Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

To all budding, aspiring authors may be commended the statistics concerning novels given in a late English publication. During tbe last six years l,6oonavels have been published which have succeeded so far that they were asked for at the libraries. About the same number were published which were not asked for and failed. These 1,600 books were written by 923 people, of whom 50 form a company far m advance of the rest, so far as popularity is concerned, and 70 form a company well behind the first; 120 make up a band who have so far succeded as to create a>s*naUslemand for their work, and the others have reaped neither pecuniary advantage nrr fame. Which, being summed up in figures, indicates that of those who write one’s chance of being one of the 50 novelists in some 3,000 who succeed is 1-70, and his chance of remaining in obscurity and neglect is represent ed by the fraction 326-350, which is rather a discouraging certainty. girls’ coats. The little girls are delightfully picturesque in the new cloaks. Look at the one in the picture. In the original it is made of Cashmere. The wadded yoke is of the ordinary shape and the pleated folds are sewed on straight beneath it. all round. It is trimmed with fur, and ornamented

bv large rosettes of ribbon, the long ends of which fall down to tbe bottom of the cloak. The turned-down collar is trimmed either with feathers or fur. The sleeves are puffed, either wadded or lined, gathered in at th« wrist, and trimmed with fur. The rosettes and ribbons are not absolutely necessary, and their omission does not injure the general effects.