Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — Page 4

QljeUemocratitSentind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. j\y McEWEN, - - - Ppbiabheb.

Wht seek longer for perpetual motion? It can be found in the gas meter. That decision simply means that the Government and not the Louisiana lottery is running the United States mails. Mail wagon robberies are becoming as frequent between New York and Jersey as out West. What is the trouble anyway? A “White Cap” leader was hanged In effigy recently near the town of Sterling, N. Y. Why not hang a few of them au naturel? A Chicago newspaper speaks of •Patti and her buoyant spirits.” It is not so exceedingly difficult to be buoyant on $5,000 per night. Try it once. They are making oil out of corn now, but that noble grain rye lias not yet been degraded by application toany purpose save the one for which Nature obviously intended it. By love’s delightful influence all the injuries of the world are alienated, the bitter cup of affliction is sweetness, and fragrant flowers are strewn along the most thorny path of life. People are sometimes curious to know whence came the word “jag,” as descriptive of a big load of whisky in a man. It has not yet been determined, but likely enough it is derived from jug. A big army Uncle Sam can raise at any time upon three weeks’ notice. But shijs and heavy guns and protection to harbors are things that don’t grow up like Jonah's gourd. They have to be kept in stock, more or less. If a man abuses an enemy, he hurts himself, and if he praises him, the people say he is a hypocrite. There seems to be no course a man can adopt under any circumstances that can be more creditable than the simple course of keeping still. SoMEnow the prospectus of that new electric line between St. Louis »nd Chicago, with its promised speed of 100 miles an hour, its absolutely straight track, its illuminated road, and other accessories, sounds as if Mr. Pennington of airship fame had taken his pen in hand again. actions are performed in niinor struggles. There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which ao eye sees, no reuown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment md poverty are battlefields which nave their heroes.

The Birmingham (England) Medical Beview for October, 1890, contains an article on “Food and Its Adulterations,” in which it is stated that, “quite apart from any question is to the injury resulting to the hu'xnan system from taking these salts, it would only he right that the medical profession should resolutely discountenance the use or any and all lecret preparations confessedly adulterations, anc adulterations, too, of a sort not justified by any of the exigencies of the circumstances. Cocoa Is only to be recommended when it is as pure as possible.” Humanity, it appears, is in serious danger from one of those trivial causes which are scarcely to he detected at first sight, but have sometimes changed the fate of nations. One-half the woes from which men suffer would disappear if they would but cast aside the collar button, and never wear it more. Thus says a philosopher, who may have incurred his antipathy to the collar button by chasing it around his room on one of the recent cold mornings, while arrayed in little more than Adam sported in the Garden of Eden. Well, it will not cost as much to try the experiment in leaving buttons aside. Married men are provided for; but who is to pin the bachelors’ collars on? Mattie Elizabeth Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is finally a duchess, having been married twice in two days, with a profusion of ceremonies, to Duke de la Rochefoucauld. The Duke has altogether the better of the bargain, as the wealth of the bride is tangible, whereas his titles are pure pretense and have no legal recognition. The presents were numerous and costly to the bride’s parents. Minister Beid attended all the weddings, giving away, or rather transferring the bride, and assisting in every, way to give the titular-finan-cial affair an appropriate advertisement. Tho weddings were exceedingly private, invitations having been studiously confined to a few persons with long pedigrees and a sufficient number of reporters to exploit the pedigrees in the newspapers. Cupid is understood to have sent his ■ m ■ gj * l A writer in the Hospital Gasette, of London, says: “We do not regard all adulterations as equally heinous. When, however, potent chemicals are systematically added, what words can sufficiently eoevev our indignation! * * * Cbeoa of the meat excellent quality Wd of absolute parity is now to be

obtained at very reasonable prices; and no purchaser need be at any loss to get an article to which the' severest tests can be applied, and which will come out triumphantly from the ordeal. We were, nevertheless, positively startled, not long since, to receive a pamphlet, bearing on its frbnt page tha names of some distinguished chemists, ,and addressed to the medical profession, vaunting some foreign manufactured cocoas which were distinctly stated to contain a considerable addition of alkaline salts. Surely even lay readers do not need to be reminded that soda and potash cannot be taken with impunity day after day.”

It probably is not so often the case in old-world countries, where parents and relatives have a controlling hand, but on this side of the water, when there is reciprocity of high temperature affection between two young people, and they seek to marry, the stars in their courses may fight against their union, but it will be had, even if a South Dakota divorce is likely to soon be needed. In a recent case at Brooklyn the parents had the doors barred to the young man and life made so uncomfortable for thegirl that she finally requested him to desist from his visits, but said that, if he could find a perch within ear-reach of her chamber window, she would hold nocturnal chats with him. He gained the requisite elevation some distance above a half-filled cistern, and all went well till one night he lost his balance and fell head first into the cistern. The feminine shrieks brought the stern parent to the scene, who fished out the halfdrowned lover, aud was so taken with his devotion and pluck that he invited him into the house and welcomed him as a prospective son-in-law. The lesson of the incident Is obvious, but unless raised a Baptist the average young man will hesitate to take that sort of a bath in ice water, even for his best girl. The parent who is unable to direct the youthful tendencies by moral suasion might as well withdraw from the field.

Clara Louise Kellogg is printing a series of personal reminiscences which occupy a sort of half-way ground between the confessions oi Marie Bashkirtseff and the diary oi Samuel Pepys, comprehending the ingenuousness of both. Miss Kellogg begins by regretting that she has not kept notes of her distinguished intimacies, having in mind, no doubt, the success of Nathaniel Parker Willis in exhibiting the back yard oi royalty, and of John W. Forney in describing “Famous People Whom 1 Have Met.” “Being the first prim? donna to secure attention, both here and abroad,” says Miss Kellogg, with the true Bashkirtseff modesty, “naturally many noted people called on me, and at receptions in the different cities many men and woment of letters were presented to me.” She knew the novel-making machine, Anthonj Trollope, and Mr. Trollope was pleased to meet her. Emerson, Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes bowed at her vocal shrine. Nathaniel Hawthorne she had trouble with, or, lather, without—for the author of “The Scarlet Letter” seems to have beer too shy to take advantage of an opportunity to secure au Introduction. “He was such a retiring man,” she says, “that I did not meet him, although he came up to Mrs. Field’s for that purpose. He was up-stairs, hut could not summon sufficient courage to come down.” She docs not think much of the musical taste ol men of letters. “They are like the majority of mortals,” she declares, “who love music merely for the concord of sweet sounds.” Musical artists, inferentially, love music for its discords—<t frank and unusual confession from one of them. Miss Kellogg does not exactly claim to have rivaled Patti in art, but in social re spectability the American has prooi that she was far superior. “Once Patti and I sang at the same concert,” she remembers, “and when it ended the diva received attention exclusively from the gentlemen, while I was visited both by ladies and gentlemen.” Miss Kellogg met the Prince of Wales with her mother. Not only was the prima donna maternally protected, but she discreetlj observes that the Prince “had nol then begun to ‘tread the primrose path of dalliance.’ ” It is a pity thal Miss Kellogg’s delighttuUy amusing recitals should be marred at the out set by an ill-natured reference tc Emma Abbott. Whatever may have been Miss Abbott’s artistic deficiencies, her place in American art has been fixed above that of the present critic, and even naivete should respect the dead.

Caesar's Stinginess.

A recently consecrated bishop o 1 the Episcopal-church has a youthful son who not long ago asked his Sun-day-school teacher who was the stingiest man mentioned in the Bible. The teacher saw that the lad wanted the opportunity to answer the questioc himself, so he said: “I don't know, do you?” “Yes, Cassar,” was the reply. “Why Ca?sar?” asked the puzzled teacher. “Why, don’t you see?” said the boy, “the pharisees gave our Lord a penny, and when he asked them ‘Whose subscription is this?’ they said, ‘Caesar’s,’ and I think he must have been a pretty mean man to give so little.”

Keep Away from Burmah.

In Burmah it is the woman whe does the wooing. Hot only does she select her own husband, but when she tires of him she procures a divorce for the asking of it and marries anew. Going Up-Stair*. It takes eight times the strength to go up-stairs that is required tc walk the same distance on a level.

SOME SAMPLE DUTIES.

THE TARIFF ROBBERY ON WOOLEN GOODS. The Structural Iron and Steel Trust at an End—Congressman Scott Says that the Sugar Bounty Is Oppressive—A Wrapping Paper Trust. The Old and New Duties. Now that the Bureau of Statistics has Issued its annual report on imported merchandise entered and withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in 1891, we have the data required to determine how high a rate we are paying on imported merchandise. The McKinley tariff raised duties on wool and woolen goods so high that for a long time they were thought to be prohibitive. But it was soon found that, notwithstanding the high duties, woolen goods continued to be imported, though in diminished quantities. In 1890 we imported $54,165,423 and in 1891 $43,235,410 of manufactures of wool. Of the imports in 1891, $23,543,619 were entered under the duties imposed by the tariff of 1883, and $19,691,795 under the McKinley tariff. Allowing for the abnormally largo imports from July 1 to Oct. 4, for the purpose of anticipating the higher duties, the imports under the new tariff are but little less than before it became a law. In short, the duties imposed by the McKinley tariff are not high enough to accomplish the end intended, namely, prohibition. The McKinley tariff made such radical changes in the classifications of woolen goods that it has been impossible hitherto to determine how high the duties imposed by it are. The following table is a comparison of the old and new duties on the various classes of wools and woolen goods: 1810. IS 91. Wools— Ftrc’t. Perct. Clothing 45,1(1 50.38 Combing 4101 50.15 Carpet 144.43 12.00 Carpet 30 4J 50.00 Wooltns— Yarns 08.83 97.10 Blankets 71.11 81.74 Bunting 00.00 43.33 Carpets 41.94 60.49 i loths 75.17 1*2.48 Dress goods 79.74 1*7.57 Endless belts 62.13 97.80 Flannels 08 05 92.89 Plushes 118.84 Cloaks 59 40 85.85 Hatß 67.02 70.68 Knit fabrics...... 04 31 76.08 Bbavrls 65.39 79.50 Clothing- 53.1-5 82.78 Webbings, etc 06.99 93.05 All other manufactures 68 87 87.92 Total manufactures of wool 69.12 92.24 Under the tariff of 1883 worsted cloths were not separated from all other wool manufactures, and the item of “cloths" in the above table represents woolen cloths only for 1890. Under the McKinley / tariff woolen and worsted cloths bear the same rates. Similarly plushes wero not separately enumerated In 1890. On bunting, as shown above, the ad valorem rate is loss now than in 1890. The duties are, however, higher now than before, but since they are practically prohibitive this fact is of little importance. The McKinley tariff increased the duties on all goods an uverage of 33 per cent., and the average on all classes is 92.27 per cent. This is the tariff which Mr. Whitman’s so-called National Association demands Bhall be left as it is. Tluse who desire to see these high rates cut down are trying to got something at the “expense of other people.” Doubtless he meant at the expense of such concerns as that of which he is president, which earned a profit of 50 per cent, in 1891. In spite of tho fact that the duties have been advanced 33 per cent, and importations have fallen off but little, there are those who claim that the price of woolen goods has not advanced. Either prices have advanced or, what is the same in effect, the quality of tho goods has been lowered by tho larger use of shoddy and cotton. No other explanation is possible. In spite of the fact that the duties average 92.24 per cent, of the value of the goods imported, there are those who claim that the foreign manufacturer continues to pay the tariff tax. The mere mention of the average rate of duty is sufficient to refute this absurd claim. It is about time that tho people who use woolen goods, and thex - e are some that cannot afford such a luxury, should have something to say about the taxes which the tariff compels them to pay to enable manufacturers to make profits of 50 per cent.

Wrapping-Paper Trust.

The representatives of the wrappingpaper combine concluded their secret conference at tho Auditorium yesterday, and were congratulating themselves last evening before departing for their homes on tho fact that they had gathered in three more factories—two in Ohio and one in Indiana. There are fifty-eight mills in the United States engaged in manufacturing coarse wrapping paper, and of these twenty-six are in the trust, which has its headquarters in Chicago. This trust was badly wrecked by the anti-trust law when it first came into force, and has not fully recovered from the shook. However, it is making rapid strides, and expects have all the mills back into the combine in a year or two. At present it runs under no particular name, without a president or any high-sounding title of any sort. The product of its twenty-six mills is marketed through a general agent, and he, with two others, constitutes the Executive Committee. They are J. C. Richardson and F. C. Trebein, both of Ohio, and J. B. Halladay, of Chicago. The lastnamed is the general agent of the concern, and from his headquarters in Chicago supplies the market of the country with course wrapping paper, except in so far as the independent mills supply it. There are a large number of mills not now in the trust, and these are, as usual, cutting prices. The trust price for common wrapping paper ranges from $1.25 to $1.75 per 100 pounds, while the figures of the independent makers range from sto 10 cents less. The object of the meeting was to extend the membership of the trust and take 6teps to prevent further hurtful competition. The progress in this direction was quite flattering. Three of the largest mills outside of the trust were taken into the l’old and others are preparing to follow. A slight cut in prices was ordered, but Mr. Halladay says that as soon as the other mills are induced to join the combine the rates will be raised to the figures of two years ago.—Chicago Times. In his recent speech at the Greystone Club, in Denver, Governor Boies said of the men whose business profits were increased by the new tariff. “At first these men could not bring to their aid the united strength of either of the great polititical parties of ihe country. In both were willing champions of the people’s rights, and in both, I regret to say, where those who, yielding to the influence that wealth is always able to exert, jolnqd hands to perpetuate in times of peace laws that were born of war’s necessities alone. The scene has changed. Upon one side are now arrayed the beneficiaries of these laws, aided by allies more powerful than themselves in the shape of trusts and combines, that these laws have made possible, and so strengthened, they are in charge of the Republican party. They dictate its policy—they control its action. If they maintain their position it does not follow that this nation as a whole will cease to

rioh. We shall still go on prodooing wealth as we have done before, but a few will control it, many will be poor. Can we change these laws? Can we divide the mighty currents that are emptying the wealth of this nation into the hands of a few men, and scatter their golden contents among those who produce it? This 1b the supreme question of the hour. In the present status of political partiea*there is no power on earth that can accomplish this save and except ‘The Democracy of ’92.’ \Ve must not falter. This is the issue, and this alone will lead us to victory."

The Structural Iron Trust.

The combination which eleven manufacturers of structural iron and steel had so long and successfully maintained for the purpose of exacting an abnormally high price from consumers of j rolled beams and channels came to an end during the past week, and the effect was manifest in a sudden drop in the price of beams from 3.1 cents to 2.4 cents per pound, or from $62 to S4B per net ton. There is promise of still lower prices, as,, members of the late pool are reported as offering to sell beams at any figure above 2 cents per pound. The product of the eleven concerns in the combination amounted to about 120,000 net tons last year, so that the saving to consumers by the decline that has already taken place is at the rate of not less than $1,680,000 per year. Inasmuch as crude steel now costs the manufacturers something less than $25 per ton, there is still a very comfortable margin left for the beam and channel manufacturers at S4B, or even S4O, per net ton. Although the cost of rolling beams is considerably above the cost of making rails, the members of the steel rail combination are entirely satisfied with the profits yielded from rails at S3O per ton. The disruption of tho beam combinas tion is due to several causes, chief among which was the refusal of Carnegie, Phipps <k Co. (limited) to accept the allotment of business*awarded to them in the distribution by the combination. Mr. Carnegie’s firm has recently built a large mill for rolling beams at Homestead, near Pittsburg, which is said to have capacity for producing all the beams required in this country; and when the allotment to this mill was presented to Mr. Carnegie for his approval he refused to accept it and withdrew from the pool—a step which he is credited with having long meditated. Another cause for tho collapse was the dissatisfaction of the Illinois Steel Company with the price fixed by tho combination. To meet the competition of outside mills, and prevent further importation of foreign beams, the combination had decided to reduce the price to 2.8 cents per pound; but the Illinois Steel Company desired that a further reduction should be made, to which other members would not agree. The large importations of German and Belgian beams, which can be laid down at the seaboard for about 2.3 cents per pound, have cut into the trade of members of the combination very heavily of late. It is estimated that 12,000 to 15,000 tons of foreign beams have been imported at Atlantic ports within a few months, and good authority places the stock of foreign beams in Boston at present at about 2,500 tons. The prospect of permanently low prices for beams and channels is not altogether satisfactory. The opinion is freely expressed in tho iron trade that the free competition which has been precipitated by the collapse of the pool may be followed sooner or later by a new combination, in which Mr. Carnegie would come in for such a share pf the business as he might choose to dictate. So long as manufacturers in this country shall have such an incentive to oombination as is offered by tho tariff of $lB a net ton on structural shapes there is the strongest encouragement to combine and plunder the people to the utmost of their ability. The beam combination was a creation of the tariff; and so long as the duty on foreign material shall remain at the present high figure the American manufacturers cannot be expected to permit the opportunity for plunder to remain unimproved. There is now before Congress a bill that proposes a reduction of the duty on structural shapes to $5 per ton. It Is hardly possible that this bill will become a law; but it would go tar toward correcting a long unrestrained evil. Philadelphia Record.

To Repeal the Sugar Bounty.

Representative Scott, of Illifiois, has introduced a resolution providing for the repeal of the sugar bounty. “The sugar bounty," said Mr. Scott, “is oppressive because it takes from the public Treasury from ten million to twenty million dollars annually to enrich the few sugar producers at the expense of tho already overburdened taxpayers of the country. There is a deficit in the public revenues and this is especially burdensome at this time. The sugar .bounty is contrary to the Constitutioirffind violates every principle of republican government. It is notorious that except when famine exists abroad, corn, wheat and other farr. products are produced at a loss, anu that to levy this burden upon agriculture in its depressed condition is an injustice too grievous to be borne. “There is no just reason why corn, wheat, and other great industrial interests should not be given bounties if it is considered American, patriotic, and honest to donate money out of the Treasury to enrich private enterprise. Why not give 5 cents a bushel as a bounty on com, or 35 cents a bushel on wheat? By doing this, these great industries would not languish as they have in the past. There is as much right to do this as to give 2 cents S pound as a donation to the sugar producer.' It would be as proper to give every wage-earner 25 cents a day for every day he is employed. It would help to equalize the burdens put on him in the increased price he must pay for his food and clothes by the iniquitous tariff taxes. There is as much right to pay a bounty to labor as to those engaged in producing sugar. There is no right nor justice in the whole thing, and the law giving a bounty on sugar should be repealed.” An absurdity of the tariff law is found in the story which is told of a NewYorker, who while abroad bought two rosaries at $8 for his maid servants, and then expended $4 in having them sent to Rome for the Pope’s blessing. In paying the duty on the arrival of the goods he explained the situation and was called on to pay 40 per cent, on the rosaries themselves considered and 40 per cent, in the increased value arising from the Pope’s blessing, this latter article coming under the head “Not otherwise provided fo*»” The most inveterate protectionist will hardly argue that the American industry of blessings needs fostering by a 40 per cent. duty.

She Made Them, of Course.

Young wife—l knew you would like the slippers, Harry, if for no other reason, because I made them. Husband—You don’t mean this is all your work! Why, what a talented little wife I have, to be sure. Young wife—Yes, all my work. Of course, I bought the uppers, and Mary sewed them together, and I got a man to sole them, but I put the bows on and did them up in the bo*. And, do you know, Harry, I am just proud of myself. I didn’t think I could ever do such things; Indeed, I didn’t —Boston Transcript.

THE THEATER TOILETS.

THEY WERE NEVER SO BEAUTIFUL AS NOW. Toilets Can Be Seen at the Theater Nowadays Which Would Not look Out of Place In an Opera Box-Charming Reception Gowns. late Fashion Gossip.

silks and 7M velvets, cobwebby, laces yellow with * w age, diaphanous A tulles and gauzes, 'j slender graceful A figures banded with n ribbons which drop j.l their long floating ends, Watteau • u pleats springing ra} out like folded wings from fair t shoulders, trailing || robes edged with m fur, such are a few [!\ of the ingredients 1 1\ which make up a tl\ vision for my Lady hLA Clara of Fashion jj/M Castle, in the Kingdom of Allmodes. SsEr From her shapely shoulders drop soft

laces, such as English and Venetian point, whose yellow tone set off admirably the red, blue or black of her gowns, whose thick guipure lies flat upon dark grounds with lovely effect. And the Watteau fold, where will its popularity end? Already the applications are infinite, writes our New York correspondent. I have noticed some in embroidered gauze, in lace and in transparent textures which drop with exquisite effect from between the shoulders and in nowise conceal the beauty of the figure. Such Watteau folds are usually framed by two long velvet ribbons, one on each side. In one case I saw'a superb reception dress of Bky-hlup veloutine which had a Watteau fold of lace reaching quite to the end of the train. Theater toilets, too, it seems to me, were never so beautiful as they are this season. In fact, one sees toilets in the theater boxes nowadays which would not look amiss in an opera box. In m.y initial cut I present a charming cloak for use at theater or at an evening reception. It is made up in peacockgreen plush, over a completely adjusted inner garment, with an embioidered plastron front and back. The pelerine has too large folds at the back, and is gathered on the yoke. The bottom of the pelerine and also of the cloak is trimmed with an embroidered band, and the collar and fronts are garnished with moufflon. You may line it either with yellow or green silk. The pelerine must be made up in two parts, both cut straight, and you must so join them on the shoulder as to hide the seam with gathers. Just at present there are signs of new styles of coiffure which will no doubt

MODISH COIFFURE.

oust the Greek from its long-continued popularity. At dancing parties, especially, is this noticeable—there being a manifest tendency to greater omateness and intricacy, and yet it is an easy matter to vary the classic simplicity somewhat, and still retain its absolute grace. For instance, in my second illustration you will see pictured a very pretty style of dressing the hair for full dress. You begin by waving the hair, using as little heat as possible, so as not to produce a crinkled effect. Then you gather up the hair and coil it in a chignon, as represented, curling the ends and grouping them gracefully. The usual frizettes go with this style. In my third illustration I present the hick view of a very dainty little wrap for use at the opera or at a dancing party or evening reception. It may be made up in lace or embroidered chiffon. The back is gathered on a yoke of pink feathers and set off with a large bow of pink ribbon in the middle, in which place you mass the folds and cover them with two long ribbons springing . from the bow. The fronts are sewed to the feather yoke and brought down across the bust and tied loosely just above the waist line. They are quite detached from the garment itself, which barely covers the arms. This light and gossamer wrap is of course more for ornament than practical use, although you make up the feather yoke so thick and heayy as to yield considerable warmth, i merely suggest the combination of white and pink, but you may exercise your taste and ingenuity in devising others. Twelve or fourteen people are about all the average New York dining-room will hold, henoe the woman of fashion finds it extremely difficult to pay off dinner party obligations. But the next best

WRAPPER OF CHIFFON AND FEATHERS.

thing to being invited to a swell dinner, Is to be summoned for the dance that follows some of them. Toilets for these linner and dancing parties are very rich ind elegant. In my fourth illustration sou see pictured a dinner dress, a silk, dimmed with galloons of embroidery, which literally inenist it, outlining the lecollete and encircling the corsage in three rows about equidistant. Silks are much used for dinner Iresses. In fact, silks are reasserting their old-time domination. The change»ble silks are especially in vogue. An ixquisite buttercup yellow moire atracted my attention. It was trimmed * x

with fur in almost an original manner, at the bottom of the skirt, and also framing the decollete, but it did not stop here. The lady wore a dog collar of pearls and there was a band of the fur encircling it top and bottom. Very quaint idea, but extremely becoming to the particular wearer. For receptions and small gatherings the Jane Hading blouse is very modish. It is made up in white lace or silk crepon, overhanging a belt of galloon set off with mock gems. The same galloon frames the neck and the sleeves. In some cases these blouses are worn without sleeves at dancing parties, or, for reception purposes, you may add.the Kussian sleeve, which is double, a large puff ending at the elbow and the under sleeve being tight-fitting and extending to the wrist. I must not forget to call your attention to the new shade called “pink green. ” Pink here has reference to the flower and not the color. It seems that by artificial means the florists have succeeded in growing pinks of a green color. They will soon be the rage for buttonholes. Hyacinths and daffodils are to be treated in the same manner, and it will not be long before we shall find it impossible to recognize these dear old friends of our youth in their new coats. It*s too bad, really, to have these scientists changing the tints of flowers in this way, so that poor Mistress Mary will need become still more contrary if she attempts to tell how her garden grows. In my last illustration there is represented a very charming evening costume

DINNER DRESS.

—two kinds of silk in combination, the bodice being trimmed with galloon, a bronze-green leaf on a lighter shade of green. The sleeves are of figured silk. The same material is used to fill in the neck, but being wider in front, the galloon running to a point just above the waist line. What are we going to do when Lent comes In? is the question now agitating the world of fashion. No more dancing, of course, but possibly a quiet dinner party. The modish thing, however, will be the musicale, at which sacred music will predominate. The toilets will all be in minor key, if I may so term it, toned down, but still discreetly rich. The fair penitents will look most charming in these Lenten costumes, which will strive for quaint and picturesque effects. The old composers, Gluck, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart, will be in vogue, and, naturally, one must dress up to them. The wide berthas of heavy guipure will look most charming on the dark velvets, and the moire antiques will be in lively demand. It is fortunate that black velvet bows and streamers are so much used. They will chime with the Lenten gloom and may be worn with almost any toilet. They look very coquettish attached to one shoulder, and then, too, the black satin slippers, now affected by those who make a study of the fashions, come in very appropriately for Lenten purpose, with the additional advantage that they make the foot look very small. Afternoon tqas bring out some really charming little gowns. One in particular attracted my attention. It was in crepe de chine, bordered with Oriental

A DANCING GOWN.

embroidery, and there was a little vest of emerald velvet, gold braided, and set off with mock gems. The vest opened on a chemisette of crepon, and the inevitable Watteau pleat was represented by a bow of satin ribbon set between the shoulders, the ends falling down over the skirt. In the line of outer garments, the long jacket coming down well below the knee will undoubtedly hold on to its popularity way into the spring. They will be made quite tight, or merely fitting at the back and straight in front, and with such a garment a glove-fit with little garniture is to be preferred to a poor fit with every seam covered with rich embroidery. The long jacket is essentially a hint taken from male attire and should always have a tailormade look about it. You will note that plain cloth skirts, when they are not ia : lor-made, are very prettily combined with velvet. The latter in the form of a deep band cut straight is fitted to the bottom of the sk'.rt, and, after the band is tacked on, the cloth is cut in fancy edges and a braided design carried out, producing, if tastefully wrought, very rich effects. The velvet band may be of any depth you choose, but looks best when about fourieen inches wide. Chicago thieves are so bold that they slip into churches and steal the $75 overcoats of the clergymen who are busy in the pulpit. Happily there is a place where Chicago thieves will not feel like stealing overcoats and where there is no home market for heavy clothing.— Courier-Journal. The report that Sarah Althea Terry is “off her mental balance and has gone insane” is surprising news to those who know her best. They had an idea that any change in her mental condition would have been in the direction of returning to sanity.— Philadelphia Times. When a girl marries a man to reform him the devil doesn’t worrv.

LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS.

THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OP THE PAPER. t Qnalnt Sayings and Doings of Little Ones Gathered and Printed Here for Other Little Folks to Bead.

“Stretch It a Little.” Trudging along the slippery street. Two childish figures, with aching feet. And hands benumbed by the biting cold. Were rudely jostled by young and old. Hurrying homeward at close of day Over the city's broad highway. Nobody noticed nor seemed to care xt w MMte ragged, shivering pair; Nobody saw how close they crept Into the warmth of each gas jet Which flung abroad its mellow lixht * rom gay shop windows In the night. “Come under my coat,” said little NelL As tears ran down Joe’s cheeks and fell JTm i r , OWD th)n Angers. stiff with cold. Tain t very big, but I guess ’twill hold Both you and me if I only try To stretch It a little; so now don't cry.” The garment was, small and tattered an 4 thin, But Joe was lovingly folded In Close to the heart of Nell, who knew That stretching the coat for the needs of two WoulJ double the warmth and halve the pain Of the cutting wind and the icy rain. “Stretch it a little,” O girls an A boys. In homes o’erflowing with comforts and Joys; see how far you can make them reach, Your helpful deeds and your loving speech. Your gifts of service and gifts of gold; Let them stretch to households manifold. —Harper’s Young People.

Telling “Head or Tall” Blindfold. One can always entertain his company if he be familiar with a few simple tricks. People, old or young, like to be gulled. Here are half a dozen, tricks with coins on which the young magician may practice so as to astonish his friends next time they drop in to spend the evening. To tell blindfold whether a spun coin falls head or tail upward is simple enough, yet to the spectators not a little puzzling. The coin must be prepared byxutting on the edge of one face a minute notch, causing a. little point of metal tc project. When the coin is spun, if it goes down with the notched side underneath this point will catch on the table, causing the coin to fall suddenly instead of gradually, as it otherwise would. With a little practice the two sounds may be easily distinguished. Another trick is the wandering coin. Have ready two silver pieces, each slightly waxed on one side. Borrow a similar coin and secretly exchange it for one of the waxed ones, which is then laid on the table waxed side uppermost. Draw two cards from a pack and take them in the same hand with the other waxed coin, which will thus stick to the undermost. Lay this card on the table near the coin th;it is already there and cover that piece with the other card, pressing lightly on it so it will stick. A coin may now be made to appear under, whichever card the performer wills, for if he bend the card slightly upward in lifting the coin will not stick to it; otherwise it will. To the company it will appear as if there were but one coin, which the performer caused at will to pass from one card to the other. A third trick is that of the animated coin. Have ready a long piece of black thread, to one end of which is fastened a bit of wax. The waxed end lies on the table in front of the performer; the other is held by an assistant in an adjoining room. On the table stands an ordinary goblet. The young magician borrows a coin, and, contriving to stick the waxed thread to it, throws it into the goblet, calling on the spectators to ask it questions, which it will answer by , ingling in the glass. It may be agreed that one chink shall mean “yes” and two chinks “no.” The assistant must be near enough to hear the questions, and answers them according to his fancy, by pulling the thread and making the coin jump up and down in the glass.

A Good One on Papa. There is a stofy told of veteran night editor who, for some reason, had a couple of days off. For years he had reached his o’clock in the morning, slept until late aip the afternoon and been obliged to rush off to his work. His children naturally saw but little of him. On this occasion he found it necessary to correct his youngest daughter for some flagrant breach of discipline. The child rushed to her mother, flushed with indignation: “Mamma,” she exclaimed, “that man wiv whiskers that sleeps here day-times ’panked me.”—Exchange. Funny Youngsters. “Mamma, I do not like my new phonograph doll at all!” “Why not, dear?” “Oh, it speaks with such ‘an offensive New Yorjc accent.”—Life. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER (sadly)—“l’m afraid, Johnny, that I will never meet you in heaven.” Johnny —“Why? What have you been doing now?”—Harper’s Bazar. “Charley, I wonder what would be a nice present to give to papa for Christmas?” asked Clara. “Give him a pair of padded slippers,” suggested Charley, gloomily.—Texas Siftings. Uncle Tom—“ Well, Bobby, what do you expect to get in your stocking on Christmas?” Bobby (disconsolately)—“Not much; mom put me into socks last October. ” —Puck. Uncle —“What is your favorite dish, Karlchen?” Karlchen—“Suet dumplings; for they always make me so ill that I can’t go to school the day after.”—Anekdoten Bibliothek. “What are you going to do with your new skates, Johnny?” asked the caller. “I haven’t made up my mind yet,” was the reply, “but I think I’ll get sister to tie ribbons on ’em and fix ’em up with gold paint to hang in the parlor.”—Washington Star. Mother (reprovingly to little giri just ready to go for a walk)— “Dolly, that hole w.as not in your glove this morning." Dolly (promptly)— “Where was it, then?” London Truth. Little Dot—“My kitty is real mean. I gave her some of my. medicine and she wouldn’t touch it” Mamma—“Why did you wißh her to take it?” Little Dot—“l wanted to see how a cat looked when she made a face.”—Good News.