Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1892, Page 18

o A A AR I M5 i 4 .50 M SR G Y6 57 0, s 18 11 AND ABOCT ETON COLLEGE !omct"ln' of the furroundiogs and Char* achstiitics of a Great Fublic Echool. WHERE THE FAMOUS OF ENGLAND FAGGED Routine of the Schiotastic Day in the Royal Tostitntion—01d Mannersand New—A m that Doesn't Look Well, Fut 1as Copyrighited, 1862 Bros, ng., Nov. i.—|Correspondence of Toe Ber n, 10 meny respects tho dowed schools of England, wked in the sunshine of royalty. Literally and f has always shown upon it from thoe dir of Windsor, Literally av flgurativ too, tho eses of tho olgn are always upon it . 80 close is [ton college to Windsor castle #0 pronounced has always been the favor of British rulers to the school, so interwovon with British prowess, statesmrnship, sclonce, art and literaturo have been the historic namos cut in the schoolboy days upon its antique woodwork, until the place seoms o voritable memorial rcil call of the past and presont great of the wuation, that imperceptibly its prestige, renown and per- manency have come to be as much a matter of national pride to every ISuglishman as the integrity ot the British empire its 14 Itiyou come by rail from London to Eton you must of necossity pass tnrough the royal borough of Winasor, for at Windsor 1s tho terminus ot the hittle branch line over, which roli tho stately conches of the aueen. You will, of course, visit Windsor castlo. From its towers und terraces the most re- markable object in all the landscape is kton college. The castle is a short distanco from the south bank of the Thames, and the col- Joge is about the same distauco from tho north bank. lsmbedded within its venerable troes it is quite as intercsting un ebject, al- though it appeals differently to the imagi- pation, as the somber pray silhouette of Windsor itself, were you viewing the latter from the battlonfonts of Lupton's tower at Eton. { Around Windsor castlo huddles a compact though slovenly old town. Crowding closo o Kton college is a lesser, though pleasanter, collection of nurrow-windowcd shops, snug and often picturesque boarding or “‘dames” houses where the youugsters of — Kton dwell, decayed bostelries aud tiny homes of those who in time come 10 subsist upon the meager though permanent gawnings of au anciont end decorous college to: Tlie Thames, hore a beautiful, pellucid and almost langor- ous stream,winds in and out and on between, separating Buckingbamsbiro and its olden ollege town from Berkshiro and its world's famous royal demesnc, Winding Ways of Windsor. The chief thoroughfare of Windsor winds from east to west nround the southern walls, of the castle, at its southwostern angle just beyond the Henry VIIi gateway merges into High street, end” thus, abruptly aescending under the famous Casar towor bocomes Thames street. Tue latter, shadowed by the castle walls on the east and uuddled shops on the west, leads to A bridge across the Thames. Whnen you uave idled re for a time AMong tho crowds of gay boatmen thronging the bridge and river banks above and below and set your face toward tho college, you are upon the cne long strageling street which Eton possesses. This, now and then entered by preity courts und lanes, extends no moro than o haif mile, when 1t 'breaks into two beautiful country roads —the one winding to the west to Bray, where dwelt the vicar of ehameleon fame; and the other to Siough, where Herschell lived, ard thonce on to Stoke Pogis, where sang and lies buried the author of the “Eiegy.” Just whero these roads diverge, boneath noble elms. where 1vy and creepers almost cover every ancient wall, are clustered tho chief buildings, various offices and prineipal masters’ houses of Eton college. Divested ontirely of 1ts scholastic associatious, it is as pleasant aud restful a spot as oue can find in England. Along both sides of the highway, which here runs northeasterly toward Siough ana back northwesterly toward Windsor, close up to the strect line aro massed the quaint- st of strango old structures. Krom time to time most-of these bave been addea to the original college buildings, or some bulding 10 be devoted to other purposcs has been in i way transformed for school uses, until the sharming and curious spectacio is ' presentea ofa town's 10l thoroughlure retaining J0any of its ola-time asvects, forming some- thing like a busy yet reposcful and shaded way through an idly planned and vagarously disposed though always picturesque college retreat, ‘The original college buildings ave all to the east of this highway. Opposile ure the score or more which buve been built or acquired, 1f you should stand immediately in front of theé former, by e worn archway through which for wore than four and a ball centur- ies have passed in and out stately coliegers with flowing gowns and flippant owpidaus without, as far as you could sce toward Windsor and up the gentle turnings of the diverging highways, every ancient building has 1ts use for Kion school, Ewn master or officer, Eton priuting, Eton books, or 80me other 80rL of OCCUDANCY NeCESsAry 1o the conduct of Eton college affairs, Our own coliezes fand universities far oxeel these ola-world seats of lesrning in tbeir huge proportions and lonely vastness and Isolation. But most of the 'latter gain im- weasurably in the feeling of homelikoness snd winsomeness, aud the charm which always comes from a community of huddlea antigae structuves, where agn subdues and meilo and gently adds, as art can never do, its sofiening grays and greens Foundation of ‘The antiguity of tho school 1s very grent, ‘The pious Heury V1. was its founder. Some material token of bis affection for tie Holy cbiurch had 1o be made: Kyidently bis iden was to emulate the example of William of Wykeham, wno established the firsy en- dowed school of this class at royal Winches- ter, and New school'at Oxford, to receive its graguates. So Henry made the preparatory school of Eton nud thie secular Kings college in the uuwersity of Cambridge, to which soholars are clected from Itou, Tho site was undoubtediy selected 50 thut the insti- tution might bo under the immediate eye of Heury. It offered 10 unusual natural ad- vantages, and all the beauty of the ploasant surroundiugs has been the growth of care and age. A daveary, low, flat and lonely spot it must have béen in the olden days. ‘The king did nou even own it, It was entively outside the roya! demesne of Windsor. He was compellod to purchase the perpetual AdVOWSOD Of 1h parish churel of Bton, and many tracts of land i the shives of Bucks and Berks: aud some of the estates still hela by Eton collego wore taken from such auclont abbeys as Fecamp, Poate- noy, Yvry ana St. Stephen's at Caen. Though the college was foundod iu 1440, solown admission Was uot given to the pro- wvost, fellows, clerks aud scholars until De- cember, 1443, The canous aud enactuents for Kton were almost s litoral transcriot of those at Winchester, 1is incorporated name was “The King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Winasor,” aud its origi- nal foundation provided for pro- vost, ten fellows, four clerks, six cuoristers, schoolmaster, twenly-five poor and indi- t scholars, aud bwenty-five poor and r.0 men who were 1o “pray for the king.' Its first provost was the celebrated church- wan, William Waynetiote, whom Henry brought from the mastership of Winchester panied by five fellows nud thirty-five mulwmmo older school, as & unicleus at ke new. Pue present establishment, the outgrowth of a reorganizing uct of parlismwent in 1565, has for its actus rolng bodv tbe pro- vosts of Kton aud Kimgs college, Ox- the lioyal society, tho lord cuiet the Eton masters and four members elected by tho former. from the official governiug tody the ‘sehoo! mn of Eton nimd u::l;fl crow! provost, & similar our mul" or “‘president,” who mu & waster of arts and a memberof the not uecessarily in Eugiand over 50 years of age, ton “lellows, who _membars of the governing vody, 8 ’u-d other LA Y e 0.5 i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, vice orovost, bursars, secrelurios or clerks, an auditor, a head master, & lower master, ana ‘conducts” o chaglnims, Queer System of Wiselpli All ordinary diseipline may be said to ema- nuate from the “houses” where boys not on tha foundation reside, whose masters are di rectly responsible to the head and lower mas ters for the good conduct of those in charee; to the “captains’’ of 1hese “houses’’ who are solected from among the scholars in the houses to nssist in keeping order: and, sec- ondarily, both from *‘fagmasiers’’ over their respective doputized “fags,” and throuch the goneral supervision by all upper forms or divisions of the schpot over all members of the successiva grades telow them. Itis an oda svatemn to us Amertcans; but it is a good 0ne here becauseits results are good Tho seventy free or foundation scholars are called “collegers.” lormerly they wore the black cloth gown to distinguish thom, but this badge of poverty was some- time since removed. The foundation schol- arstips are ovon to all bovs, British sub jeets, between the ages of 12and 14, and are Ouly tenablo to the completion of the nine- teenth vear. These collegers are educated and maintained during school term or time out of the fundsof tho collage. At the be- ginning of too century the collegers’ rout ne and fare wero far from enviable. Thoy dined most weagorly ot 12 o'clock evory day, and suvped at b on whole school dass, and at 5onother days. ‘Thev assemblod in the *very night and sat thero reading an hour, under the care of their cap At S they procoeded to the Low- 00i, wh ) ¢ | jrayers, Which used, in still earlier times, to be said 10 the Lone chamber, Theywore ther locked up for the nicht, On Sunday moruing thoy t (o the Upper school to sing the 100th tlmand to join in prayers read by tho INfth form pracpostor. Collegers and oppi- dans alike went to chureh at 10 o'clock on Sundays, and they all had to sit in the Upper school between 2 and 8, while a member of the iftn form read aloud several pages of that exciting essay, tho **Whole Duty of Man." . Tho dinner consisted invariably of mutton, potatoes, bread and beer, with the addition of pidding on Sundays. As a matter of fact almost every colleger hired & room iu the town, in which to get his break- fust ana tea, which the coilege did not furnish, and in which to propare his lessons, which rendered his expenses nearly ©qual to those not on_the foundation, and an old KEtonan vehemently states that boys un- abie to incur these unjust expeuses under went “‘privations’ that might have broken down & cabin boy, and would bo thought in- bumau 1t inflicted on a ealloy slave.” An **Ode on a Nearer Prospect of Eton,” after Gray, writien 1n 1708, was virilo with satiro upon this order of things and hastened re- formition. Tho quality of the beer was thus alluded to: Pint afier pint you ar. Still sober you may d You enn't gevdriuk Modern bnflaen, Everything is now different. Good food is supplicd for the hall, Breaklast ard t are furnished et trifling cost. Servants lessen the impositions of fugging. An assistant master and a matron have domestic superin tendence. Long chumber, of old famous for its fifty-two beds, filth and frolics, has been pr Iy abolisbed and a new build- ing with separate rooms provided, chiefly by subscriptious from old Btonians. ' All badges of inferiority have been donc away with, To be inaigzent and a pauper is no longer nece sary to eligibility. and somo of the best f mi- lies of I gland are glad to have their sons be- come Ioon foundationers. The “cppidans” aro all Bton boys not scholars or ‘‘coilorers.” There 18 no bar Lo any boy eateriug Eton as soon as ho can read and some have been received as young as seven years. The Kton system provides that from the moment he enters until be leaves 1or good he shall be under tho immediate control, so far his intellectual euidance is concerned, of a tutor who stands to him, while at Eton, in the entire reiation of parent or guardian. Thero is now per- haps an average attendance of 1,000 boys. Fully 800 are nonresidents. Alof these live in boarding houses, formerly conducted by women or “dames,” and while now all but one are under the supervision of boarding wasters, who each care for from thirty to fifty youths, thiy aro all stil Knowu us “sfes’ houses.” Theso boarding lrasters are assistant masters of and teachers in the colloge. So far as coliege life and dis- cipline ave concerncd ail of tnese houses are as strictly subject to college law and. rogula- o0 s though they were set aown und se- curely locked witbiu either of the two college quadrangies. The principa aud original buildings form 1wo hugze qua rangles, ‘The first, entered from tho highway through a much' pattered archway, is adorned Ly a central statue of the royal founder in brouze. This square, called the “schoolvard’’ 1s inclosed by tho chapel, schools, dormitories, masters’ cham- bers, cloci-tower, aod ‘“election chamber, where tho nighest gifts of the college, the shins at Kings college, Cambridge, inually bestowed. Some Famous Etonians, The lessor qaadrangle, nearest the Thamos, which Eton college properiy faces, com prises the cloisters, in which are the resi- dences of the provost and fellows, and the libravy, which is reached by a Hight of steps 10 tha left of the eatrance of the cloisters. Beyoud the cloisters are the fine colloge gar- aens, ana still bevond these, through a small postern gate luxuriantly mantied with vy, and “Weston's yard,” You come upon the “Playiog field,” where oo holiday eveniugs, what is called “Poets’ walk" the cketers are wont 1o take their tea. Theso “Playing flelds,” dearest of all things nt ‘on to all KStonians, past and present, com- prise an extensive tract of ground, inter- sected by a protty stroam and crossed by a small bridge. They are crowded with rich erdure aod shaded by veacrable elms, the Thames calmly ripoliog aloug thew banks and Windsor castie in the distance Here, in the silent memoriuls 10 those who have rendered the old scbool famous by their own subsequent greatuess; i the Ubper school adovued with its marble busts of Ionian worthies wio became Engliud's greatest statesmen, divines, philosophiers und poets; and in the host of noted uuwmes carved overywhere upon the ancient woodwork by erst boyish hands: ono fiuds the real auswer to all impulse of criticism upon what sesms at first to un American a doad age system of ation of the British vouth of today. T'wo ing-blocks bave been 1n past times ri- umphantly borne away, but another stands iz the old place. It wis not so long ago that the famous Dr. Keate (1800-11) flogged eighty bovs in one nizht, thus quelling un weipie rebellion. ‘That “odious system of faegin, samins. 1f your boy or_minv, or the I the proudest carl of Kngland, enters on, thers is no power to prevent him doing the most menial drudgery for the Pifth and Sixth form lads. He is their siavo until ho himself raiches tho fagmastor's estate, It 15 a wonderful leveler. TLord vury, Gladstone, Lord Randolpi Churenill, iof Justice Coleriage, Lord Chutham, ord Shelburae, Canuing, 1’usey, Bolin broke, Pitt, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Horsco Waipole, ifielding, Hallaw, and the posts Waller, Austey, Shelley, Broome, DPraed ana Givay, wore 8ll 1u their time fags av Eton—carrying the beer, cleaning the boots, grilling the herring, sinudging tne loast, and dodging the booljacks of their fag wasters above them. The Eton systew, in brief. makes boys kuow how to endure ‘and 10 r B nind all, an imperial scourge to ambitious eftort, are imperishavle memor- ials of these dead and 1iving bosts who bave mado it a noble honor to have merely once been au £ton boy. Enaan L. Wakew -——— 5 on Progress, Ileotropiatiug bas been applied in au fo- genious and effective manner for the preser- vation of lace forms in metal. A nippometer, to record the number of a horse's paces and the distance Lie has trav- oled, has been luveuted by au officer in tho Fronch army. Sheot irou kites, to enablo a vessel when fn distress durizg'a sorm 1o cowmunicate wilh the sboro, have boen suggested. ‘I'he bighest viaduct 1n the world has just heen orected 1n Bolivia over the river Loa 0,835 feot above tho sea level, and 4,005 fee! wbove the river, A society was organized in Now York in 1765 for ihe encourazement of Awmerican woolens. ‘The socloty’s rules forbade cating mutton or lamb or the slsughter of sheep. In 180 our product of hardware \as valuea ar $190,000.000: in 1885 at $970,000, 000, The avnual addition Lo the output was $0.- 000,000 & year botween 1540 and 1860, and ;l:s'l:wn.m @ year betiween 1560 and 1555 hie new iron monuments being piaced o 1be naonal boundary 1ine in Arisons and New Mexico se foet high and weigh B0 pounds ‘They are placed five miies apart. are Salis- “T00 SWEET FOR ANYTHING” Here is a Tip Showing How to Fashion Your Next Now Gown. A FRESH RIVAL OF “THE EMPIRE" As Well World Might You Out Are able Be Out of Fashi Some Valu- Hints, of the Did you say tnat smpire was the stylel Did you say that everything which comes from Paris or from the great London modistes has an Empivs touch, either of the fivst, under Josephine, with low-cut, short waisted bodice, or of the second, under Eugenie, a la crimolioe ! But what would you say if you heard that the Empire revival was to be only very short-lived; that it was sonn to be super scded by tho mode of 1830; that evon now Paris has declaced herself in favor of it oe- cause she thinks it a graceful “go-between," astyle that hus all the beauties of both and thie extravagancos of neitner! 1It's a littie tantanzing, don’t think so, to discover that your newest gown,cut in the very latest fashion, as you supposed, is about to be followed by unother which will usurp its place? But take beart: don't cast off your pretty now gown. 1t will take a long whilo for the Lupiro to bocome old-fashioned, 1sn’'t such a aiff vou nee between the old and Jhe new to make it worth while gotting the atter, ana_perhaps tnose of uS WO are on this side of the water willstill cling to our first love. For thera's a yood deal of inde- pendence, even in the matter of dress, about the American woman, and a favorite style will often linger long after iv has been de- 1 clared old-fashioned. ‘This was never more strikingly exomplitied than in the matter of the bell skirt, Loog after Worth and IFelix had practically abandoned it it reigned supreme, and ono could find scarcely a single costume worn by an American that had not a bell skirt. At present the bell, when it is used, 1s drawn just as tightly over the hips, but flares much wider at the feet. The trimming ot skirts grows daily. You oan watch 1t creeping farther and farther up. Just at present it reaches tho knees, ana should step there. There is still, however, muoch more atten- tion paid to tho corsage than to tho skirt of agown. | saw avemarkably pretty aue today on a young girl. It was quite elabor- ate for the almost plain skirt, that had sim- ply o deep band of beaver at the edge. Tho bodice uad a white crepe front, with a full white velvet belt hooking 1n the back under a knot of riobon. Over the front came short jucket fronts, beaver color, closely embroi- derea in narrow black brawd, and edged with beaver. Y'ncre was also a band of embroi- dery at the neck, and one of fur above. The d there | OVEMBER | tronts or plain boitces, aro growing very popular. A very protty one 1s mode of black velours and 1s trimmed with boaver. The vest fronts ave cut down into narrow points that fail just below the fall wide belt of the same material. The«s fronts are edged with fur, which also runs around the neck, and two large veivet buttons are fastened at either side. Somo delicato ones are made 1n vale colorad eatins or brocades and short, wide open fronts, foll wide belts occasionally a little short vointed piecs fol lowing over the top of the urm ia lieu of a sloeve. Thoy are particalarly pretty in the light dainty materials. Let me tell you of Hnother bodize for even- ing wear. Tt is cutgyito low and round. It is made of heavy goheh silk and hus & pr gathering of greenntt around the low-cut nock. The rufils tied in a bow at tre front Thera are short green velvet puffs for sleoves and a green velvet belt. What a wonderful revolution the sleeve has undereone, has it vot? When we com- pare the plain, tight-litting one of a few vears back that lad vothing to redeem it from absolute plainness, not even a shoulder puff, with the hight, airy creatioa of toduy with 1ts quaint turns and curves and puffs thers, and all orts of oad _fancies, we can scarcely believe they aro intended for one and the samo thing, Thoe varietios never ceaso to come forth. Let me see—thero's ! the_tigh puff, the low puff. the short full pr T, the leg-of-mutton, the Louis XIIL, the 1830, tha style cspecially designed for evon- ing wear, 11 oue that can onls be worn with dinuer aress, the one fo for movning ard so many_othors that we'ro | perfectly bewildered. Some of them aro idiculous, but mcst of them are very pretty. Talke the styles for afternoon weat, for in- JUs rather dificult to describo ‘Lhey are very graceful with their white or have and afternoons, the one stanc them, puffs, one falling in caseades and one simply joininethe tight | ower sieeve that is cut in fanciful revers and that buttons on tob. The ovening slecves are particularly dainty, ™he one in brocade, with tho short pufl caught togetbor in a shell and with the deep luce flounce falling from it 15 becoming; 50 1% the one for @ dinner gown made of two puffs, the lower much shorter then the upper, and with a lace rufife also caught up with & ribnon bow. “Then there's ono after the manner of Louis XIIL, that hangs in \wide, 100se p/aits, caught a at the elbow by & ribvon kuot, and then atlowed to fall as it will. ‘The sleeve of 183) 'has a_very queer, wide puff, shirred at the'top aud bottom, and be- neath a plain, tight'sleave, The leg-of-mutton 1530 is very ugiv. Itis extremely wide, but'not particularly full aud not at all graceful, A lovely sleeve for dinnerdress has a short velvet flounce hanging from tho shoutder, quite full, and embtoidored at the edze; aud beneath, falling at the sides, but leaving tho top of the arm exnased, is & gathered scarf of cliffon, whicn is knotted loosely at the elbow aud then falls in a ruft One for state occasions is mado all i vel- vet, puffed ut the shoulacrs, and reaching to the'wrist. Itiscutopen a little way and filled in with black lace. I'rom the sidocomo over pieces of gathered full, and join- ing below the elbow, caught with a jeweled buckle. Oue can scarcely fail to find a style that s becoming and beautiful, and the ligut, dainty ones are all 50 graceful 1hat iV's hard to make up one's mind which to choose. But that's justwhat suits us. IU's 60 dehightful to puz- zle and worry over pretty things, tryiog to ternoon Wear SLEEVES IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, slooves were quite short—first, puffsio the elbows of-the cloth, then wide haugiog rof- fies, embroidered and edgad with fur. A pretty Directoire boaice that 1 saw for home wear was made of black cloth, dotted with black silk spots, and haa & white belu covered with beavy black silk lace—Venetiau poiat, ‘I'he bodice turned back in large re- vers over & white satin front that was most completely covered by a large bow in biack tulle. The sieeves were almost plain aud had simply 8 cuft on the style of the r"]"l'-w another bodice intended fora very young gir. It was all white and green, which is 8 particularly pooular combination tbis season, especially for evening wear. One sees white gowns with green velvet sleaves, green gowns with a quantity of white softening their shades. 1t is remark- ably pretty combination, sud has avother aa- vantage—that of suiting & diversity of com- plexions. Women who havenol the best of skins can wear it becomingly. Tuis bodice was made of fine white mate- rial, and had & pointed white belt, as well as a large square yoke of white. The yoke and belt, however, were closely covered with ex- quisite green embroidery, douve in fine stitohes. The collar was the same, and thase bands of the ewbroidery went arousd the visio lower sleeve. Prowty fanciful vests, to siip over dress decide on sumething, and wishing we could have them ull, Don't you think sot Eva A, Scuvsenr, —_— INTO AN ALLIGATOR'S MOUTH. A Florid a Hunter's Yaru About a Dog and » Rabbat, New York Telegram: Uncle Cipsar was standing, a few days ago, with his old flintlock musket in his hand, near an old-fashioncd rail feace, when all at once he heard a terriblo rattling and yelping up in tho woods near the saw grass, and, looking, he saw old Snip, his favorite bench-legged fice dog muking the leaves fly like a whirlwind, and immediately in {ront of him u swamp rabbit was flying. ‘I'he rabbit shot through the fence like an arrow, the snwe instant the little dog darted through the save hole iu the fence, aud all was gulet. Unecle Cwsar says that he ran to the spot and saw a huge alligator lying with his mouth open, into which both the hare und dog hud run, perhaps thinking ita hole in a log, He ut once sent.m bullet into the right eye of the 'gator.who whirled over on his back, when Uneie Cisar vulled out his old pruning keife and wade a long and deep incision 'in the stomach of th ‘gator, when, to his$ astonishment, th rabbit and dog both jumped out pn® dowu toward the water, 20, 1892 CORSETS AND THEIR CURSES How "Spider Wais's" ars Acquired and the Woes That Attend Them, REFORM FADS AND SOME OF THE RESULTS The Much Things Mestitehed That ¥ Held thratied for Ages—\Whare th Lies und the Hopo for K Bowh Women [ ey, vo AL 15 yoars of age, Somelimes a year or two youn our girls besin to wear corsets, hey put on “a whalobone fence with an iron gatepost 1 front,” as Louise Alcott calls ttin “Eight Cousins. ™ Some mothers, but they arein the minor- ity, keep their gitls in & corset-waist which possesses all the merits and none of the do- merits of the corset. Presently the girls begin to draw the cor set closer together in ovder to acquire the small walst which thoy have come to consider a mark of beauty. The consequence is in- ovitabie; vho elastic rivs yield easily to this HULINUOUS pressure and the result s @ “spider walsy,' which no amouut of later ve- pentance aud RYMmOastic exercise can re- shave, for natur unishments are fixed and inexorable, Our mediuw-sized women, those who are fivo foet threo inches or five foet four wches in height and are built on a moderuto plan, vsuaily call fora No. 20 or No. 21 corset. this means thut they intend to display twen- ty-lwo or twent eo inchos of waist, which is less th it should e for a woman of this v twent ve inches being what expert uuthorities say & woman of this beigbt should mea: 1t 15 certainiy not an indication of an ad- vance i the physical condition of our race to find that the majority of Omaha women wear corsets numberiug irom 20 to & Tho larger women, those who aro the same height, but bave been movo geuerously dealt N in vegard to flosh, will call for a 24 or 25, but even this shows a small waist. Thanks th the Fads, ‘Lhen come the women of redundant figure —there is 1o hopo for them, but in well-fit- ting corsets—and hero again we find an astonishingly small waist. During the last twenty-five years there has been a regular and encouraxing advance in the way women dress, especially in regard to corsets— tho small waists of our mothers and graudmothers are no longer fashionavle, and vet there remafus wuch 10 be desired, Many Wwomen, these who have taken up th ness Milier fad (letus be devoutly thankiul for such fuds!) wear no corsets at all or mercly a corset waist. Of these waists, tho Equipoise and Ferris are most rable ana it ity that they are Lot more generaily k ‘I'he woman who is inclined to slendernes: has an advantage ntov oelonging to & plumper sisters; sho mav wear corsels or she way not; in either case her fizure is not con- spicuous and the present style of dross waists eems particularly to favor her. By looking at the breadth of o womaun's shoulders it 15 easy to determino the size thut waist ought to be; if the lues frow the the waist suggest un appr to a capital V" you may be sure that either now or in ker callow days she nas worn her corsets too tigut. In the much talked of “Venus of Melos” the lines from under tho arm to the waist show an almost imperceptivle slopa and yet the waist is smuller than the meusuro around the armpits. Look at George Du Maurier's drawings of the English girl, and say, oh, you small sted Omala girls, did you ever see us thing more exquisite than the proportions of his figures! What ease of movement, what clasticity of form is suggested by the well poised chesi! Yet Mrs, Kendal's waist was not like these. There a marked and painful discrepancy between the wicth of per shoulders and the width of her waist, 50 wo may suppose that English women are not all like Du Maurier's draw- ings—but it would be worth a good deal to havo tho privilege of eveu looking at a wo- mau like the **Ducbess of Towers" in *‘Peter 1bbetson.” Where the Binme Lies, It must be the fault of tho poets and nov- clists that the heavy wcman who cannot by any meaus reduce her size otherwise wiil have a slender waist—their fairyliko figures und ethereal neings haunt you il you oan't rest; but if our corpulent ‘woman would only get it into her bead that it is proportion and not distortion that makes a beautiful fizure sho would call for a corset that would fiv her and not 1wsist that her waist really wasn't compressed, leaving one 1o the only other conclusion possible, v thac she comes from au abnormal stock. The corsets showa at our different dry roods stores are of wany styles and colors—you can buy nlmost any color, but the shades most in demana are white, black, gray and tan. The pii vary, the ventilated summer corset being cheap and delightful, while the others range from §1 up to &%, the price between these two being most popular. When one looks at this much-bestitched and vewhaleboned thing with its frontlet of elding steel, one rejoices that there are some Omaba women who are ot its victims and that with the spread of intelligence and cducation 1ts sphere will daily grow more iimited, tll at last it will have sunk into merited oblivion, while the corsat waist -vill take 1ts piace us the regenerator of corsoted womankiud, Sacut. —— WeEriNG WATER, Nov., Oot. 28, 00.—Dr, Moore: My Dear Si ave just bought the third bottio of your Trse of Life, Itis indeed a *“Trec of Life.”” Doctor, when you 50 kindly enve me that first bottlo my right sido was 5o lamo and sore and my liver on- Iarged so much that L could not lie upon m right side at nll. There was soreness over my kidneys all of the time, but now that trouble is all over, [ sieep just as well on ono sido us on the other, and my sieap rests and refreshes me, and 1 feel the best I've felt in fifteen years, ana I know that it 1s all duo to your Tk of Life. 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