardly worthy of himsolf if, haviug ar- rived in Liverpool on Tuesday or Eriday evening, ho has not *dene” Chester, dashed through Leamington, podded ina friendly way to the painted 'efigy of Shakespeare, become tired of Lonadty # glanced at Kenil- worth and Warwick ‘and swept around throagh the luke distéfor to Glasgow, the Trossachs, Edinburg, Abbotsford and Mel- rose, in fact “exhausted Great Britain,” as be nnively and quite correctly puts it, before the first week had baraly rolled around. Bul if this sort of person could learn that the best results of travel “come from idling rather than cycloning through foreign space, and could get shunted away from ralways wsud then meet with some=sort of detaining accident that would hofe bis lungs, eyes and heart within a region like this long enougn 10 get them used 10 its elavion and radiance, there woulit ve one less rcoctettfng mons- trosity among men, and that much of & blessed catny would conig glong the nielstrom lines of travel. il Adown the! Avoni” '/~ A pleasant way 10 reach this lovely region | is through Warwickshire. Stop o day or more at Stratford if you like, and loiter avout the church/beside the Avon. Thea get an old boatmun, mind you an old and garrulous voatman, 10 row you down the historic streamn. ' He will tell you more about Wiil Shakespeare and his times than 1f the mighty bard had been his schoolmate. Do not let him row fast. Give him time to rest and descant upon the origin of Roman roads and barrows and cromlechs, and above all give him time for folic lore 'tales and buga- bous and whispered mysteries of the lordly halls high up among the parks and domesnes. Never care for the passing hours. The thatches of cottages lean everywhere along tho Avon—almost to its brink. You have no neod for an inn. With your' peasant com- panion you will be welcomo everywhore at uight with the peasaniry. By and by you will come to the vales among the Cots- wolds, Then will you see bamlets and villages dotting ~ the valleys, im- bedded in orchards, clustering on the nillsides, perched upon the heights, and ail in a setting of lush orchards, waving fields within checkered lines of hawthorn hedges or densor rows of limes, and these in turn backed by banks ot forest primeval; all in such droning quiet, amplo content and smil- ing opulence that, 'full of the winey exulta- tion of it all, you again and again Irresisti- ‘Here is Arcady at last!" By and by your boat comes uader the shadows of a gray old abbey town. Near it is Deerhurst, where kings older than Alfrea worshiped. The Avon lias sung itself to aloep in the bosom of the silver Severn, and there, by Olney, Cnut and Edmund Ironside met and divided England between Dano and Saxon, Neaver still to the gray o'd abbey town is the “Bloody Meadow,’” where the War of the Roses was decided. Quaint O1d Tewkesbury, Back past this now peaceful scene, past old thatcned cottages, oright gardens and green ficlas, thore rises upon the strangers sight a mighty silver gray old abbey. 1t is the abbay of Tewkesbury. It is moro than 500 veurs old, and the Norman pillars of its dini'old nave aro the hugest and bhighest io Englund. Few of the Kuglish aoboy wdeed, of the great English cathearals, tain the materials of history and story which Tewkesbury possesses. ‘hen what wonderful charm there is in the old half timbered houses of Tewkesoury, Thoy lean over the shadowy strects though they had comoe back from a misty past Lo crane their necks and heads into tho affairs of this bright aud modern time, Hero you have Chester, Bristol, Exeter and Cov- entry almost in one in the wealth of specimens of the old Tudor styl. In the gables, with thew crowning vinuacles, in the porches, doors, mullioned windosws and huge chim' neys in the overhaugiog of stories and pro- Jection of windows, thi#fire no more quaint and ourious than theininberiors with tbeir spacious low ceilinged #ooms, paneled with onk of ebon bluckness, elaborately carved and ornamented, aund WIER passuecs, nooks, niches, small ‘rooms, cupbvards and presses bowildering in Lumber: All of those who havevead ‘“John Halifux"! will find iu Tewkesburs i closer charm than in abbey and ancient. hifajes. Tewkesbury green was Abel Fleweher's lawn, I'he clematis arbor, the yewshedge and many de- lights so pleasantly pigtfred in “John Hal- ifax'" are still urelu:h,‘ rosorved. Dinah Mulock Craik loved oldaTewkesbury pas- sionately. She summeWal at Malvern, but this mollow, restful pliddiwas her aection- ato haunt. ‘Over in the Hugo abboy, among some of the richest gnd grandest ocoie- siastical monumonts of #Buglaud, thero has ‘aced o Gfflug tablet to the memory of this wood aud telented woman, Where Everyfiily Dreams, A two hour's walk will bring you to bright and glowing Malvern, set high up against the glorious Malvern hrils. 1t is the quietest, handsomest, sunajest,” shadiest, lazfest in- land resort in all ‘England. Thousands are here, but there is uo elbowing, 1o jostling, no burrying. Everybody saunters, dozes, dreains, A sense of lazy. unconstrained e Joywent broods over the eutire plges and ro- ®ion. The waters and the mountaiu air bring all the people here; but these are not a tithe of the attractions. A ten winutes walk upon the bills and you are in rural Hugland, as the poets sivg of it. Fruit trees shako thelr blossoms or their fruit fu showers upon the grass in odd nooks and corners of struggling hamlets, Kach farm houso and cotter's cottuge stands o Qs own orcbhard, brilliant with the sprays of piuk wnd white, or with balls of russet aud gold, according to the season. ChafMinches aud robins are among the mosses iu all those orchards, Blackbirds lately been and thrushes are overywhers in the thiok ahrubberies of the eardens and in the tangled hedgorows and coppices. Wrens, hedvo warblers and other tiny birds are in the matted grasses, by the hedworows and by the shaded runnels in tho ditches. tverywhere, too, are the irregular shaped meadows, with their fastastic nooks and corners, and their swoet rioh horbago, where dairy cows and cattle ““feeding up” for the butcher pass thoir tranquil livos literally in clover. There is always suro to bo a pretty ool under the clump of troes at one ecorner, or a shallow stream rippling gently along at ono side, singing its way to tho vailoys from the hills, This s Anclent Worerster, Not oight miles away aro tho spires and towers of a quaint old cathedral city. This is ancient Worosstor, that earnod 1ts titlo of the “faithtul city’ in the timo of the com- mouwealth in 8o vahiantly hoiding out against Cromwell for tho king. Younr Charles watched the Just groat battlo from tho cathe- dral tower until tho eitizens, vainly boating back the invaders, gave him' time to muke his escape. Cromwoll revenged tho plucky resistance uot so like a butcher as at Drog heda, but enough to leave the fair old city almost silent and desertod tor yeirs, while only tho fowls of tho air eathered in its roof- less and windowless cathearal. In Worcestor the old and tho new tonch everywhore. Intorosting among that whicn 15 old are two of the most noteworthy monu- ments in England, within tho cathedral. Ono is that of King John, the earliest royal eMey in any of the English churches. The other is the monument of Bishon Hough, of Magdalen collego celebrity, whom James 1. succeeded in making the Knglish thoroughly romomber. Tais mingling of the old and new is nota- bly characteristic of Worcester. Thero are bustling streets wittr_broad pavements and busy river wharves. Thers are noble bridges, big_ warchouses and bigger manufactories with tall chimueys, and long rows of briok cottages for workmen, which may possess comfort, but which hava a hideous samoness and dreariness about, thew But tuere aro broad streots, sharply turn- g odd corners a.ud losing themselves in tho ueerest of lanes running up and down hiils (hero are weather stained buildings, sacred and municipal, presorved or restored, or partially rebuilt. There 18 one venerable fortified gatoway, and anothor graceful medimval arch, while there are streets and wynds and closes with antiquated names like Forgato and Fryars. So, too, there aro wany, many timbered houses with those fine old ~' opon galleries which usod to look ~down upon the court- yards of nns and hostelries—when wagoners and cartmen liked to keap an eve on their goods and guests shouted for serv- ants insteaa of ringing for them, Just as 1t Was Five flundred Years Ago. But the quaintest, swoetest place In all the Jotswold and Malvern hills is ancient Broad- way. Broadway street is 1its old and vleasant name, derived from that great road or trackway leading from the west of England to London and the enst coast, and here anciertly called the “Bradweia,” from the shepherds’ “cottes on the mounted wolds down to the most fruitful vale of Evesham.” It is one loug, wide, straggling street, with alarge, open triangular green, atone ond branching into two great roads, one to Chelt- enham und one 1o Evesha All its houses are picturesque. Indeed, here is one of tho ancient stone built villages of olden England, left, precisely as its makers built it all the v from 500 to 500 years ago, and without a smgle mark of ‘modern “improvement’’ upon it. On every side are bigh pitched,gabled roofs, with wonderful stone and iron finiais, mallioned windows and bays, leaded case- ments containing the oviznal rlass, and huge, tall, stone chimney stacks—all weath- ered to most beautiful colors. Low stone walls 1n front enclose little old world gar- dons with clipped and fancifully shaped yew trees. There are two of tho quaintest inns in England heve. Coaches nave run to and from them, as now, for hundreds of years; for Brondway is beyond the sound of the railway, and the rostful hosteiries abound in interesting bits of detail, old onk doors and hinges, old glass and casement fasienings and most curious chimney pieces, plaster ceilings ana pancled rooms. ~Every house has flat headed wullionea windows, with massive waod lintels insido and hugo baulks of oak, roughly squared and molded over the ingies ‘and fireplaces. The Old Grange. Near the village green is the old range'’ of the abbots of Pershore; in an old house at oneend of the villave, colonies of artists, some from our own country, annually come and livein wnat they call “Im Paragise,” and from the summit of Broadway hill not only can you study scenes blunding into thirteen Enghsh shires, but hundreds of abbey barns and anciont stone tarm houses can boseen. In every oneof tho latter, tradition will tell you Charles I. or Elizabeth passed a night. How wise of them to do so if thiey had the time, I envied them and followed their example wherever 1 could, and from this mossiost of all west of Eugland nooks took entrancing strolis to Daylosford, where Warren Hast- ings was born and where he died; to litte Strenham, whera Samuel Butler, author of *“‘Hudibras,” was born; to Chipping Camp- den, site of the ancient *Cotswold games” of the' time ,of James L, upon which Jonson, Drayton and ' other poets wrote, ' and whoye rhymes wore pub- lished in a quaint old volume called Annpalia Dubrensia,” in 1636; to Winch- combe,asleop by the babbling [sborne stream, with its ruin of a ouce famous mitered abbey and its sad memories of the poisoning of the queen dowager, Catherine Parr; to Cleeve Prior, hung like a nest upon the cliffs above tho Avon, and to Evesham, queen of noble Lvesham vale, risig from' the banks of the Avon and backed by venerable tower, an- tique churches and the ivied walls of its ouce flourishing abboy, Oue and all, idyllio spots and hours woro these. 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