HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-31, Page 3AN INDIAN SUMMER DAY.
e vein of tieekiras goldenrod blow t
`ind little ones a -gathering this are
Of autumn's mine to fat it grace the door
That hideth from their sight the cloister glow
Of summer's radiant brow, Her footstep slow
Now eeeks the portal. Lot their smites restore
To her the memory of childhood's lore,
The innocence its, simple toys. bestow.
This phantom glimpse of her—a, shadow trace--
8hall leave no dreamer happy in this dream
Of life until he learn the tnyatie art
That siighteth not the laugerer loving face
Svhene'er it breathed the fragrance twit doth teem,
Within the, bosom of the cleats of heart,
—Catholic World..
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No boarding house ceulai have been
more homelike than Miss '',mantis. It
was founded and e‘anaiuete-i lair the bene-
fit of its inrn.tt -e, slid if 31;:.,s Conant in-
cidentally placed a few dollars in the sav=
zags ban eery week nobody could ac -
al ie her of bug m,rcenary. She would
right take a denbxfud boarder at any price.
In the neighs"irimori of Lincoln park
Miss Cm:mel 'e was a iniad nark, a .model
of perteaueney ane.l coiisecvetistg in the
ebittiug life ot the eity.
Miss Conant ealled her bearder;ai 'stay
children," She had the true mother ln-
atiuct, and though time had brought her
gray hairs and fate had denied her a
!Husband and children of her own she had
llinpensatiou by Adopting her boarders,
She levee and tseolded them with, au
ebandoued eaturalues>a that was almost
if not -quite maternal,,
Mies Conant laud one iron bound, uuai-
terabile rule. Within. her hospitable walla
there were to be- -no flirtations. In the
begbiaiag she believed this redo to be
necessary. Iter, "eleildren" were oe both
sexes and unmarried, and the iaudledy
had Beard it said that entanglements
sometimes arise which destroyed the
peace and sedateness of home lite. So
she made her rule. It had never been
violated, Ae Mise Conant said, there was
"iso nonsense" alaout leer Feting lathes and
gentlemen. They dived together like breth-
ren. The geutlecnen played sixty -nix
and discussed hones, and pugilists and
otherwise oe7upied themselves us respect-
able young men usually do. They met
the ladies reapeetfully, even gallantly,
but so far se the tender passiou was enn-
eerued they might have beeu wooden
mea.
I"erhapa that young ladies secretly
eeorned the rule, Perhapsif the young
men lead tempted them thelia might have
been flirtations and consequent heartache
and misery. But the temptations were
lacking, there had been no violation of
'the rale ani no insurrections in Miss
'Conant's little realm.
Until Marcella. same,
A1iss Cenant was doubttui of Marcella
at the first moment, and the landlady
looked from the unquestionable reference
to the questionable young; woman with
great hesitation.
"The girl is too pretty," said hiss Co -
leant, speaking to herself, of course. "She
has no business to be so pretty, though,
at' course, bile can't help it. I'll admit
that she seems modest and quite ladYiike,
Bur she is pretty, and my young veutle-
nen are mere human beings. I should
hate to demoralize them."
Marcella was all unconscious of the
white haired landlady's thought and nev-
er dreamed how near Miss Conant came
�o saying there wasn't a. spare room in
the house.
The girl stood there, looking so inno-
cent and childlike, and so altogether un -
.conscious of her bewitching beauty, that
Miss Conant's doubts vanished.
"There can't be any harm in that child,
and she certainly needs a borne. I'll take
her. Bless her pretty heart]" So Miss
Conant thought, and so it was decided.
Unwise 141iss Conant) What have you
done? I)o you really think you can with
safety bring this bright and seductive
creature into your household? Your young
men may be like wooden men and utterly
gree from nonsense. Yet they have eyes
in their heads, and at one time they had
hearts in their bosoms. Unwise Miss
`O.,onant!
So whispered discretion, but the land-
lady refused to listen, Perhaps it was
' fate.
Within a day Miss Conant observed
,subtle signs of demoralization. Mr. Craig,
who for years had regularly bolted his
food with great haste, now ate daintily
and lingered at the table. Alt Smith
wore his best suit to the office. The card
game ',11 neglected, and the gentlemen
gathered in the parlor. Will Caruthers
talked softly and entertainingly to 'Miss
.Jones, thoxgh he watched Marcella out
.of the corner of his eye and blushed
when she looked his way. Yes; Will
blushed. It was a remarkable thing.
Miss Jones glared at Marcella, and Miss
Beaver called Mr. Smith's attention to
the fact that the new girl painted her
.face. Mr. Smith pretended to believe it.
The next day Marcella had three bou-
•quets, and though she hid them in her
",room the las ,lady was not blind.
The deve.upments of a month filled
Miss Conant with dismay. She felt it
Baer duty to speak to Miss Jones.
"I am really quite surprised at you,"
acid the landlady. "Why, if it were not
so impossible and absurd I should say
that you and Will almost seem devoted to
each other."
"I am trying to save him from that
doll, that—creature,"• said Miss Jones.
"MarceIla?" asked the astonished land-
lady.
"Yes; Marcella. !ler conduct is per-
, lectly shameful. Haven't you seen how
'boldly she angles for him?"
Miss Conant had not seen it. In fact,
she thought Marcella seemed rather shy.
But perhaps Miss Jones was right. Un-
•doubtedly something was wrong, and as
.everythinghad been right before Mar-
-cella came perhaps Miss Jones was justi-
fied in holding her responsible. At all
events, Miss Conant decided to speak to
Marcella.
It must be known that Will was the
star boarder. He had a good business
and a ,bright future, and Miss Conant
was not going to have his head filled with
'nonsense."
The landlady was a diplomat:' She
called Marcella to her room and placed
her arm gently about the girl's waist,
"How old are you, my ,dear?" asked
Miss Conant.
"Nineteen," said Marcella:
"You are young and you are very prat -
ay,
P
mychild. You'must
{'gy,be careful.
I do notn
understand." rc
said Martell
a.
a.
"1 am going to speak to you se a soothe
er might speak, my dear. I do not ac-
cuse you, mind. But I must warn you.
Flirtations are neither wise nor proper,"
Marcella looked at the landlady in won-
der,
"tills is not a summer hotel," coutiu-
ued Aiiss Conant. "Neither is it a young
ladies' seminary, It is a respectable
boarding house, and the requirements of
peace and propriet,l have rendered this
rule imperative—no, flirtations,"
"What unusual and outrageous thing
have I done that you should say this to
ine?" she demanded. "I will not be treat-
ed so. `,Tell me what you mean.'"
"Your innocence is very creditable, my
child," said Miss Conant, "but you must
have seen that Mr. Smith is absurdly at-
tentive to you."
I
have not encouraged him." And
Marcella a
was
".S..nd that Mr, Craig makes a perfect
spectacle of bimself."
"I cannot kelp it," mid Marcella, .be
seemed indifferent,
"And Will Caruthers? Is it not true,
my child, that"—
"No, no, no," cried Marcella, blushing
like a rose, "Air. Caruthers scarcely
speaks to me. He seems de -de -voted to
Miss J -Jones,"
"I bad noticed that," said Miss Conant,
forgetting her diplomaey. "I had observ-
ed
bseryed it, But Miss Jones says that yon" --
"Oh, indeed," said Mareella with fine
scorn. "I would thank Miss Jones to
keep her lover and not mention any name.
The idea"_" •
"I diad not mean to offend you, child,"
said Miss Conant, wringing her hands in
distress, '"1 ane really quite puzzled. Ev-
erything has always beeu quite proper in
my house. .But sou ethip„ is wrong, and
1 don't know what to do,"
"I am very sorry," said Marcella cold-
ly, "but I assure you 1 have nothing to
do with it, 1 promise you not to break
your ancient and respectable rules. 1
shall not dirt with Mr, Craig nor Mr,
Smith, and Miss Janes need not be afraid
I will try to Capture her lover,"
And Marcella escaped to her room,
there to weep in bitterness and despair,
while Miss Conant was wore dismayed
than ever,
For a time after this things seemed to
mend, and Miss Conant ventured to con-
gratulate herself,
Will seemed to avoid Miss Jones, and
she never saw hint speak to Marcella.
But -all the oldfamiliar relations were
broken up. Messrs, Smith and Qraig
greeted each other with, wonderful polite -
nese in the house, but did not speak when
they !net on the street.
Marcella was certainly circumspect.
She regarded all the gentlemen with a
coldness that was almost contempt. She
kept mostly in her more and was not af-
feeted by Miss Jones' icy glare and ig-
nored Miss Beaver's persistent effusive-
ness.
Will wandered about the house in si-
lent and moody eoutemplation. He might
have beeu grieving on account of his sep-
aration from Miss Jones, but he strange-
ly refused to "make up" with her again.
That astute young woman ignored him.
at last and turned her sweetest smiles on
Mr. Craig. Strange to say, he respond-
ed. Sone old instinct seemed to revive
in the bosons of that gentleman, and he
suddenly discovered that ladies were
made for love. And Miss Jones, being
the lady most available, found herself
beloved.
"A little leaven Ieaveneth the whole
Iump. "
Mr. Smith also yielded to the dominant
force. He saw Marcella's persistent
coldness and fluttered to Miss Beaver for
sympathy, and, after a decent amount of
hesitation, she gave it.
The landlady was indignant but help-
less. Her house was falling about her
ears. Her children indulged in the most
open and awful spooning right under her
eyes. She was forced to spend her
evenings in the kitchen to keep from in-
terrupting some tender tete-a-tete. She
had never seen so much astonishing "non-
sense" in her fife.
Only Will and Marcella seemed to es-
cape the general contagion.
am glad you haven't gone crazy,"
said Miss Conant. "You are the youn-
gest and far the loveliest one of the lot,
and I'm glad you are not an idiot."
Marcella smiled, but did not seem to be
particularly elated.
"I declare," said Miss Conant, continu-
ing. "that it is all the most unheard of
and unbelievable thing that ever happen-
ed. Just think! I have kept boarders
for 20 years and never had a love affair
in the house before. Now there seems
to be nothing else. As if the dreadful
conduct of the boarders wasn't enough,
the cook has fallen in love with the milk-
man, and I saw the grocer's boy kiss the
dining room girl in the hail yesterday.
Why, my house has become a regular
matrimonial bureau."
"It is too bad," said MarceIIa wearily.
"But you, Marcella, you promised me
not to flirt, and you haven't. I thank you
for it."
And Miss Conant, to show her grati-
tude, attempted to imprint a kiss on the
young lady's peachlike cheek, but Mar-
cella burst into tears and ran away.
Strangely enough, she ran plump into
the arms of Will Caruthers. He had been
waiting there in the hall for Marcella to
come out.
Miss Conant has given notice to her
laudtord. After the magnificent triple
wedding occurs she will keep boarders no
longer --Chicago News.
A New Method For Driving Piles.
A new and expeditious method for
driving piles is described in the•instruc-
tions as to technical works for the Rus-
sian engineer • corps. On two sides of the
pile to be driven are made longitudinal
grooves of sufficient width and depth to
receive ordinary iron gas pipes of one
or one and a half inches diameter, termi-
nating in nozzles like those of hose pipes
and turned toward the point of the pile,
being fixed to it by light staples, while
the upper ends are connected by gutta
percha pipes, with a force pump capable
of ejecting water under a pressure of five
atmospheres -71 pounds per square inch.
It is said that the outflow of this water
at the point of the pile causes the latter
to sink three or four times more quickly
than it would under the action of a pile
driver. A few blows are, however, giv-
en by the monkey when the pile has at-
tained the desired depth in order to se-
cure the necessary consolidation, and the
gas pipes are then drawn out in order to
serve for driving another pile. -English
Mechanic.
Smoking In. Burma.
Burmese women do not smoke cigar-
ettes,
igarettes, but cheroots, the Burmese ' substi-
tute for cigars. It is a curious and very
picturesque sight to see one of these Bur-
mese girls in the'emjoyment of her che-
root. The greater number of them
choose one that is fully ten inches in
Length and green, and in a day they
bmoke levered.
THE WOODEN WALLS.
WHERE NELSON'S FLAGSHIP THE
VICTORY MAY BE SEEN.
The Last of the Three-Daekora—The.
Eventful History et a eii,un Flak-
ship, the roudroyant, Which for
Dxearly a Hundred Tsars Wap, a
`"Woodea Wali" of England.
The channel which separates the Iele
of Wight from the mainland averages
from ave to sur miles in walla. In the
center ter of it lies the sa#e anohoxage of
S ithea
d at which some of o largest
vessels in the Biitish navy are always
lying, generally in company with more or
less foreign battleships.
On the mainland stand the greet gar-
rison town and naval arsenal of Porta-
mouth, with its fashionable suburb South-
sea, tarotohing far to the eastward.
Froin the Victoria pier on the mainland,.
which is '70 miles from London, boats
ply to the island every halt -lour during
the season, Passengers on the decks of
these can observe towering above the
fortifications, the masts of three famous:
old wooden line -of -battle ships laid up
reeLSON's yZAaSuIY, 'ills vIGTORY.
in the barber and xnovermore destined to
plow the deep. Tile first of these is the
St. Vincent, now used as a training ship
for bora. Next lice Victory, Nelsou's flag-
ship at Trafalgar, which bas been kept
as nearly as possible in the condition she
was in 94 years ago when the famous
admiral met death on her quarterdeok at
the moment of success,
The third is the Duke of Wellington,
the largest and last three -looker ever
built. She was designed to carry 120 guns
that would at that time have been con.
sldered extremely heavy ones. She was
launched on the eve of the Crimean war,
and during it served as the flagship of
Sir Charles Napier, oommander of the
Baltic fleet, but was never aotually in
action, so bow the monster would have
behaved remains a platter of doubt,
The Foudroyant is the sole naval relic,
save 11.11 S. Victory, Zvbiob exists to -day
to remind tis of the famous sailors of
that fighting era, which waas adorned by
Nelson, Collingwood, Howe, Hood, Corn-
wallis and other famous fighting admir-
als. In a carefully locked yard is a pile
of weather-beaten, strangely -shaped
pieces of wood. When the tide runs low
there shows above the sand, near tno
Blackpool pier the dark and ragged line
of a wreck. At the Birmingham Mint can
be seen 40 tons of resplendent copper, a
oopper in which there is such a goodly
portion of silver that the mint would bo
glad to pay £112 a ton for it, though the
market price of copper is £80.
These pieces of wood and tons of Dopper
and the dark lino of wreak by the Black-
pool pier are all that ieillatns of the
famous old SO -gun ship H.M.S. Foudroy-
ant—a ship that for nearly 100 yearn
formed part of "the wooden walls" of
England.
Hers has been a strange, eventful his-
tory. Her keel, the part now embedded
In the sand of Blackpool pier; was laid
down at Plymouth in 1789, She was
launched there in 1798 and wrecked at
Blackpool in 1897.
The Foudroyant had many celebrated
captains to command her, including Sir
Thomas Bayard and Thomas Masterman
Hardy. The gallant Sir Ralph Aber-
oromby died on the, Foudroyant's deck;
Prince Francois Caraooioli—an old man
over 70—stood upon it to face the court-
martial that sent him to the yard -arm of
the La Minerva. And on this samo deck
Nelson and Sir William and Lady Ham-
ilton discussed with Cardinal Buffo
Caraccioll's fate, the beautiful Lady
Hamilton oleadmg for that mercy which
Nelson denied.
At this stormy time (1799) the Foud-
royant was considered a9 the seat of gov-
ernment of the King of Naples, although
the King was then at Palermo; and for
several weeks King Ferdinand IV. held
his Court on the Foudroyant, dining
daily with his queen on her quarterdeck.
In view of the naval demonstrations
near Lough Swilly, on whose waters the
Foudroyant had her baptism of fire, it is
Interesting to recall something about one
.of the fights she engaged. in.
During the blockade of Malta (1800)
the Foudroyant, under command of Cap-
tain Sir. Edward Barry, on March 31,
ought an engagement with the French
80 -gun ship, Guillaume Tell, oarrying
the Sag of Rear -Admiral Denis Decres.
At the • end of two hours and twenty
minutes the Guillaume Tell struck her
colors. The Foudroyant, however, was in
too crippled a conaition to take posses-
sion of her prize, which duty devolved
on the Penelope, that vessel with the
Lion having taken part in the engage-
ment.
Some idea of how lively a naval engage-
ment was in those days may be gathered
from the following record of powder and
shot which the Foudroyant expended on
the Guillaume Tell:
Powder in barrels
Shot, 32 pounders.
Shot, 24 pounders
Shot, 18 pounders
Shot, 12 pounders
162
1,200
1,240
100
200
She well deserved her name—Foudroy-
ant—"thunder-striking. "
Under the command of Commodore
Sir John•Borlase Warrent, she was one
of the ships that took part in tho capture
of the Hoche and her consorts in August
of 1798 in the Bay of Donegal, when the
French were trying to land troops to
help the Irish rebels. Afterwards in the
Mediterranean and elsewhere she was a
flagship of Nelson, Lord Keith and other
famous "seadogs."
In 1892 the Admiralty decided to gets
rid of the relic, and she was sold to a
German firm of ship -breakers. An outory
was raised at her fate, and she was re-
purchased by Mr. Cobb,
In 1896 she was ready for sea and was
visited by Her Majesty. On .Tune 16,
1897, during a hurricane at Dlackn000l
she broke from her moorings, arid, driv-
ing shoreward,' became a total wreck.
As a wreck she was sold, so repo
rt
says, fel £2t0 Her purchaser began the
work of blowing her up. and almost the
first blast landed a fragment of half a
ton, en thehead of "`a- woman who un-
fortunately waa passing by on the beach.
She was instantly killed. This seemed to
dishearten the owner, wbo resold her to
a syndicate. From their bands the timber
and copper passel into the possession of
Messrs. Goodall, Lamb & Highway,
Limited, of Manchester..
From this Feria Messrs. Harmsworth
have obtained control of, these famous
timbers—famous as a vessel, commanded
by a man who again and again maintain-
ed England's supremacy on the seas and
lowered the flag of every foe.
AN EQUINE GRIEF.
The poetical Horse puts it lute Measure
and the Tale Ought to snore the
o l w
Heartsf s1 t Q.. Hers,
Dear Sir: i' take my pen in hoof
To air an equine grief;
Trusting that by your paper's aid
'Vt my ebtsin relief,
For we—all gee -gees great and small,
Whose neighs .1 represent—,
p
Are falling through the summer heat
With ,growing discontent.
The sun pours down open our heads
Front morn till afternoon.
Oh. surely, Mr. Editor,
AA hat would be a boon'
We are not vain; we do not ask
For Sowers or for lacer
But just a simple shape to suit
A comely horse's face.
For fastening, we rather think.
We would not like a pin:
But ribbon strings, with just a bow
Arranged beneath the chin.
So, really, Mr. Editor,
The price could not be bight
The owner of the meanest gee
Could well afford to buy.
And gratitude would fill our hearts.
While coolness erased our brains,
Were Dolly Vardeus neatly placed
Upon our flowing manes.
And now, dear Mr. Editor
Your influence is wide;
Thro' you our grievance may be heard
By all the country -side.
So kindly spare a little space
To aid my friends and me.
I am, yours very faithfully,
A. Would -be -Hatted Gee.
NEARLY 400 YEARS OLD.
Ion That Sheltered Queen Elizabeth la
South of England.
One of the quaintest old inns in the
south of England is the Running Horse
Inn at Leatherhead, in Surrey. It dates
bank to 1500, and it is on record that
Queen Elisabeth slept here for a night
on her way to visit Sir John More, ab
Loseby Hall.
The inn stands at the bottom of the
hill adjoining the bridge over the Mole
(so -palled because at one point it burrows
underground,) and in the old days it
served as a shelter for travellers who
were unable to cross the ford owing te
floods,
Somewhere about the year 1520 the inn
was owned by one Mistress Elynor Run-
ning or Rummyng, and the name of the
house is probably a play upon her name.
The poet laureate to Henry VII. eele-
brated the good dame in verse, whiali he
entitled "The 'running of Elynor Run
ning." It is related of her that she was
in the habit of giving short measure of
beer, and in consequence was rolled down
the Leatherhead Hill in a barrel.
There is a painting of this dame on the
inn wall. It is very indistinct, but ap-
pears to represent an elderly woman
wearing
what t was known as an
"
again -
tisher hat,. the picture is dated li2�,
end bears this legencl
"When Skelton wore the laurel aroma,
Mg ale put all, the ala'wives dowo."
AN OLD LANDMARK.
Dr. Tehesee's Norse iR Lond.n te be
I eeeevei to ?hake. Wai far 3[
Modern DwellineaAnna,
Hampstead. the northern suburb of
Loudon, which is se well known all over
the world far its historic and literary
associations, boasts many houses which
were at one time residences of men whose.
names have been handed dotlln In his-
tory. Perbaps the beet known of these
?Houses was that occupied by D. John
sou, and in which be wrote his tamales
poem on the ""VanBohes""
iu imitation of thity ofe Tenthman SatireWisof
Juvenal.
This bowie is about, to be destroyed..
As has been the case witk so nanny land-
marks, it must be pulled down to malre
way for more modern structures. Baran"
stead and Highgate are both famous to
the literary annals of the great city of
'Adele they ware (nee outlying suburbs,
reached by country lanes and breezy up-
lands, t was stain in H m -
I whilestaying "+ p
stead during the summer of 1748 that
I)r. Johnson wrote bis famous poem, and
it has been said that the days spent in
that house must have been the happiest
of hie pone too happy life. Readers of the
grim philosopher's works will find it
bard to separate this man from hie well
known haunts in Fleet street. 'Itis whole
life seems so pervaded with the atines-
pbere of his favorite coffee house that it
requires a severe atretcli of the imagina-
tion to picture hint enjoying himself
Among the trees and flowers of the coun-
try and it is doubtful if nature did give
hlix, neeeh enjoyment. It isreeorded tote
Whenever the epportunity offered, :lie
Hastened, to the city, to ehat wish the
been companlone who have cense down
to history in commotion with bis tame.
Whoa his poem, "The Vanity of Hu-
man. Wishes," appeared in 1749, his
name, according to one of kis bit/greed:-
ars, "broke out upon mankind with a
de; res of luster which premised e. ti%-
umph ever all his diedou1ties," The
reading public bed bees familiar for tea
years with his "Lemieu" and other Imi-
tations et Juvenal, suggested by the
Third. Satire. These two poems were
thought to rival the work of Pops hlm-
aelf, and the fame of the doctor spread
far and wide. Bs seized the moment for
the production of his tragedy of "'Irene,"
find it was brought out at Drury Leal
an the 8th of February, 1749, It ran for
18 nights and has never been seen on the
stage since,
The doctor attended the theatre every
night behind the scenes, Wearing for the
occasion a handsome waistcoat and a gold
laced hat. "But," said be afterward,
with great gravity, "I soon laid aside my
gold laced Hat, lest it should make me
proud," and he further observed that
"when in that dress he couldnot treat
people with the same ease ail when in
his usual plain olothee."
But the doctor's vanity must hare sole
ered severely, for the tragedy was uninter.
easing and the public would not attend.
"Irene" was relegated to the sbelf for
home reading, and as one of the com-
mentators of the day said, "La the closet
the propriety of its sentiments, the rioh-
noss of the language and the general
harmony of the whole composition were
universally admired."
"When Johnson writes tragedy," said
Garrick, "declamation roars and passion
sleeps; when Shakepeare wrote he dipped
his pen in bis own beast."
But the failure of his play did not
appear to disconcert the philosophic doe
ter. He xscelvod about $1,500 for his
rights, while It was acted, and he was
well assured of the popularity of the
poem which was the precursor of the
play, and the summer during which he
wrote it in the house at Hampstead was
memorable to him in later years as one
of the last of the peaceful periods of his
life, wbioh he enjoyed in the company of
his wife.
The leuse in which he wrote the
"Vanity of Human Wishes" Is close to
the entrance to the Priory, and Boswell
tells us that the "Town" as wellas that
poem was written there. Thornburg re-
marks that neither of those works bears
much trace of the inspiration of the
Hampstead muses, "for the fact that the
burly dootor preferred society to;scenery,
and with the winter returned. to Fleet
street and presented himself onoa more
among his friends, in whose company he
felt more at home than amid the breezes
of Hampstead. and whose conversations
gave him more gratiiioation than the
songs of nightingales."
It was not long after his residence in
this house that Dr. Johnson lost his
wife. Many years later when one of his
friends asked him if he had ever known
what it was to have a wife the doctor re-
plied with a faltering voice, "Sir, I have
known what it was to have a wife and
have known what it was to lose a wife.
It had almost broke my heart"
EASTERN WASHERWOMEN.
Rivers and Creeks. Paddles and Stoues
Their Implements.
The hardest worked washerwomen in
the world are the Coreans. They have to
wash about a dozen dresses for their
husbands, and inasmuch as every man
wears pantaloons or drawers so baggy
that they come up to his neck like those
of a clown, they have plenty to do. The
washing is usually done in cold water,
and often in running streams. The
clothes are pounded with paddles until
they shine like a shirt front fresh from a
Chinese laundry.
The Japanese rip their garments apart
for every washing, and they iron their
clothes by spreading them on a float
board and leaning this up against the
house to dry. The sun takes the wrinkles
out of the clothes, and some of them
have quite a luster. The Japanese woman
does her washing out of doors. Her wash-
tub is not more than sir inches high and
is about as big around as the average
dishpan, She sometimes uses Japanese
soap, which is full of grease, and works
away with her bare feet, The Chinese
girls do their washing is much the same
way.
The washing in Egypt is usually done
by the_men. The Egyptian washerman
stands on the banes of the Nile and slaps
the wet clothes, With a noise like the
shot of a pistol, on the smooth stones at
the edge of the running water, and smolt
follah Women as wash pound the dirt
out of their clothes in the same way.
French women pound the dirt with
paddles, often slamming the clothes upon
stones, as the Egpytians do.—Washington
Star.
Telephone for the Deaf.
A`minie.ture telephone to take the place
of the oar trumpet far deaf people has
road° its appear/aloe. A tiny receiver is
laced in the passage of the ear and eon -
limited
voted byfine wires nnew a with a �tra
nsmittef
Worn on the breast and a battery carried
in the pocket er oilier convenient part,
FAS ilON NOTES.
Dainty Trimuliags sad lemeetteea#lea:
Aceee corneae
Little shoos of black velvet are bete
meaeely employed es a trimming, They •
are used on the front of the bodice, oit
the eollar, belt or het,..to fasten a deli*,
or to drape e• corsage. The velvet is et
the narrowest ribbon width.
Costumes of pique, email and galat te
cloth are made almost exclusively in that
tailor style. ,Heavy guipure or embroid-
ery may be used if an elaborate trim-
ming is required, but plain stitching and.
stitched straps are the usual finish.
The four leaved clover is .stili .a favor-
ite
favorite bit of jeweir'y, whether it is in the
,• stickpin form o en a=•
r f a b_oosi� s_.ck in .r dant,
Q
p p .
is areal clover leaf placed under crystal.
Narrow searfs, or, more properly speak-
ing, wide boas of white, black er e a"lorett
gauze or net are a fashionable eneretra
paaiment of light summer costumeite-
Ll:fiaQr,it HAT.
They are often dotted with chenille. nal
the edge of the frils is &dished with the
narrowest of satin ribbon,
The bat of which an illuetratiea is
given, is of fine, soft leghorn straw. It
is iifted at the left side by a large bow
Of white tulle and lilac Blusters,. A,
drapery of white tulle covers the crown,
held in by a gar7eu1 of white lilacs and
foliage. The Maas are not plain white,
but have dekea.te tinges of pink and .lav-
ender. Jt7fase Cuoa,I.wr..
SUMMER GOWNS,
COPi; Coati:wary For Traveling sans,
Other Wear.
Dotted mat2riale are alwaya among the
summer goods. but this year a variation
is introduced by having the dots of un-
equal size, sprinkled upon the goods at
Irregular intervai4. In percales, silks
and eballies these effects are seen, the
ground being mainly of red, pink or some
shade ot blue and the dots white. The
coloring is alga reversed, white grounds
being shown with colored dots. The
dark blue foulard or vbina silk costume
with white riots is Lound in almost every
woman's summer wardrobe.
Fine mobair is much used for tailor
made gowns, espeeially for traveling, as.
it is thin. light and sheds dust. An at-
tractive gown of this goods is of a medi-
um gray and has a white pique vest
fastened with crystal buttons.
The costume shown in today's illus-
tration is of plain and striped goods
CHEPIOT GOWN.
combined. The lower skirt is of blue
and white striped wool, and over it is a
tunic of plain blue cheviot, scalloped and
edged with white braid. The little, open F
coat is tight at the "back and has a scal-
loped basque and striped revers and col-
lar, the edges being bordered with white t
braid. Beneath this is a close vest of
striped goods, which shows a white shirt
bosom and a black cravat. The sleeves
are finished with striped goods at the
wrist, and both bodice and sleeves are s
adorned with stitched straps of blue
cheviot. The hat of bine straw is tries- r.
mad with white tulle and white feathers. .
JUDIO OHOLLET.
Salmon.
Salmon, when in :perfection, is one of
the mostl1 s
dei clots and nutritive of fish.
The oil is distributed through the flesh,
and forhi
t grt.
reason it proves rather hard
of digestion for some people. The rich-
ness,
ichness, however; ` can always be corrected'.
lox the use of au acid or, pzquante sauce,.