Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1889 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH C, 1889.

WHY ARE THIS AND THAT.

D ft. T ALM AGE EXPLAINS DARK SAYINGS Anrwering Questions TVhich Are So Many Times Askrd Why So 31 any Good People Die end Cselesa People Live, Etc. There was the usual large congregation in Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday morning to listen to the Rev. Dr. Talrnage. He preached one of his most interesting sermons: "I will open mv dark Faying upon the harp," Psalms xilx, 4. Looking forward upon society to-Iay we find a great many persons in unhappy conjunction of cicumstances, and they do not understard it, and thev have a ri?ht to a?k, "Why i this?" and "Why is that?" and I think I will be doing a good work this morning if I try to solve some of these mysteries and answer questions which have been asked us and which we have all asked ourselves a thousand times, and try to set these mysteries to music and open these dark savin zs on a Gospel harp. Interrogation the first: Why does God take out of the world useful people and those whom we cannot spare and leave alive and in good health many of those who are the nuisances, if cot the positive injuries of society? I thought I -would take one of the toujhest inscnitahles to start with. John Careless wrote to Bradford, the martvr, just before his death, saying, "Why is it that such poor, miserable caterpillar? as myself and ntherss, who can onlv feed on the alms, of the church, should five on. and you and other men of such vast importance should be taken out of the vineyard?' Th.it question has been asked cgai'j and ucain and through all the ages. Here is a man a noble character and a consccra:ed Christian. He selects for his companion in life one tenderly reared, and she is worthy of him and he is worthy of her. The time passes on. He toils mightily to achieve a livelihood for his household. He is tolerably successful and he does his verv best to educate his children and put his "family into a competency; but before be has established that family in competency, and before the mortgage is lifted from his house, one day on his way home the northeast wind strikes through him and he is chilled to the bone, and after four days of pneumonia he expires, and his family go out into a terrible (draggle for shelter and for foo 1. Next door to him is a man who, though well and etrong, lets his wife support hrn..He ppends the evening at the grocery or in eorne place of eeneral loafenlom while his wife sews. His boys are coming up imitating; his example, and they lounge and swear and swaprjrer. That man is of no use to his family except to rave when the roffee is cold as h? comes down to a late breakfast, or to criticise? his wife's dress when he provides nothing; in the way of wardrobe. The best tiling that could happen to that family would be that man's funeral. But he declines t die, and he lives on and on and on. And so you have een useful people die at thirty or forty years of age, while some who have been utterly useless have lived on to sixty or F.eventy or eighty. Why docs God allow those who are so useful to be taken out of the world, their cut t-hort in the very midst oi their days, while some who fire the very parasites cf societv have wonderful tenacity? Now, I take the dark saying on the eospel harp and give two or three thrums to the strings ir the way of surmising and hopeful cuess. Perhaps that good man and his family were FO constituted that they could not endure very great prosperity, and there was some preat prosperity jnt ahead, and if it had come upon them they would have gone down in the vortex of worMIiness where tens of thousands ot families go down every year. God took that man while he was iiumble and consecrated and when he was not tempted, and his familv went into severities which kept them cios? up to the heart of Christ and prepared them for usefulness and a very high seat in heaven, and when they all come together around the throne they will acknowledge that though the furnace was hot it purified them, and they were prepared for a higher career of glory and renown in heaven than they could have heen prefared for by any other 6tyh of life. The oafer lives on. Perhaps it is to give him a chance for repentance. At any rat?, the only easy time he will ever hae will be in this world, and why should you begrudge him his longevity, for i:i all tho uges there has never been a loafer that entered heaven. There would not be any place for them to lor.nge around. No place in the temple, for that is tilled with vigorous, alert and rapturous worshipers. No place on the river bank, for that is where the conquerors recline. No place in the gate, for there are great multitudes fcoing in, and each of the twelve gates has an angel, and the celestial guard would not allow the place to be- blocked up. Rejoico that the good man went away from this world, where life is a struggle at the very best, and that this other man, this loafer, this jrood for nothing, had opportunity for repentance; at any rate, that he was kept many rears more in the fresh air of this world before his final incarceration. Interrogation the second: Why do such very good people have so much trouble? A question you have asked a thousand times, and I have asked it. I bethink myself of a very good friend I once had. lie was a consecrated. Christian man, an elder in a church, and as fine a gentleman as ever walked Bralway. I used the word "eentleman" in its highest and grandest sens. In mid-life his health pave way and he hobbled around on a crutch at forty, an old man. A little while after be was struck with paralysis and was speechless the rest ot his days. A little while after, his beautiful only daughter died. A little while after that his son became demented, hopelessly demented. A little while after that another son of splendid physique and fine intellect, who had resolved upon the support of his father and the entire household, went down under yellow fever at Fernandina, Fia., and expired. Trouble nough for one good man, was it not? So vou have known men and women who have had trouble enough to kill fifty people. I defy human philosophy to take that and put it upon any violin, flute, harp, dulcimer or sackbut and make music out of iL Hut I take that dark paying on the gospel harp. Vou wondr

that so many very consecrated people have so much trouble. Did you ever see h very consecrated person who had not had a great deal of "trouble? In other words, it was sanctified trouble that made them so pood. If you can find in this rity, or in this world, a man in pood health now, who has always heen in good health, who has never lost a child and has never had any hardship, and is at the Käme time distinguished for goodness, I wish you would null the wire for a telegraph boy and Fend word to me. and I will drop everything and come and look at him. There never has been such a man never will be such a man. Trouble, tanctified trouble, the mightiest for puritication and salvation. Who are thesß arrogant men that go around in their Hfronceit with no sympathy for human kind, and having, more interest in a St. J5ernard doe or an Aldernev cow, or a Southdown cheep or a Berkshire pig;, than a man? They are the people who never had any trouble, or, if they had trouble, it 3 loC easctilkd. Who aro the iuea

who cannot listen to a story of suffering without tears coming into their eyes and without a pathos in their voice, and a kindness in their manner, and an excuse or an alleviation for every one that has gone astray? They are the men who have graduated from the royal college of trouble, their diplomas written on their countenances in wrinkles. My! how they worked. What inj .istices they suffered. What heartbreaks they had. A diamond is not fit for a crown until it is cut. Wheat is not lit for bread until it is ground. There are three things that will break a chain. A hammer, or a file, or fire, and trouble is all three of them. Now, if yon persist in pressing against mo the sharp question, "Why do good people suffer?" I just take up the gospel harp. I do not pretend to be much of a player; I cannot play an organ or cornet or dulcimer or flute or hautboy, but I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, and I give you just two or three bars of music. "All things work together for good to those that love God." "Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldcth the peaceable fruit of rieliteoüsneb3 nnto them which are exercised thereby." "Weeping may endure for a nicht, but joy cometh in the morning." Interrogation the third: Why did a good God let sin and sorrow come into the world when lie might have kept them out? I answer, He had a cood reason for letting them come in. He had good reasons He has never riven to the world. He had reasons which he could no more make US, in our finite, earthly Etat, understand than a merchant starting out in some great enterprise could make his little two-year-old child, in a high arm-chair, comprehend. But there are somo reasons we do not know. Oue was that it might be demonstrated what grandeur of Christian character could be achieved by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer, had there been no sorrows to solace, tin world would never have had a Moses.or a David.or a Daniel, or a Joshua, or a Paul, or a Jesus Christ, or a Georg? Washington, or n John Milton, or a John Howard, and millions of victories that have been gained for the truth would never have been gained at all. Heaven would have had nine-tenths Ie?3 song than it has now. Heaven wouh". not have been a thousandth part of tht heaven it is had it not been for the poul's redemption from sin and death and hell by the grace of Almighty God. I do not say that I am glad that sin and sorrow entered the world, but 1 do say that after God, in the presence of an assembled universe, shall have given his reason why he allowed them to come into the world, God will be more honored than if thev had never come.

Ministem Salaries. In regard to ministerial salaries some interesting things aro said in the latest Andover Ii. vine: The salaries of ministers in the larger parishes -quäl, where they d ) not t'xeted, the salaries of justices öf the supreme courts of the states and of the United States. Tlie salaries of ministers in that very large Geld of secondary parishes equal, if they do not exceed, the salaries of professors in the larger colleges. The salary of tho average country minister equals the income of the avenge country doctor. The conclusion derived from the foregoing exhibit is that there is little cround for the statement sometimes made that the reason so comparatively few young men are now entering the ministry is the lack of adcnuate support in the sacred profession. The real reason probably is that there has been an over-supply. There were formerly more men in the ministry than thorn was a demand for, using the word "demand" in its business sense. There is no doubt that when more clergymen are really wanted there will be more. Correcting Mistnke. Dr. Joseph Parker of London recently gave the workingmen a talk, his purpose being to correct some of the mi-takes that class is constantly falling into as to the nature of Christianity itself. One of

the first mistakes with regard to Christianity, said he, was that only scholars could understand it. His solemn conviction was that scholars, by a distant perversion of scholarship, had done more, in not a few instances, to dishonor Christianity than to exalt it. They had male a puzzle oi the heart of God. They had gone into metaphysical ristinctions and classifications and analysis that had no relation whatever to the immortal hunger of tho immortal soul. What we wanted for a proper understanding of Christian principles was a conscious need of the thing in our own souls, Tho broken heart would find out more about Christ than the most complete and finished scholar. Religious Note. Out of less than 112,000 Fijians over 100,000 aro attendants on Christian worship. The twenty-two missionary societies in the United States managed by women support 7.M missionaries, last ear contributed 1,033,2.3 and since their organization have contributed f 10.300,12 L Mrs. John Jacob Astor ha given to the Children's aid society of New York a handsome four-story brick building to use as an industrial school. It is to he a memorial to Mr. Astor, who was greatly interested in the work. A prominent missionary recently declared that when a naked Zulu pot so tar toward C hristianity as to p it on duck pants and a calico thirt and sit on a three-leirzed stool nine inches liish, Le was about 9,000 miles above his ru'le neighbors. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, whom poluical rumor designates as the next post-master-ceneral, is superintendent of what is probably the largest S'unday-school in the world. It has been built up almost wholly under his managernnnt. The ('ttth'plir. World states that more than a million colored children in the southern states never enter a school-room, for the simple reason that. there are no schools within their reach. The southern bishops of the catholic church prcposato build tweuty-five new schools this year. Lord Northbrook, ex-viceroy of India, made an address at the late missionary conference in Ioudon, in which he said that "the native of India whether he be a Mohammedan or a Hindu is a religious being, and he respects a religious man who openly professes his religion on every proper occasion." The episcopal church has had an average accession of twenty-six ministers a year frjra other denominations for the past eleven years. During the year just closed the number was twenty-seven thus: baptists, 5; catholics, 4; prs!yteriiis, 3; cceregationalists, 2; German reformed. I; reformed episcopal, 1; Lutheran, 1, und two denominations not ascertained. The ('krittinn Kirm'rrr ( Baptist) says: "It has ben surircsted by the lie v. Pr. Wharton that the residence of a baptist pastor be called 'the pustoriuin.' He say that the episcopalians have their rectory, the prcahyteriana their inarsr, the mcthodists their parsonages, and he does not see any reason why the baptists may not luve tiieir pastorium. Quite a number of pastors are quite indifferent to the name. Whit they want is a habitation and 'uo rent to pay.' " Of the labor question from the religious point of view thu Chrirtiun Leader says: "The basal reed is not so much th elevation of the workman as it is that of the man in the workman. (Jive to the farmer, the mechanic, the ordinary day-laborer an intellectual and moral elevation and he becomes, in the matter of hi particular vocation, a law unto himself. Utiles, organizations, theories may have their place, but the 'cn'e-nir behind u'l else is self-respecting, intellectual manhood." Archdeacon Mackay-Smith has found it necessary to write a letter to the presä warning the clercy of his church aeeJnst coming to New York in the hope of petting something to do. "Hardly a mail," he says, " fails to bring ne an application from & lady seeking church work, or a clrpymaii desiring temporary or permanent engagement in "New Yoik. The great majority of these letters are so written as to excite a profound regret that one U so helpless to give fcu eiitourni-ius reidy."

HE HEW HOW TO SAY "NO."

WHY NED OBTAINED A POSITION. A Budget of Other Good Stories For Chlldrea .Mixed Physiology Why John nie Kites Early Consolation Knotty Problem. "No !" clear, sharp and ringing. "I don't often hear such a negative 03 that," remarked one gentleman to another as they were passing the playground of a village school. "It is not often anyone hears it. The boy who uttered it can say yes, quite as emphatically. He is a new-comer here, an orphan, who lives about two miles off with his uncle, lie walks in every moraine, bringing bis lunch, and walks back at nijjht. He works enough, too, to pay his board, and does more toward running his uncle's farm than the old man himself. He i3 tho coarsest dressed scholar in school, and the greate6t favorite. Everybody knows just what to expect of him." "Quite a character; I should like to see him. Boys of euch 6turdy make-up aro petting to be scarce, while the world never had more need of them than now." The speakers moved on a few steps, pausing by an open gate near which a group of lads were discussing some exciting question. "It isn't right, and I won't have anything to do with it. "When I say 'No' I mean it." "Well, any way ; you needn't speak so loud and tell everybody about it," was responded, impatiently. "I am willing everybody should hear what I've rot to pay about it. I won't take anything that don't belong to me, end I won't drink cider, anyway." "Such a fuss about a little fun! It's just what we might have expected; you never go in for fun !" "I never go in for doing wrong. I told you 'No,' to begin with, and you're the ones to blame if there has been any fuss." "Ned Dunlap, I should like to see you a minute." "Yes, sir;" and the boy removed his hat as he passed through the gate and waited to hear what Mr. Palmer might say to him. "Has your uncle any apples to sell ?" "No, sir; he had some but he sold them. I've got two bushels that were my share for picking; would you like to buv tb.ein.Bir?" "Yes, if we can agree upon the price. Ho vou know just how much they are worth?" "Yes, sir." "All right then. I will call for thera and vou may call at my house for the pay' This short interview aTorded the stranger nn opportunity to observe Ned Dunlap closely. The next da' a call was made at his uncle's, and although years elapsed before he knew what a triend he had gained that day, his fortune was assured. After he had grown to manhood and accepted a lucrative position that was not of his seeking, he a;ked why it had been offered him. "Because I knew you could Fay 'No,' if occasion required," answered his employer. " 'No' was the first word I ever heard vou speak, and you spoke it with a will More people, old and you us, are ruined for want of using that word than any other cause. Thev don't wish to do wrong, but they hesitate and parley until the tempter has them fast. The boy or girl who is not afraid to say 'No,' is reasonably certain of making an honorable man or woman." A Bntcti of Childish Conceits. Harper's Young People. "Who was Gen. Grant?" "He was a oTcat soldier who has led battles behind ! him." f a hailstorm : "See ! see ! it is raining tapioca." Of stepfathers: "Tho new papas whip the old papas' children." "Mamma, a noose seem3 to be a t-uly knot, but it isn't. Cheating people is like that." On seeing a bent and aged woman: "That lady is too old. God ought to 6top a lady when she gets just old enough." On trimming lamp wicks: "Oh, grandma, your are cutting the lamp's toe nails." Of" a first ride upon the strum cars: "Oh, I saw all the trees and fences running along the dirt." "Iv nana narts his teeth in thn middlo l since lie got his front tooth knocked out." "How did the cat hghtthe dog 7 ' "Why, she humped up her back as high as she could, she made her tail as big as she could, and then she blew her nose in his face." lie was watering his horse (a chair) out of an empty cup. Mamma suggested that she should get some "truly" water. "Oh, no," he said, with a fine sense of dramatic unity " h. no; a puhtendin' horße must driuk puhtendin' water." Lord Cranborne's Babyhood. London Society. Of all the enfants terribles ever born the present lxrd Cranborne (the eldest son of lyord Salisbury), was in his juvenile days the most terrible, for not content with galloping with his younger brother helter-skelter through the park on their Shetland ponies, he would say things which would often try the gravity of his indulgent parents. On one occasion, for instance, a prosy old duke hail called in Arlington-st., to see Lady Salisbury, and the pauses in the conversation grated dreadfully on the nerves of little Cranborne, who was lying with his curly head on his mother's lap, for Lady Salisbury is a devoted and indulgent mother and used to allow her children into the drawing-room at all times and very often when they had far better been in the nursery. Suddenly, after a pause of more than ordinary duration, the baby viscount lifted up his head and said, yawning: "If vou haven't got anything more to say, why don't you go away." An Alarming Announcement. Boston lluuget. There is a little boy residing not many miles irom Boston who rather astonished his parents and a visitor at the hotiBe not many days ago. The child's teacher had ! announced the fact to her pupils that thev ', were to have a new graded school, and, 1 pcnrcely able to retain the important in- ' formation, the little fellow burst in upon ; his parents and their visitor with the anj nouncement: "Oh, ma! We are goin to have a large, aegraued school 1 Quite Likely. Toledo Blade. "Yes, my dear children," said tho visitor at Sunday-school, lowering his voice to hushed and solemn tones, "this brave missionary, this saintly man of Uod I have been ttliing you about, was captured by the cannibals and killed. And now, little one, can anv of you tell me whero he was after that?" Chorus "Yes, ma'am." "Well, this dear little boy rpay tell me." Dear Little Boy "In the aoup." Bllxeil Pliymnloity. Woman's Work. Two little girls owned a canary bird, whose development they watched with great curiosity. One morning they came low n to breakfast and found an egg in thö cage. " Why," exclaimed the elder.

"he's a temale;" and the younger followed op with "Did he know he was a girl bird?" Consolation. Toledo Pla.le. Fond Mother (teaching her child the bible lesson) "Yes, Grade, had not Eve eaten the apple we would never have known sin or suffering. Ah, mel Itsaddens me to think of it." Grade (consolingly) "Well, never mind, mamma, if Eve hadn't eaten it some other lady would ; so there, don't be sad." Why Johnnie Rises Knrly. Philadelphia Call. "You are a good little boy to get up so early in the morning." said'Mrs. Pulgrave. "Does your father give you anything for gettinz up at daylight." "No," replied John nie. "The only time he gives tne anything is when catches me lato in bed." KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

Our readers r lavited to furnish ortstnsl entma, charades, riddles, rebuses, ani othnr "Knotty Problems," ad dressing all communications relative to this department to E. It. Chaiburn, Lelston.Me. No. 2ßß7 Talindromes. (Fill Blank With Palinlromtj.) In Bombav lor money the Is nsed, lor Cuba's 'tia never refused. The are dear to the Norseman boH, With the of truth lor him they hold. In Turkey the , born to command, May enforce or a dogma withstand. The Crrepnlander's is lii;ht and strong And helps him to in fishing and song. On a hii;h and deserving renown Stood the Etonian who won a crown. No srainan would In a leave port To setk tor where Circe held court. No. 2663 Charade. FIRST. A bird In northern Europe found. One whose head with erect is crowned J To clasp, to encircle, or aurrotud. SFCO.ND. 'Tis worn by all the ladies fair. And oft attracts admiring stare; Look at a coat and tea it there. TOTAL. Ijire was Its sphfre and wide its sway. Put it was doomed to pa.s away, Like rnauy follies of the day. SELS05U. No. 26G9. Central Acrostic. Find six words o' öt letters esoh. tha center letters 9;-i:iig a delightful tea&on of the year. 1. To make happy. 2. A tree and its fruit. 3. A umsk'-t. 4. A weil-kuown flower. 5. A topio. C A piog. Mauds Warekx. No. 2070 Chronograms. I. Writo or.e hundred and a 11 ens, And then with five unite; Wh' n one and fifty you hive joined You'll hare hat u ;mhtc If to one thousand you add one, Th'Mi fifty ami live hnndrcd; You'll hare what's gentle, j?d nnd kind, Or else 1 taust ha to blundered. MikT E. COLF No. 2671-Kictdle. Think orer all tbo boxes That yon hae etr seen, An i all that you have beard 0 Then nam the box I mean. Its lid was oocn uplifted On an unlucky day, Gues, il you can, who opened It, .. .. And what within it lay. And then, when most its content Were scattered to the win 1, Tray nam to mo this previous jewel That still remained behind. UiconoK Crider. No. 2673 Anagram of the Alphabet. A Trize Purzle. Forra a gramst ifsl sentonce of the twenty-nix letters of the Knidibiii alphabet, nsinu every letter and reieatinK none. Well-known proper names and recognized nbl.reviations are allowable. A fine book a Tery desirable prize will be awarded for the best seutence forwarded in fie days. E. W. Harris. No. 2673 An Anagram of the Night. 'Twas on a fair and cloudless night. The twiukling stars were shining bright. And my "nvum Harm'' did di'lilit In all this crand and slnriou M'ht. Were th.-y lovers? Miall I confess? Ah, well! IT leave you that to guess. J Answers, WO The tongue. 2W Swevt Hug. 'JJ61 2',K Omn'.nm gatherum. 2fV.S Uiri-di'L 2(Ht M A T R K S S A n a k l o T 8 a C N T k n To B A 0 C O Earmark Restore. 21 15 W (donMe U, double yew, double you.) 2606 Uucitram. A War Song. Binghamton Republican. A Ninth ward schoolboy administered a thrashing to a playmate, and as a punishment for his pugnacity his teacher required him to "write it up" and read the composition before the school. The youth has in him the making of a great poet, as his eflnsion shows. Two hours of solitary confinement evolved the following: When I wasawalklng around one day I met Robert Jones; Before I said a word to him hebeean i firing ttones. Do you suppose I'd stand adoing nothing on the pround. While hu was slintriog rocks and stonea anfetrythinu around? So I just cues up to him and bitted him in the eye, And then the tittlo coward hollered and ha begun to cry. Ha told the teacher what I'd dono and she made me write it up; And that's the reason I think Bobby Is a soeakin' little pup. Needed No Assistance, Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Stronsmind (accompanied by husband) "Doctor, I have called to get a tooth extracted." Dentist (atranjrer to Mrs. iStroncmind, and thinking to reassure her) "That will take but a moment. You have brought your husband along. I dara 6ay, to help you bear the pain." "I h:ve brought him alon?, sir. to pay the bill. Whenever you are ready to lift this tooth out you can go ahead." Ko Fire Nn-ded, Chicago News. Woman (to tramp) "Want something to eat, eh? My fire is out, and I have no kindling to light it. Can't cook, or even warm things, without a fire, you know." Tramp "No, mum." "There is wood and a hatchet out in the t.hed." "Ys, mum; I see it. Have you any pie?" "I have mince and pumpkin." 'Tumpkin will do, mum. That's good cold." Intereated In Kcience. X. Y. Weekly. Boston Dame "My dear, where are you going ?"' Cultured Daughter "To Prof. Drybone'i lecture on Dncillus Lacteriura Notiestibustibuj. Miss Hack bay is to be there, and I hear she baa just got a nice new bonnet from Paris." Feminine Nature. ES. Y. Weekly. Adult Son "Mother, does a girl mean to encourage or discourage a man when she " Mother My son, there is no need of going into details. When a girl starts out to encourage or discou race a man, the man never has uiy doubt about what she means."

THE NEW SPRING STYLES.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SLENDER PURSES. "With the Old Material And a Small Expenditure the Prevailing: Costumes 31ay lie Eaaily Duplicated Late Fashion Notes, Etc. By March 1 the white sewing of r family should be well out of the way, and the mind left free to concentrate itseli upon plans for rejuvenating old powns and selecting modes and materials for new ones. The second is always an easy matter if a woman only has money enough to expend it on such fabrics and patterns as please her fancy. The majority, however, have bo many places in which to put a limited amount that a few suggestions regarding the universal renovating that spring annually necessitates may be in order. In the first place the gown that needs alteration should be weil looked over, if indeed that has not already been done before the fall packing away, to 6ee that enough available material is at hand to warrant making over at all. In the present state of fashions, eo far removed are they from those of a year ago that the whole underskirt with iU over-drapery will have to be ripped apart. The material, if of the high-colored fcuiunier woolens 60 much in vopuo last season, should be washed well in hot eoap-sud-?, rinsed thoroughly in water of corresponding temperature, and hung up without any wringing. .This should ue allowed to hang until the dripping stops, and should then be pressed on the wrong side with very hot irons until perfectly dry. Almost any shade of cashmere may be treated in the tarne way. liack goods, either in cashmere or Henrietta cloth will emerge from such manipulation looking like new. As a rule waists oi dresses have to bo Fubmitted to the dry-cleaning process, as if once taken to pieces and washed, th forms shrink beyond ail hope of ever meeting again. Dry cleaning shrinks an article slightly, but "that difficulty may be met by letting out the under arm-seam as much as possible before cleaning, the pressing injuring the removal of all traces of the old 6titching. .Should the waist have a narrow vest, as most of the walking dresses did last summer, it may bo replaced by a soft, full one of crepe or silk. Or a fresh, plain one be introduced and broad revers to match finish it on either side. Or if two or three tiny folds fiui.-di the vest of the old dress thene may be ripped oh", pressed and put back again with several rows of shirring w here the piece is joined to the ßhoulder seam, another cluster of shirs at the waist line. It is a good plan to cut oil alj below the waist line, and sew the underskirt and drapery to the bodice in the old-f.ishioned way. As to the underskirt proper, it must give up its steels. Forswear them forever, that is, for this season at least, and be content to rely upon a mere triHe of a cushion for graceful ellect. Whether any cushion at all is used depends altogether upon the wearer. Should the hips be sharply accentuated a small pad will le necessary toelesci ibe the proper circle that should be maintained from hip to hip; otherwise the desired fullness mav proceed from a couple of layers of thin crinoline that may be plaited or g; thered in with the överbreadtbsof wool. After the steel comes out of course the breadths that have supported them must be shortened to keep the skirt from an unpleasant draggling on the ground behind. The underskirt should be gathered with more or less fullness in the front, a point to be determined by the figure of the wearer. Tl en the perfectly straight breadths of the drapery should be quite the length of the underskirt, and be mounted in double box-plaits showing the gathers of the skirt in front, at each side and directly in the middle of the back. Four widths of the goods are necessary fortius. If not enough of tho original material exists for this, a piain, contracting material, or a few yards of some brocaded ellect may be used to excellent advantage as panels. These may be had smoothly over the underskirt at the openings between the box plaitings. Then a pretty surplice front of the same may be inserted in the bodice, which may also have a broad belt of brocade to linHli it all the way around. Deep culls of the same, reaching almost to the. elbow, are a stylish trimming for the sleeves. Should the last be worn out to put in a pair of velvet ones immediately relieves the situation and places the owner of the gown in the front rank of fashion. An exceedingly pretty design ami one that can be utilized with amazing facility in the renovation of any wool or silk dress 6hows a perfectly plain underskirt of velvet, over which is mounted in plaits long breadths of Henrietta cloth, the whole being sewed to a round waist. Deep velvet cutis have gathered into thera full sleeves of the Henrietta cloth. The narrow vest between the shirred waist fronts is of velvet and the collar and inside belt are of the same. The belt should be fastened in front and have as handsome and ornamental a buckle as tho owner's purse will afford. Much care must be taken in fitting and hanging the skirt, for everything depends upon its smo'ith lit around the figure. When paniers and puily draperies where the style this was comparatively a simple affair. Now since the front and side breadths are uncovered to the top they must hang handsomely and above all not drag across the front Moreover, they must fit equally well whether the wearer is seated or standing. To accomplish desirable results it is necessary to fit the skirt, on before the drapery is adjusted. Foundation skirts are no longer gored, but the front and side seams ßlant inward toward the top and two or more darts are in between. No lixed length has been established for these darts, which vary according to the figure. Each dart, however, should be opened and thoroughly pressed. A 1 alone every soatn the selvedges should bo snipped at intervals, the neglect of this simple precaution oftentimes causing the puckered look observable in the skirts of Borne costumes. A correspondent asks for advice as to models for making up two dresses, one of black and the other of gray brilliantine. We would recommend for the first an accordion-pleated underskirt with a polonaise of the same, cut olf square at the waist line in front, exactly like a gentleman's evening coat. A full blouse of silk, either iu black or dull red, blue or reed-green would be pretty under this coat-front; or something equally stylish would be a "handkerchief" front of silk in any of the colors mentioned. This "handkerchief" front is simply made of folds of silk crossed in handkerchief fashion across the bust, and has the lower portion finished with a broad loose sash of the 6ame. The sash may or may not have ends, as one chooses. The back of the polonaise is in two long coat-tails . which mav bo lined throughout with black silk. "The bac ; of the underskirt should be mounted in double box plaits which meet directly in the middle. Ilevers of the brilliantine should finish the front of the waist, which should also have a high collar. Coat sleeves quite loose and frilled into tho armbole might have long pointed cutfs at the bottom. If some kind of trimming is dcbired tcveral rowa of soutache or her

rules braid mightjbe effectively applied to the edges of revers, high collar, culls, and along the jacket fronta and long backs. The ultra-fashionable button for this black brilliantine would be an enormous mold covered with the material itself. The gray brilliantine might have buttons (big ones) of steel and trimmings of moire a shade darker than the fabric. The skirt of this could be mounted in box plaits across the front and closely gathered in the back. The redinsote should double over in front and have four buttons on each side, the short vest, revers and collar being of moire. The sleeves 6hould be a trille full all around and have great, flaring, turned-back cub's of noire with two buttons on the outside seam. The wide pocket Maps on the hips should have buttons on them and the redmgote may be a Ions plain affair of equal length all around, or it may be sloped away from the back, leaving the under-dress to show all its gatherings and drop in square tabs at each side of the front. Iu case the model is used the tabs should be lined throughout with moire. Pretty, simple gowns are now being made of all soft wools for quiet "at homes" or for ordinary day wear in the house. Usually the skirts of these dresses are draped just tho least bit and the bodices show very little trimming. One of these gowns is of gray cashmere with a panel of ribbon-striped "faille in several shades of gray and green introduced in the skirt. A fanciful vest of the same faille shows on the front of the bodice. Sometimes the skirt and drapery are all one color and blouse waist of the new printed China silk worn with them. A dark preen cashmere robe is made with a gracefully draped but plain underskirt and has a närrow-shirred vest of absinthe green with tiny'rosebuds in shaded pink scattered over it. The waist of this dress is loose from the shoulder on either side of the vest and the narrow cuffs of brocade are shirred into tiiree putfs caught to the sleeves by fine green silk cords, which nre knotted in loops on the outside seam. Lovely house dresses nre made of the porcelain blue, ox-blood red, pale pink, and primrosa cashmeres, that have ''ribbon" borders, or those of creamy white braid held in place by fancy embroidery stitches in faint, delicate shades of silk. Striped washing 6ilks in soft, dull colors are also used, as are the pretty changeable 6iiks, both plain and striped. " The last are made up alone, with a vast deal of shirring ani many pinked-out ruches, or else with collar, cull's, piping, and so on of contrasting velvet, to emxhasize their 6oft shimmer. FASHION NOTES.

The cloth jaekets for early spring wear are like those of the winter in i-hape, show quite as rrofu.e braiding, and lack only the bands of Persian lamb or monkey fur. A lavish sprinkling of dainty flower-headed pins blossom amid the creamy folds of the long, lace-trimmed tie of muli that falls between the directoire revers of beauty's gown. There is no particular change observable ii gloves. They ftill contrast with rather than match the costume. DesiJe the twelve shades of popular tan there are four gray bhales, one of putty color, and black. Violets will be as much in demand for Easte: hodicesand bounets as they are for winter ones. Then the ever-beautiful rote will be a favorite, and line flowers of every variety will nestle amid the laces of hat and bonnet alike. New ribbons are from one to five inches wide end of the richpst quality and coloring. Many of them are striped, others have one-half of plain weave and the other brocaded. The latest gros grain ribbons have a satin stripe at each edee. The short sleeves that the snmmer gowns will show may be pieced out by dainty pufled sleeves of fine white mull, quite after the fashion of long ago. These are entirely separate from the dress sleeve and are gathered top and bottom into narrow bands. A fawn cashmere is a beautiful gown. It is made with a long polonaise open in frout and pulled hack in folds so a to show its lining of olive green f-ilk over a straight-paneled front bordered with Turkish embroidery. The full sleeves are caught into wi.le turued-back cuffs, and the whole dress has about it a touch of cavalier times. Singularly rieh in color and conceit is a Venetian silk in two shades of terra cotta, lined with dull amber; borderings of Turkish embroidery form the waistcoat and culls, and over the bodice is woru a short jacket, tapering at the waist into two slender points, lined with the amber silk and falling almost to the knees. The hat to match is trimmed with a pannche of ostrich feathers and the Turkish embroidery, is somewhat of the Henry II shape, but with a rather wide, turned-down brim. A handsome girlish toilet comprises those first tints of a summer dawn, gray and primrose. The skirt drr.peries of primrose gauze, exquisite in its softness and glisten, were caught in festooned folds. The bodice was very quaint and somewhat after the cross-over lashion. one side of gray Indian silk being confined by a wide folded sash of the primrose gauze, embroidered in its self color; while the tdiort "curtain sleeves," ns our grandmothers dubbed them, were cuucrht high on the thoulders with knots of gray ribbon. Among artistic garments nre Japanese gowns made of cream-colored Japanese silk richly embroidered. These are scanty, opening up the back to the waist, with slightly rolling revers at the neck, and long, hanging sleeves, Underdresses of soft Liberty silk are worn with these. A costume of this description has an underdress of reddish-brown falling in long, graceful folds, with a full üchu at the neck, showing between the revers of the robe. Uudersleeves of the same reddish-brown silk are made in curious fa-hion, falling over the hands end having the appearance of muffling them. The robe, creased in front, is kept in place by a broad sash matching the underskirt. This 6ash is tied in a large bow at the back, giving the appearance of a very short waist. Other robes have underdresses of heliotrope, dull blue, or golden brown, with undersleeves of the same color. GOOD-3YE TO MRS. CLEVELAND.

The Last I'ub'.lc Reception of the President's Wife. Washington S;ecial. Mrs. Cleveland received callers by appointment Tuesday, between 12 and 2 o'clock, the had not expected the crowd which presented itself, but she enjoyed it after all, as did the throng, in a mournful way. The Bcene which transpired was perhaps never before witnessed iu rfhe white house. Mrs. Cleveland shook hands with the three or four hundred people, and then they stood around and watched her every movement. When the good-byes were ready to be said there ensued a strange hesitancy in uttering them. The ladies drifted past Mrs. Cleveland, one by one, and lots of them were afraid to speak at all tor fear they would break down. Numbers of them cried bitterly and made no pretense of hiding it. They went up to Mrs. Cleveland with all manner of pretty speeches all ready to be delivered, and found they could not talk when the time came, c-he must have been touched by the incident, but displayed her usual self-possession and grit, and kept up a chatty conversation with some friends not so easily disconcerted who stood near her. The gown she chose for her last public appearance was one in harmony with the day and room. It was a quaint bouse dress of robin'seggblue serge, the skirt all around in kilt fdaits, and the jacket bodice was worn over a oose blouse of soft cream serge. Mrs. Folsom, who was aiso down stairs, was a bricht and cheery conversationist in various groups, Mrs. Cleveland, it was noticed, always responded to the "good-byes" w ith a laughing "good-morning." This opportunity to meet ht-r was chosen by nnmtwrs who are in tho city to attend the inaugural festivities, and for these she wished them every pleasure in their stay. A Generous Landlord N. Y. Weekly. Tenant "That chandelier in the parlor is so shaky I'm afraid some time, when the children are romping under it, the whole thing will fall." Landlord "Well, that chandelier ain't worth more than its price for old brass, anyhow. It don't matter whether it gets broken or not.", U!1 Oulifl.-t. fN.-Y. Weekly. Old Lady "My dear, do yon really think you are tit to become a minister's wile?" Engaged Niece (from the Weht) "Yes, indeed. I don't mind being talked about at alL I've got the energy of a budalo bull and the lade cl a rhiaocerus,"

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