HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-11-3, Page 7FAIR WOME'S FANCIES
:Some New all Elegant Designs for
the Coming Winter,
WOMEN WIELDERS OF THE FOILS
The Season's Swagger Atestice—What 'Conte-
heepare Pellumait Noteao—Two r vireo
Farestan Faueles—Suntlay Meals -mow
to eery e etandererchter.
T the beginning of
the season it is dif-
ficult to say to
which idea the pub-
lic will be most
drawn. However,
there are some, gen-
erally accepted
rules of fashion in
ling, which seem to have been adopted
opposing houses. Felt is again to
1 the honor e of the season for hats ;
in and fancy felts will be used, cud
of the most stylise models a fiat
colored felt is draped over the crown
ked hat in black felt, with low flat
d wide, straight brim. The colored
ally either meux rose or bright pale
laid on the crown and arranged
cs the brim of the hat in
Series of regular flutings. The brim is
slimed up on one ride cud the only trim-
ming at e plume of blaelt and colored feath-
- ere, fastened in at the beck of the hat
with a stress buckle, and another bucele is
put in front. Black and green, either bright
cress, emerald or chartreuse green, remains
a very fashionable combination'and some
of the most lady -like hats are those of black
felt trimmed with a little cress green velvet
And black feathers tipped with green. Gray
and vieux rose is another favorite combine
-
tion, cad many nentral-tinted felt hats are
trimmed with tows of shot velvet and black
feathers. White felt hats will also be worn;
one of these, with a brim bent down a little
on either aisle, is lined and bordered with
dark red velvet; a large bow of the velvet
is passed through I% steel buckle in front,
am
and above this em a plume of three white
feather tips and a email fancy bird with
black aigrette tail -feathers.
Not all the new hats, however, are made
with low crowns ; the small, high Arlesi-
enne crown is still seen on many models.
'One of these, in ruby velvet, with the
brim straight in front, hut terminating in
pointed Reps behind and a eove the ears, has
a band of wide black Fan ribbon folded
fiat around the crown and oessed through a
long jet buckle on one se o. The brim is
bordered with a roll of Meek velvet, and
two black wings slope biles ward from the
front. The black velvet ate tugs are fastened
to the points of the brim each side with
small jet slides. A very e‘egant chapeau,
with a crown similar in sh . pe but lower, is
of green velvet ; the trimming consists of
tall loops of rather narrow black satin rib-
bon on the left side of the front, passed
through a steel buckle, with a plume of
pale green feathers and aigrette behind
them. The strings are also of black satin
ribbon.
Bonnets are small, but the trimmings
are wide in effect and all in front. They
are made of felt, velvet and embroidered
materials.
A very pretty bonnet is a small, fiat shape
in old gold felt, lined with blue velvet, and
tee ,rimmed in front with a bow the velvet,
end a piece of velvet passed through an
upright steel buckle, with a jeweled lopho-
phore feather on either side of it, in front
of the velvet bows. Bonnets of vieux rose
of white, gray, beige and other colored felts
are also made with pointed crowns, and
trimmed in various ways with leathers and
velvet.
Very strange are some of the fashionable
-ornaments for chapeaux; the autennm of
insects in jet or metal have been in use for
Immo time; to these are now added bats'
wings in white or black, quill feathers
Tainted, out and decorated in wonderful
ways, insects made of blue or green feath-
ers, often sprinkled with metallic or iri-
-descent powder, and many of them of
large size; besides wings, fancy feather
.ornamentse imitation birds and aigrettes,
which it is next to impossible to analyze,
so complicated and elaborate are theta
structures. A fashionable trimming for
felt hats is V. plume of four leather tips ;
three of these curl over the edge of the
brim ia front, the fourth stands upright
behind them.
A vary beautiful bennet for carriage or
-evening wear has the pointed crown of
gold passementerie, the top being closed
with a lozeage•shaped jet about two inches
;etyma. The brim ie of three-eighths of
Tallow velvet on the cross, folded in two
•or three fiat folds at the sides and pulled
in front into a full and broad effect. In
front, just above the velvet puffe'is a bow
of No. 9 black ribbon velvet; ties of the
same stare from under this bow and knot
up the ends of the yellow velvet at the
back. A dainty mountain of ostrich and
.antennse in black is placed on the left
lamer the front. A very simple, effective
and certainly becoming bonnet, that can
,slifbe reproduced in a dozen good combine -
tions.
Women as Fencers.
This winter, says the New York World,
popular exercise among young women who
want to keep their muscles at good tension
and their blood in active circulation will be
fencing. Last .year everything went to
skirt dancing, both on and off the stage.
Private exhibitions to a "selected few"
were not uncommon affairs in polite society,
and every sort of a dance from the slow
writhe of the Spanish maiden to the lively,
rackety kicking of the Gaiety girl was in
.order. Fencing will be revived this year
and practised more than ever before. This
accomplishment is quite common among
the French and German women, and some of
them are as skillful at it, as their big, lithe
brothers who fight duels for honor's sake or
choose that way of settling difficulties with
troublesome classmates at the university.
Fencing cultivates the eye to quick action
and the mind to ready thinking, All parts
of the human frame, from the brain to the
feet, are in constant motion all the time.
'The tension never relaxes so long as the other
fellow, ot girl, stands with foil in air.
You don't know what minute you're going
to be jabbed in the ribs or elsewhere, and
that's what keeps you constantly on the
,gui vette.
Womb find most difficulty in cultivating
strength in the wrist. Their bodies are
supple enough and they are quick enough on
their feet, for all that they have learned in
the ball -room. But a woman's wrist is pro-
verbially weak, and it takes a mighty lob of
work to make it strong.
The fencing costume of a woman consists
of a wide% a pair of pantalettes and a skirt,
They are all made of the lightest material
and fit loosely. The skirt and pantalettee
only come to the knee, and stockings shoeld
only be worn to Within three inchee of the
knee -cap, so as tie permit of that bending
freely at all times. Such a &Mimic made
of blue serge should not cost more than $10,
Suits of fancier .material would, of course,
mime higher,
For the implements of warfare, the foils,
ordinary kind, the outlay is $t, the meek
$2 50, the gloves $3, the shoes $5. This
makes the eater° outfit about $25,
Sarah Bernhardt, by the by, is one of the
finest fencers inthe world.
One Way to Dry itandkorehies.
It is not the washing but the drying and
ironing that is .so disastrous to the beauty
of fine handkerchiefs, which, unless great
care be taken, soon become sadly draggled
and worn. A mese sensible plan, and one
which is being adopted by the mist elegant
women, is to superintend the washing of
your handkerchiefs by having in your
boudoir a small basin especially set aside
for the purpose, in which the dainty pieces
of lace and cambric may be washed with
your own hand, Then comes the drying,
and, thankto some womanly genius, thie
MI be easily accomplished. A hatalker-
chief-drying glass is so easily made that it
is within the reach of all. A square piece
of glass larger than handkerchiefs is bound
with ribbon, upon which some suitable
motto is worked, and silk eordsevvn securely
on the two upper corners suspends the novel
affair. After washing your kerchiefs, rinse
well and then stretoh them, one at a time,
upon the glass, patting them down smoothly
and picking out each scallop and corner
with Care. Hang the glass in a draught,
and in a ehort while you will find your
handkerehief exquisitely dried.
The Fashionanie combine
Cotillons are still likely to be in favor,
though the gavotte was the swagger dance
in Paris last year and will gradually skip
over in this direction. There is no use talk-
ing girls dearly love the cotillon bemuse of
the favors, and the gavotte, sans sashes and
sachets, feathers, dowers and finery, will
.never take its place with them. Costume
cotillons and dinners are to be the fad both
with the exclusive set and general society.
Novelty is the cry, and something more ex-
citing than the regular large dinners and
dances, however elaborate and extravagant,
is demended. As to the professional musi-
oaks on a very costly scale, as given at
some houses the last season or two, they
have ceased to be novel and are felt
to be absurd. So many of the guests
who have attended them would not
even pay a couple of dollars to go
to a precisely similar performance if
given in public. It is devoutly to be wished
that the women will not persist in wearing
long gowns whatever character they may
select to personate. As very deoollete cor-
sages are habitually worn at dinners and
dances, this is quite apparently only an
affectation of modesty and fairly destroys
the effect of many costumes. A very ex-
cellent plan to be adopted would be for a
number ot the youthful matrons to commit
together in advance' and then for twenty or
more who happenedto select such fancy
dresses appear together in this fashion.
Now each is afraid that her skirt will be a
little shorter than her neighbor's.
Pretty Minus from Farts.
A quaint, momentary fancy in connection
with evening gowns is to have great sleeves
of daintily -tinted lace, fitted so as to push
up upon the arm in many folds while the
ends are mitts through which the' hands
show prettily. The idea carried out in a
black lace gown over a:deep gold -colored
silk slip, is deliciously pretty and wonder-
fully becoming to olive -skinned women.
Two-thirds of this season's full-dress
toilets will partake, more or less, of the
Empire revival. Of course, women with
long, slender waists naturally resent the
departure; but fashion is arbitrary, and
they will be forced to yield in the end.
For short or ill -shaped women the new
mode is a boon. Height and slimness is
imparted by the long straight skirts, and
else scrawniest neck is improved by high
sleeves and a short bodice.
In these Empire frocks the trains usually
spring from the shoulders, and, where the
stuff is soft, ibis plaited in a multitude of
fine folds, to spread like a fan as the wearer
walks.
When lace is used, it is usually colored
either gold, silver, a deep tea tint, or else
to match a hue prominent in the gown.
MENU.
SUNDAY, 001..23.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit.
Oatmeal. Sugar and Cream.
Kidney, Terrapin Style.
Saratoga Potatoes.
Sliced. Tomatoes.
Bolls.
Clear Soup. Coffee.
DINNER.
ROSA Bib of Beef.
Potatoes Baked with Meat.
Lima Beans. Cauliflower.
Mayonnaise of Tomatoes.
Cheese Straws.
Rice Meringue.
Coffee.
SUrritn.
Broiled Sardines on Toast. Watercress.
Cucumber Salad.
Preserves. Fruit.
Tea.
Sense Dainty Night Robes.
In a very elegant trousseau the night-
gowns are as much like dresses as possible,
and for hot weather they are even made
with no sleeves, the armholes bordered with
lace matching the lace jabot. Others again
are of silk and accorcloon-plaibed all over,
having a sash around the waist, a silk yoke
and plaited frills at the neck. Some have
belts of the same material as the nightgown
and frills turning downward from the neck
and opening in a V shape. Long hanging
pagoda sleeves are the fashion, and nearly
all have a frill at the hem. Rows of inser-
tion are introduced across the bust and
around the sleeves. Cardinal capes of lace
insertion are worn over the shoulders, and
lace frills at the hem.
Bangs Are Out of Date.
Brush your bangs back and wear your
hair low on your neck and be thankful that
nature has dealt kindly with you and left
you any hair at all on the top of your head
where you have twisted and tortured it for
so long a time. It is really a little more
trouble and ,one cannot keep her hair look-
ing well for many hours at a time with a
high collar rubbing against her braids Con-
tinually. By the way, if your forhead is
too high, you are Still permitted` just the
bit of fringe to soften its all too prominent
outlines, but it muse be the lightest and
softest bit and as far as possible removed
from the omnipresent bang which is really
and truly now a thing of the past.
To Clean White Garments.
Many women who are fond of wearing
white cloth garments are not aware that
they can be very easily cleaned with pipe
clay. The officers in the British army keep
the white in their uniforms spotlessly dean
by the use of pipe clay. This is rubbed
thoroughly into the fabric, then brushed
and dusted out until all stains and spots
are removed. In some instances it is
necessary to wet it. If Stainsare very bad
lb tnay be made into a sott of paste, laid on
and allowed to become almost dry, when it
will rub and brush out very readily. White
shoes of undressed kid are easily cleaned
in this way, anti this, indeed, is almost the
ply method by which they can be made to
look well.
The Two—Which ?
sioW TO BRING 'DOWN A SON.
Let hint have plenty of spending money.
Permit him to cheese hie owe companions
without restraint or direction.
Give hint a latch -key and allow him to
return borne late in the evening,
Make no inquiry as to whore and with
whom he spends his leisure moments,
Give him to understand that manners
make a good eulestitute for morality.
Teach him to expect pay for every act of
helpfulness to other.
HOW TO mem, vp A SON.
Make henee the brightest and rneetattrac-
tive place on earth.
Make him responsible for the perfoeneance
Of a limited number of daily duties.
Talk frankly with hint on mutters in
which he is interested,
Sometimes invite his friends to your home
and table. Take pains to know his asso-
ciates.
Encourage his confidence by giving ready
sympathy and advice. Be careful to impress
upon his mind that making charaater is more
important than making money.
A MILK
What It Will Do for the Most Delica
Stomach.
The use of milk and eggs as a diet or an
aid in building up a patient is often a trial
to the nurse,
Many patients will take milk slightly
warm, or even hot, and digest it readily,
when milk causes distress.
Ibis an excellent plan, says the Nurse, to
rinse the mouth with cold, cool or hotwater,
ite preferred, before and after drinking
milk. The taste left in the mouth of many
persons after a drink of milk, especially A
small quantity, often causes the patient to
dislike it.
The secret of success in giving milk and
eggs to those who would rather not take
them is to prepare them in different ways.
For a delicate stomach the white of the
egg, well beaten, added to hot or cold milk,
sweetened to taste, will often prove tempt-
ing, when even the sight of the yolk with
the milk is unpleasant.
After atime a little of the yolk may be
used, the white of the egg being added last
and not stirred into the milk, but left at the
top of the glass for ornament.
With careful preparation and a little
ingenuity the mixture can be varied. A
champagne glass is of a convenient size for a
small quantity, and Ibis better to offeraper-
son a wineglass full than a cup or glees full
when only part can be taken.
A sick person likes to empty a dish. It
is better to repeat a small quantity than to
take more to the patient than he can use.
A soft-boiled custard will prove a pleasan
change from raw eggs and milk. This may
be made tempting with white of egg.
now to Fumigate a Room.
The proper way to fumigate a room, says
the Journal of Bealelb, is to close the doors.
windows, fireplace, etc., paste strips of
paper over all the cracks. Fumigation by
burning sulphur is most easily accom-
plished.
Two pounds of sulphur should be allowed
for every room from ten to twelve feet
square.
It is better to divide it up and put it in
several pans rather than burn the entire
quantity of sulphur used in one pan. To
avoid the danger of fire these pans should
be set on brides, or in other and larger pans
filled with water or with sand.
After pouring a little alcohol on the sul-
phur and properly placing the pans about
the room,, the farthest from the door of
exit should be lighted first'; the others in
order.
The operator will need to move quickly,
for no one can breathe sulphurous fumes
with safety.
After closing the door, the cracks around
it should be pasted up, as was done within
the room.
Six hours, at least, are generally, neces-
sary eo fumigate a room properly; at the
end of that time it may be entered and the
windows opened, and they should be left
open as long as convenient, even for a week,
if possible.
After fumigation, a thorough process of
cleansing should be instituted. At least,
the walls and ceiling should be rubbed dry;
much the better way is to whitewash and
repaper.
The floor and the woodwork and the fur-
niture should be scrubbed with a solution of
carbolic acid or some other disinfectant.
A Dialect Story.
"I wish to gracious," observed Constant
Reader, with some display of warmth,
"that editors would quit printing these
confounded dialect stories. Here's one I
can't make head Or tail of, and I doubt if
anybody else can."
" Let me see it, dear," cooed Mrs.
Reader.
" Oinat's of no use. If I can't make any-
thing out of it, you don't suppose you can,
do you?"
"Perhaps not; but I'd like to see it, all
the same."
He handed her the paper, and this is what
she read:
"Toilet of fancy foulard. The corsage
crossed, and of guipure. Little sultene vest
held in by barettes of velvet with bows.
High sleeves of foullard, terminated in
volants of guipure. Plat skirt trimmed
with a high volant of guipure, surmounted
with bows of velvet.— Puck.
Another Ilse for the Onion.
A veryconvenient mucilage can be made
of onion juice by any one who wishes to use
it. A good-sized Spanish onion, after being
boiled a short time, will yield on being
pressed quite a large quantity of very
adhesive fluid. i
This s used quite exten-
sively in various trades for pasting paper
On tin or zinc, or even glass, and the
tenacity with which it holds would surprise
any one on making the first attempt. It
is the cheapest and best mucilage for
such purposes, and answers just as well as
many of the more costly and patent
cements. Some of the cements sold by
street fakirs at 10 cents a bottle consists of
nothing but onion juice and water, and the
bottle and cork cost a good deal more than
the contents.
" Let us take cotton as an example," ex-
claimed an uptown tariff debater. Or for
that matter, let us take tobacco. Or better
still, let as take whiskey !" And the chair
immediately declared a recess at the de -
hater's expense.
"I tell you Toenorrow,sor Alice lVforti-
!need Revenge' is a good book, though I say
it who shouldn't." "Why shouldn't you
say it is good? You didn't write it." "I
know it, my boy; but you forget I am a
professional critic."
It is said to be a new fad to omit punctua-
tion marks from your letters. But it isn't
new, Newspaper contributors have been
doing that for years.
Dootorn feeling, pulse of absent-minded
waiter—How are your kidneys this morning;
Absent-minded Waiter—All out, sir. How
Would a nice chicken liver saute dot
Professor Masson, of Edinburgh, remarked
on the 3rd inst. that soon it would be abeo-
lutely impossible to find a human being in
Scotland that eould not read and write.
Mamma—Now, Bertie, it didn't herb you
mudh to have your tooth pulled, did it
Bertie (crying)—Yesite it did. Mamma—
How did it hurt you? 'Bertie--When I had
to give hint my 50 cents,
WOUEN AS BOXERS.
%he Girl, Who Knocked out an, Athletic
Star.
"Every teembeeof my family is a boxer,"
said 'Richard Donovan to a representative
of the St, Louie O/c/be-Democrat. 44 Box.
Jug is, with the exception of walking, the
finest exercise in the world. If everybody
would take a brisk walk of two milee in the
Morning and Pound the sand -bag for a quars
ter of an hour in the afternoon, doctors
would die of starvation and drug stores
would have to depend on their soda -water
and chewing -gum trade.
"They would not helm So much call for
patent compleXiOUS, for there is nothing
like healthy exercise to take the jaundice
out of a woman's skin and hang out the red
streamere of heelbh in her cheeks.
Boxing builds a woman up, rounds her
arms, shapes up her her shoulders cud gives
her a more graceful carriage. It also makes
her more supple, confers on her that lissome
grace of which the American Rhymsters
rave. But a women who boxes should
always be careful to prated her breast with
a good thick pad. A woman cermet stand
much of a thump in the chest,
" When women once overcome their
natural timidity—when they learn that a
biff on the nose with a soft glove is not
necessarily fatal, they make good boxers.
They are very quick, have a great deal of
tact and will stand considerable thumping
when once warmed to the work,
My wife;is quite handy with the mitts
and I have a 19 -year-old daughter that
could whip a carload of dudes, She has
practised until she has become an expert
striker straight from the shoulder, and thet
with the foroa of apile-driver.
Au athletic combination visited our town
recently (we live in Cedar Rapids), and I
took my daughter to see the show.As we
walked home she expressed the opinion that
she could knook out the Star performer, and
I resolved to give her an opportunity. I
invited him to dinner next day, and took
care to have several friends present to enjoy
the sport.
"My daughter discussed boxing with our
pugilietic guest—a well-known welterweight
whose reputation I will not mar—and he
offered to give her a lesson. The gloves
were brought out and he proceeded with
the lesson.
"lie did not proceed far, however, until
he found it necessary to crawl out from
under the piano. In the next bout she
broke his guard, got his head in chancery,
and wound up by seeding him crashing
through the glass door of a bookcase. No,
I don't subsidize a policeman to guard my
house while I am out on the road. '
SIR DANIEL'S DUVET=
To Become Read of an Order of Deacon-
esses in the Fnestisie Church,
Miss J. Sybil Wilson, only daughter of
the late Sir Daniel Wilson, and sole heiress
of his estate, valued at $100,000, has con-
sented to become head of an order of
deaconesses about to be established in
Toronto, and has granted the new order the
use of her residence, corner of St. George
tend Russell streets, for an indefinite time.
She has gone on an extended visit to the
sisterhoods of Great Britain and Germany
to study their modes of conducting chari-
table work and their interior management.
Nothing further will be done till Miss Wil-
son's return, when the order will be for-
mally established.
Some of the members of the faculty of
Wycliffe Cellego are the prime movers in
the scheme to establish the new sisterhood.
Funds have been coming in steadily ever
since the movement was set on foot, and all
that prevented them from formally estab-
lishing the order was their desire to put a
theeroughlY` trustworty person in charge.
The similar orders in. Eagland had experi-
enced more trouble from having unreliable
mother superiors than from any other fault.
Rev. G. A. Kuhring, Secretary of the Order,
says that he has no doubt that Miss Wilson
is the best person who could possibly be
obtained as heed deaconess.
The reports that Miss Wilson has sur-
rendered her right to any of her real estate
for the benefit of the Order and that she
has made cash donations are incorrect.
GIRLS NOT WANTED.
The Difficulties Which Beset linprotected
Meteel neteelFemales in New York.
I have been looking for a place to board,
and on the third day I have become im-
pressed with the fact that girls are not
wanted anywhere. In every place, after a
farce of references, I was put through such
catechism as this:
"Are you alone in New York ?"
"What is your business ?"
"Do you expect to see callers in your
room ?"
"Will you have a oat, a dog, a canary
bird or piano ?"
"Do you expect a night key ?"
Now, of course, I want a pass key. And
equally, of course, I prefer to see my
friends in my own room—the only home I
have, rather than discuss personal affairs in
a public parlor.
I evened up with one woman in great
shape. I calmly told her that I wanted a
guarantee that her house would be quiet,
with no wrangling of servants in the halls ;
clean and free from creeping things; that
the food would be wholesome and exclude
speckled fruit and tainted meats; that we
have clean napkins once a day, a sufficiency
of towels and fresh bed linen regularly, and
that the blankets and comforts slept under
last winter would be thoroughly renovated,
before they were given to me, etc. And
she was so astonished she couldn't get
breath enough to interrupt me.—N. Y
Recorder.
Precautions.
"Julia," said Dr Pillingoaret sitting
down at a table and glancing critically at
the various dishes 'placed thereon," have
the water and milk been boiled ?"
"And the forks and spoons and plates
newly scalded ?"
"Yes ; you can feel them hot yet."
"Is the table linen fresh from the laun-
dry?"
"Bridget rope at 4 to have it done in
time."
"You are sure she used the disinfectant
in washing eel directed?"
" Oh, yes • smell."
"Doyou 'think cook takes a thorough
bath every day,?"
"I can't say.
"Well, please take the Morning paper
out of the fumigator and let us have break -
feet. I suppeee one must take time chances
with these cholera germs."
Mist Jean Ligelow is now sixty-two
years old, and is described as a quiet, shy -
looking lady. She hes a pretty little house
in London, and is always very hospitable in
her treatment of those Who seek her out.
She is Still a hard worker, and her "saving
hobby" is the study Of botany and the cul-
tivation of flowers. Three times a week
she gives a dinner to twelve poor persons
just discharged from the hospitals.
Ii
hldti?th--"BWIenheeh—diodhy,ohneelgieomt so he'd riGaothoedr-
sit at home .0 bold my hand than take Me
to the theatre.
allTeeltele$ OF eFIGIIITER5.1
Food for Powder he the Next IiIk War.
Giving the countrim alphabeticelly, Auss
trie-Ifungery leads, with an active army of
875,000 men, a first reserve (Men who have
served their time "with the colors "), of
290,000 mein and a second r serve, of men
who have served their tin e in the firet
reserve, of 860,000; the grand total is
2 032,420 officers and men. Prance has a
war force of 4,169,472 officers and men;
1,124,000 are in the active army, 910,000 in
the field reserve, 956,000 in the first, and
1,176,000 in the second reserve. Germany
has 2,913,599 officers and men,nf whore 810,-
000 are with the colors, 405,000 in the field
reserve, 900,000 in the first and 799,000 in
the secone reserve. Great Britain has a
regular army of 136,482 men, a field re-
serve of 68,200 men, a first reserve of 750,-
000, a second of about 224,000, and a total
on paper of 1.179,350. Italy has 925,000
men under arms a field reserve of 291,000,
a first reserve oi4,398,000, a second reserve
of 17,800, and a total of 2,522,314. Russia
has the largest standing army, 1,698,000 men
always under arms, with field reserves of
1,124,000, first reserves amounting to 1,101,-
300 men, 4,000,000, in the second reserve,
and a total of 7,914,000. Turkey keeps
155,000 men with the colors; but has an
estimated reserve of 617,000 men. As be-
tween France and Germany, some critics
expect France to beat Germany, The French
have watched every improvement made by
the Germans in military matters' and they
will fight for revenge. It willbe a great
war when it comes,—St. Louis Globe -
Democrat.
&footsie:Rad the Mystery of Life.
There are persons who imagine that,
some time or other, scientists may be able
to produce life in their laboratories ; but
the supposition may be laid aside. No doubt
all life at the beginning would, to a finite
observer, seem natural or spontaneous.
What is it that science reveal e as to life in
the universe? It is, that the worlds are
congeries of infinitesimal invisible atoms.
These atoms ate, everyone, centres of mo-
tion. The stars and dewdrops, simple life
and the highest, are the varied expression
of this marvellous action. A life -throb for
the whole visible, palpable world goes forth
every instant from the Invisible, Eternal
Energy; and as by a shiver of molecules, as
by a light, as by a breath, as by a touch,
no man knows how or why, there is life. If
scientists should, some time,
by a due com-
bination of substances withfavorable cir-
cumstances, by electricity, or by forces not
yet known, evoke life motion from dead
substance, they shall only have found some
little of that force, and of its work, by
which the Lord God made life at the begin-
ning. That life prophesied of all future life.
Its low state foretold the high. The present
condition preludes the future. Nothing
exists in vain • and as the germ, so will the
plant be; and only through ever-increasing
complexities the ultimate form is reached.
—Reynolds.
Royal Grandchildren.
Queen Victoria has a large family. There
are, besides her owe h leren, forty grand-
children and a rapidit • Teasing progeny of
great-grandchildren, hero are the grand-
children up to date : Emperor William,
Princess Charlotte, Prince Albert William
Henry, Prince Sigismund,Princess Victoria,
Prince Waldemar Princess Frederika,
Princess Sophia and Princess Margaret,
all belonging to theImpress Frederick.
The Vrince of Wales has five children,
Albert Victor, George,Louise Victoria, Vic-
toria and Maud.
The Princess Alice has seven, namely,
Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene, Ernest, Freer -
ick, Alia and Mary.
The Duke of Edinburgh is quite in the
shade, with only five, namely, Alfred,
Marie, Victoria, Alexander and Beatrice.
The Princess Christian has achieved only
five. They are named Christian Albert
John,Victoria, Louisa Augusta and Harold.
The Duke of Connaught has three, Mar-
garet, Arthur and Victoria.
Alice Mary and Leopold are children of
the Duke of .Albany.
The Princess Beatrice, dearly beloved of
her mother, has four children, Albert, Alex-
ander, Leopold Arthur, Victoria and a new
little prince that has just flapped its wings
over Balmoral Castle.
We Got the Idea from Pompeii.
Few people are aware that we are in-
debted to the people of old Pompeii, who
were all smothered in the first century of
the Christian era for one of the most
important industries of our time—the can
-
fling business. Years ago, when the first
excavations were made in that buried city,
an American came upon several jars of figs.
When they were opened they were found
to be as fresh and palatable as when they
were put up, eighteen centuries before.
Investigations instituted on the Benet proved
that the fruit had been put into jars in a
highly heated state, and that an aperature
for the escape of steam had been left in
the lid, which, when it had served its pur-
pose, was sealed over with wax. Yankee
ingenuity caught the idea at once, and the
next year canning factories were erected all
over the United States.
A Nice Arrangement.
Bride, after the return from the bridal
tour—I see by this medical work that a
man requires eight hours sleep and awoman
ten.
Bridegroom—Yes, I've read that some-
where myself.
Bride—How nice! You can get up every
morning and have the fire made and the
breakfast ready before it is time for me to
get up.
Pending the Scare.
"A Boston woman says punctuation is
unfashionable in society correspondence,"
said the Judge.
"And even the comma bacillus is frowned
upon," added the Major.
"I'm saving my pennies to buy papa a
Christmas present," said little Nell to her
aunt the other night. "What are you
going to buy him ?" asked her aunt.
• A great beg wax dolly that can shut her
eyes and say mamma," raid Nell.
Customer—Sey, bed to come back
with those slices I bought last night.
Dealer—Weren't t}."y tight? Customer
—'es; that's the treL.ble ; one of 'em Ought
to be left.
There is a dairy in England which is built
of Carrara ne Ode, hehted Iv electricity
and also supply,d wi ii eleetrie pbwer for
the separators end 'Thorns. Butter pro-
duced in this palatial establishment ought
certainly to be gilt-edged.
" We'll start a prison paper," said one
life convict; to another. , We Will, and
our motto Shall be, 'The pen is mightier
than the sword.'" "No, otir motto shall
be, We lotee come to Stay."
First 5t, ..eger—We must have a high
old time 4)1 Cif g our stay in New Yerk.
Where she wt go? Second Ditto—Let us
go and hear ono of the eensational preachere
and we will find out the best places to
It is strange but erne that the lottelier,a
WidoW is the more ohildten the hate
AN OLD SOLDIER'S
STORY
0eiftpr u. 5, Zleclioal Mea ta,11. Belie
Comes ErOM Oane,da.
The foilowiog letter tellthe tale of one
released from suffering, cud needs no com-
ment
1.. MICHIGAN SOLDIBR'S Hems,
. : 1
HOSPITAL Wenn A.,
Geetten RArins, March 27th, 1892.
DrWilliams' Medicine Co.
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24th, asking ate what benefit Pink Pills for
Pale People'and it gives me unbounded
satisfaction to ieitly. Within ten daye
after I began Weil% Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills those terribly excruciating pains I
had experienced in my limbs, Marto
stomach, back and head began to leave me,
becoming less severe and less frequent, oust
before I had taken all of the seconti mex
they were gone. At times since I have ex-
perienced aches, but they are nothing
compared to the pains I had formerly
suffered. For months I could get Do
sleep or rest, only from the use of mor-
phine, twe, three and five times daily.
Soon after I began taking the Pink Pills I
discontinued the morphine and have taken
it but once since, and. I am now taking my
fourth box of the pills. Before I began
taking Pink Pills I had no passage from ray
bowels except from the Use of cathartics.
Very soon after taking the pills my bowels
moved regularly and naturally---constipe-
tion was entirely gone. Previous to corn -
miming the use of Pink Pills my urine wee
milky in color and after standing resembled
a jelly substance. Now it is clear and per-
fectly natural, and shows noesediment what-
ever. I had lost the use of my legs and
could not bear the weight of my body on
them. By the use of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills and cold baths and rubbing with a
crash towel prescribed with them, my
limbs have steadily gained in health any
strength. until I oan now bear my full
weight upon them. I have been gaining
slowly but surely, ever since I began
the use of the Pink Pills and am perfectly
confident that I will be able to walk again
and be comfortable, and this after doctorkig
for years with the best physicians and
specialists who said my disease could not be
cured but only relieved temporarily by the
use of hypodermic injections of morphine.
I would not do without Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills under any circumstance, even though,
they cost ten times what they do, and I
strongly recommend them to persons
afflicted with locomotor ataxia, paralysis,,
kidney troubles, nervous diseases and im-
purities of the blood. I have recommended
the Pink Pills to a number of old comrades,
and in every instance they have proved
beneficial, can I therefore do less than,
warmly recommend them to all who read
this letter?
Yours very gratefully,
E. P. HawLEr.
Pink Pills are a perfect blood builder and
nerve restorer, curing such diseases as
rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis,
locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervoutt
headache, nervous prostration and the tired,
feeling therefrom, the after effects of la.
grippe, diseases depending on humors of the
blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas,
etc. Pink Pills give a healthy glow he
pale and sallow complexions, and are a.
specific for the troubles peculiar to the
female system and in the case of men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork or excesses at
any nature.
..ehese Pills are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Brookville,
Out., and Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold
only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark
and wrapper, at 50 cents a box, or 6 boxes
for $2.50. Bear in mind. that Dr. Virilliamrs'
Pink Pills are never sold in bulk, or by the
dozen or hundred, and any dealer who
offers substitutes in this form is trying to
defraud you and should be avoided. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all
druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company from either
address. The price at which these pills are
sold makes a course of treatment compara-
tively inexpensive as compared with other
remedies or medical treatment.
A Cholera Tragedy.
Banker's son, rushing into Dr. H's. office
—Oil, doctor, I'm lost I Our new house-
keeper has the cholera and—and—I gave
her a kiss this morning. (Rushes off again,
seeing his father approach.)
Doctor H. to. old Banker—My dear sir,
you must look after your son. Your new
housekeeper has the cholera and, as he
kissed her this morning—
Banker—What? Heavens, then I too am
lost.
Doctor H.—You too? Well any how
you surely were not so msd as to kiss your
wife after kissing that other--
Banker—Yes, but I did.
Doctor H.—The Lord preserve us I Then
I too am lost !--European Exchange.
what She Said.
Mrs. R. Peck, E. 15th street, New York
City, visited Canada last year, and had the
good fortune to pick up something which
not only suited her, but her neighbors also.
Writing the manufacturers of Nerviline
she says : "I bought three bottles of
Nerviline while in Canada and treated my
neighbors to some of it, and all think it the
best medicine for internal or external pain
they have over used." Nerviline deserves
such a commendation, for it is a powerful,
penetrating and certain remedy for pain of
all kinds. Take no substitute.
One Nice Dessert.
A delicate and delicious dish is made by
boiling one-quarter of a pound of rice in one
pint and a half of milk; to this add two
ounces of sweet almond, blanched, with
two ounces of white sugar. . Boil until the
rice is tender. Do not stir the rice but
shake the kettle in which it boils. When
done serve in cups, which have been fire'.
wet with cold water. Leave a apace on the
top of each cup so you may put a spoonful
of Jelly, with cream poured around it, or
the meringue made of the white of an egg
and sugar'or a chocolate frosting like that
for cake. This simple dish admits of great
variety in its decoration or in the sauce with
hick it is served.
WREN suffering from toothache use
Gibbons' Toothache Gum. Sold by all
druggists.
Anticipation is the seed of participations
and oftentimes the seed is the most pala-
table,
Bulfinoh—Er—good evening. Er --is your
daughter at home? MM. Greyneck—Yes ;„
come right in. My daughter, my little son
end my husband and myself are all at
home,
Mamma—This little bed they have sena
up itt a horrid looking ,pitee and all wrong.
every way. Little Stene --Say, mamma,
just bet it's a boycott what papa reads
about so muish.
Mike—Do you knew of anything thee
resembles the half moon -Pate- e be Sure
sure.'
,
Mike—And witatlithat eteethe