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(light of Steps 10 • tow cnrv.,1 ,1Uulway,
and a hit of slash -blue w611 at the top.
11•.wn the steep Hight a %wird, tiolldel-Pd
DARE HE?
OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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4.11 \1'TGI3 XXXVI.
J m s first care on returning to his
betel i; to ascertain that the departure
UBuunan► Ithirn has really taken
place. and, having been reassured on
this Joint, retire; to his own bedroom to
r(rototoitre the terrace, upon which it
Mies. The Dun has long drunk up the
rain from lite tiles, and Ilio chairs have
been set out again. The motel guests, in
all the sociability of their after -luncheon
mood. are standing and silting at out..
'1 he widow- ee adman. with great piny of
eyelesee and lilt, i, pacing up and down
ua arch C.Ilwerant.•e' with her habitual
vk tm. Sual.•hc; of her alluring talk
t'eaeli Jim behuul his muslin curtain us
se. comes and goes:
"I think That caged birds ought to be
loved 1" "The prophet was a wise ratan,
was not he? he knew a little about us,"
etc. •
In her usual place, aloof from the rest
et the company, Elizabeth is silting in a
clinging while gown of some woolly
sluff. With a dainty while kerchief
twisted about her trend, and a bundle of
many-tinteri Eastern stuffs on her knees,
Flo look.; like a little 'tourney. Now and
again, a.; fragments of the widow's siren
~train; read' h•'r ears, he sees ler lips
curl up into delighted laughter ; but, for
the most part, sho seems to be looking
round rather uneasily, • as if seeking
something or someone. Can it bo Wei-
bel( that she, in her innocence of being
observed, is on the watch for? Me hies
no right to be playing the spy on her
111 any case-. It Ls clear, that, dressed as
she is, site cannot be meditating going
out. Ilo must not f•igl►ten ler by any
too direct or sudden attentions. In n
little while the other occupants of the
terrace will drift away, and he will stroll
Cut and join her, and together they will
'welch the shade of the licus-tree length-
ening over the red Ilags. But she pre-
etertfy bafllce hie calculations by rising.
e tgd, with her rainbow -listed pile of
iteocade:s clasped in her slender arms,
• lowly pnsses into the house. Mas she
`eereated thither for good? and will ho
!lave to frame some new flimsy eeet.;e
fie' knocking at her door? But agent
he is out of his reckoning. for in about rt
quarl.•r of tin hour she re -issues, dressed
fur walking; and after Ono more linger-
ing. Sud. as 0 seems to him, distip-
[winded glance around her, Faces. a soli-
tary little figure, down the hill. Ile lays
tis watch before hiin, and having
counted live minutes on its dial -plate,
sets off 111 pursuit. Ile overtakes Iter
just as .110 reaches the point where the
ane debollcl)es into the higfuoad. She
Ids. lo. ! ing rather disconsolately,
rot up the hill, then down it, evidently
)
uncertain which direction to choose.
"You cermet make up your mind?* lie
ems, pausing beside her, and taking off
hi:. hal.
She gives a slight start, and a friendly,
',lensed smile rums all over her face and
up into her eyes --a smile that snakes
hint say to himself confidently that it was
ha whorl her glance had been seeking
on the terrace.
"Which do you advise?"
"1 advi e the town."
Ile has long known her teachableness,
6o► it is no great surprise to hien that stto
RI once turns in the direction counselled.
"As 18111 going here thyself. will you
allow me 10 walk a little way edit you?"
11.' Inakeee the request with respectful
diffidence; end she. after ono small
trniblee look, evidently given to the
memory of her father, 11ssents.
They set off dewei the hill together,
the air, sharp after the rain --as sharp,
at least. as Algiers' stingless nit ever is
-bringing Ile color to EIiznbelles
cheeks, as she steps along light-hearted-
ly scarcely refraining from breaking in-
to n run elo\ii the steep incline. Iler
spirits are so evidently rising at, every
yard that he hazards itis next step.
"I ane going to see the Arab lawn ;
Mies 'Meat shy: that 1 ought."
"Site menti you to ask her to shote it
you :" cries Elizabeth, with a laugh;
14111 she was quite right --it is delightful;
1 aril Stile you will like it."
"You 11:1'e b.'en there?"
"erre once or twice: tint half so often"
-regretfully---"as 1 should like to have
been."
Dare he speak upon the last innocent
hint 1 Int while he is doubling she goes
M1:
"lou must take care not 141 lose your -
$4•1f ; it is Audi n puzzling place; all the
street; am exactly like each other."
"1 m do 1101 feel inclined to show the
pie ea) about it ?
Ile Ihrows out Ile suggestion in n
s••nu-Iwunleting voice..,; that 11 it heels
with obvious disapproval he may el
*nee 4‘1111draw it. She slops suddenly
sleek stall. and (Secs him.
".\r' )un speaking seriously? It
would lie very delightful; 14111 410 you
thin). 1 might ? Do you think 1 ought'"
she lifts her Dyes, widely opened, like
It child's al hearing of mine uileerected
Irrat, to 1111. Hew astonishingly clenr
eilltey are! and !env Curiously guileless !
.- 1,31 nal The least doubt that she will
...telly acquiesce in his (10010io•n, \ilieh.
ee.'r way 11 heel -4; and, for a second, 11
ei<)l enl.'nl of i•i ilallun edit her for her
rein bilit7 crosses his mind. She ol.g lif
to be nide to 1)6we an opinion of her awn.
\\'bile he hesitate+, she speaks again.
"It is just itte afternoon le do mem..
thing pleasant on," she say' wistfully.
and yet gaily too. "Oh. how good the
a.r tastes ! and how dearly 110t e the
rein 1" ---lifting her face with s.'isiluvc
hp, half open, as if to su:'k In his
berm.. to the great void luminary pour-
ing down his \i nt'ntlh through the pep-
p.'r-lr(t'n upon there. "Rill 1 will take
•• coir nil 104 ; 1 ktkow of alit" w ill, a
Itpretty flattering snails --"that you always
gee g.xxl ads -We. Ile you think that 1
(rigid- ego y0tl really think Chet 1 oiielit "
leo throws conscience t0 the w nide.
and although not two hours ago Ire hod
professed to Cecilia iiis inability to de-
cide upon the propriety or cup ropriely
4.1 any given course of female action,
new uuswers Willi an tensest brutal deci-
siveness :
"I do not think that there 1, the snwll-
est doubt about it."
A relieved look crosses her (vileness.
"Then 1 am sure it is all right," she
tees, with u joyful surrendering of her
judguuelit into his koeping, and so, once
again. steps along with her quick feather -
light feet al his side.
For the moment she is the happier of
the two. since he is not perfectly pleased
either with 'Outsell or her. It is in vain
that be tells himself that it Ls no babe
whom he is beguiling ; that, difficult es
it is to believe it, those limpid eyes have
looked at the sun for seven -and -twenty
years. Ile still has a lingering sense of
discomfort at having u'.ailed himself.
for his own profit, of her docility. And
yet, live minutes liter, he fake; yet fur-
ther advantage of that quality in her.
They have reached tho Plateau Sauliere,
and rho stand of flame: that "elation -
merit" there. Jinn pauses.
"11 Is a good distance to the Arab
town, I fancy, and very tiring walking
when you get there."
"1l is as sleep as the side of a house;
we shall be like flies on a wall," cries
she delightedly.
"Il would be a pity to be too tired to
enjoy it before you got there, would not
it?' says he doubtfully, aid eyeing her
bright slenderness with an air of uncer-
tainty its to tier powers of endurance.
"Mad not we. bcller-would you tnind-
our driving there?"
"I am not at all tired." replies she; ''I
do not feel as if 1 ever should bo tired
!(:-day ; but if yeti think it better-"
Still he looks at her dubiously. To hien
there nl:pears to b•e a much greater de-
gree of the compromising in a 'etc -a -tele
drive Than in u walk. In the ono case
11;o meeting may have been accidental ;
in the other the 1 can be no mistake as
14) the delibe intention. But either
this (1w:; no. strike Elizabeth, or she
thinks, "In for a penny, in for a pound;"
or, lastly and most probably, having
gisen up her judgment into his keeping,
she finds It easier 81141 most natural to
acquuaCe in whatever he may propose.
The ungenerous th11ught flashes 01,•1.11.1
bin that if this is the principle on Mesh
she has guided her life, it is small won-
der if she 'have made shipwreck of it.
Ile hails a nacre, and silently hand, her
ie, and again they are off.
Elizabeth hos disclainied faligue, and
yet the restful position is evidently
agreeable to her delicate body : and she
thanks him so gratefully for his Thought
of her that his hart) thoughts of Iter des -
solve into retnoree, and by-and-by
cl►unge ludo arcenjoyment almost aS en-
ter.: and uncalenlaling as her own.
Eliznbelh has a'toni.4hing powers of
enjoying herself. If he lied not known
that fact before, the afternoon would
have revealed it to him.
She must hare driven through the
Fren•'h town almost every day .since her
arrival. and yet its cheerful white -shut-
tered houses, els boulevards of glossy -
leaved Ficus-trees, its cafes. its acceded
streets with their polyglot promennders,
vim 10 fill her with as lively a pleasure
ne if she had but just landed from the
slebntboat that brought her.
The three Spates, eternally silting in
n row on a bench outside some general
officer's quartets. robed in their great
red cloak., with inuelin-swathed sw•arl
bends 111141 long roil -leather hoots, dimly
descried beneath the stalely sweep: of
their mantles. selling there motionless,
solemn and silent as Ihe rale. ; a yen.
erabde Arab, only lo be distinguished
from Abraham or Isaac by his carrying
11 vulgar brown umbrella ; a short Kw,
tele 84131 111 hack view', w1111 his nope•
bound headdress, his brown -and -while.
striped frock. and his bare riot legs,
striding ming. looking exactly like a
ludicrous and ialelicati' old w0111811 ; rt
Itiskrnh water -carrier, p.,ising a great
b'.rnishel (4,pper pot on las shoulder' ;
two tittle boggy-Ineiserd while, Indies
waddling along; a dozen of smart blue
1 nrcos. She is 0111111urd w'i111 thou
all
'Flies le•tve their iia 're in the Place de
II (Ahern -Rte. and enter upon the tugs.
brinier reeissee, of the Arab towel. Up
mut (hien endless (lights of step,, up
street after nireet--it streets they can be
called. that are nut wider than a yard in
their widest part -and above !heir he'nd.,
the railer -supported houses leen to.
gethcr, letting scan: n glint of daylight
drop down upon the dusky path far be•
low,
They Lass niched ik,orw8)., with
pretty designs in plaster --doorways
whose dinars open inward.; upon tu)'s-
leriour interiors --house or enure, or
mosque or \bm•abe. .\Il along stand Lim'
steeps, like wild-beael dens, as for 110
light and space go. lit only by the tem-
pered light --in reality. only semi -dark-
ness -)hal enters in front. How can
they 000 fu work -plait straw, for in-
slance? as the three elsireblaek negrw's
a' • doing, upon whom they stare in.
. T1 (1 meet the ground. The turban:,
and the i11 sashes, nil the burn.u,s
glinun. r e111 of the little diol frenlage.,
where ehfru►'ttg piereed•l•rass el.wuish
Innups hang aril swing ;deft ; ;.n.f tempt•
ing piles of dully oplendid brocades and
bright gold lun►ineh'e) grimes gb'nm
trait 111•' crowded 91101viss.
T114' n r:. w streebIcts are full of un•
1os:•)'. s ing, Iia•lerll, hideol.s o
n0gr . n uui like utunk0)s. Idleld
.\nabs sale • .: along in their lazy
genet. drop. b : ;.e Greek slalucs. eitun-
irl sag along between the blue-w•ashe l
wnls. Met toe': in their effective varia-
tion ui.nn 1h.' blinding whilew'nsh 8s if
seen' .1 Ih0 sky.es.iou had ;Memel 411
upon them.
Jun and E' z. l '!t hate Yauael. u►
e octan es a udlhug, her u11i suse panta-
loons w•addbng awkwardly as she de-
e+eends.
Elizabeth .;land.: still, stinking with
I:lughter al the sight. Jun laugh, trx).
-There is no expense spared In mater-
iel there, is there? It would not be a
bad dres_; for a fancy ball. Did you ever
g,) 1.) a fancy hall as a Moorish lady ?"
Her laughter Lessens. though her face
is still alight with mirth.
"1 never was at a fancy ball."
"'ever?"
"Never ; 1 never was at a ball in my
'the"
Iter laughter is quite dead now.
"Never at any ball in your life!' n. -
peals he, his surprise betraying flim into
one of !hose flights hack into the past
1..: which she h►as ah'.uys showed such
repugnance. "Why, you used to love
drawing Madly ! 1 remember your danc-
ing: like a dervish. \\'hate more. l re-
►u(•mlh'r denting with you."
"011, do not remember anything to-
day !" cries she, with a sort of writhe in
her voice; "do not let either of 1.; re-
nu'mber anything! Lel u; have u whale
hclida)' from remembering!"
So saving, etre moves on meekly ; and
yet with the dance gone out of hear feel.
It never quite conies bark. They look
into an Arab club, \-hero men are squal-
ling. playing with odd-looking cards and
drinking muddy coffee. 'Then a loud
noise of jabbering )'hung voices makes
them perp in 111)011 an Arab school,
where a circle of little Moslems is sit•
ting on the ground, scribbling Arabic on
slates; while between the knees of the
turbaned master a tiny baby scholar, of
three or four, is standing in a lovely dull
green cootie'. Elizabeth strokes rho
baby -learner's copt-ery cheek with her
light hand, and say., with a laugh, that
P. seems odd to sen little street boys
writing Arabic; but her laughter is no
longer the bubbling. irrepressible joy -
drunk thing it was be(ure he had in-
dulged in his tactless remiuiscenee:s ; it
the well-bred, civil, grown-up sound
Alia) so often has no inside gladness to
Match il. 111 his vexation with himself
for the clouding over of his little Inemcu
that he himself has effected. he ties to
persuade himself that it 10 caused by
101(11ly fatigue.
"If 1 were askd." he says. by-and-by,
looking down affectionately at her pallid
profile, "1 should say that you had had
about enough of this; your spirit" -
smiling -"is so ver$' much too big for
)•cur body that one has 10 keep on e)'0
upon yeti."
"Il would not he much of a spirit if it
were not," replies she. with a pretty air
of perfectly sincere dis):aragenlent of her
ow•11 slight prop)0! tions ; "1 know That 1
look a poor Ming. but 1 um rather a
fraud : 1 do not lire easily; 1 11111 not
lined now."
"Bored, their?" with a slight accent of
pique. ,
She lifts her sweet look, with a sort
of hurry id denial in il.
"Most distinctly not."
"You would 1..1, to go on, then?"
"'1.:s.".
"Or back?"
Shue hesitate., her eyes exploring las
with. as he feels. a genuine anxiety 111
it to discover what Ins awn wishes are,
sit that her decision may jump. with
them.
"1.:; -perhaps; 1 have really no
choice."
Ito loth looks at her and speaks to
her with u streak of exasperation.
"Do you never have a will -a prefer-
ence of your own?"
It is evidently no unfamiliar thing to
her to be nddressel with causeless leer
lability. The nw•olleetion of her father's
lone In speaking lo her flashes back re-
morsefully upon tin's memory. Is he
himself going to lake n leaf nut of That
book ? It would be a relief to hits were
she, to answer Iiinl .slinrply ; but to do
that is apterrently not within her capa-
bilities. though the lender red that tinges
her cheek shoes that she has fell In:
snub.
"In Ibis case 1 really lure not." she
answers gently : "but 1 dare say ilial it
was tiresome 0' me not to speak more
(hiCidedly ; let us ---Ice us" --another
swift mid apparently quite Involuntary
glance at him lo see that she is not,
niter all. running counter to his incline-
lic:n.•1--"let us go helm!"
So they go home. II ie near sunset -
ting as they drive along the Boulevard
d' la Ilepublique. the Iltling end to so
princely a day. Al the (luny the moored
vessels lie. their masts and spurs making
a dark design against an ineffable even-
ing sky of mother-of-pearl and Irani
lucent pink. The sea, which In -day has
riot been of sapphire. but of "watcher
blue." pierced and shot with while, now
copies exactly the heavens. I1, too,
61:6(108 (rota opnt to translucent pink.
flow many chatiges of raiment there are
i1► the wardrobe of the great wet
mother !
:to be CUnli1111ed),
AN I\SINI' eTION.
"Tell me. Fanny, how nmch would you
give to have blonde hair like miner'
"I do riot know. How much did you
gi`-e:".
"So you w'nnt a genera) r.rllstrihl•
tent of wealth?" "I the" answered the
nem with sehcmes for reorganizing; so -
" 0» what plan?" "On n plan
that would enable me l0 get rid of n
lot of things i don't want. and to g(•1
lesss.'6cion of la number that I lime
liken n fancy to.''
110\Ili (:OLLIa TIONS.
I wasn't but a little boy
\\l,en 1 ue.11ectei butterflies;
\nd fleet I look to postage stamps.
And then cigar bands eere the prize.
I trail a lot of birds' eggs, leo,
And hors►hoes-some were red with
rust.
My hornets' nests were thrown away -
The maid said they collected duet.
But mother whispered not to mind,
For she had a c)lle cion, too,
And showed Ila just the queerest lot --
A baby's cap, a entail pink sloe.
A rubber cow, a yellow curl,
:\ ragged book of A 1.1 C,
A letter, thick with blcils, 1 wrote
\\'hen elle was once away from the.
1 wouldn't give a quarter for
The stuff. but mother thinks it's tine,
And only laughed when I remarked
II wasn't valuable, like nine.
But when it conies to keeping things,
She gives ole pointers. you can bet !
1 sold or swapped mine long ago.
But mother Iters her rubbish yet !
-llarper's elagazine.
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A SIGN OF '('111: SKIES.
(By a Banker).
Historians inform us that tine Emperor
Constantine the Great. then it heathen,
previous to the commencement of the
bullle which gained for him his crown.
, P tier
• . s , r e. ' id -air 0 la s
saw .-u pent 1 in rtg,
crus; and that after the victory lie be -
crane a convert to Christianity and
adopted the sign of the cross us his
badge. And probably from lime to time
this natural -probably electrical -phe-
nomenon has been observed, though of
course in these days of education and
enlightenment the 7slralge spectacle is
not viewer( with the alarm and terror
which it evoked in the days of heathen-
dom, or in the dart: ages of mediaeval
superstition.
A beautiful instance of this startling
phenomenon. which the writer w•IL; for-
tunate in witnessing. oceurred in the
0011111 of Ireland in the early nineties.
Ife was driving along one of those lovely
coal roads which it would be difficult to
,match for natural beauty in any part of
the world. On each side of the road was
n high and picturesque irregular hedge;
no: trimmed down in a lung straight
line by the vandal hand of those who are
despoiling 1110 country of its beauty and
r(:bbing the landscape 0f its greatest
charm, but a luxuriant festooned and
garlanded sylvan copse: here a tasseled,
feathery spray of travellers joy; hero
a wreathed chaplet of racemes of the
brilliant and handsome scarlet berry of
the black bryony ; or here a tall bush
of the striking and somewhat rare wild
enonynits, every bough loaded w•il11 its
lovely rose -pink and orange triple ber-
ries. .1nd now at a turn of the road the
sparkling sea -scope bursts upon the
view, the road soon skirting the sea-
shore, the fontn of the breaking waves
almost reaching the rock -protected bon
clei of the road.
But far more beautiful, and far more
w-cnderful, suspended over the sea at an
elevation of tint more than twenty' de-
grees, and suddenly starling into clew•,
glows n large and gleaming cross, clear
and distinct. though in full noonday ;
not rectangular, but shaped somewhat
like Sl. Andrew's cross. And there it
bans glisteningin a pale lambent
g 1 Inwb n
glow -though had it been nigh) it would
doubtless have shone with u brilliant,
quite dazzling lie --until soon it faded
away. leaving a memory never to .be
dimmed, never to be forgotten or obliter-
ated.
Aye. and what does the cross mean to
Iles world? An enianeipatiun from the
crueltie a and the horrors of heathen -
dem ; a free pardon to all .who w 111 nc-
cepl the Great Atonement made by the
Son of God thereon ; and an eternal in-
heritance for all believers, in a realm
of surpassing joy, never eliding plea-
sures and iiconceiveble glories and
fele:cities.
--4-
PI 1I1, POINT AND i'A'I'1105.
If a woman can make plans for nn
(lent, there is no pleasure in it for her.
Gratitude is all right, but it is 11
mighty poor substitu.le fur real friend-
ship.
Ileal merle doesn't need the services of
am alliance agent to unnourr:e iLs conn-
ing.
it is mighty easy 10 convince any ratan
Ihut he isn't appreciated at las true
wor•Ih.
happiness incrca.ee for you the theiet
you shower it down upon your fellow
motInl.,.
\\'hen n man loonsts of his candor, it
i
that e• it t . n signh t h Its ik that knee -•king is
n vir1u.•.
Credit is something everybody wane,
14) give a mile when they know he doe..
n need tl.
The smallest room fs larger then all
oul doors when a loved one Ieawes you
alone in i1.
If n man es really doing something in
the world. he hasn't much time for to.
nag
it over.
Iteral religion is 0c►nteltting more than
gelling up Sunday and going to church
le the rain. •
it is a pity there isn't a conscience thnl
will work before the sins inslen(1 of im-
mediately after.
'I'h.' slendy plodder generally manage+
to accomplish more Ihnn Ihe man elm
Is rcnlly brillinM.
11 is funny how confident most t:e1ple
ore that they can find a great 111011 by
'ricking in a mirror.
A New Orleans woman was thin.
Because she did not extract sufficient
nourishment from her food.
She took Scott'., Emul.,ion.
Result:
She gained a pound a day in weight.
ALL DRUGGISTS, 50.. AND !11.00
6.440000000.04000
INF 1111E STAN 111E11 "ADRIRiI"
Description of the Finest Steamship
in the World.
The finest steamer that has ever
crossed the Atlantic recently arrived In
New fork. Needless to say we refer
to tete new White Star liner Adrialie,
that splendid mammoth which has just
been completed by the great Itelfusl
shipbuilding firth of Marland and Wolff.
Biggest of all British twin-screw steam -
cis, lilted with every possible contt•ir-
1l1 0 for enhancing the comfort and
solely of !hose on board, superbly de-
corated throughout Iter passenger tic-
comntodatiun, the Adriatic may be said
to attain that reputedly unattainable
do gree -perfect ion.
She is not the fist ship of her name
which has sailed under the While Star
flag. Thirty -live years ago, when the
bile Mr. T. II. Isnmy was building up
tic world-wide reputation which 1 is
company has ever since enjoyed, there
was launched at Belfast the premier
Adriatic. That vessel, no doubt. was
regarded at the lithe as a wonderful
creation, but if placed alongside her
successor of to -day site would cut but
a sorry figure. Indeed, the contrast be-
tween the two boats affords so strik-
ing an illustration of the developments
which have taken place in the steam-
ship world that 'we will venture on 1
trio figures. The tonnage of the first
Adriatic was 3887 gross; that of the
second is 25.0110 gross. The dimensions
of the older vessel were: -Length 419
feet 6 inches; breadlh 40 feet 9 inches;
and depth 30 feet. Those of the new-
comer are: -Length 7:3 feet 9 inches;
breadth 75 feet 6 'metes; depth 50 feel.
The total number of passengers which
the first A4Irialie could carry waS 869,
whereas accommodation for 3,000 is
provided
A130.\III) '1'11E PRESENT LINER.
In designing the latest -addllion Io
their fleet the White Star management
nllernate panes of white and pale yet•
t.•w. blurted:0101) beneath the bottom
of the dome Is a frieze of paintings .1e.
heeling scenes in Switzerland, Italy,
the Rhiltelands, and the Yellow.+lune
Park. Instead of the old -fashioner) eons
tables, the up-to-date restaurdnl system
c( small tables has been adopted. ,in
innovation which should lend greatly
1ow•ard; less "slarchiless" and greater
conviviality at ileal -times.
For recreative purposes a handsome
piano, encased in oak inlaid wilht line
woods, has been placed in this saloon,
but the musical arrangements do loot
end here, for the Adriutic will carry
her own orchestra.
From the dining saloon we conte. in
the natural sequence of events, to lite
smoke tool'. an ideal apartment for
votaries of the weed. Its walls are
clothed with figured leather. and inlet
with pastures of events • famous is the
aerials of
Rltl'I'1�I I .Nr.\\'A1. HISTORY.
The windows are of stained glass, end
the seats and tables of mahogany. rhe
whole effect created being one of mellow
richness.
Not far away, and on the same deck
as the smoke room, is an apartment
known on board as "The Lounge." This
title . we consider, is far loo prosaic.
Picture a large and airy room, pannelled
in oak, furnished in exquisite Inste,
with the light Ijlleri ng through 'storied
windows, richly dight," People it with
graceful - figures, clad in the Iatesr
"creations" from Poris; scatter here and
there a few specimens of the mere man
ste11Ls engaged in ardent flirtation with
Ihe owners of the graceful flgures afore.
said. and you will have a scene w•hicti
s, erns to call for' something more ro.
mantic in the way of nomenclature than
that chronicled above. if we alight
11IE "Ab)lcl:\'1'IC."
have followed their well-kn•.wn policy
411 thercutghnoss. The most 1111111110 at -
I( Ilion has been paid to every detail
elect) can !nuke for additional comfort,
while a number of new features of high
in.pwrtance have been introduced. For
example, there are Turkish baths cn
beard the Adriatic. luxuries which now'
ninke their appearance afloat for the
first lisle.
'1'lley comprise the usual hot, temper -
tile, and cooling rooms, shampooing
rooms, plunge bath, unit massage
couches. They will certainly not suf-
fer from Inck of patronage. I1 is diffi-
cult. indeed, to imagine anything that
could more inaterielly a:alsl towards
relieving the monotony of a sea voy-
ago.
For more strenuous natures. for knee
who prefer n life of action to one of
the olilun Cunt dignilale order. there
is a livislily-Iltted gynulasium. From
the dining saloon en the lower deck an
e.eceeric )tit runs up to the boat deck,
calling at the promenade deAis (n
route. A "dark mini.'for amateur
pl.o!ographers has not been ot('rlooke.l;
whilst the usual borher'x•shop, with ell
111.' latest. improvements, Ls duly in evi-
(lcnt4
•.
tine great featune of the Adrinllc's
pas-eng.er neeonmiodation throughout
is its roominess. 'I'Ite great breadth of
the ship, templed with the eecepleinal
height between the various dec•let, has
tendered it possible to provide state-
ments of n size for in advance of any-
thing
nything to which the ocean voyager hal
tslherto been accustomed. ft rue 011se
of the Adriutic they are lefty, hell•
lighted, and ixerfe•aly ventilated; and
there is, moreover. the additional el-
tinction That no less than seventy-six
of Ihetn are
tiW a.l:-BEII'T11 100\ e,
is condition which eiery steamship
!leveller will npj)lsei:le to Its(' full. \\e
know of n0 011ier• v('ssel which ha,\nny-
Il.ing large n nuull.er, h n
w• come to deal with the decorative
acheihe of Ile' mei' ee lute Star liner we
ate confr ented ley a serious difficulty,
-- ! because. in order to give any really 8d•'-
(1;•:1te entre-,1nrt of 111e richness mid
es goner of lite apartments on boar.)
this grand wr.,e'l. we should regnil+,
!la• assistance 01 color' -d illuisit4 ,0
Nothing in Ihe way 01 pe1•pt"( 11 s
('1 mem bla. h:-nnd•wloile ph0togr:.p' (
net convey en) true idea of the 0un0p-
Ii1(.u, nl81111er in which Ihe 1881.4 of es -
tormenting the passenger quarters set
!semi the :\drialie tuns been ':arri.d
(4111.
\\'e w,ie lereesel. d., nue lest (o
..ketch out the salient fenlitres. The
firs) -class dining saloon. .flamed .
the upl'er deck and . \teniing nerve.:
Ihe full is idth of Ihe ship, Is pninl(41 i.1
hory•tvhile. overhead Royce is .e c'i,t
dente. (li(• leaded glass therein 1•'i1.g
%cnturo on a suggestion. we should say
that "The Turtle Dovecote" would to
n.or0 in keeping.
A third luxurious apartment on the
boat deck is the rending and writing
✓ ant, a eerein the studiously•inclin.vl
pa,.senger may beguile the time with
n book or bring his correspondence top
to date. Daintily decornled, panelled
with paintings after the styles of Balo-
1.,zzi. llotieher. and Cipriani, and fur-
nished in a fashion which is at once
e'eganl and comfortable, this delight -
fel reined. we should imagine. would
l.e the very spot wherein a prx'tieally•
minded bra'eller might invoke iii, \!IIsa
lo great advantage. Special attention,
by the way. has been paid to the light -
mg arrangements, tuovnblo elecfri0
lamps being provided for the benefit of
iltose who like to seek out quiet Cor -
here for themselves.
The second-class 8C.'0mnlodnlion nn
board the Adriatic is situated immedi-
ately abaft the frslylass quarter. It
includes a handsome dining saloon,
with seating accommodation t"r
persons. a smoke room and a Indies'
ronin. The decorative scheme through -
mit (hese apartments is of an order
which, not many years ago. would hate
teen regarded as e'c.'ptioually fine on
the first-eloss divi'iol of nn ocean lite
('r The Indies' room, for exomple. 15
ceilingetl with l.iucrusba, Il.ored with
pnr tietry. pannrllsd with inlaid satin-
wood. aha
f•UltNiel Il l) IN \IAIIO(i.\\1';
the smoke room is named in onk. with
e walnut dado and leather uphobslerv;
while the saloon is (bo'orat(d in whsle
and goad. Moreover. those little extra
conveniences which were 01100 regarded
as the special prerogative of the Ilr.st-
class passenger are here found making
their appearance In Ilio '.'coed-dlos..
quartera. such, for instance, ns n ben
bet's shop,
fie thint•cless nreonuu>,labiion ifI►nar1
the Adriatic is oilunt d. part of it awn
the second -cheer and putt forward. It
1'. specious. airy. and IIioroughly com-
f. stable 111 every way.
And now. hawing dea't w Oh indtvidu•
eel details in the er•ra11g,eu.eel of 11114
Mighty ves+e'i. lel us regard b, r for a
leo11u•111 as a whole. teilosal ti torr
1'. ortloll.. yet graceful in appear•
strong enough 10 defy the el.'•
• ie. in their rho -t bit r'ibb' tweets,
t i••d \it'll the lees! deli, :Ile amu) :n-
1 .• ate rimehinerv. ,•It.' repieeeels the
very lushest pm(hs l 01 era:us. n;'.t.•y,
end ling,• tion, rirt: c. 110r ne,sengers.
unless they look mor the side. need
h.erdly k.•o\i' that they are uIM .11. '111"
\larer,ui appnrnitc ke.'ps them in e' 1l-
lieeei; emelt with !h.' r. s1 of the 'cerel.
'11)(1 th.ry can, ,with n eery slight .31re.'!
c' ivaginnton. persuade Ihrvtir0i'. .
or ,1 Hwy are lit ing in source 1;'.' 1•t
c I) r•f It•e Whir.. where all L+ 1,..;l10,
( h crf•:1 .It.d refine(.