Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1895, Page 19

MODISIT FURS, 01d Favorites and a Few Noveltles for Winter Wen NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 1805.—Whether the Wwinter promises to be severe or mild makes mot the smallest difference to women, who wre giving a good deal of profound thought fo the contents of thelr camphor trunks. By the calendar of fashion it I8 now full time for bringing forth from their linen swathings and moth ball atmosphere the wraps of last year, that the furrier may remodel, where a modernizing touch meeded, or provide the whole wardrobe of furs anew, Many an ambitious individual who wrought and saved all the summer months, to the end that she might clothe herselt in seal #kin against winter's chill, will change her mind and her purchase on learning that the price of this pelt has reached an altitude only possible to very rich women. This is because the seal Is rapidly threatening to share the impressive dignity of the dodo in becoming extinct, the catch this year bping very small, s0 wisely, in consequence, seal fur has been deprived of much of its modish value, It promises to be a good deal used for facing gollars, cuffs and lappels of other fur wraps and when used as a garment, in what they call “full keal’’ that is without any trimming, it is best made up as a coat. SMART COATS. The most commendable of these coats has & back cut to slppe well with the figure, its tall short and almost perfectly flat and the front, double-breasted, full as a reefer and NEW SEAL COAT. sloping down at least two inches longer than the back. For such a jacket the sleeves are wide and flat and the collar cut very like that of a shirt waist, the rolling upper piece #0 arranged to permit of ils turning high ‘about the ears. Within prevails great beauty and novelty of lining, in the heaviest duchess satin woven In inch broad stripes of warm seal 'brown and bright clear red. Occa- slonally black satin Is used, all over brocaded in little gold colored sea horses, and the sloped back of the coat is held into the figure by a narrow belt of black suede, that fast in front with a small gold sliding buckle. Fortunately nature smiles upon human ap- prechition of the sable skin as a wrap and both the Russian and Alaskan supply is plen- tiful this year, though for the first sharp autumn days, cub bear, that long, soft, dusty, brown pelt, is a sufficient wrap when made up a8 muff and boa. “The boa must be long to be smart, very big In cireumference and brought once and a half round the neck. This leaves two hanging ends of uneven length that are crossed and drawn through a rather flat muff, of conventional size, and then left to fall nearly to the skirt hem. It is sald that she must be taught at a furrier's just how to ar- range the muff and boa, and if one is ambi- tious to glve the wrap its best effect, how to hold the muff high up, almost on a level with the chin and only the finger tips inside. ‘When these hand warmers are decorated, a pair of bear forepaws are beautifully mounted, the cruel claws highly polished and fastened, almost like a pair of clasps, on the muft's top side. To get the best effect In fur this winter for the least outlay of money, an astrakan cape collar and muff is a solid investment, the astrakan of wide wave and made up with a very fluted cape that juts out only to the shoulder’'s points on the si but has long tab-1"e ends In front. Its collar ought to ba cut o roll very high, having a sort of 1ittla box pleat at the back to give fullness, and 5o well wired that it will stand like a rampart well above the ears. Under tho chin cape collars made quite recently have a finishing clasp of crossed astrakan talls and their muffs have only in- terlining for stiffness sake, as the lining roper is made of selected mole skins that ;’Qp the hands delightfully warm. it COMBINING FURS. ‘Alas, however, for the day when the beauty and sheen of a fur was considered all suffi- clent ornamentation and we wore long capes and cloaks, all wrought of one sort of pelt. Now it is thought no sacrilege to use as many as five different furs on one garment, a fash- fon only comforting to those who, from their old wraps, have preserved a variety of strips and bands and are enabled to combine them into a whole cape of very doubtful beauty. Short new capes there are, either round or cut In four handkerchief points, with collars of sllky lynx and the frills of seal, set in deep points of sable with a border of the same. It is also in no wise uncommon tc see pretty astrakan and Persian lamb jackets with cuffs and collars of seal and the fullness of the sleeves striped in narrow bands of the MNghtest brown mink. That, by the way, is the fur to trim gowns with this winter. It is sold in bands not COMBINATION OF FURS wider than one's thumb, mounted on green, brown or black velvel, a fine piping of which shows on either side the fur strip: or, in place of the velvet the fur is set on the hems of skirts, the full fronts of dress waists, sleeves and hats, between two narrow lines of jet. Some of the tallors who make fore- casts of fashions on the strength of their own originality are talking of cloth skirts which will bave every front seam outlined In cording of jet-edged fur. Ermine has passed to that limbo where discarded modes awalt revival, and furriers straightforwardly designate as white rabbit what & few seasons back they would thriftily have sold as a second grade of the real Arctic ermine. It Io with white rabbit, a downy, sgnowy fur, that the long lovely lynx opera eapos are going to chiefly be lined, for the trast between the intense black and white for evening use, a:thing approved. These m"wh only to the knees. with great satin or velvet hoods falling halt way | down the back, and inside are jong arm pock- ets, Into which the wearer deeply thrusts her hands and gathers the wide cape skirte well about her, The exceeding richness of these pelerines Is quite indescribable, for the huge | hoed I8 often made of violet velvet, lined with | brocaded pink silk or of a elear goiden velvet, lined with ivory white satin. THE GOAT IN FAVOR. Not least on the Iist of furs mentionable because of its great promised popularity this year Is the long, silky, y #kin of the Siberfan goat. It Is used only in its natural tones of black and white, the two combined, one trimming the other, in long evening wraps and over the shoulder of plain dark street coats, small square collars of the black goat hair fall with something of the effect of feather trimming. Women who are consid- ering a very modest purchase of fur, for util- ity as well as beauty, will not go far wrong in having muffs and boas of this. The muffs, to be pretty, should be very big, raund and barrel shaped, black of course. The boa, to possess what Is best described as an air,” must be at least three yards long, to draw through the muff and show a pretty {ipping of white at either end. In the same line of economy most charming evening wraps are made of soft corded white or mignonette green, silk bordered inside and out with the white goat fur and a_wide fluted cape collar tion, Indicates willingness to desl liberally with women insurers, and will tend to fn- crease rapldly this valuable patronage derived from those whose foresight and keen business perceptions will promptly and accurately lo- cate remunerative llnes of Investment and amply guaranteed means of pgotection, MRS, CAROLINE M. WOODWARD. Seward, Neb, WOMEN COUNCIL, ubjects to Be Dixcussed by Famous Women at the Atlanta Exposition. The program of the woman's congresses of the Atlanta exposition will have upon it the names of some of the most distingnished women of this country and most of whom have an international fame in the special line of work upon which they will be cailed upon to speak or read papers. After King's Daughters’ day and other im- portant dates there will be an iilustrated talk by Miss Mary Garrett of Philadelphia, on what can be done for very young deaf chil- dren. On October 16 Miss Grace Dodge and Mrs. Tod Helmuth of New York City will dellver addresses upon charity and hospital work. October 17 Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Chapman Catt and the suffragists hold sway. On the 18th and 19th the Daughters of it falling back on the shoulders. FRANCES ELLERTON. “LITTLE DROP ¥ WATER” The Author of the Famous Poem and Her Home, The famillar little poem entitled ‘“Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand,” was written by Mrs. Julia Fletcher Carney, now residing in Holyoke, Mass., says the Boston Journal. Though 72 years old, Mrs. Carney is sprightly and full of vigor, and Is the life and sunshine of the happy little houseiold over which she presides. She was born in Lancaster Ap:il 6, 1823. In 1844 she was elec’ed teacher in one of the primary schools in Boston, and it was while serving in this capacity that she wrote the poem which ha ade her famous. The story of how she was led to write the vorses is interesting, and is best told in her own words: “The end of the school year of 1845 was near at hand, and many of the teachers be- came interested in a system of shorthand. It was the first attempt at shorthand writing that had been made in this country, and its introduct'on created some epeculation as to its practicability, espceially among the school teachers, The system was then taught by Andrews & Boyle of 21 School street. “One day I attended a session of the class ifter studying some of the characters before- hand. Afier the fundimental principles hal been explained, we were atked to compose something in the stenographic charac pelling each word ace rd'ng to sound. was suggested that the sma’ler the words the better the results, both in regird to rpeel and accuracy. With this suggestion in mind, I at down at ono of the school desks and penned in stenographic characters the follow- ing: *‘Little drops of v Little grains of Mnke the mighty ocean And the pleasant land.’ “That afternoon when I went home I found a young man waiting for some scraps, as the editor called them, for a Sunday school pub- lication, now called the Myrtle. I had noth- ing on hand, but, remembering the verse which I had written in shorthand, I re- wrote it and added these othe ““So_the little moments, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity, So our little errof Lead the soul away From the path of virtue, Far in sin to stray. “‘Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Help to make earth happy, Like the heaven above.’ “The paper published the poem and soon afterward it was copled by all the leading papers of the country. Later the words were set to music, with the result that it has be- come one of the most famillar songs in our Sunday schools, primary schools and kinder- gartens.” Mrs, Carney calls it her child poem, and such it is, though it has doubtlcss reached the hearts of many of the older folks, “Little Drops of Water” is by no means the only one of Mrs. Carney’s compositions that has acquired note. She is the author of the beautiful song and chorus, “Fill Your Home With Sunshine,” alo the song, “Deal Gently With the Errin and numerous poems, including a memorial to John G. Whittier on his 18th birthday. LIFE INSURANCE Growing | Among Womun ry. A system by which for many years past men, grasping the opportunities of life insur- ance, became its patrons, and thereby large sums of money inuring to dependent fami- lies, to payment of honorable but otherwise unsecured claims, and to te and institu- tional benevolences, could not fail to attract the attention of women similarly situated and aspiring to corresponding success. Women of large income, for which safe and profitable investment must be sought, as, also, those who ““through the harsh cadences’ of unaccus- tomed effort learn self-reliance, have for the pasi decade persistently sought the advan- tages of life insurance. Desire for Insurance prompted letters to the editors of the woman’s pages of the great dailies, especially of New York City, which turned over to insurance companies, led one of them to open a woman's agency, managed by women. This step, which is certain tn be copled by other companies, i of gfa't moment, establishing equality of position i D emolument in a recognized field of effort heretofore unoccupied by women. It is a commercial revolution, quiet, dignified, un- heralded, as yet unperceived by many, but of great significance. The statistical fact of 100,000 self-supporting women in New York City alone was a tremendous factor in pro- ducing this change. The rationale of thé movement was well expressed by one of the women managers in an interview. She said: “A few years ago the idea of women having their lives insured was almost wnheard of. But the necessily that has made women go into professions to support those dependent upon them is, logi- cally, to bring about the other need of pro- viding against the contingencies of accl- dent or death.” It is conceded that much educational work must be done for the ma- Jority of women, yet it is confidently believed that continuous, undaunted effort will bring success, and will open a new and hitherto unworked field tor women. Of the women especially prominent and sue- cessfil as underwriters for life assurance in the United States, three merit special mention. Mri. Louisa H. Esselstyn, mansger of the woman's_agency for the Equitable L'fs As surance Society of the United Statcs at New York City; Mrs. Starkweather, agent for ths Mutual Life of New York, having headquir- ters at St. Louis, and Mre, L. O. Ferson, gencral agent and manage of the wom.n's department for the Bquitable at Chicago. Mrs. Esselstyn writes: *“Woren are insur- ing here. I am led to believe tht the west is a far batter field and that women are in- suring more lirgely there than in the east.” Mrs. Starkweather 's referrid to as an ex ceptionally successful insurance woman, ani it is a regret that a letter address:d to her office asking information concarning her work has not had reply. Mrs. Ferson is probbly the most successful in writing insurancs of any woman. It is also an Interesting fact that her first work was done ‘n Nebraska, four years ago, under Mr. H. D. Neely of Omaha. Mrs. Ferson was called to New York in September, 1894, and was glven the supesintenden‘y of the woman's department for the Equiiable at Chicigo, where she has had phenomenal suce The writing of the busine:s of women is now greatly facllitated by the removal of former discriminations In rates of prem’um. The largest and most conservative life assur- ance socictles now offer insurance to women of any age at the same rates as to m:n. This decision, significint of broider business op- portunity, is not to be mscribed to generous motives alone upon the part of insurance managers. It s presumab'y based upon favorable mortality, results teported upon data already existing, which justified the change. This action, though marked by adequate cay- the of the Revolution and the Colonfal Dames report on their work. On the 21st the Ken- tucky women will do credit to the Blue Grass state, beside which Mrs. Mary 8. Lockwood of Washington, D. C., will lecture on the poets. Mrs. Potter Palmer honors October 22 and will be assisted in making the day a memorable one by the lady managers. Oc- tober 24 the Woman's National Press associ tion will take charge. In the afternoon the speech making will be by the women of Washington city. From the 26th to the 26th education will be the subject under discus- sion. In the afternoon of the 20th Mrs Crozler French will organize a southern edu- cation association. The National Household Sconomic association vill have the 30th and 31st. November 1 that large and now influentlal body of women known as the General Fed tion of Woman's clubs will prowde the speik- ers. The president, Mrs. Ellen Henrotin of Chicago, will preside, the other speikers being arranged for by Mrs. McKinley of Knoxville, Tenn. November 4 the platform will be occu- pled by the Assocation for the Advancement of Women, of which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is president. November 6 is to be dedicited to the Women's Christian Temperance union, which means undoubtedly M:iss Willad and Lady Henry Somerset. On the 6th the New England Press’ assoc'ation will furnish the spezkers from among the clever women jour- nalists of the extreme east. On the Sth the south will be heard from through the Daugh- ters of the Confedcracy. The 12th has been set aside as Georgia and Grady day. The ex: pected guests of honor for that day are Mrs, General Grant, Mrs, Jeft Davis and Mrs, Henry W. Grady. The Catholic authors are to have representation on the 22 and on the been on this case two days. Well, we'll put it at the limit—$10. 1 guess that will do, Miss Douglas smiled again as. J)!cnd uy her books and followed the plabatift through a file of rain-soaked coats and trouggrs. When she reached the street Mizs Douglls glancei coquettishly at a dripp!ng facido g the great temples of justice in the court Bouse, and then, scizing her skirt with a pro@l and firm grip, disapprared In Washington sthpet. Law yer Arthur said_that the company iwould ap- Peal the case. Miss Douglas Bbul 18 years old. She is a graduate of nortilivest division High school and the Chicago of Law, She Is a republican and an ard ocate of woman suffrage. Her victory§wad the out- come of her first appearance |n cdurt as an attorney. | 4 MRS, HEARST'S LA® Rare and Benutiful A |-#- Gather or Her Home. Mrs. Hearst, says a private letter from London, has brought back with her from St. Petersburg and Stockholm a wealth of beauti- ful Russian bric-a-brac and furniture to adorn her Washington mansion; also some very lovely garments, specimens of the picturesque national peasant garments. Mre. Hearst has always had a great penchant for the picturesque and bizarre costumes which she sees in the various foreign countries that she visits. Her friend, Mrs. Head, has a similar predilection for old furniture, as her beautiful home on the hill attests. Take as a specimen her exquisite Oriental room, with the wealth of Turkey and Morocco strewed in_charming profusion. One of Mrs, Hearst's other hobbies is old lace, and her collection of Point de Venise, Princesse, Valenclennes, ete., Is Insured for $50,000. Much of it is historical and adorned the gay and famous courtlers of the days of Louis Quartorze and Charles 1L, and as well as oftentimes of royalty itseif. It is the collection of twenty years; its ‘‘gems” are only brought eut on state occasions. Her familiarity with the lace manufacturers of French and Flemish prov- inces Is amazing. The lady will return with a number of young American friends this October and will take a flying visit to this coast, returning to Washington for the winter. A visit to Japan next spring has been planned, when another party will be made up for the oc- casion. Mrs. Hearst never travels without two or more young girl friends in her train. Miss Head, Miss Butterfield, Miss Hamilton, Miss Barreda, Miss Ferrer, all of them have been under her motherly wings at times. Of late years London has been her favorite European sojourning piace, as it Las of Mrs, Head and Mrs. Mackay. Perhaps that is Lecause she. has such a charming reception by upperdom, not so much by the giddy set, but by the more staid and haughty of the old whig and tory element. She is received in houses where many of the ultra-swell New | York set are never found. Speaking of Mrs. Hearst's laces reminds one of the beautiful collection sold by Mrs, Frederic Barreda in 1883, at the death of her husband. Mrs. Hearst was a large pur- chaser and secured many of the rarest pleces At the same time she cast reluctant eyes on the magnificent full set of court dia monds, valued at $50,000. The diamonds were set In silver, for it is considered in Burope that gold is not good form as set- tings for state diamonds. Mrs. McDowell opened her Van Ness avenue home for the MUFF, BOA AND NEW CAPE COLLAR. 25th. Mrs, Peter White, who hed charge of the Irish villige at the World's fair, vead a paper on ““The Progress and Indusiries for Women,” and on that same day it is ex- pected that Lady Aberdeen will also favor the Woman's congress. The druma will be fully represented on the 26th and 27th. November 23 art will be the theme and several cue brated women artists have promized to be in atiendance. The leading women lib-ari will be on hand for the 29th and 30th to lex- ture on library work. Chautauquan affairs is to be the topic for the Hth and the next important question 1s in parliamentary law. Mrs. Lil'an Pole Becker will lecture a @ give drills on j arfamentazian- ism, occupying the pla:form on three con- secutive days, the 16th, 17th and 18th. The International Folk Lore association closes the program, mecting on the 28th and 30th. These congresses of women will be held in the large auditorium, which has a seating ca- pacity of 3,000, HER DEBUT Miss Belle Douglas Ix 18 Years 014 Far more interesting than the half hun- dred men and women who sat in rain-soakea clothing in the stufty court room of Justice Foster, says the Chicago Chronicle, and yet looking strangely out of place, was a mere girl with a straw hat tipped with broww plumes, a prominent nose, and eyes with wondrous lash:s. A braid of dark har hung down her back, and when she entered the court room she patted the bow of her sash, as all women do, and smoothed the ends of her broad white lace collar, which alone relieved the somberness of her black dress It was a gloomy day for Miss Belle Doug: las to make her debut as a practicing law yer, and yet the little woman, with h°r rak- ish hat and big, white collar walked with a confident air to the bar of the court when Justice Foster called the case of “Ralph Boor, by his mother, vs the Chicago Loop and Portler: company. “The plaintiff is ready, las, as she slapped a stack of on the court’s desk. The lawyers in the room pricked up their ears, sort of shook themselves together and crept closer to the pretty attorney. We are quite prepared to meet the Is- sue,” replied Lawyer William Arthur, who was the legal reprezentative of the corpora- tion. The court beamed upon Miss Douglae as he leaned forward to listen to the argu- ments. The cave was a strange one. Ralph is the 17-year-old son of a divore:d woman whose husband is still living. He was em- ployed as an errand boy by the company at a salary of $4.50 per week, but received & nominal discharge early this month. The mother, to whom the boy always gave his earnings, claimed that the corporation owed the lad for six weeks' work, and assuming herselt to be guardian of his welfare, in view of the absence from home of the father, demanded that the money be paid over to her, a claim which Miss Douglas declared she had a legal right to file. Lawyer Arthur, however, maintained that the law recognized the father as the sole guardian, inasmucn as he was still alive, and in the teeth of the fact that the mother had been given the custody of the lad by the divorce court. There were two slips of paper placed in evidence, one of which was s'gned by the boy and the other by the mo:her. Taese were In the form of formal demands for payment of the wages claimed to be due from the company. The court took a lead pencil trom his vest and figured on a she t of paper, Then he announcsd his decisioa In favor of she plaintiff for five weeks' wages, amount ng to $22.50. “And now about attorney's feis,” coyly asked Miss Douglas, flushed with her first legal victory. The justice beamed again in those wondrous eys “Let's see,’ he flnally mused, “‘you have said Miss Doug- law books will | bazaar and all the fashion was there. It will be remembered that an amusing incident | happoned, when Miss McDowell displayed a beautiful Valenciennes shawl to the wife of @ many times millionaire and advized her to buy it, when she responded: ‘‘No, t'anks Miss McDowell, I never buy second-hand t'ings. One of the lotest fads in gloves is a mir- ror neatly hidden in the palm. Moreen is finding increasing favor with fash- lonable dressmakers and tatlors as skirt lin- ng, Nearly all the autumn hats are overladen Wwith trimming, giving their wearers a top- heavy appearance. Jewelry will be very much more In evi- dence than for a long time past. Dog col- lars of rhinestones and fancy pins are the whim for the moment. Flowered chameleon silks and satins, cross- barred with wide black satin lines, make ele- gant fancy waists, with black velvet or black satin trimming. Fanciful hosiery will grow even more po-u- lar than it now is, and all because of the Renaissance boot of sanda’ strap design, which is being worn by every woman who has a pretty instep. ““Glsmonda” crepon is a new autumn fabric which Is firm of texture, rich and solid In appearance. It has wide, irregular stripes and crimpled effects are introduced. Other novel crepons have Persian figures or rich looking Algerian stripes in satin. Marie Antoinette fichus made leon silk or fancy satin will be worn with soft woolen gowns. This is a stylish and graceful accessory for a day costume, and for evening the fichu Is made with an ac- cordion pleated ruffle at the edges, Fur will be popular, and the first cold snap vill announce that chinchilla is ready to share honors with seal. Collars of both will be made wide and square and will fall over capes of heavy rich colored cloth. All the hats that are not high are worn far back on the head. This Is to show the fore- head and the soft waves of the new styls of hair dressing. One very pretty Gamsborough of huckleberry blue straw istrimmed heayily with black ostrich p'umes snd yelow roses. A new cycling eoat Is cut Ifke @ man's dress coat, and is made doubld-titeastzd. It | fashioned so as to cover the'saddle, and looks extremely well worn by a thin'womin. For such a woman onc made of liglit gray cloth, and lined with silk to matcH, With a bel: of white suede and a white lifien shirt, is ex- 2edingly chic. § In tweeds and Scotch homgspuns and woo' plaids, green s the leading color, ard mingling with the bright, warm,red, is found a biege tint. That seems (t0 be most popular. Red rises brilfinty in the fore- ground of favoritism, though dull green fol- lows close behind it. i In the way of trimmings,ogold braid is in the ascendant. It has ceased (a'confine Itselt to the quieter gowns madé ‘of alpaca and grass cloth, but creeps over oito velvets and silks in fall models. This only lives up to the announcement that the colors of sunny Italy are to prevall. This season the coat is rather short, and the skirt full, and the popular fabrie mohair. This material sheds dust and defles wear and tear in a most delighttul way, and Is a light, comfortable fabric; but the mohair jacket lacks what 1s a great feature in serge, cheviot or tweed, and that is warmth, but a light flannel lining obviates in a degree th's draw- back. Among new shades In mohalrs, serge and camel's hair for traveling suits touchwood Is the newest thade in brown, also mahogany and all browns with & reddish tinge. Pigeon gray finds favor in mohalr goods, and sflver blue, swallow gray and a dark Venetian blue among fayettas and of chame- replaced the light and dark hellotropes that were favored at this time last year. For autumn wear are set forth some very attractive looking costumes of corded wool In ecru or cream color, some merely stitched n many rows with white saddler's silk. Others show short Jaunty jackets with large satlor collars of black or ‘brown velvet and blouse vests of polka dotted silk. With these Jackets are also worn double breasted waist- coats of white repped silk or serge or “'pina- fore bodices,” which button to invisible braces on each side, Blue serge makes a most useful cycling dress. The skirt pay be lined with blue satin. The knickerbockers worn underneath the skirt may be of the same satin, with cloth bands about the knees. Russian leather shoes and gaiters should be worn to complete this costume. One should have a Holland | colored drill coat, a shirt of white linen, with | the front set in tucks, a white linen collar | and turn-back cufts. The narrow skirts are | much the more convenferit and by far the | more comfortable, especially when they are made with loose fronts buttoned on either slde. These can be left open when riding and buttoned up when walking. Cycling skirts should receive great attention, for they are as difficult to cut and fit as a riding habit. Among the varlous things that importers and retallers are showing this season are brown silk plushes that so closely copy seal- skin that it would take an expert to tell the difference, without close inspection; pearl, gold, and spangle trimmings for evening gowns, and bridal dresses; silver-blue cos- tumes trimmed with tiny gold buttons and narrow gold brald; tartan plaid taffeta silk blouses withi dark-gresn velvet sailor collars and cuffs; French godet skirts having six- yard skirts forming round or ripple pleats all around the bottom, while the upper por- tion fits plainly; tiny capes of velvet very full over the shoulders, with de:p yokes of jet beads and spangles in Vandyke form and @ neck ruche of jetted silk muslin in triple box pleats; glossy mohair crepons made up with changeable Lib:rty satin for autumn brides' visiting costumes; silk dotted cha- meleon silks for dress accessories, large white satin collars nearly covered with jet passementerie, and stylish golf capes in new fall colors, admirable for traveling uses and cool weather shopping tours. Femin e Notews, A clever American girl, Miss E. R. Skid- more, one of the delegates to the Interna- tlonal Geographical congress, has been lion- izzd socially in London. Mary Anderson’s book, upon which she has o long been engaged, is promised the public for October. She hag chosen the un- assuming title “A” Few Memories,” for it. Miss Carrie Liebig, who has just been ap- pointed a division surgeon of the Northern Pacific railroad at Hope, Idaho, is the first woman surgeon to be appointed in the rail- way service. Tulare, Cal., boasts of a woman engineer who has charge of the great engine in one of the largest lumber mills near there. She is not obliged to call upon a man when the machine is out of order, as she is fully able to repair it herself. Mme. Rowstowska of Lille, France, is 112 vears old. She served as a cantiniere of a Polish regiment during the Russian cam. paign, was twelve times under fire, recelved three wounds, and was decorated with the silver cross, 'She has survived her fifteen children, Mrs. John P. St. John, wife of the famous prohibition ex-governor, is at present, and has been for some time, superintending the engineering and other work of constructing a tunnel in a gold mine at Cripple Creek, in which her husband has a controlling in- terest. Mrs. Cahill of Arlington, Ore., recently rode a big raft down the Columbia river for ten miles or more, steering it through the Priest and Umatilla rapids, waters in which many a raft managed by experienced loggers has gona to pieces. She is the first woman to take the perilous trip. Miss Alta Rockefeller, who is heiress to about §40,000,000, and who will be richer than any of the Vanderblits, spends her sum- mer at the magnificent estate her father has recently bought on the Hudson. She Is quite as retiring as Miss Gould, and does almost as much good In a quiet’ and unob- trusive manner. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Hutter, who was so well known during the war by reason of her labors on behalf of the soldiers in hospitals, died recently in Philadelphia. She was the first woman to cross the line after the battle of Gettysburg. She went by permission of Prezident Linccln, in a car provided for her use by the president of the Pennsylvania railroad. Mme. Christine Nilsson has been making an almost trlumphal tour through Sweden. She went home to attend her nephew's wed- ding, and country people have traveled long distances to catch a mere glimpse of her. She says that she may spend the remainder of her lie in the place where she was born, —a little farm near Wexlo, where she used | to play the violin in the market place. Two_enthusiastic travelers and botanists— Miss Edith Cole and Mrs. Lort Phillips— made a journey in British Somaliland, Afri last winter and early spring, and collecte and dried about 300 species of flowering plants and a few ferns, which they have sented to the gardens at Ke: The utry traversed was {rom Berbera to the Golis range of hills, which rise to a height of 5,000 feet. Mrs. Hearst, widow of the California sen- ator, who is now abroad, mever allows ex- penses to Interfere with her disposition to travel by land or sea in the most luxuriously comfortable manner. She has a saloon raii- way carriage and state cabin on the channel steamer when she gocs to London or Paris, or vice versa, and on the continent, when sbtainable, special and exclusive traveling facilities usually associated with royalty. Mme, Deschamps, oldzst of the Paris mar- ket women, is dead at the age of 94. .She supplied the Tuilerles with vegetables in the days of Charles X. and Napoleon IIL, and h: had the impression for years that the emperor was in love with her. To Mme, Deschamps was attributed the invention of Julienne soup, or at least of the practice of chopping the vegetables used in that soup. Though a famous character, she was buried without any funeral honors from her asso- clates, Miss Grace Carew Sheldon, one of Buffalo's brightest newspaper women, sailad for Eu- rope, to deliver a paper on “Women in Journalism in America,” at the Bordeaux convention of International Press clubs. Miss Sheldon represents the Scribblers, the woman's press club of Buffalo. Miss Sheldon spends a week in England before going to Bordeaux, with the British Press Club asso- clation. Beside her newspaper fame, Miss Sheldon is well known for her philanthropic work, She is at the head of the Woman's exchange of Buffalo. Miss Sophie Preston Harrison, the young- est child of the late Mayor Carter Harrison, has much of her father's dash and magnet- ism. She will come into $350,000 when she attains her majority next winter. Miss Har- rison is considered the best dressed girl ot the fashionable younger set of Chicago. She is an athlete, in no amateur way, for sb rows, swims, and has long been a devotee to the whiel. Her costume for the latter is very chic, brown tweed skirt and blazer, with vest and cuffs of deep cream broadcloth, and brown morocco leggings. She is very charitable. ceaei——— CONNUBIALIT When a girl has three brothers her girl companions seem to like first rate to come and see her at her house, Kate Kane, the first lawyer in skirts to be admitted fo the bar in Chicago, is mar- ried. Sig. Vincznzo Rossi, a handsome Italian, is the happy man. A marriage out of the common has just occurred in Oakland, Cal. The parties are Cheny Scoville and Miss Henton, and they had been engaged for twenty yea In his new book on “Whom to Marry” Prof. Mantegazza recommends soldiers as the most desirable husbands because of the con- sideration they display to their wives and the affection they show thelr children. A Milwaukee minister has just refused to marry a couple because the young lady was “Just out of short skirts.” Recent nuptial events in Milwaukee would lead one to be- lieve that a young lady did not need any skirts to be married in that city. A_girl of 13, the daughter of a minister in Manchester, Tenn., has married a man of 60, with the approval of her parents. The bridegroom is a well-to-do man, and the father of the bride is supposed to be a man with & faculty for making the best of it. The old world boasts that America has no grand old man. This may or may not be true, but with an 80-year-old woman suing for divorce and a grandmother supervising an elopement the grand old women of the new world are making a pretty fair showlng. Henrletta cloths, Thes 01 Miss Cornella Granger Fitzhugh of Mougt Morris, N. Y., who is to wed Richard Field Conover of Philadelphia next Wednesday, has an American pedigres to be proud of. She Is a descendant of the Van Renssellaers and Carrolls, ploneers of the Empire state. An event quite out of the ordinary will be the celebration of the seventy-fourth anni- versary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam G. Mosely, Roxbury, Mass., on No- vember 6. There will at (his time be a large family gathering, and five generatio will be represented. Mr. Mosely, in full pos- #ession of his faculties, Is 97, and his wife, In an equally good state of preservation, will celebrate her 95th birthday on the day fol- lowing the anniversary. For the first time in the marriage records of the common pleas court of Baltimore A license was issued the other day for a youth of 19 and a girl of 15. The youthtul couple will be wedded tomorrow. They are Walter K. Cole and Birdie E. McKetrick, Who looks hardly old enough to wear long dresses. Thelr parents have lived neighbors for years, and the couple have been sweet hearts since the girl was 10 years old. Their respective fathers appeared in the record office and gave thelr consent to the marriage of their children. phecalie— CHICKAMAUGA, Maurice Thompson In the Century. By Chickamauga’s crooked stream the mar- tlal trumpet h a with war's dread work to do. O lion-strong, unselfish, brave, twin athletes Dattle-wise, Brothers vet enciies, the fire of conflict in their eyes, All banner-led, and bugle-stirred, them to the fight, Hearing the god of sliughter laugh from mountain height to height. face to face, they set The ruddy, falr-haired, glant north breathed loud and strove amain; The swarthy shoulders of heave them to the str And earthquake shuddered cloud rolled overhead, And serpent tongues of flame cut and lapped and twinkled red, Where back and forth a bullet-stream went singing like a breeze, What time the snarling cannon splinters tore the trees he south in; underfoot, did a through balls to “Make way, out make way!" a volce boomed “I'm marching to the seal’ was the rebel yell and Bragg's Where Negley struc storm-tossed Where Buckner chai blue to tatters wen The noble Brannan cheered his men, Cleburne ans 1 back, And Lytle stormed and life was naught in Walthall's bloody track. . the cohorts gray like ouds were rent; e fell, the Pat Old Taylor's Ridge rocked to its base, and Pigeon mountain shook; And Helm went down, and Lytle died, and broken was MeCook. Van Cleve moved like a hurricane, a tem- pest blew with Hood, Awful the sweep of Breckinridge across the flaming wood. Never before did battle roar such chords of thunder make, Never again shall tides of men over such barriers break. ‘Stand fast. stand fast!" cried Rosecrans; and Thomas said, “I willl" crash on crash, his batterfes dashed their broadsides down the hill. Longstreet's splendid rush tore through whatever barred his track, Till the rock of Chickamauga hurled the roaring columns back And gave the tide of victory a red tinge of defeat, Adding a noble dignity to that hard word retreat. And, Brave Two davs they fought, and evermore those vs shall stand apart, of eplc chivalry within the na- s heart. come, and et the carven rocks to mark 'this glorlous spot; Here let th deeds of heroes live, hatreds be forgot. Build, build, but never monument of stone shall last as long As one old soldier's ballad borne on breath of battle song. fo 1 Key Come, thelr CHARMING THE COYOTE. A Rattlesnnke Sh '~ Fight on Being D ived of Its Prey. COXVILLE, Neb., Aug. 31.—Ten years ago here in northwest Nebraska rattlesnakes were quite numerous, especially near the prairie dog towns. One day while driving over the puairie I witnessed an incident, the particulars of which'I think worth relat- Ing, for it surely surprised and interested me. It was a bright June morning, and T drov slowly along listening to the cheerful notes of the western meadow lark and marking the difference between his song and that of his eastern cousin, when my attention wa attracted by the queer antics of a coyote which 1 saw some forty rods in advance of me. I stopped the team in order to watch the little brown marauder go through his strange performances. He would run around in a circle of fifteen or twenty feet, then suddenly stopping, would crouch 'as if about to spring upon some object within the circle; then, straightening up, he would trot off a few yards, turn about, and run- ning back would spring clear over the spot around which he had been circling. I sat and watched these and other odd maneuver for some time, and then drove on toward the show. When I neared the spot the coyote loped away, and in going up 1 discovered a large attiesnake colled there in the grass. The rattler was mad and showed fight imme. diately, but not caring to tease it, as the wolf had done, I killed it. Now the question is, would the eventually have dispatched was this all in sport? coyote the snake, or T. S. ALLISON. —_——— An after theater thought, a bottle of Cook's Extra Dry Imperial Champagne and then ‘sweet sleep.’ occasions., You conno go To the opera THE FASHIONABLE PERFUME. Flowery, refreshing. delicate and lasting. « For sale by drugdists only. 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