Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 11, 1892, Page 23

UNCLE SAM IN BERLIN %uw These United Btates Are Represented at | the Kaiser's Oapital, IWILLIAM WALTER PHELPS AND HIS MISSION Our Minister and the Man of Blood and Iron Were Quite Chummy, OFFICES OF THE AMERICAN LEGATION " Bumptuons Home of Uncle 8am's Representa- | tive and How it Was Secured, SOMETHING OF MINISTER AND MRS, PHELPS $ow They Sarprised the Berline Duties of an American murck Plodged the President | fean Whisky Manifold i Amer- Our Consulate, Benwiy, Nov. 26, —[Special Corre of i Bee.] 1 find William Yery popular here in Berlin the American leg diplomutic cireles influcntial of the many. His work send good men to our forel was through him that the was made, he has been very fluential in getting our into Ge He emperor which no has ever had befo pondenc Walter Phelps He has raised first i ne of the n ation to the wnd he i reign rank minister: that it pays missions Sumoan treaty largely in and pork anding with the minister from America | id he is as close today to Caprivi as he was to Bismarck when he was chancellor. The friendship of Prince Bismarck and Mr. Phelps was very marked and the two were actually chummy during Bismarck's residence in Berlin, and th often dined together. Young Herbert Bis- marck was as fond of Phelps as was the old prince, and the two families frequently met around the dinner table. Mr. Phelps t me that delightful conversationalist, and that his home life is charming. He is entively frec from ostentation, and he is in reality a of very tender fecli He i fond of his Dbig and Phel described incident occurred at one of Bismarck's where he and Mrs, Phelps were by the prince in his Wilhe st At just about the time dinner called the news was brought in Bismarck's favorite dogs had an accident and that this would necessitate | mputation of his leg, The old prince fvas very much affected. The best surgeon in Berlin was called in to perform the of tion and the poor beast was put into the be rt of the the dinner 1y to the | d by his | t the dog and le here shows any of, corn many. v Is Bismarck is a is e Ministey which dinners, entertained ns- wi that one of | been hurt in | sufferings, 1o told M had an almost human_ intellizence he sat_every night at his beds watched him, never giving any sigm presence if h Leop, but always wateh and : ond to his st est wish when he was awake. Upon Mr. Bismarck's departure for B Mr. Phelps was among those who bad good-by, and during my visit to Bism ]luml' at rdrichsrub 1 learned that the most influential American in € Y with old prince was William Walter Phelps How Bismarck Toasted the President, Mr. Phelps’ house in T fine portraits of Bist one of the dinners which Bisn k to Phelps the old chancellor brought out some Am n whisky and drank the health_of the presi- | dent of the United Stat rreat gusto. ount Herbert von Bismarck paid an: espe- cial compliment to America by attending one of Mr. Phelps' Thanksgiving dinners, at . which the American residents of Berlin wer present, and when Bismarck left Mr, Phelps o o farewell dinner to Count Herbert. “l(‘lllKI features of the Ame 0 mis sion here are very important ones, Nearl all of the ministers who represent Buropean | countuies have | sums allowed them for i from Ly anour presi in this way. who hi th 5 him in has several i Heretofore we been rich enough to k men, even though he had clination to do so. Mr. 1 very wealthy men of the United States, one knows just how much he is worth, and his fortune is estimated at all the way from £5,000.000 to £15,000,000. He was born rich | and his wife has a fortune in her own right, and both she and he have the social instinets | in a large degred Mvrs. Phelps was the daughter field of New Haven, who had an estate of something like 1,000,000, but who left the bulk of his fortune to establish the & School of Yale college, Mrs. Phelps independent income of perhaps #15,000a yea and I have heard it estimated that the come of her husband is more than 500,000 | every year. Mrs. Phelps is a ver very handsome won at home in society here, and she has made the home of the American minister one of the most popular in Berlin. It was her t that decided all matters as to the fur of the home id the American house in T in is one of the curiosities of the 1t has been 50 much w in the German newspapers th many people come to ook at it the palaes of the k L and it is un ey dence of what American money backed by American brains and good tasté can do, o of Ministe mans do ot of Shef- uplished and o he is thoroughly almost as s #o to seo what an here live | ~in flats, ande butcher, a bakerand o candlestickmaker often live in the same house with & count or a diplomat, | and the only d is in the floor orin | tho furnishing of the rooms. Tt Is Guly the wealthiest who can afford independent ¢ tablishments, and you find fow whole houses for rent | Mr. Phelps wanted howinted it in a house to himself and | wshionable part of the vity. He looked high and low, but could find none. He then concluded 10 make one and he selected his corner without regard to | the people that were init. He then sent s man to buy out the townts. There were | severul stores on the ground floor. He got | the storekeepers to give up their leases for a consideration. He ‘did the same with the | fashionable people who had flats above these | and thus went on until he had cleaned out every tenant of the building. He then leased the building for himself and turned in the carpenters and the masons. He remodeled it in such o way t he has now one of the n Berlin, and I doubt whether 1y private residences here which re with it in size. Instead of tramping to the third floor hie. fore you get to the door of his hon onter now from the street aud you com & big vestibule or unterooni.” 1t wi L merly a store, but it now forus the hall, 1 bout twenty feet squave un is walled und carpeted in o vich old ved, o over the door opposite the ance, s NOU 806 it 15 s00n ¢ > into th the e nd blue ¢ oaken reat i, below comy you 1o it room “along i sot into it are brushe the luckeys 5 i tresses whe above, and where you sented under which it is hevre that for their mis heine entertained while your cards and the un Indisy winding stairs of white story, which fors the ing-part of the hous You zo betweoen 1 ble coluyuns at the head of 1@ and another “hall in which a s youand on tho walls of ed, white und blue. Thy this you cowe into the parlois. Th * twoot these and they are so connected 1o the library, the sitting room and the divinr roor |||u you can stand in the corner of th the eud und have nearly 100 feet parlor ptretehing away (rom you at cither side Sumptuous Furnishings. Vice Presidcut Mortou has 10 feet of pur . erican fag by a 26 by sk to the second lving and en' il b B¢ | runs | mus | w lors in his mlobmlfl! Wn!hlnl\on mnlnlnm but Minister Phelps has here 200 feet of eon necting rooms, making up eight large parlors, all magnificently furnished. These rooms are separated from one another by folding doors, before which portieres of colo monize with the walls, hang, Each room is furnished in a different color, and in place of the dar by the Germans Mrs. Phelps has lightened up everything and has arranged the furni- ture so that it is homelike rather than stiff. Every room has its individuality and even the stoves have been made to harmonize with | the furniture ¢ The stoves of its pretiiest features sive Dutch order, n autifully colored nd the walls. hey are of the mas shaped as though dinner table These stoves and many of ave set pictures in the parlor It is of & rich hat in the yell of a cream and a rather than take the plac them have ind brica-brac must be tw dark polished green, wh room, at the corner blue, touched up sld. Mr. Phelps tell ne that these stoves keep tie house very comfortable and that they do very well in place of a furnace. The floors of the houseare waxed and they of fine woods, and upon them lie rare old rugs, which Mr. Phelps bought at Con stantinople some years ago of the parlor & dado, abx feet higl, wround the room and with a shelf At the top, forr vesting plice for photo- iphis and placques and the thousand and curios which Mr, Phe from different patts of the worl Upon the w are many fine Thes ting machin of our mantels helves on which The stove feet ligh five one pictures s or um, which repres the trial Chiarlos T, and. i which John Phelps, one of Mr. Phelps' ancestors, was the clerk is a stiff-looki 1d Preshyterian seatec fore u desk in_the midst of the court ind Willinn Walter Phelps says he is proud of him because he had thenerve to write his own naine boldly at the end of each page of the record of the trial, while most of the other men connccted with it were afraid of future consequepces wr this there are pictures of the emy of Germany and the empress, and beside them photographs of President and Mrs, Harrison. There are many fine water colors and one which 1 noted was by the most famous water-color painter of ‘the world Mr. Phelps pointed out to me and told facetiously that it was alnost good enough | 10 be a chiromo, ture, ictures has at ttention from 1 0l painting about in size representing a prim Dutch girl. The coloring of this i and it rerally thought 1o be Mr. Phelps ot it ina curious told me the story. Said he That picture came to me through John F' Delaplain and he bequeathed it to me in_his will when he died in Vienna. This man Delaplain was o curious fellow. He lived the life of a vich young fellow in New York until i to be about 40, when all at once he disappeared. No one knew where zono until he at last turned up in Vienna and opened up A house there. He had one of the finest palaces of the city and he ente ned so magnificently that the Amer ministers to Austria became sort of ¢ panage to him. He was finally stary of the legati 1 ministe . His house furnished. He had the nd he had so many cu his biggest s in three by little y und ho st of painting that when he ga ments he had to have some of the: out. Well, he died there about tw » and at that time left this painting to me. Then & woman of Salzburg turned up as his wife, with a boy of 10 whom she brought forth as the pledge of thei i puted the will. The case was i th up until a fow months ugo when it w s far as this pieture w and it came to e The Ame tion in Berlin is quite as well appoin e ter Phelps' home. Tts sso, just off Fricd- trasse in the business center of the city. Most of the foreign ¢ s own their own legation buildings here, but the United States rents its quarters. Mr. Phelps’ lind- lord, however, is an_American institution, and the bu in which it is located be litable Life Insurance com- 1 had to look for half an hour before 1 could find the offices of our legation at St l’--u sh\nu and there is no sign on _the door an ll«lg it the R . The sec- v of the | [; ation, Mr adelphian who 1 been abrc and who seems to care more for his own social interests than thos icans who visit Russ Ofice and Duties of the Am “The legzation in Berlin has a sign on the ground floor and it is American ir every sense of the word, ending to the second tloor you find a half dozen large rooms, which are well furnished and upon the walls of which hang portraits of the great Ameri- cans. Mr. Phelps' own office is about tw feet square and his desk stands just in frout of two black marble pillars on which are the busts of George” Washington and F the t. Between these two, one greatest of American and the other the grreatest of German generals, Mr. Phelps sits and works, and here you may find him at al- most any time in the day. There is no red tape about the ofice and all Americans are welcome and Mr. Phelps in his treatment of them shows that he is an American to the backbone. There are llnll"l 000 Amel ins in ( 0 say that he v every one of the lurge Berlin c In addition to his diplomatic_servi other ways he has done a great deal through his entertaining and he has done much for American corn beef and pork by hiving them served on his own dinner table to his guest 1o his brother diplomats and to the Gern 1ls who b to do with the admitting ¢ prohibiting of the Introduction of these pro- duets. T have spent some legation during my stay in odd duties which an Ame to perform 1 find very ave a thonsand and one things outside of diplomatic negotiations to be attended to, and Mr. Phelps has his hands full, By now and then he has to marey an Amer , and during his stay he performed the of Cincin- New York to th and ey of Amer- clean Minister, the time at the American Berlin, and the an minister has interesting. Ther nati to M, John ed not lon, o baby of the Countess Pappe now and then he has to Americ \heim, settle the u citizens who were born in ( but who left for America without o leave of the army. He hy 1 sorts of exhibitions and ch fairs, and he has entertained to 4 greate Iess extent every prominent American who comes to Berlin He watches the interests companies in_ Germany, and_ the upanies and the Standard get_considerable attention tends to the little things oues, and he got a permit Caprivi for Buffalo Bill to take his show through the empire, und he is calle coches it all sorts of gathe resentation to the emperor \ksgiving meeting of the An flemen fn Berlin. When the Augusta died he made an_eulogy upon her before the Young Men's Christian associi- ud not long ago he delivered a speech Al congress when it met here. How Mr. Phelps Got His Appointment, Kking of My, Phelps' appointment, T d u queer story about it not long ugo which in view of the trouble between the president and Mr. Blaiue s notatall strang Prosident Havison had intended —s0 tk story to appointed Johu A Kusson of lows, timent i favor f Phelps on aecount of his able conduct of Sa u marked thut it s thought better to the position to of Ameri insura Oil compuny from him. He as well as the big from Chancellor in iy 10 b ricin mp il . Al upon My o the white house wesident, As they dent Harrison took » day he w and the two walked oy and paid a Visit o the » about leaving Pres aper from Lis desk i “By the way. Mr. bl like (he position of wiy i ud ike it ve Phelya iwply, “and 11 *[ think vany wis My do some wuch, uk 1 could » 100, veolued Harrison, “and [ buve made out your cowmission to that pli and it your fiend, Mr. Blaine, will sign it with e you can have it.’ Seeretary Bluine of cour an) Phelps got the commiss “The natural o ase would huve been for the sppointment 10 have come through Blaine, but - Harrison evidently did not want W please Blaiue by ay »d to this , which har- | omber hues nffected | house like this are one of | de of porcelain and as | From the floor | y from that of the British | of | lof | ity | ses of | 1 upou to | & Blaine | would you | mtm. ohim maks the nmm!mmmt and it rather looks as though he did it in this way as u snub direct The consulate to Berlin is almost as im. portant as the legation. We do an immense business with Cermany, and the greater part of that which comes through Berlin must pass through the American consulate Some of the busiest ofices in the city are those of our consul gencral, and corps of clerks is kept at work here making out in- voices and - attending to the matters which ome before our consular officers. ul general, William Hayden is one of the old officials of the s 'service and a practical business American, He is a man of means and of social position, his wife being the daughter of a Dutch noble. He knows all about the city. He is, T judge, about 45 years of age. and heis one of the few Americans in our diplomatic service who have been unable te hold their positions for a long time and not bocome Europeanized A ¥K G. CARPENTER. - QUAINT AND CURIOUS, The temperature of the planet Neptune estimated to be 900 degrees bhelow zero, Archie Leroy®f Boston is 17 years old is only forty-two inches in height and we inds. At birth he was a large, d child At Trenton, Mo., has achieved local fame pull twenty-one of his te | ting, without taking gas or chloroform. “The most powerful naphtha spring on record was recently opened in Bukn on the Taggiell grant. 1f it continues at its oviginal for will be the richest naphtha fountain in a man over 80 years old b i letting o der that a single the Steno; parliam th phy wast firs used in the French about the year 1830, and one of i s of that period at three el ted the vote; lkaska county, Michigan, tions during the past six years has ele a democratic prosecuting attorney by following plurality vote: 188, by 1885, by two votes; 1892, by four votes. Jane Halloway, a colored woman said to be years old, re led upon the work board in Cf (i and secured the cof hier gy 8 nuel, young fellow of b, who was doing time for beating his wife. The Chinese empire and dependencies, Mon- 1choof Chinese Turkestan, Kokinor and Thibet, oceupy an area of at 000,000 square miles, or about one- third of Asia. The population is estimated at from 950,000,000 to 450,000,00 When an Egyptian dog wishes to drink at the Nile he goesa short distance up the viver and howls for some time. The ¢ | diles, being attracted by the sound, immedi- ately crowd to the place, while the dog tily runs to the part which the crocodiles have left and drinks in safety Anew porcelain has becn obtained grinding asbestos toa fine powder, iug out all soluble matter with hydrochl | acid, making the whole powder into & with water, und ng it in a_poreels nace for cighteen hou at 1,200 dey N The communications between the two shores of the St. Lawrence river at Mon- is k , by means of the constructed some I is the longest in paie being 6,500 feey bridgc 2o, wh metallic of the ostr white plume o grow to ive short foathers which are called in the millinery trade. The tail also ixty-five feathers of comu:ercial n each wing twenty-si cight sevent, cquire nd decreed, at Bridgeport Y Agnes Murray s ) to Miss Adelia W. Hubbell as d; s for the pain and mortification wrought upon tho plaintilf by the defendant's assaulting attering ram—the bellwether of the Conn., 1i it which it had butted. - RELIGIO Last year the people of the United States built 8,508 church The Salvation army of San Franciseo pro- poses to feed 1,000 hungry people on Christ- mas day. ing the last ten ye: stiuns in Bengal has the number of grown from 12 itec and 549, 1 members, corner stone of the Protestant New York will be & Miss Sophons Breckinridge, of Congressmun Breckinridge, admitted to the bar and is pr Kentucky. A wooden building costing £5,000 commodating 6,000 people was built e | for the meeting held by Mr. Moody | lin, Ireland. 1t d that there is not an infidel published in the Welsh language. Welsh are greater bible readers | other race of peopl The gain in the churches in visible erty since 1850 is a romance of Pro | 1050 it amounted to £57,000.000, in $631,000,000—an increase of 621 per forty years. A devoted missionary ha new way of doing foreign work has settled in Medford, Mas: specialty of trying to he: rum to Africa, Rev. Dr. Tuttle, church, New York, clergyman in active resigned his charge, at the age of & an incumbency of forty-two year are not a few opportuniti 'y for the work of the home m In Genesee county, New York, thes families who have never scen a bible, says an agent of the American Bible s Rev. Asa Dalton, D.D., rector of Al phen's Episcopal chureh in Portland, Me., has just completed thirty years of co in one post of duty. His church is the strong est of the denomination in the whoie Pine Trée state, A down-east ministe st amateur th t everything pert: i atement that the loss of life | at Pompeii would have been small but for the fact that the most of her people we the theater at the time of Vesuvius' g erupt The we n in this countr is Rev, Dr. 's 1. Hoff'n the reetg | of All Augels chureh in New Yok, He possessed of millions. He gaye the society its church, he supports its missions, and he has endowed several theological seminuries. ‘The contribution box is passed i church only as a matter of form The Freemen's Aid and Southern tion society of the Methodist k) lh\mh received h-vlh«‘\t.u ending pended 5362513 sury of $.15 3 was for the sup- schools among colored people for the support of schools among aple. | The clergy of a New York town have n tually agreed to hold no Sunday funer herveafter uu'r\nl in s of necessity, Tl und alleged for this action that the verend gentlemen arve fain to lighten their | own labors on that day motive appealing | more effectually to the lay sense might huve been suggested. The funeral on a day attracts a diminished attendance this invites to less expenditu play. Furthermore, the friends who do at- tend on such a day ave likely to be actuated by motives more consonaut with the occa than o me or o junket. Bishop A o of Methodists, hus issued his dre to the denomination uasking the operation of the church. Presenting the im- portunce of the congress the bishop suys ion o the ticipation 1 church in the at pa s religions this chu will also hold, iimmediately thercafter, u d nomination s of its own, in which its remarkable history and achievements wiHi be wmore particularly and in deta forth. “That this Methodist church ce should be imposing in_point of numbers .uul impressive by the character of its ceediugs need hardly be Ated | committee there carnestly = | peals to the Methodist chureh of | the whole world to give their hearti- | est co-operation for this particular congress f our own. A program will soon be | formed and suggestions are invited of sub- | jects to be considered, persons by whom such daughter s been ticing law in and ac- ressly in Dube book The than any prop- cent in overed a home. He ‘ ind makes n shipments. of rector of the oldest in this onary. who is waging war his & There was o bulance i 7. Of penditure and ad , Who I8 10W 4 | fr)) came down in @ point to the rosette on and | | | secular | in idle dis- | sion | rill, echairman of the auxiliary ! | bosom and upon the should: subjects may be most cficiently treated and | the general modes of proceeding by which | the congress can be made most successful and satisfactory, | make | point on which you w DAME FASHION'S SEW IDEAS | Latest Notions in the M: Afternddn -Up of Street and Wns, MISMATED WAISTS ALL THE RAGE NOW A Foretaste of the Glories of the Patris arch's Ball in New York-1 of Some of the Dr Preparation. es In [Copyrighted, 1892.) NEw Yonk, Dec. §.—[Special to Tue Bee.) When we people who write about fashions ort 10 be | cal we commonly succeed in leaving out just the one <l to be informed ; and s0 I hesitate about launching into encomiums, anent and for widowed t of their mated waists, and yet that young any unusual bodices blouses skirts bery T saw a tartan silk blouse this mornin would work in h any woman's wardrobs 1t was at an early committee meeting —how carly you do have to bogin in order to sand wich all your philanthropies and your educa tionalities in!—and the young woman wore it . slim and curly-haived Her colors, naturally, were decp erimson, green, black and a line of gold, and her blouse was long, reaching below the hips, belted, and frilled on the shoulders. The idily in almost was her belt, below the The gown she wore it with was a fine black velvet with a narrow little black vel- vet ruche at the bottom, lined with tartan like the blouse, and fla like all_the newest skirts, six or cight yards round on the floor Tn such a costume a fiirt can’t quite dance, but she can do a surprising proportion of the other nice things of Jife that really tempt aind her bows. sleoves were puffed to WEST CAPL A girl can dance and is very se to dance in such dfather blouse as a young woman coaxed into life for herself the other duy when the purse of paterfam ilias curtly refused to yicld up_a new evening gown. A function was coming off; a toilet was animpe necessity, and so a of pale gray silk, of delightfully quality, was laid out upon t looked thought aboat,” dreamed of and 1 over, until by dint of turnings, twistings and contrivinkd inches enough were discovered in it and the odd corners of it for the putting together of a Russian sort of a blouse-bodice, gathered under o blue velyet belt and laid away i soft folds from the throat with a deep, turnover fri rowing to the nicrest thread of a ¢ the waist line, Puffed sleeves were picced together out of scraps and remainders until they looked properly huge, and the blue vib- s that crossed them near the elbows utly ornamental blinds for ns. bunch of winte ¢ was fine enou onits dignity ¢ of merit, and the “funetion” had no prettier girl at it Ythan the one who promenaded on the arm of the handsomest young man, she wearing a blue sillc skirt left from a pre on, and he wearing an absorbed smile. Ablouse to wear of an_ afternoon, or, deed, to 2o to the office in, if you ern and advanced young wom oftice to 2o to, to the doing. some With a huge makeshift bod: roses the b to stand in- are a mod- nand have an it might fitted quite loose fold re full figure, except fc or two in front, The blouse sl and a foot anda half in length and the blouso belt is a broad _band of red and gold galoon. is o aloon collar and the nd above them long broken in halves by galoon bands. An odd blouse, though I don’t know that I am prepared to go so 15 U that it is. an especinlly protiy one, is a long coat hodice ing almost to the knees and with its full wnover and fastened_straight up and down one side. As Lsaw it worn by so interesting a person as Clews, the nk daughter, who is coming out’ this on, it was of dark bluish gray corduroy vet with a narrow edge of black feather trimming up and down and all around. Miss Clows wore a black ribbon_belt, a gr cloth skivtand puffed gray sleeves with feather trimming about the long gauntlets. FOR THE PATRIARCHS DALL. 1 suppose 10 180 ¥ 1l ( mix saby Ruth up with @ description of Mrs, Cleveland's blouses, but the temptatin 15 upon mo to quote the remarks of ' A unapprectitivo small boy who had the honor of an audicnco with thit famous infant the other day and wasn't impressed at all'favorably. SShe's 50 thin,” ho said, “and 'féaid to look a felle fn the face, und squeafysfat babies are nic » Bui of Mrs. Cleveland's blouse the small boy altogether approved. s all pink,” he said, »and had lots of ‘eoffee colored lace round the neck and mord kase coming down over the hunds The Patriarchs ball takes place Monday night, and the full corps@e ballet of dobu. tantes will be out in their gowns, Erobably ttiest thing that 1 huve suceeeded in | ) a silvetiy white silk skirt | bodice of exquisitély fine point de lace laid in a succession of Vsin | f|0||| and festooned about the low neck open ing with a filmy lace flounée, depending from a broad ost feather W Over the are silvery ribbon rosettes with lotig loops and jeweled flowers to hold them. The hodice wi and the skivt edged simply with & white t roll he mat h 10 thig gown—to be worn sister of the young woman who ordel trom her own desizn—is u pale water s npi k. dimpling under sunshine, and sweep train which once would not have thought suitable for a girl in her first | son. - From under each arm starts a band of | pearl embroidered silk, the two strips eross- & upon the bosom aud ending cach in jeweled knot at its destination upon the op- | posite shoulder. The triungles cut by the | bands ure filled in with puffs of Ttalian lace, and a very full frillof the same cobwebby stuff outtines the low pointed bodice neck and stands up in fans aguinst the short | puffed sleeves. The end and aim accom plished is a quaint little Empire zouave as fetehing as you please. ¥oru young matrou fs a litvle white chif- | the seu away in a been who sleoyes are pufll\d from | shoulder to wrist; each puff braceleted with a pearl embroidered ribbon, A high belt of white satin crosses the waist in_front and lace cascades make o sort of fluffy boa and fall on either side of the loo hanging TIO DECEMBER NOVELTIE More novel if not more attractive is o dainty white mousscline dress embroidered with pale bluc stars about the hem. The cotsagre has long puckered slocves and an idered chemisette of muslin, A deep bt belt of palo blue is fastened with i silver buckle through which the sash passes. A pale blue ribbon isto be tied about the society bud yellow curls, To these I might add for the greater state and splendor of greater years a vich white satin dress embroidered with gold passemen- terie and arranged with pink velvet sleeves and a plaited collarette of gold embroidered tulle 1 might add also a gown of gray ribbed velyet with bands of sable running round lnl!n\m\ll the skirt, and with a broad sable stripe framing the white shoulders But if 1 want a word about walking dresses now is the time to be saying i You may not call whitecloth good promenade material in muddy Docember and . the frock 1 am telling you about w meant to appear out of doors.” It was hordered with furand it had a changeable velvet rvound waisted and fastencd with three tique buttons. Over this it had & marten llar fastened with jotted cords, y More arable from many 3 1 costume of dark green Iskin and with muff m; The skirt is hemmed with a silk ruche and the jacket green velvet lapels edged with fur. More novel the bottom, There velvet belt and a full-g: green silk tucked under a b chemisette to which i ing white silk collar, Scheduled to go with this toilet hat of green felt with plumes On Broadw: adark red e combinat in this instance Two bands of the skirt and the bodic velvet with black hat feathers, But there ought to be swift of killing this idiocy of trailin is hered ad iped velvet high in favor most _suceessfu ¢k velvet borde f plain nd bl gown, m cov nd sure mes N OSBORN Why is Pears’ Soap—the best in the world, the so0ap with no free alkali in it— sold for 15 cents a cake? It was made for a hospital soap in the first place, made by request; the doctors wanted a soap that would wash as sharp as any and do no harm to the skin. That means a soap all soap, with no free alkali in it, nothing but soap; there is nothing mysterious in it, Cost depcnds on quantity ; quantity comes of quality. 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