HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-6-1, Page 7FRILLS AND FURBELOWS,
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'Panniers Now ThreatenDevelop
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into Farthingales.
Return of the Sedan Chair—Pretty Conceit
In Erubroidored. Stockings—Stiff Fronted
Linen Shirts on Approved !;Patterns—
Shaded Sunshades and Parainbule ting
31ainboivs-9esien for a Brown Holland
Suit.
MATERIALS for the
corning eomon are lovely,
and are varied enough
to offer smart dressers a
good choice. The pret-
tiest are very pale hued
clothe, woven in fine
twill and very light.
These made up with
broad bands of delicate
colored mirror velvet
round the hem, each
bordered with a narrow
insertion of the new
thick make of lace and
with the bodice prettily finished with lace and
velvet, look quite dreesy enough for any oc-
casion. The fashions seems to be prepared
with a view to warm weather. The smartest
blouses are made entirely of chiffon. A girl
was seen wearing a skirt of very fine
black oanvaa with threerows of jetted inser-
tion let in at regular intervals. The bodice
was a blouse of very finely accordion -
pleated white chiffon, the pleats held in by
bands of jet insertion all down the bodice,
bank and front, and fitted into a jetted belt
at the waist) and collar at the neok. The
sleeves were in three puffs, with bands of
jet between each. It looked very dainty
and smart.
to disregard the reputed ill look abtaobing
to opals is on the increase, for these stoma
are test coming late fashion again. Several
recent brides have reoeived quite a number
of ornaments containing opals among their
wedding presents. Those ominous jewels
are much in favor for email brooches. Ia a.
brooch representing a tortoise the body
consist° of a single magnificent opal, while
the head, legs and tail are encrusted with
small emerafde..
THE COUNTESS' NEW I'ROOKS.
Hero is a lovely ball gown which has just
been made for the Countess of Dudley. Ib
is composed of white satin. The petticoat
and train are bordered with a band of satin,
forming the groundwork to rloh embroider-
ies of iridesconb beads, amethysts and silver
spangles. The bodice made with a wide
turn -back collar, stiff with embroidery
similar to that on the skirt, is purely Flor-
entine in style. Another gorgeous robe is
of peach -blossom satin, showered over with
spangles in mulbidinous tints of pink,
violet and gold. The Louis XIV. collar is
embroidered to correspond, and lying on the
hero of the skirt is a garland of chrysan-
themums, taking up the varied tones of the
spangles.
PRETTY STOCKINGS FOR PRETTY LEGS.
Now thab skirts are worn so mnoh shorter
than formerly pretty feet may occasionally
be Been, and tantalizing glances of ravishing
stockings are even obbained. The majority
of women will not gain by the fashion of
short petticoats, for if there is a weak point
in an Englieh woman's attire it is her
,chaussnre. Walking shoes will take the
place of boots this summer, obviously to dis-
play to advantage the elaborate stockings
which will form a part of every mondaine's
wardrobe. Daintiness is a characteristic of
the newest hosiery. The fronts of stock-
ing are designed with exquisite fioral de-
signs. Some are quite realistic. For in-
stance, a spray of mimosa meandering up
the foot and ankle of a black silk stocking
has the minute yellow flowers worked in
chenille and they look wonderfully like
nature.
RETURN OF THE SEDAN CHAIR.
A PRESID N !AL RECEPTION.
Da s'When the Great Unwashed Shake
Hands With Grover,
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six HUNDREDMAKESAN 1101111.
HE PEELS THE POTATOES,
The German Cook Must Begin at the
Bottom.
There are probably 150 schools for cook-
ing in Germany and Austria, the best of
which are at Vienna, Berlin and Leipsio. A
man who wishes to become a chef must
begin at the very bottom of the ladder -at
peeling potatoes—and work up round by
round to the top. A course of schooling as
strict as that of any polytechnic sohool in
this country must be followed for four years
before the student can get a diploma. Every
year competitive exhibitions are given, in
which as many as 200 chefs take part. The
chef who was employed at the White House
by Grover Cleveland, and who, it is rum-
ored, may be again, has a gold medal which
was presented to him by the Empress Fred-
erica for excellence in cooking, a silver
medal given by the King of Saxony, a
diploma from the Queen of Austria, and
numerous other marks of approbationand
honor won in competitive contests in cook-
ing. It is nob to be wondered at that Euro-
pean 000ks command extraordinary salaries
in this country.—New York iirortd.
The Cellular Principle In Life.
The mania for reviving bygone fashions
would seem to have reached its height when
sedan chairs are to be reinstated. Already
a Bond street carriage builder has reoeived
orders from several ladies and ere long, no
doubt, to ride in a sedan chair will be eon-
sidered the smart thing to do. The modern
chairs are built upon an improved principle.
They are more roomy than their predeces-
sors, and open at the side like a brougham
instead of at front. One specimen in process
of completion has panels painted green and
picked out with gold, while the interior is
upholstered in green silk. The framework
being entirely of steel, and the woodwork
excessively thin, the weight is reduced as
much as possible. The very name, "sedan
chair," carries with it a vision of powder,
patches, court beauties and the like, which
fact alone will commend this mode of loco-
motion to the notice of fashion's votaries.
LINEN SMiBTS AND TAILOR BUM.
Stiff -fronted linen shirts are once again
the favorites for wearing with severe tailor -
built suits. They look smarter than those
with only the collar and cuffs stiffened.
Some women wonder how it is that they
bulge or crinkle, while on other people they
seem bo fib quite perfectly. The reason is
that the wall -fitting ones aro made to meas-
ure. If a stiff front is an eighth of ran inch
too long it must bulge. If it is too wide ib
will inevitable crinkle, and the only way to
ensure success, is to have ib made to cor-
rect measurement and then to have it pro-
perly and very neatly belted. If anything
could have killed the shirt as a garment for
a smart woman, it would have been done to
death long ago by the dreadfully floppy, un-
tidy, ill-fitting, badly -appointed varieties of
it, showing a decided disinclination on the
part of the skirt to have anything to do
with ib bulging in the front and at the sides,
nob neat, and with a tie that has not an
idea of keeping in its place. Ib le this
burlesque of fashion that does ib to death,
but the shirt survives even that triumph-
antly.
SHADED SUNSHADES.
A Glance at the historic East 9toons—Why
Holly's Picture Mange There—Abeeeice
of ted Tape—Making the South Solid—
Women Politlelaus-The Man Erman
Wayback.
ASHINGTON without
seeing President Cleve-
land, would be a very
dull visit for the
tourist, so he thinks.
If only a glimpse, he is
glad. A handshake
and a " howdy do "
tickles him exceedingly.
But a regular " Dutch
uncle " shake, with an
inquiry after his county
or State by the man
who has attained the
Presidency of bhe
United Statee,traneports him to the seventh
heaven of delight. He reburna to his home,
no matter how humble, to tell how Grover
greets 'em.
Presidenb Cleveland may have been
severe with the politicians and office
seekers. He may have been imperious in
kb order that they return home at once.
But to the hundreds that call upon him
daily to pay their respects, asking nothing
and offering nothing, he mush be at leant
courteous and respeebful. It is therefore in
the regime of bhe president that all visitors
ahall be welcomed by •himself, personally
and' La proper order. As the
The latest phases of Prof. Virchow's
great discovery of the cellular principle in
all forms of life were explained in non-
technical language by that illustrious
pathologist recently to members of the
Royal Sooiety in London.
The miorosoope and other teats by the
great investigator have shown him that
every portion of animal or vegetable matter
possessing life abounds in vital cells.
The law of continuity of animal develop-
ment, he declared, is identical with the law
of heredity. The Dell is not only the seat
and vehicle of disease but also the seat and
carrier of individual life. In it resides the
vita propria ib possesses.
The property of irritability and changes
in its substance, provided these do nob de-
stroy life, produce local disease. DIsease
presupposes life. Should the cell die its
disease also comes bo an end. Certainly, as
a consequence, neighboring and even far
distant cells may become diseased, but as
regards the cell itself, its susceptibility to
disease is extinguished with life.
The new science of biology has nob
brought us a solution of the ultimate riddle
of life, but it has provided concrete mate-
rial in anatomical objects for investigation,
the properties, the actions and the passions
of which we can analyze.
To pathology we are indebted for the
knowledge that the opposition between
healthy and diseased life is not to be sought
in a fundamental difference of bhe two lives,
not in an alteration of the essence, but only
n an alteration of the oondlbions.
Rainbow effecte are the motif of most of
,the sun shades jusb now, and very pretty
some of them are. The silks are lovely.
Faintest amber fading into rose and purple
like the reflection of a summer sunset sky,
and there may be seen tender greens paling
'to delicate primrose. Black satin parasols
lined with softly-puokered rainbow chiffon,
are scarcely so effective as the preceding
ones. The latest novelty of all, a velvet
sunshade, looks unmistakably hot on a
sunny day. A shower, too, would bo very
disastrous in its results to a parasol of this
sdescription.
proper time. Then the look in the big door
clieke, attracting thereto all, respectful
attention. Bub ib does not yet open. The
door holds every eye for perhaps a minute,
then it slowly inward swinge.
one PRESIDENT APPEARS.
President Cleveland, with the alacrity of
a Jaen oub of the box, steps briskly for
some ten paaes and bows his head. The
orowd moves on apace. • As he stanne there
ready to do hie greeting, let the rotund
figure of the President be briefly described.
His dress is conventional blank, outaway
with bhe bop button fastened. A lay -down
collar with bleak cravat lies half hidden,
enoirollng hie fleshy neck. A heavy watch
pain lib only ornament. He wears no
gloves. A seal ring enoiroles the little
finger of his left hand; His shoes are broad
and well polished, bub not coarsely large.
Ae he bakes his position kb feet) are shifted
to properly balance his heavy body. His
right points straight bo the trout and bears
the weighb almost entire, for ehe body re-
clines, almost bent, and the head dropa for-
ward. The right foob extends at an Cagle
and serves as a prop to maintain the posi-
tion. The greeting begins.
" How do you do, Governor ?" and Presi-
dent Clevelaud extends a cordial hand to
ex -Governor McCreary of Kentucky, who
comes in to present a delegation from the
blue grass regions, not office seekers, how-
ever. They stop, introductions fol-
low and a moment is consumed in chat with
an exchange of Democratic compliments.
DAILY CALLERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
are numerous, estimated by hundreds only,
ib beooman neoessary for a systematic greet-
ing. This is in the nature of a formal re -
caption. Every day would consume too
much of tho Presidents valuable time so
the receptions are held but three biome a
week, ab 1 o'oloek on the afternoons of
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. There
is no red tape about it. Simply get in line
with your neighbor, follow your turn, and
whether you have a card or not you will
see and shake hands with the President of
the United States. There is no varying of
this custom. It is simply cut an dried,
but it tickles the vanity of man and he
departs well pleased.tote
ger, THE "COMMON " RECEPTIONS.
One o'clock is the hour the visitor pre-
sents himself to Sargeanb Kinney, the
officer in charge at the main entrance, re-
ception days. No card is necessary for
admission. The usher leads the way to the
east room, a few steps from the entrance,
and the visitor is turned loose to roam at
will over a very stabely, handsome apart-
ment. Ib is even more than that, it is
magnificent and spacious. Here are found
others anxiously awaiting the appearance
of the President, for he is not found loung-
ing around in the easy furniture awaiting
the pleasure of his callers. President
Cleveland has too much ales to do, to wait
on any person. So the visitors inepeob the
furniture, admire the pictures, and sigh for
bhe coming of greatness. Until be comes
let us see what there is to attraot attention
and please the eye.
THE HISTORIC "EAST ROOM."
AU:Unlucky King.
The King of the Belgians said to a friend
of mine who asked him to stand godfather
to an infant son : " I should feel delighted
did I not feel in a vein of ill -luck, and un-
lucky people should be avoided." He said
to another person : " The world has no
idea what an evil influence tracks me."
His sister Charlotte is a lunatic ; he lost
hie son ; he adopted hie nephew, and he
died also. The Princess Clementine, his
daughter, has never got over the horror of
seeing her governess parish in the fire at
Laeken Palace, which destroyed the build-
ing and endless family relics, papers and
treasures of all kinds. The tragedy of
Meyerling was, perhaps, the greatest blow
of all. One son-in-law perished in ib, and
the other came out of ib a bleak sheep at
the Court of Austria. The Congo State is
nob what the King had hoped it was going
to tarn oub, and has impoverished him.
The burning of his papers in the Laeken
fire has thrown his affairs into disorder. It
would now seem as though his crown were
to go down in the hurly-burly of Socialist
revolution, and Belgium to be again the
cock -pit of France and Germany.—Paris
Correspondence London Truth.
BROWN HOLLAND USEFUL.
Sailor hats are just as popular as ever.
'They are, of course, worn only in the morn-
ings in town ; never on any dressy occa-
alone. The newest are made in a kind of
Leghorn straw, and very pretty they look,
betides being light and cool. They are
aaaturally expensive. That is a little way
call nioe things have. A girl was attired in
n brown holland suit with three bias bands
of black moire round the skirt, and an ex-
.:auisitely-made coat of holland faced with
black moire over a full vest of cream -
colored pleated chiffon, with a lace jabot.
,She had on a Leghorn sailor hat, with a
broad black band, and looked enviably nine
-and pool, and superior to a cluster of women
'.;gowned in heavier materials, who, with a
very bad grace, were undergoing molting
momenta in her immediate vicinity.
2ANNIERS COMING.
Scarcely has the panic created by the
rinoline subsided than wo are threatened
with panniers. In these days of exaggera-
tion who shall say whether they may not
%develop into farthingales ? At present the
ole indication is a alight fulness on the hips,
but it is whispered by those in authority
that those fold will bo increased in the
niear future to unmistakablepanniore. As a
.eule,the latter are singularly ungraoofu],more
•os pecially if the wearer thereof is short and
mob particularly slender: Short women, be
it observed, are generally addioted to a
bunchy style of dress.
MUSLIN AND OPALS.
Muslin will be much to the fore this sum -
.Trier. Organdie
and other clear imbibes will
be special favorites. A charming little fete
;gown is delightfully fresh and youthful,
organdie with
ilashioned of rose-colored or g
seven little frille of muslin on the olden and
l full bodioa, draped with a deep berths of
creamy lace. It appears that the number
,of women who are strong minded enough
Not In an Appreciative Position.
McBride—I can't appreciate you funny
fellows' jokes about women who shop but
never buy.
Snickers—Can't you? Why ?
McBride—The bills which come in on the
first of every month seem to act as a pre-
ventive.
t+SHAY s" POR WOMEN AND POLITICIANS.
As they move on their places are quiokly
filled. Women smile and look sweet, say
" howdy do," and seem half to invite a kiss
if ib were proper, for the President's face i3
wonderfully near their own,andnone others
hear the whispered words of welcome he
gives them. Ilia hand -clasp is firm and
his shake is a simple, jerky motion. For a
politician he continues it two or three times,
but for a woman only once, unless her gray
hairs entitle her to veneration. All the
while there is a kindly glow' in his
bright blue ayes, deeply set and
under heavy lido. Now and then a
smile wreathes his month, and espeotally so
when a little child is' presented. In the
Iibble 01168 he takes great interest, for their
sweet faces touch a chord is hia paternal
heart, and it is more than a hand -shake he
gives them.
HOW THE SOUTH IS REPT SOLID.
In the presentation of a family with
several children I noticed President Cleve-
land was peculiarly amused. The father
was unmistakably a Democrat and he was
followed by a train of little ones. Fireb" he
presented Grover Cleveland Warrington,
then Whitney Dickson, Lucius " Lamar,
Endicott, bib and least Iibble Ruthie War-
riinnggton, with a closing happy remark,
"Wort Virginia is solid." The amusement
of the president was noticeable and as he
shook the last little hand he added, " Ib'a
quite a cabinet you bring with you bo -day.'
And the crowd rolled on, Some as they
grasped the hand of greatness thought beat
to add that they were Democrats, while
women oourteated and inquired after the
health of Mrs. Cleveland. Then there came
an unusual break.
NEA* was laws E ».
Wrecking is Still Practiced by the Bent*
men at the Lizard.
It is not long ago eince a large ship went
ashore at Lizard and knife ground herself
to pieces on the rooks. The closest watch
was kept by the agents and preventive men,
bub the next spring a perfeob epidemic of
musical instruments broke onb in every vil-
lage in the district, proving audibly enough
that the light-fingered wreokers had been
ab their tricks all the time.
How it la done, says the London News,
tho rambler in the west country, who can
uee his oyes and eare, will soon discover ;
will agree, too, with the remark made the
other day in a western village, that the pee -
pie who talked of wrecking as a thing of the
past knew very little about it.
You see, sir," said a weather-beaten
fisherman, a great deal drifts oub of a
wreck, and although there are salvage
men always on the watch there's many a
cask and bale that's picked up by our
boats. One man with a long pair of bulge
and another with a water telescope can
make a good thing of it between them.
There was an Italian steamer, now, that
wont ashore at Mullion. She was full of fruit
and wine and all sorbs of things—enough for
everybody..
" There were great cases of champagne
lying about and the word went round
among our Wren that it was ` real' pain
with no t sham ' to it, for when we did
knock the tops of the bottles off all the
wine went out at one spurt and we couldn't
geb a drop. But at last we got the
corkscrews and then we . were happy.
" Well, 1 had a cask of sherry wine
out of her," he went on, " and I got it
safe in by the back way, and you see
I've a ooaat-guardsman living on eaoh side
of me.
Bub, law blear yon, sir, they be just the
same as we. Oh,'; yes, sir ; everything is
supposed to be given up, bub everything
isn't, not by a good way. And when we
risk ear lives to save the cargo, who has a
better right to a share of it than we t" He
was near the Mosel, he said, -when she ran
full speed upon the rocks, and the sound of
it was like a thousand tons of cliff falling
into the sea, and such shrieks as never ware
heard.
Might he have stopped her`? Well, per-
haps he might. But a mate of his who put
out at bhe risk of his life, and warned a big
liner that she was too close In shore—she
tacked off and was saved—never gob so
much as a word of thanks, let alone any
reward, for raving her. "Another man,"
he went on, "warned a steamer from his
boat, and, as I am a living man, they tried
to swamp him for fear the captain would be
blamed for his bad nailing."
In the firab place the east room is at the
extreme end of the White House and,
extends the entire depth. In length it is80
feet, in width 40 and 20 feeb high. Ib is
carpeted not onlyelegantlybnb substantially
with a worsted that is brown in color inter-
woven with a green thread. This color is
chosen to hide the dirt. The walla, in their
mirrors, portieres and pictures are elegant.
Each end reflects with large plate glass
mirrors again and again the images that
stand between, and these mirrors tower
almost within easy touch of the high ceil-
ings. Then broad, handsomely •curtained
windows, three on each side, let in the wel-
come light. Intervening aro the paintings
of rare worth and historic value. As you
advance intothis room Abraham Lincoln,
thee martyred President, seems to give you
welcome aa in cold colors he smiles kindly
down. Then Martha Washington seems to
COURTESY YOU " GOOD MOB.NING,"
The Thoughtful Lover.
" Why were you so sure of hie propos-
ing ?"
" Well, when he first began paying me
attention, he gave me ifowers. Then he
switched off on to gloves, and I knew ho
was thinking the matter over seriously.
Finally, when he brought me handkerchiefs
and—ahem 1 other more useful articlee of
apparel, I felt sure hehad made up kis mind
to marry me."
No Room For It.
" The advance of time," raid the mis-
ogynisb, " has improved everything but
woman."
"True," returned Miss Smarte,
" Woman has been perfect from the first."
A Prospective Chicago Millionaire.
In Chicago, a year hence :
Stranger—Who ie the owner of that pala-
tial home?
Chicagoan—Pete Lariat, the millionaire.He brought a quarter of beef to the World's
Fair and cut iup into Band wichea.
Molds UtmseU Cheap.
" Wouldyou marry for money, Mr.
Checker ?" eased Miss Pansi of the bashful
minister.
" Well, my dear Mies Pansi, I always
have done so ; $2 is my regular fee."
and with a wave of her fan present you to
her husband. The general, sword in hand
at his lest, extends the right in peace and
freedom. Nexb, in his Jefferaonian sim-
plicity, stands that other well known
figure, the father of Democracy. On the
opposite wall, or rather resting upon the
floor, is another large and handsome paint-
ing, of a beautiful woman, with a sweet,
kind face. This is Dolly Madison, only re-
cently added to the collection. She was nob
the wife, perhaps theniece of the ex -Presi-
dent. Eat her portrait recalls an inoidenb
that makes ib share with Washington an
mammal interest.
WHY DOLLY MADISON IS THERE.
During the wog of 1812 with England,
Dolly Madison was lady of the White
House. The east room was fired and in
great danger of destruction. To tier
great peril Dolly Madison rushed into the
room, shears in hand, and cub from its
huge frame the portrait of Washington,
preserving it from the ravages of smoke and
fire. It was afterwards re -framed and
pieced in position on bhe wall when the
room was repaired.
Tho furniture of this room is rich in
value, and in Dolor a deep orange. The
pieces ate numerous and ottomans inter-
vene with chairs along the wails. It the
centre ottomans form a large, compact
circle, back to back, and as in a pyramid
taste a lofty tropical plant. For light
three chandeliers, heavy in out glass hang-
ing pendants, reach from the ceiling.
And also from the ceiling there protrudes
at each chandelier, four hemispherical
globes of milky glues, through which glow
the soft and mellow lucaudescanb hrght.
Thane, with the large eingle and folding
doors complete the picture of the great
oast room where Grover greets tho com-
mon crowds.,
ALL IN LINE
People should never go in the early morn-
ing to gob boots and shoes fitted. In the
latter part of the day the feet are at their
maximum ei;ie. Activity and abanding tend
to enlarge the feet.. 1f people would re-
member this rule, there would not be. ea
many conplelets of shoos when worn being
tight which, when fibted, seemed so com-
fortable,
A NEW OCCU'AT30N,
something That the Artistically IneLFned
Girl Hay 9,►0.
Coming down Washington street at any,
time during the past two days, one Was NUM
to sec a crowd of people in front of a window
near Winter street.
Everybody seemed attracted, men an
well as women, while email boys flattens
their noses against the plate glues, and
looked wonderingly at all the feminine de-
lights therein displayed.
" Picture " R indoors are no novelty, buts
there was something indescribably faeofuail-
ing about this one.
It was so natural.
It represented the dressing room of a lady
of fashion.
She was sitting in a chair in front of her
dreseing table, her pretty fame reflected in
the mirror, while the maid was giving the
finishing touches to a most elaborate,
coiffure.
She had on a house gown of rainbow silty
made in the "Lois Fuller" fashion. The
table drawer in front of her was half open,
and gloves of every color were hanging out
as though she had just been pulling them.
over to make her choice of what she ehould.'
wear.
On the top of the dressing -case were alb
her toilet apparatus, tossed about as though
shay had just been in use.
On a little table back of her was her veil:
case lying open, with veils galore, and by
its side were tumbled togebher half a dozen
Liberty scarfs. The gown she was to wear
hung over one chair, her cape over another*.
and the bonnet box stood in another.
It looked just as every woman's room.
looks when she is in the midst of her toilet
making.
Just what was the attraction of that
window nobody stopped to think, but ib was,
the feminine touch and the truly feminine
alt.
And why not ?
Since it was the work of women, who had.
put their own individuality in it.
it has long been a pet idea of the Filene's
that good and effective window decoration:
could be done by women, and this is the re-
sult of that experiment.
It is the first window of the kind over
dressed by women, and it proves conclu-
sively that here is another avenue of pleasant
labor open to the artistic girl
NERVOUS BEFORE GREATNESS.
A little, nervous man, near-sighted and
adorned with " fan -tail " whiskers, carrying
a ministerial plug hat and accompanied by
his wife, did not notice his turn until there
was a snap of the usher's finger. He re-
sponded with alacrity and ruched clear past
the Presldenb without being able to find
him. His wife, more colleoted, stopped to
pay her respects. Finding himself alone in
the middle of the large room, the little man
turned for his wile and noticed his mistake.
With nervous haste he reached the Presi-
dent's side, and bowed most reverently
down: The crowd was rude enough to
laugh aloud, while Grover smiled.
A WOMAN POLITICIAN'S PLAN.
Ib was the first day after the pronancia-
mento that "no office -seekers need apply,"
and the President was congratulating him-
self at his escape, when a handsome, volup-
tuous, little Frenoh lady, leading a child,
pushed to the. front As the President
greeted the child, the woman took -occasion
to talk politics. It seemed that a close
friend desired a foreign office, and she,
Queen Esther like, sought the extension
of the sceptre that she might plead
her case. The President argued kindly,
then grew provoked that poli -
clans should reach him in this
way. The woman was persistent and
pleaded in broken English with pathos. If
she was clever she was not successful and
failed to move the imperious hearb. Ae the
usher stepped forward bo remove her the
libtle French woman grasped the hand of
her child and sorrowfully went her way.
She gave place to Rev. Dr. Byron Sunder-
land. This is the minister who officiated at
the wedding of President Cleveland, bub he
did not take advantage of acquaintance to
make other then a formal call. He was
cordially greeted by the President in the
brief moment allotted him, then with the
e
others filed away.
AT THE RATE OF 600 AN HOUR.
In this rapid, systematic way the Presi-
dent is able to shake hands with a large
room full of visitors in lees than half an
hour. His receptions this week have con-
sumed hardly twenty minutes eaoh dey, and
then crowds numbering from two to three
hundreds were disposed of and no person
feeling slighted. By the formation into
doable columns the names are easily handled.
They cannot crowd, for the ushers stand
almost shoulder to shoulder in front of the
President, and to see him they mush wedge
through. A break in the files is quiokly
filled by a anap of the finger, for none have
the disrespect of keeping the chief executive
waiting. Theo they cannot congregate
around him having shaken his hand, for on
the other side anemia the sturdy Loefler, and
all mush move on. It is amusing to note
the cariosity manifested by visitors at the
White House. In this venerable men and
dignified women are as children. It is out
of their usual routine to cail,,upon greatness.
and like the " man from Wayback," they
WANT TO GET THEIR MONEY's WORTH.
Tho visitor may have had ample time to
view the room. 1f so he has certainly
sem all that I have described. Now ho
finds himself elbowing with porhaps 300
neighbors as the ushers give the word to
fall in double line. This done and the
column of humanity winds itself about the
large room in kinks and curls like mon-
etroueue serpent. To prevent a crus and
regulate the flow Chief Usher Dexter and
Sergeant Kinney etaaud almost abreast at
the large double door on the wont lido.
Between their broad ehcit:da s trinab pass
the throng. A side door opons and that
old-time usher, Charles Loeflaer, who has
been in the .service an doorkeeper for
many years, announces that the Prosideub
is coming. Nothing is done unexpectedly,
for every movement of tho Proeidonb above
is tranomrtted to the guards below, that
they may know just what to do at the
THE DEADLY, DAGGER.
How the Laws of Texas Discriminated
Against It,
The Texan weapon in the pioneer days
was a bulldog revoiver. Then, as . always,
the stiletto was a favorite off the. Mexican.
They never strike overhanded. They grasp
the weapon with the thumb and forefinger
next the hilt and bunch up the arm until
the point of the knife projects past their
right hip and toward the victim Then
with his left arm wrapped in a cape or
shawl before hie face as a shield, the Mexi-
can advances on his man, who, almost be-
fore he is aware of an attack, feels
the cold sbeel ander his fifth rib,
where the deadly aim of the Mexican
never faiia to drive his blade. It became
incumbent upon the State Legislature to
discourage this species of talent among the
Mexicans. So when the Legislature met
there was Iots of Lobbying done. In the
criminal .code manslaughter and assault
with intent to hill were each made punish-
able with certain berme of years in the peni-
tentiary ; and, added the law, " Further-
more, when the assault is committed with
a dagger or stiletto the penalty shall be
double what it would have " been had no
such weapon been used." That law was
actually on the statute book ; hundreds of
men have been convicted tiner it, and it
was only repealed within the last few years.
—Chicago News.
11031E WISDOM.
New Methods of Slaking the House ;Cosy
and Attractive.
During the warm months of summer no
apartment of the house fa more used and
enjoyed than the veranda. From sunset
until late iu the evening ib serves both as a
general sitting and reception room. Every
year sees the veranda more elaborately
decoret-sd. Ab the fashionable resorts, in
bhe oouutry ao.d oity the furnishings with
which they are decorated transform them
into cosy summer parlors. Besides the
regular awnings, curtains should be pro.
vided. A pretty and inexpensive set can
be made of colored bolting sheeting. They
aro made in sec ions, the width of the
goods (two yards) and are finished with a
fold or band of the sumo. They are run in
small braes rode that are placed Inside the
veranda roof, so that they may be drawn
back or closed. The deep bamboo chaira
have linen cushions in bright colors. The
other furnixhi:1gs are a bamboo table, a
couple of h 'mocks, and a hammock swung
°arose the corner. Japanese cotton rugs
can be used if desired and will be found
aerviae tbie.
One ministeriel looking gentleman from
Boabon,who was among the callers this week,
said when asking " pointers" upon the recep-
tlou, " I want to aloud a while and look at
him before Nancy and I are presented,
so I gueae we will get at the tail end of the
line." President Cleveland does not mind
the idle staring. He is used to it. Those
that crowd together near the centre of
the room to watch how ho shakers hands
with others, are to hini no more than the
furniture and fixinge that grace the room.
His duty over, the door behind him opens.
With a bow and a quick firm atop, he leaves
the room co suddenly as he entered it. The
doors close after him again and bhe visitors
file out. Gratification is in their hearts,
they have seen the President of the United
States, Yet are they not somewhat clle-
eppointed. ? He is only a man.
Why doesn't somebody get up a yeast
trust? Ib wonld bo aura to work.
Miss A—I am eine he would be a good
metals, for I am told ho stood at the heed of
a concern that made ooueiderable noise in
the world. Miss B --That's true. lie's a
benchnaetor.
SWORD SWALLOWING.
"It's aMatter of Taste Entirely," Says the
Coroner at au Inquest.
At Battersea, England, a few days• ago;
Mr. A. Braxton Hicks held au inquiry
touching the death of John Baker, aged 36
years, a greengrocer, lately residing at No.
101 Lavender road, Battersea. The wife:
said the decease(' enjoyed fairly good health,
but was suffering from the after-effects of
an attack of influenza. On the morning of
the 27th ult. he returned home about 12.30
a. m., and said he had been to the Daohesa
of Devonshire public house in the same
road. He afterwards complained of a pain.
in the pit of hie stomach. He got worse and
died on the morning of the 25th ult. Charles,
Thomas Fellows, of No. 36 Lavender road,:
said he knew the deceased and was with
him on the night of the 20th ult. at the
public house. A man named Stone was
there and smusad the company by swal-
lowing a sword. He afterwards pat an iron.
rod, produced, about 22 inchea long, down:
his throat.
The Coroner—It is a matter of taste
entirely.
The witness, continuing, saidthedeceased
said he could do the same, and he put the
iron down his throat about three -parts of
the way down. He then pulled it oub and
went away.
Dr. W. G. Greydon, of Lavender Hill,
depotsd to being called to the deceased, who
complained of having swallowed a sword.
After death he made a post-mortem exami-
nation, and found signs of chronic inflam-
mation in the stomach. He had carefully
examined the maophagus, and could find no
traces of any injury. Death was due to at
chill, which set up inflammation of the
lungs. The performance in question had
nothing to do with the cause of death. A.
verdict in accordance with the medical evi-
dence was returned.
Novel Uses of Cork.
Cork ie ailed fur bonnets, and trimmed
with either gold or petunia ; the fabric is
now so treated that it can be twisted into
bows. Coreis also the foundation of many
of the original Crit:innings of the year, orna-
mented with gold, jet and almost any kind
of peillette. 1 have hosrd that bands +>1
ken k are liezog prep,red for lining the hurt
of gowns, eu that they cannot posaibty
become daotp.—Areca York Journal.
FROM a return brought down in the Legis-
lature yesterday ib is seen that Lhe following
aro net salaries of registrars where they ex-
ceed $2,000 a year :
Brant, $2,169 ; Bruce, $2,008 ; Carleton, $2,674;
Dufferin, $2,251 ; Elgin, $3,653 ; Essex, $8,209 ;
Grey, North riding, $2,504 • Grey, S. R., $2.088 ;
Hastings, $2,7789 ; Huron, $2,187 ; Kent, $2,875 ;
Lambton. $2,757 ; Lincoln, $2,789 ; London,
$,2,018 Middlesex, N. and E., $2,779; Ontario,
2,535 ; Ottawa. $2,530 ; Oxford, $3,061; Peter-
borough, $2,025 ; Renfrew, 52,010 ; $imcoe,
2,611 ; Toronto, Easb, $3,823: Toronto, West,
1501 ; Victorian, $2,301 ; Waterloo, $2,081 ;
Welland,$3,50e ; Wellington, S. and C. R.,
$2,251 ; Wentworth, $3,447.1
These figures are considerably less than
the groes receipts of the office. In many
inataneos the registrar spends a sum equal
to his own share on assistants. Here are
score ci the oxpendituree for assistance
York, East and Welt, $5,706 ; Wentworth,
52,388 ; Toronto, East, $6,260 ; Toronto,
West, 56,582; Simeon, 53,234; Lambton,
52,854 ; Kent, 52,275.; Huron, 52,451;
Brune, 52,474; Essex, 52,403.
To those whoprovide a daily lunch a few
su oatious may helpful : If there
aro sandwiches, make them small and shave
off the crust. Olives, pickles, or jelly should
al ways be a part of the lunch, and cold
moat of all kinds can be so prepared that
it is easily handled and delicious.. If eggs
are used bo euro they aro boiled hard or de-
viled, Pie €should not be packed for lunches,.
but its place is substituted by cake, cook-
lies tad wafers.
AUTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES.
Prices at Which Dealers Catalogue a Few -
Ear Specimens.
Tbo figures at which autograph letters aro
held in a dealer's catalogue present egme in-
terestingitems. Here are afewofthe choicest
_
Dr. Samuel Johnson, relating to "Taxa-
tion No Tyranny" $ 40 00
Sohn Zeats, to Fanny Brawn°, love
letter 150 00
Another, same character, less fervent-' 125 00
Another, still less fervent 75 00
William Wordsworth 22 50
Joseph Addison 60 00
Rween Anne, document signed 10 00
obert) Browning 4 50
William Cullen Bryant 2 50
Tom Paine 21 00
George Washington 60 CO
Bayard Taylor, manuscript poem 15 00
Brigham Young 175.
Sir Walter Scott 17 50
Lord Tennyson 10 00
Lord Nelson, alluding to Lady Ham-
ilton 15 00
Lady Hamilton, making a date for an.
amour ' " 24 00
Among some prices for mere autographs
are : Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, 10
cents ; Wordsworth, 51 ; Aaron Burr, bo e.
cheque, 51.25 Emile Zola, 56.50 ; Queen
Victoria and Lord Palmerston, to a docs
ment, $6.50 ; Sehuylar V$n Rensselaer, 7r
cents.
Stronger Than Dynamite.
A new explosive, called maximete, nays a
New York correepondeut, has been teated
in Harlem. The inventor claims that one
ounce of maximete are equal to one pound of
blank powder, and that 10 to 11 entices of
the explosive are equal in force to a pound
of dynernite. The teats showed that the
explosive will not freeze,that it is amokeieas
and does not ignite easily. Nine hundred
tons of rock were torn away by a blast, and
the amount of maximete used was only
three-fourths as =oh as would have been
required by the explosives usually em-
ployed in quarries. Four cartridges placed,
in drill hobo 20 feet deep were exploded by
elecbrieity. The rook at the bottom warn
shattered into small bits, but near the sur-
face the pieces were considerably larger.,
The whole masa shivered aparb almost.
noiselessly, and fell forward in a great heap.
A quantity of maximete in a bottle wait.
placed in a pail of ice and salt, togetherwitliu
a bottle of water. The water froze solids
but the cold had he/ affect upon the mad -
mete, which was taken from the ice and ex-
ploded.
Thomas McDermott, an English man -of;
war's man, has received a Sbanhepe medals
for saving twoof his comrades from immi-
nent peril of being devoured by a shark:
while sailing off the coast of Zanzibar. The
two men worn bathing and had dived out
of a boat when a largo ehark was seen
within six feet of them and making toward
them. Without an inatant's hesitation Mci
McDermott, with all his clothes on, jumped.,
overboard right over the shark, and by thit
splash greeted frightened the fish from if+
tVey, thereby givingtime to hie com-radotr.
o regain theiboa