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Nov. 29, 18'•9,
Timrla and Now.
A pair of laughing, loving oyes,
That momory might woll troa*ure,
A look of welcome, and surprise,
Of friendship fust and pleasure.
.A Took as were, a look us bright,
As bloom of sunlit heather.
1'1 he+n youth and One:epee unite
With bounty --all toaothor.
S'au were a little girl in pink,
So well len 1 remember,
'Twee tutu in Augnxt, as 1 think,
01• earliest limptenlbor,
The TIt s at n that tiny was calm and bion
(In every snood I love it),
The son shone bright on it and you
From, the blue ally above it.
'<Ve spoke emu wards of light import,
Talked of the summer weather ;
darted end smiled, and little thought'
Our fates were linked together.
And in nt 5'
let wild d
a est or roar,
I waves r
Skies "smile, or frown with thunder,
We twain on life's mysterious shore
No morn shell part asueder.
(ioorgo Forester,
THE NE\'V FALL
NEW STYLES IN GOODS ASC PLEN-
TIFUL THIS YEAR,
Olive listener Rays Site Restreely Knew*
Want to Pronounce Most fashionable—
The New "{sitars. `.Ian the Co"—
"Woollens in treatVariety.
This is a time that -tries the fnshiou
writer's powers of endnrarce, oleo her soul.
For there is literally no end to tdiebeautiful
thingo to see, and the uetseientions worker
will make a point of knowing to t1, nicety
not Dilly just what new goods arc l,eang re-
ceived by the large importation hooses but
also what in being unloaded from the
steamers.
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The
_The Inverness plaids are more than
usually fine and soft this *emeog, and in
elan colors as well as in uev devices in such
patterns, but all very large figured. The
French quadrille plaids are very beautiful
and softer in tone tion the scotch, whioh,
though they do not all follow the clan
colors, still show to certain crudity of color-
ings that is so pleusunt to the cyn.
There are hundreds of vurictiea cd woollen
goods in self colors, and then there are
others with n woven bright thread which
shows itself here and theree at
always unex-
pected
places. They me mako one
think of the
mourning goods they used to call " gleno
of comfort," which was black, with here
and there a yellow thread. Many of these
woollens are clothed with bright colors in
irregular flecks, as though flakes of gold
had fallen there or the wind blown notate of
gay flowers. The effect is certainly artistic
and pretty, and world be sunshiny on a
dark day.
Vulture is " the " new color par excel-
loueo, and will undoubtedly " go ' woll. Ib
is exactly the shade of a vulture's back,
with the sort of a dusty bloom all over the
surface, whether it ie opera cloth, cashmere,
camel's hair or twill. It is very cunningly
woven.
The silk and wool mixed goods are to be
very largely worn, particularly the Priestly
Henrietta Bilk wraps, in black and grays,
in plain and brocaded weaves, and 1n the
stripes and chevron patterns which wore in-
troduced last season. The black silk warp
with tiny brocaded flowers is perfectly ex-
quisite, and those goods aro so durable that
they are still more desirable, for, like black
aiIk, they look rich and beautiful until 11 the
last thread is gone. These Henriettas differ
from the all wool Henriettas, as the warp is
pure silk and the -filling is wool, which gives
them a beautiful finish and feel.
Tlmey Have a new line of grey and white
stripes this season, and a nes black called
Lustrtne, with a bcautifnl surface. This
goods costs $1.26 perard,forty-four inches
wide, but it lasts almost forever. I will
give you one of the prettiest designs of
the season. The waist Is quite a simple bas -
quo, the front gathered a little to annulate a
full vest. The velvet collar and wide
pocket flaps with the sash give it a distinc-
tive directoirestylo, with little trouble.
The skirt, trimming and sash can be of
velvet or the beautiful new open work
emetic braid and sash to match, whioh can
hie gotten in sets.
The other dress) is of the dotted not,
which is now a settled fashion, worn over a
silk slip. Those lace 'dresses are most
simple, )nut very dreary. The front ahould
be of moire or plain silk, with bits of ribbon,
black or colored, according to fancy. Any
lady can snake a lace dress according to this
model at a cost of about $4 if the Happens
to have an old silk skirt, whiolm is just as
good for a foundation as a now one
Time opehings for bonnets and made up
goods take place generally during that
month, and I am saving money to buy to
pair of smoked spectacles,as the proapeet le
that every bonnet will be so brilliant that it
will asst a halo around the wearer's head,
and taus they will dazzle the oyes, But
they are not to be so largo nor aggressive as
before. I am told that there is to be much
fine -wrought handwork on bonnets, in the
way of allirrhig and embroidery. This,
however, in only a scare, like the annual
or the ice har-
do
destruction of the Heal crop st p
vest, and is done to keep the price up in
spite of the decrease in sino, or, at least,
that is the unbiased opinion of
OLIVit Reitan.
An Improved Enoch Arden Story.
A trial involving circumstances of an ex -
character will come
n r
ee to
Piall Y romantic
ii
before the Tribunal of Ragusa this mouth,
About Welty years ago a peasant of the
neighborhood of Ragusa, being no integer
able to slpport his wife, emigrated to the
United Sato, leaving his bettor half in
charge of the village priest. Prom tho first
luck smiled on hint, anal ho was able to send
the priest fifty liable a month for his wile.
As iris position improved, he increasett the
amount of hie monthly remittances. tit
ton t y m 13
the rascally roverenclo only handed five
florins a month to the wonoon 'Vide wont
on for fifteen years, when the worthy
clerical; gentleman forged a certificate of the
lumeband s death and placed it in tile,
hands of the wife, whose death he like-
wiso certified in a fogad doonnient` and
sett to the lntobamd in America. Shortly
attolwa'ds lie : piously betook himself to
'1,..,a0". , whore lie hoped to spend tilts re•
ammeter oC Ills (eye 10 pews., t'elnle)Ilg Ill
the retnenilrancn of his good works. Van
and detailed othel'u'ixe, The nlifal'tmtato
woman, his vietiu*, was tweed to get her
1iriugayhegging from the pilaeengcrs of the
Lloyd !tanners that touched tho Ragusa,
and her husband sought consolation in re+
marriage with 0 rich American Indy, by
whom he hies two ollildrm(. After twenty
years' nb emer-Ito rn=nlvr'd to unike r. our hl
f.urope with hie Gently. 110 vital. d Paris,
Vienna, Trieste, ❑ l 1i allY Ragusa.. On
mnumg at Cnnat naruor m uctal,at•5voman nae
coated Ahn and asked for alma. 'alley re-
cognieed each other simultanoe,sry. 'rho
beggaravoniun was lila wife, whom Ito be-
lievedtahave been dead several yoars.
,e
priest has been arcHetod, mid will 1e tried,
when, iu all probability, tboseaolnl marriage
will be minutia—Vicious Letter.
BEA!JtY IN THE BATH.
New York's Luxurious Women Described
aor English Renders,
Thu luxurious habits of Now York women
ere still Maid bae
r m) the Increase; Tho ua
ceased to bo sulHoient attendance, her time
beteg more or less nlaorded by the tnileb and
cognate matters, so the prearnt plan is ;o
=gagee the services of n woman who u es out
by the day or bonr, and whom ,,meds read
"Ladies' Tailctt. She has the on, i,5' charge
of the poraens of her 011;tet .r:•, al: it is
her duty to see Lha Ihry am :.ri,; ' tatifu1.
Once Or twice n 111011 abs rah.,. ,rdu 1
brushes, clips 111111 0/11 Ill, 1he11 11th, 11.11101
taking to keep it , no. , seem. m,9 '' '
She oedemas the t'r.. al : a .. .011
mends such In an:: uta ire r,'
keep tho hands cult mud a 1..8
pedicure as well, .,n I 1.1 1 '1-1 Ir 1.1
foot in us perfum eend1'i'l
Sit has a tune. 1 I •
beautifying 00 11''. ... ..
ward all wrudcc ,
tient. she taste + ,
they shoo td go, 100 00, 1 ....•
battlers '•} 0St•; er. t..:..:
keep :ha s;cia any' ,th •, '
and declare she unn nut.,' -
their bloom without tat a-'• ti m
looks after the figure, two, 1 , ayst:el
Balled the evediali Inose 0.11 , %ern 41,
tighteha 111 fmocid nunaui:1., , :.na11 thin
throats end thin arms, and rem.:. e. any of
the disfigurements of ratline that have re-
aulted from tight lacing and the abnormal
tendency of flush to Roy one peon of the
body. She reduces flesh and undertakes t0
develop symmetry.
The principal occupation, however, of
this person, and the one best relished b her
0
P Y
employers, is the message bath. The tub
is filled with warm water, quite as hot a9
can be comfortably borne, and into this
is thrown a bath bag, consisting of a little
sack of cheese cloth, loosely filled with al.
mond )Heal, powdered orris root, and grat.
ed soap. The water turns soft and milky
as the contents of the bag disssl'rea and the
skin is rubbed with the bag, whioh makes
a smooth, violet -perfumed lather, and leaves
the flesh as soft as a child's. The bather
is rubbed dry and rolled 1* a big sheet of
Turkish towelling, and then every inch of
the body is carefully robbed, kneaded,' and
pinched with hands moistened in violet
water, whioh impregnates the skin with a
faint, flower-like perfume. Thia takes the
place of exercise in a great measure,. and
women who are too indolent or too busy to
walk or practice in a gymnasium find this
keeps the skin in equally goodconditioa;
and ie a more pleasant method of setting
the blood to circulating.
B
Another fancy of these dainty women is
to sleep in silk. They have long abjured
any other wear for uuderolothes, and now
they are being shown iu the shops that cater
to all the now whims of the sox sots of silk
sheet and pillow -cases in all colors. With
these go the beautiful East Indian blankets,
woven entirely of raw silk, and down spreads
covered with surah or satin. These sheets
and pillow -came are hemstitched, with s
crest or monogram embroidered in one cor-
ner. Some of them have a delicate vine
embroidered along tbo edge, or a broad
band of Anton work. They aro of all deli.
tate colors and white and black.
Mrs. George Gould, who has a passion for
violets, has several silken bed furnishings of
pale lilac, with wreath* of Parmaviolets
embroidered around them. The $indoor
blanket is o deeper purple and the violet•
co r d down spread is perfumed with
In e
P
sachets of violet.—London Figaro.
"Walt Till 1 Get.Toil Moine."
She was an intelligent, cultured, motherly-
looking lady, a good church member, and a
teacher of a Sunday school olaeo, but she
looked in well -simulated amazement at the
street car oonduotor when lm passed her
back 14 cents in change for the quarter she
had tendred.
" Yes'm ; one faro and two half fares,"
explained he.
"Two half fares?" site murmured ques-
tioningly.
te- n
Yes; twat boy, a mora than 5 years old.
" I'm 7 years old," volunteered the
youngster in question, as if ho thought his
1
tesCimony would straighten out mutate.
His mother flushed perceptibly, but,
Woman-like, *he would have the last word;
" i never paid for him before."
" Oh, yes, you have, ma,"' quoth the ter-
rible infant very noxious now to establish
his olefin of being a big boy.
!lis mother settled back in her lout, her
face the battle ground of emotion. But the
boy spoke again—
" (quit nudgin' ma."
His mother whispered senotlliug in that
bogs ear that settled ltim.—BalfeloCourfor.
The htnrbamie Ideas of a Drake.
The 'sparkling wit of the college bony Imus
long boon meted, Hisjolting is no dolma),
ethereal, ovlattaoaent trio widest can only bo
snar0el by the intellect of the lineal mesh. A
head that can stop to ball can appraciato his
Wit The latest instnnoo of it is the case of
two freshnteam at Syracuse Univotsity a few
nights ago, They Isom bound `by the
sophomores and take" to a swamp three
miles asst of the city. To heighten the joke
their stair awl moustaches Were out off,
doubtless whaled much eetetfrtle barbering.
the two conn had t, went beet amine, This .
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LADY BICYCLISTS.
rhe Number Itltl/ldly Incrensln* Every
Hraeon--Home In ('btrogo.
" There era now abc)ub fifteen thnnxaud j
1 e t' i Chicago, 0 0E
vo o udox f all kinds n OU
os 4
P +
whioh were scold this year," onyx a dealer in
Elie Chlengt, Jolted. "Thera aro from
4,500 to 4,g00 oxlsemt bieyuliats and about ,
1,000 ladies' uinclnnus fn use, liy unless
omit theca were over 000 In use last Juno
0
Mal t demand ]las been veractiveall
std !acsbeen y
suml000.
"" I brought the first 211 of them to
Chicago a year ago last atm, and tlto first
ladies vh learned. to ride 5 oro Miss Black.
whov
man and Miss Fehl'nnul,
"" IL 1s a most wholesome and healthful
exercise and you would be astonished at the
rapid improvement of ladies who have taken
1t up. For instance, Miss Grace Lloyd, ono
of ourmost expert riders, wag ordered by
her doctors to have a change of climate.
Instead of that she took toriding and gained
20 pounds in a few months.
For amusement she rode alongside of
Tuttle when he was training for the race?
d h 1 tmile3fl
an s o an
now t e a leam' or m
seconds• Pretty good join for irl, isn't
it ? Ilow far can a lathy riche ? W.OII, Miss
Felrnlan rides sixty or eixty-five miles
every Sunday ; and 1 could name ten young
ladies who with a week's rust co could
� p u
easily do 100 miles in a day."
amen abet.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson is writing a
biography of her husband.
William H. Crane, the comedian, has
planted $1.35,000 in real estate.
Thomas A. Janvier thinks that the. Mexi-
can Republic has come to stay.
Even the homeless man may have a title
clear to mansions in the skies,
Nine tailors make one man, but one tailor-
made girl can unmake nine tints nine men.
Lettor-carriers ought to mance the best
elocutionists ; they have such good ideas of
delivery.
New York ball -players prefer their aunt
to any other relative—their pennant, we
mean, of course.
An Onion Trust has been organized in
Now York. There 0 nothing too strong
for a trust to tackle.
Leo Teeter, of Phillippi, W. Va., is 14
years old and weighs 250 lbs. Lee Teeter
Is probably a meat eater, too.
The faithful lover doesn't care whore tho
World's Ex oeibion is held while he is hold-
ing the world's fair in his arms.
An exchange tolls the story of a couple
who were married up in a balloon. There's
romance in high life for you.
Massachusetts 'matinee make a pair of
shoes in twenty minutes. The Chicago
market is, however, not supplied by Massa-
chnoetts.
Mr. Edison having returned from Europe,
another period of electrical disturbances in
this country may be confidently predicted
by the Signal Service.
A Kansas farmer has raised a !nog whioh
is nearly seven feet from tip to tip. Onthe
Chicago Board of Trade the noble animal
woad bo classified as " long pork."
"How came the jury to acquit the
prisoner?" asked the astonished stranger.
Tho evidence all went to show, did it not,
that he killed the man?" " Yes," replied
the juryman, "but it also appeared in ovi-
dunce, before you came in, that the man he
killed always persisted in saying, ' Is that
so?' whenever anybody told him a bit of
news."
Mrs. Newland—What! 20 cents a pound
for maokorel? Why, the man across the
street only ,asks le cents 1 Fishmonger-
Very good, madam ; but you must remem-
ber that my fish are all land -caught; those
you see opposite are caught in nuts ; it
makes a difference, you know. Mrs. New -
hand -0f course—how stupid of me 1 You
may give 105 that large one there I
noes luta Enos.
It ietnot alone the carriage-olenner that
sponges for his living.
None but a mean elan will upbraid his
wife for powdering her nose on a sweat}
day and then turn around and comb lens
back hair op over the bald spot on the top
of his head.
There is a report that the principle of the
new smokeless powder is to bo applied to
ei;jarettes—bub as the smokeless powder is
said to occaelon no report this may tot be
reliable.
An important innovation in postal methods
wont into operation in the United Kingdom
this month. This is the sending of money
orders by telegraph. The rates charged
will be double those charged in the Ouse of
mail orders. The system is in operation at
the principal offices in twenty large cities.
A peculiar induetry has sprung up near
Albany since 1583 ; that of emptying
crushed atone for asphalt and tnacadamized
roads. Tho quarry from which the stone is
taken is operated night and iiayy. One.
thousand tons of rook a day aro crus led and
250 ears art used in transporting the frag-
ments of rock to all parts of the country.
A now goldfield 0 •likely to demand at-
tention by -and -bye. Gold has been found in
the Malay Peninsula in a formation quite
different from any encountered in auriforono
regions in any other part of the world, and
the honour of opening up the field is appar-
eutly tar fila to Queehsland. A syndicate
formed in Brisbane has obtained a commas
Sion believed to be valuable, but work hat
not yet been begun.
English capital's pouring intoMoxico as well
oa the United States. Tho Mexican Finameler
says that it is now clearly in preponderance,
and that almost every week sees a new com-
pany organized in London for the develop-
ment of Mexican propportiee. Not less than
$06,000,000 of English capital 0 being in-
n b system of nowunder
vested 1 he a m
construction in the eoathern railwaysrtion of the
Republic. For a misguided p free trade
aunty England appears to be doing very
well.
A eplonelid nugget of nearly pure gold,
weighing has just been found
e h t 1 otmaes
alone to 18 Tarnagulla, m Victoria, Australia.
The locality of the final is a gully known as
Irohbaok. The sinking. is about 4 feat, and
many mmggets of smaller 8110 hove been
found near the spot. One, ttfteem pounds
in weight, was found only it few yards dia.
tont about twenty-four 'years ago. The
present discovery was made by a minor
named 1 lc Smith and his son,who wore
Cheeks s 111
workingout old blacks on theado of time
loot
fi
t f1 model of the maggot is to be taken
g
for the Colonial NI liming ])npautmont.
When the plucky Ur. Nanton taunted
front the exploration of (..'reeilaud some
one said to ham that encs &hero as ho would
soon be alight in snares of love, to whioh
ho replied that 1io only bride 0008 the North
Polo. however, he has just boons married
to Miss lavaSarx,the daughter of the well.
known No•weeiaw mlOOfesaaf , Michael tiers.
...-
II vials:emitt ,f !'rofeoeor (tassel Sala, the
naturalist. Tho young lolly is gifted with
a very lisle vuive allll 111tH rung in sedate on
many 1I1000i 100. he is also greatly h1 t0e-
asted in assort, and ie herself aa an ea:oeilout
skate!',
The New York Mcdie al Journal explains
the physical degeneracy of American women
by slaying that )Itlsaehnld metal. arc :511 too
bog for women to smell,+ a8itll comfort. Birt
Alis an ex lunation that doesn't explain,
t is
p
o'thetronauwloxbmvtl greatest evi-
dence;
t s to atesi. 51
dentes of physical degeneracy aro the
women who hover under any eim•Onmstalloos
ha.dlo these heavy household Meni ls.
While, on t e other h nd the women who
do handle them aro, as it rule, well developed
physically. Perhaps the phyeical degen-
eracy of so many women ie due to the fact
that they don't handle lloueeliold utensils
enough.
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up and doing or she will bo overtaken by
slow i0lltetorx, and that is the fate oho can
never endure. But no one al more suer"0tio
than the fuelliomtbil+ woman about lu r 1slt-
lona, White Chinese silk no longer concerns
!ler. She looks upon white underclothing
as antiquated ; hers is all tho colors of the
rainbow --not all the colors at once, but sue-
- oesoively. taw wars everything du match 1
as scrupulously tie if it were all for publics 1
ldb't 1
ox t 1)m.
In fact, assn timings that used to he con-
sidered as restricted to the deepest privacy
are now indeed made in a dower. public—
Nightgowns, for hsstauoe. Nightgowns may
bo worn through
the early loom 'Own fem.
i11in0 friends are being n'eeeived in builders.
Certainly it 0011010 he a shame if sonschody
did not get to see them.
Sion and Wooten »riding apart -
Men in general Imavo little sympathy with
woven, save of those with whom they hap-
pen for the moment to be in love, or, per.
haps, for a eister with whom they have in-
terests in common. At the present time
it
aocmsobeth
t a young omen are
that men and w
drifting mora and more apart. It 0 ram
to find a man who socks the society of wo'
then with the idea of companionship ; for all
interchange of thought, for all taut "'hum.
mines" whioh is so plttawnt an ingredient in
every -day life, mum turn to men.
We nannot aeo that boaith and morula or
female happiness aro endangered by an
Met; of additional heel or a oligbt increase of
decrease in the aim of an improver, the
length of a streamer, the expansion of
drapery or the curtailment of a skirt; but
we do see something of possible deteriorm i
tion in the scantiness of a bodice, *itch ae
provoked the reply from Sydney Smith to a
friend, who caked, glancing at a groat lady
extremely decollote : "Did you ever see.
anything like that?" " Not since I wee
weaned," said the dean,
No woman can appear in such diminished
drapery without some loss of that selfae-
alma which is too precious to be slightly
periled. Apart from these errors of taste,
we think, on the whole, that dress and
manners are much more leavened with coma
mots sense than in those bygone days which
we can well remember. Boots are thicker,
stays are less tightly laced, garments are
warmer, good woolen stockings have taken
the place of filmy silk, and so clothed, the
English woman takes the air and exercise
supremely essential to health and looks.—
London letter to Albany (N.Y.) Express.
Exiled eneelli nt PIlrIe.
DAME FASHION'S DICTATES.
Braided redingotes are a development and
adaptation of last Winter's Dire:toire coats.
T1ov fall in long and scomewhat full folds
in the back, without any other temente to
support them than the fullness of the enter -
/skirt, which 18 massed just at the centro of
theck. frontt re ie laid
bn Tho 0 f the bot1
in little close folds, and lino (Aer5od fronts
nearly heel over the bust, sloping away to
the waist. Those are soinetimnen edged with
a tiny cording of fur noel have inner waist-
coats of crape. The dews in time picture is
of dory gray cloth, braided with a shade a
little darker, while the waistcoat is of pale
gray. `1'110 bonnet worn w•itln itis Namely -bat
higher than the moot of new bonnets this
season.
A net• fancy of Rootlet New York girls
is to wear real Japanese gowns—which
tho Oriental importers bring over especially
for them—in their bed -rooms as a substitute
for the ordinary wrapper. These gows are
exquisitely pretty and comfortable, and
Mass Bigelow, who was married last week,
had oro of the palest pieta embroidered in
silver, in her trousseau. They are made of
crape of the headiest Japanese sort, which
has mucin more weight and substance than
the China crape, and are covered with deli-
cate needlework in silk end metal. This
particular gown was embroidered with rose-
colored and silver chrysanthemums. It was
light wadded throughout and lineal with the
same shade of Japanese silk. It fell in
straight folds to the feet and was girded
under the arms with a great sash of pale
gray silk, embroidered with rose and silver,
and tae sleeves fell to the floc'. They aro
as soft as down, warm, light and perfectly
easy, and a better and more comfortable
negligee bas yet to be discovered. Mrs. '
Cleveland has a beautiful one in white and
gold, and wears a pale daffodil.ealored sash
•pith it.
The Athenians of thea fashionable world
ld
who constantly yearn after some now things
are at presort interested in the suggestion
of the triangular table dinner parties. It
is done by ar,•auging three tables iu a
triauglc. The hosts sits at the point of the
triangle with the two most distinguished
female guests of his fight and heft hand.
The hostess occupies the centre of the base
of the triangle and has the distinguished
mol with her. The beauty of this arrange-
ment is that at largo dinners tho host
and hostess acre not entirely removed from
the guests at the Onntro of the table. As
is usually the ease, they aro so far re-
moved that they cannot keep an eye upon
them and see that they aro well served
and are being amused. But with the tri•
angular table every one faces them, 0 near
enough for conversation to be possible and
agreeable, and altogether the conversation
is easier to start and to regulate. Tite Twom.
blys gave ono of these triangular dinners
the other night that was a tremendous sue- '
0069. The centre of the triangle was filled
with ferns edged with Parma violets, and
the table•eloth was of pale pink silk trader
elaborate openworkHewerk damask.ask. At each place
WAS a little gilded Japanese basket tied with
silk ribbons and filled with the violets.
There worn twenty-two people at table, but
every ono was brought into such direct com-
munication with the host and hostess by
this arrangement that it resulted in being
one of the pleasantest and liveliest dinners
of rho season; and it is likely to bo imitated
many tinges,
. Three hundred dollars seems a preposter-
oma price to pay for one petticoat and under•
skirt, and when you think of any one's
buying a dozen such "trifles" at once, you
must own it's enough to make the average
woman gasp with envy and amazement, and
the average man quake with an awe that
will penetrate even the fibres of his pocket-
book.
And yet this is what Mrs. Langtry has
just done. Felix has just made for her
twelve suits of silk undergarments, costing
1,600 francs a suit. They are two separate
pieces, and are exquisite abodes of rose,
lemon, blue, lilao, scarlet, mauve, pale green,
as well as black, white and cream .color.
There is the little affair blot is
neither a chemise nor an nudervest, but
which goes on first. Over this is worn the ear -
sot, and then comes It garment whioh is the
French conception of the divided skirt. A
yoke is fitted smoothly over the hips, and
to this is sewed the divided skirt, each half
of whioh measures font yards in width, and
ie made almost infilutesimal a000rdoon
accordion pleats.. Over this, also sowed to
the lower edge of the yoko, falls another
skirt of tiny a000rdion pleats, and this is
ten yards wide.
Bach of those skirts 10 edged with the
c uo y ar..
finest of rens lace, yardsupon d-
e of 11
being used, and omit snit contains 100 yards
of silk. The. material is exquisite in:tek-
ttnre, amid yet 0 at • once very Iight and very
firm.
The great distinctive tendency of the
times is to silk, The typical fashionable
woman is silk -robed front the skin out ; oven
though the lost garment, the one for 'the
public eye, be of Irish frieze or alleged
homespun.
The Chfnoac and India silks tl1 at have
been imported in molt variety t in late .Yoars
>
aro responsible for this laying aside of the
fine muslins and theme our mothers gloried
in, and pat their eyes out embroidering.
These silos watt perfectly, and they have
provoked Occidental manufacturers to such
competition that 11050 a groat deal of sutali
sills is made that is also washable,
Those goods gave lovely women as chance
to do something deligghtfully, novel by abau-
clotiegallthetradibioua of all time, and
i of ilk. At first
1 her underclothes's
anal m u tc t
J3
owwere ui the sweet, and it
) u l at )
was regardedfew was deliciously expensive. But
00010 exporieecc began to pro e that silk
0011211 were not necessarily eeponsive, and
thole popularity increased to such a degree
that they no longer uotfarrod distinction.
It is, in fact, still increasing. Tho shops
now have quite ..of underclothes in white
C1va.
liueso silk that a'ccolnpaativelyinteSpet-
si
Paris is has always beet a favorite resort fo
r
les rois en exile, tool there are many who
hold their little courts and are more or less
worthy of distinction. It was always a
great privation to the ex -Empress Eugenie
that she was obli ad to seek protection from
the rather frigid English, though they have
been most kind to her in Iterrief. King
Milan of Seevia, has ronon oeed 1111 throne
that hoe might join this colony. Un-
like the reigning royalties, who aro gradu-
ally dispensing with form and ceremony,
the exiled Queens are very particular to
keep up every form of State that bolougs to
then, rank, as thie outward observance is
the only thing they have to mark it. Their
coronet is overywhere, and " Your Royal
Highness" is insisted upon in addressing
them. The ex -Queen of Naples hold a very
quiet but remarkable court, but her rela-
tive, ex-Qaeeu Isabella of Spain,
is the most interesting and notorious
of all royal refugees who nuke
Paris their home. She was driven from
the throne by the Spanish people, but is
' very wealthy, for during the stormy times
which preceded her birth her mother made
good provision for her by secreting great
; sums of money and even by replacing some
of the erovn jewels with glass. It is
on the income of these hidden treasures
that Isabella keeps up her little court
aid covers her immense bulk with the.gor-
geous costumes she is noted for. She has
grown enormously fat ; her drawing.room
is hung with crimson brocade, she receives a
platform in a gilt chair like a throne, and
her guests aro permitted to kiss her band
and bend the knee before her.
.0 Sna'uo's Fatal 5+00
BEAN= Fiala, Sept. 11,—cue day lash
week a thorotlghhred collie Clog belonging to
iCharles Gregory, a farmer living about four
miles east of here, gave birth to a litter of
i beautiful pupa. The little animals were kept
fn the barn and every caretakeu of them, as
I Mr. Gregory had sale for them all at $.50
( apiece. Saturday one of the pups, yet
blind, was missing. Search was made for it
high aucl low, but in vain, and the condo-
; sion arrived at was that acne o11e had
l stolon it.
Last night Mrs. Gregory had occasion to
; go to the spring horse, and, hearing a queer
rustling noise among the milk crocks, she
j investigated and discovered a huge house
snake moving sluggishly across the floor.
' She quickly dispatolted the reptile and
notioing that its body about hall way down
was enormously distended, she took it into
the house where Mr. Gregory cut it open
and out rolled the dead body of his aliasing
$50 pop.
I Badly Used In By Dees.
i Mr. George Murray, a teacher at the Col-
liery Board Scheele, I)ipton, with the
assistance of ono or two other gentlemen,
r omo half.tlozon hives
ro a in to car s
was y r
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g.
o ' .arm to the folia
been pprmtheCrho• $ h
oft from
at. Waskorley, Duringthe process of pack-
ing them
ack•ing'them in a cart the bottom fell off one of
the hives, arid, as a natural consegpence, the
bees came buzzing out and stung Mr. Mur-
ray as tin in
1 r as wells
land his Oo n an one
P
$ gg
1 he cart, he animal
the horse attached to T
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bolted away in !right. Nnndrecls of bees
found their way out of the remainder of
the hives, and not only stung rho occupants
to
of the Dart and the horse in a dreadful man -
terabit
the insects 1 fast ned themselves
i a lasso 0
upon a number of school ohildren who were
laving a ride through the village on a hay
cart. Mr. Murrrayand his companion (Mr,
Elliott) were left lying on the grotmd in an
exhaustive and almost uneotsoiotts state,.
and the horse was so badly injured by tile.
i
insects' stings that it fell down upon time
' road and succumbed the saute might, Mr.
Murray was also couitnel to has bed for
o f uo ) n t c he n reported
sem t 1 1 if o ,.ant iia was
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tabenn Tibet t In rest rt to h
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Tory hi tie wOrac .-......� _.
i'teasotres 011 the Clan One tten.
Jnwkius—Ifn pretty early time ! c ne,.;in
to think of Fall clothing.
"look llartowit--Yes, and that's .1.0..1 ne
faros I'll over get ie the muttea
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