Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — Valuable Pointers. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Valuable Pointers.

Land that is manured in the fall will be in good condition in the spring if the subsoil is heavy. A Loss often results when manure is spread on unplowed land, due to washing of the rains in winter, but if the manure is turned under with none horse plow the loss will be light. In the late fall the hauling of the manure may be done to better advantage, as the teams are not then busy. Those who desire to produce a few very choice fouls for their own tables will secure something extra by crossing the pit game male with Dorking hens. The cross produces the best chicks and fowls for the table, but the liens from the cross are not the equal of some other breeds as layers. The Japan persimmon is usually grafted on the common persimmon without difficulty. Nurserymen usually graft them precisely as they graft apples in winter time, only employing collar grafting instead of cutting up pieces of the roofs.

When breeding to improve, no mistake will be made if the male is pure bred. If he is not the best to be found he will at least be far superior to the scrub. If every farmer would aim to grade up bis stock every year ho would soon double the value of his flocks aud herds. The fence corner is the hotbec in which the weeds are protected. When a few weeds spring up in some protected place and produce seeds, the farmer will have to begin ail of tbe work of weed killing over again.

If you have several kinds of mdous growing near each other do not save uny of tbe seed, or the next year's crop may prove unsatisfactory owing to the mixture of the varieties. Vinegar will pay this year. Those too far from market to ship their apples at a profit should convert them into vinegar, as vinegar Is saleable nt all seasons. Keeping an animal until aged may result in a loss. The greatest gain is when an animal is young., After it reached* maturity it mav lose in weight gain but very little. A smalftevaporator, holding from one-half td one bushel of fruit, may

The dominant idea of the mode is renaissauce, not originality. Every tendency is Toward the revival of totns preconceived success. Empire frocks are worn in Paris out of doors. Worth has reproduced the ancient Grecian dress ia a happy adaptation not antagonistic to the demands of modern conventionality, yet in the transition losing nothing of its stately classic grace. Designers seek their inspiration from old fashion plates, ancient portraits and famous paintings of the days of courtly pomp or picturesque simplicity iu dress. But they inter-pret-the pictured modes in a manner upusonant with theiucreased knowledge of hygiene, the more sensible and reasonabletaate, and the more active pursuits of the women of the dav.

We may broaden our shoulders with the Empire puffs and shorten our waists with the Direotoire girdie, but the most frivolous among us will not follow the mode to the extent of wearing the low-necked book muslin gowns in midwinter, or appearing upon the promenade in satin slippers and lace stockings. Fashion and common sense bave kissed each other and declared a truce in this closing nineteenth century. It is interesting to study how grftcefully this arbitrary old goddess, who counts as her subjects the nations of the earth, whose dominion has been absolute andlfollowing devoted, yields point by point to the dictates of reason and good sense and artistic feeling in this enlightened age of liberty in thought and action. She has chose cautiously and wisely the most effective of the old colors, the most beautiful of old fabrics, tho most effeotive of old designs and models for our adorning. In tho transmogrification from summer to winter modes we find that skirts have grown fuller about the bottom, shorter for street wear, longer for house and carriage use, and that they are gored sharply toward the top. If, as is often the case, a fashion is foreshadowed by a ballet, we might as well be preparing ourselves for the introduction of the hoop, for at the Empire in Paris there is now a ballet in hoops which is not ungraceful, and, indeed, our skirts have a very decidedly hoopy appearance in the way they flare out about the bottom when gored in the new fashion. Sleeves haye grbwn much more important as distinctive features of the gown, being much puffed and fulled, and made frequently of velvet or other rich fabric quite in contrast with the color and texture of the gown. Bodices are without exception fanciful, and almost invariably terminate at the waist line, where the skirt is hooked up over the bodice beneath a band of velvet or trimming ; or they are made in the strictly Empire order, falling in folds from the short yoke or jacket without being confined except just below the bust.

A stylish evening gown, considerably modified, but distinctly influenced by tbe Empire idea, is of embroidered chiffon in a pale tint of rose du Barry, and has sleeves and a draping about the neck of light Chartreuse green. A ruffle of lace at the edge of the skirt has a twist of the velvet above it, and a scarf of the velvet finishes the waist. This, it must be remembered, is without seams, draped aud folded cleverly upon a fitted lining. Another dainty little dress, which furnishes a good suggestion for the conversion of a dressy summer toilet into a pretty dinner or evening gown for home wear, is the light blue and white corded cropon mado with a princess effect, the slight fulness of the gored skirt being shirred in at tbe waist line A jacket of lace of a modified Eton shape covers the bodice to the shirring, and sleeves of black velvet arranged in a double puff to the dbow with a

M of loco below the elbow much to bo dealred Parisan air to tho jfown. ‘inL *•' i tv '..Di • - 'tic*: fiMJkr. iiti-

m Color plays aa important part in the fashions of the day, the gayest of tints and most surprising of color combinations appearing even in the corded and twilled and plaided wool gowns, the first to appear upon the street to announce the nativity of the mode. . .»

Here is a gown of black and red cordurette, the fine black cords crosing a bright red gown. About the bottom a band of black velvet is edged on either side with Persian lamb, and where the whist hooks over the skirt a similar trimming covers the jointure. The sleeves off the toilet, which is called the Biarritz, have double short sleeves of velvet falling over them, each edged with velvet. The seamless bodice has a flat, open berthe of velvet, richly embroidered with jet and ruby beads, and is edged with the lamb, and the broad-brimm-ed hat is of black velvet with moire bows and a Rhine-stone bucklo.

Another rich and beautiful street ■gown is of short velour, a dull biown mossy soft cloth on a rich heliotrope ground. The trimming of velvet, in the same reddish tint of the heliotrope, is arranged in a roll at the edge of the skirt with groups of lace shaped tabs above at intervals, and in a deep pelerine plaited on the shoulders and in front, but plain at the back, which opens at the neck over a cravat of cream lace. The hat is of satin with velvet trimmings and pale heliotrope tips.

If 'Tie True, ’Tie Pity. Washington Evening Star. A young girl of not more than 22, while on a yachting party one day last summer, took perceptibly too much drink. Everybody supposed that it was an unfortunate accident, but during tbe subsequent winter, at a ball given in a private house, a similar misadventure happened to her, her condition being such that two young men, who had been on the yachting party aforesaid were obliged to hide her away upstairs, taking turns at guarding'her, so that she could not escape andmake an exhibition of herself.

Of course, however, the story got around. Then hi champagne ac dinner parties, champagne at balls, champagne on tbe lawn at fetes ebampetre—always champagne, accompanied by other tempting drinkables, with which tbe young women are plied by beaux who have more than commonly taken more of the same than vh good for them. Any observant person who will take notion of the fashionable women-on cb&cbes at the races or on festive oocassions as Newport will remark that the? quite usually exhibit symptoms of having partaken too freely from the bottles that are kept convivially popping. What wonder that young married women have frequent Jjr to powder their noses- , The person who has an ear with a rounded, ovate top, Is almost with

RAISING THE VERY OLD BOY.