Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 July 1897 — Page 3

FOR SEASHORE WEAR

HATS THAT WILL WITHSTAND SALT AIR AND SPRAY.

Silk Moll and India Crap* Are Very U«®fal For Bach Millinery—T**tefnl Summer Dr«MM-LMd Gray Whipcord and

Gray and Pink Chambray.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YOKK, July 26.—All who are goiug or have gone to tho seashore find the- ueerl of some sort of millinery that Will withstand the action of the salt air

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and the spray. The handsomest ostrich feathers look like a wet rooster's tail in an hour, and flowers have a habit of falling to pieces as tho dampness causes there earlier the glue that holds them together to dissolve. Spangle trimming becomes a sticky mass, and not infrequently dissolves entirely. So it is a case of necessity to get up something to withstand all these dangers.

There are straw hats by the score, each different from its fellow in shape and degree of "dip." There is one useful model in dark green rough straw, with a wide, round brim, turned upwurd a little in tho hack. The crown is completely hidden under a drapery of dark green India crape, and perched on thin are several wings, gray and green. The greoii ones have a natural sheen over them. Tho green is very grateful to the eyes.

Another round hat is slightly lifted in front and has a wreath of velvet flowers all around the crown in shaded browns. Tho hat is of tun and green straw. On the crown there is a high pufling of green silk muslin over wire in three loops. This is a pretty hat and almost an indestructible one. There was a mixed blue and tan straw tur ban, rather larger than they generally are. Around the crown there wus a tan silk drapery, ending with a small how of the same. Back of this there were six very stiff loops of blue ribbon, wired to mako them Htand up. A small flat hat of blue and white mixed straw had a drapery and stiff bows of white ribbon, and under tho brim at the right side were two large pink crush roses. This was a pretty hat for a young face.

For evening promenades there wero numbers of dainty toques and bonnets. One white toque was covered with white daisies. Another had a row of rosettes made of white silk mull all around, to form a brim, and white wings were set over the top. White silk mull, draped in full turban, formed another lovely toque. On the right side it was shirred very full, and had a rosette at the lower part. There was a bird of iridescent blue plumage perched upon the top.

Silk mull is very useful for such millinery, as dampness does not affect it at all. ludia crape is another durable material. It never loses its deep, knobby I crinkle. Around toque of nolden bronze india erape was trimmed with bunch of green parrot feathers and a light brown resette of silk mull on the right side.

One sees one week that nearly all the light sun nner gowns have lace jabots, frills or draperies down the left side, and before one seareely uotes the novelty, lo! these faneiful arrangements are transferred to the right side. Nearly all the special trimming on hats two months ago was on the back, then the front, then the left side, and now to be in the first rank it should be on the right side, About the only things that remain the same are the stock collars and the lace rutlles at the neck. These may and do vary occasionally, but the principle is the same. A few ladies, those who have pretty, round throats, wear their sumnier gowns with surplice waists and necks or small, square inmipadonrs. I paw a lilac veiling gown gathered to

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lead gray whipcord in a new weight, though not weave. The skirt was plain, except for a narrow band of white lace insertion, edged with a still narrower niching of iridescent silk of garnet pink, mixed with gray and wrought together. This trimming was pot on each side of the front breadth at the bottom. The bodice was unusually pretty. The lower part was gathered and worn with a white kid belt. This part and the sleeves were made of pink taffeta with gray and garnet lights. The sleeves were mousquetaire style, with triple caps of the whipcord, edged with the niching. The gaimpe was of white lace. The stock was of gray, and there were three bias bands at the bast line in front and across the back of the gray, with the rncbing on it. I saw this same model reproduced in gray and pink chambray, with narrow Valenciennes instead of the sick niching, and it really was quite as pretty and would be much cooler. OUVE HARPEB.

AN OLD, OLD CHURCH.

St. George, Bermuda, Ha* a Chalie« Dating From the Year 1625.

[Special Correspondence.]

ST. GEORGE, Bermuda, July 21.—Almost the oldest church in the new world is the parish church of St George's, the ancient capital in Bermuda. Although still under the British flag, these islands belong ratber to the American than to the European continent, and their history is linked with that of the colonies which became the United States. The church WEB finished in 1620, the year of the landing of the pilgrims, though services had been held

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THE OLD CHURCH, ST. GEORGE, BERMUDA.

ered in 1609. The present building is rapidly falling into decay, but is still used because a schism in the Episcopalian sect in the town has blocked the orection of anew one. It is floored with wide cedar boards, and in a little safe in tho vestry are carefully kept a silver chalice given by the colonists in 1625, tho communion plate of solid silver given in 1684 by King William III and tho christening basin given in 1782 by Governor William Brown, a Tory who fled from Salem during the Revolution. It is doubtful if any American church has in actual use a silver service so ancient. ALEX MACNEAL.

ELECTRICITY VERSUS STEAM

The Qucntlon of Speed—Why the New Tritctiou Is lirttcr Than the Old.

[Special Correspondence.]

BOSTON, July 26.—For some years the statement has been constantly reiterated that much greater railway speed is possible by the uso of electric motors than can be maintained by steam locomotives, and yet the greatest practical speed on record—1 2 miles an hour—was reached by famous engine 1)99 of the New York Central railroad, and steam trains are every day making better time than can be done by any existing electrical plant. Notwithstanding this, tho contention in favor of the electric motor is correot, in theory at least, and enthusiastic advocates of the new traction are predicting that it will not be very long before the theory shall be proved by actual performance.

They base their belief solely on the fact that in tho nature of things the electric motor can be and is perfectly balanced, while the steam locomotive in the nature of things is not and cannot be. The working parts of an electric motor spin round in a circle, being continually pulled forward by the electric current, but the most esseutial parts of a steam locomotive—the piston, piston rod, slides and connecting rod—have a reciprocal motion—that is, they move forward during tho first half of every revolution of the wheels and backward during tho other half. Between the two movements they must come to a dead stop.

These reciprocating parts are very heavy. Continuous reversing of the motion of such ponderous masses of metal cannot fail to produce a racking of the machinery and a pounding of the rails, and the resultant wear and tear on both engine and road increase in geometric ratio with the increase of speed. It is doubtful whether 999 herself, strongly built though she is, or any other existing steam locomotive could keep the record speed of 112 miles an hour very long without being literally shaken to pieces. A compact electric motor, with all its parts moving constantly in one direction, if fed with a strong enough current and run on a sufficiently heavy track, could go much faster th«u 112 miles an hour without being shaken to pieces.

The electric motor possesses one advantage without which it could not be n«*ed in crowded streets at all, which is pushing it to the front as the method par txxovllence for suburban work, and which more than all else will no doubt hasten the general adoption of third rail eleevric traction on the old steam suburban iine« The el« ctric car or train may be stopped and started with almost 1 infinitely greater promptness than tbej steam loeemo .ire. It takes a steam lo-! eomotive suaw minutes to reach a speed of 20 miles ?n hour after it has eome to a dead stop, aisd this makes it iia-1 possible for s!»atu trains en elevated roads or ssiburMn hrvs with many stop* lo teach a satisfactory average of speed,

DEXTKH Marshall

ft-obicin or Urlng.

Th« strong yearning for the life of Washington or of New York is the mark of a centripetal teudency which is rear sonable and easily understood. The same thing appears in all rich countries. The well to do English try to spend part of the year in London, the French in Paris. They do it and keep their country homes besides. Our westerners have a more difficult problem. They are much farther away from their social and political centers than most of the French or the English, and the idiosyncrasies of the American climate complicate their home cominga Consider the case of the rich people of the'great Ohio cities. The Cleveland man who has struck Standard oil, or politics, or something, and has become solvent beyond the dreams of avarice, develops a lawful desire to live at the center of things and builds a house in New York or Washington, which is his headquarters from November to May.

He still has a house in Cleveland, but when is he going to live in it? Not in summer, for his neighbors who stay at home in the winter come east to the seashore in the summer. He may find Cleveland attractive in the late spring and the early fall, but the chances are that bis family will tell him that it doesn't pay to travel so far and open and close a house for such short periods. The upshot of it must tend to be that the shutters stay up on the Cleveland man's bouse in Cleveland, and that he lives elsewhere, and merely goes home to vote or on errands of business. And why doesn't he give it up altogether? Because considerations of trade or sentin?° it or of politics forbid. It pays to be a representative man and hail from somewhere, and Ohio is a good state to hail from.—Harper's Weekly.

A New Insurance Method.

A man who lives in Chapin street started down town the other morning and, as is his custom, stopped in the corner drug store to buy a cigar. When he came out, a stylish cart drawn by two splendid horses was passing. The man who was driving it reined in his horses. "Don't you want to ride?" he asked. The man who was on his way down town looked all around, for the other was a stranger to him, and, he thought, must be addressing somebody else. Nobody else was in sight. The man with the horses repeated his invitation, and the Chapin street man climbed in. The driver inquired his destination and offered to take him for a spin before setting him down there. "Smoke?" he asked. The Chapin street man said he did, whereupon a silver mounted cigar case was brought out, and he was given his choice of one of the best cigars he ever smoked. They talked of this aud that, the two of them, aud presently the business of the man with the horses came out. He is in insurance, aud of course the Chapin street man is going to insure in his company. It was all an advertising scheme and a very clever one.—Washington Post.

A Wrongly Spelled Name.

Through tho blunder of some unknown person, committed years ago', a glaring picce of inexcusably poor spelling is still on view in the finance committee room in the city hall and is a subject of much unfavorable comment by historical scholars. The portrait of the Rev. Henry Augustus Muhlenberg hung for many years in Independence hall as a tribute to the preacher patriot's services during the Revolution, with his name beneath it spelled ''Henery Muhlenburg." Tho same egregious errors arc now visible in the city hall. The Rev. Henry Augustus Muhlenberg was one of the first Lutheran ministers in this count ry. On one occasiou he carried a gun into his pulpit at Reading and at the conclusion of the services invited all his male parishioners to follow him to Valley Forge, which they did. Dr. Mnhleuoerg was also the first speaker of the honse of representatives of the United States after the constitution was adopted in l?8.'i, aud his name is at least worthy of sufficient remembrance to be spelled correctly.—Philadelphia Record.

Dromedaries That Smoke Cigar#.

There is no reason why a dromedary should not be partial to a good cigar. Most dromedaries, according to a menagerie proprietor, are particularly fond of tobacco smoke and can be made to do almost anything under its influence. "Travelers in Egypt," he asserts, "rely more on tobacco smoke for their control over these huge beasts than anything else. When traveling on long journeys, the dromedaries are in many cases required to travel night and day without rest, aud the beasts are kept up to their tasks by smoking cigars. The driver carries a triangular piece of wood, which is pierced at one point like a cigar bolder. This is inserted in the moutb of the beast, the cigar being lit aud pressed into the bole in the same fashion followed by man. "The dromedary immediately closes its eyes and puffs away through its nostrils until thecigaris burned away."— London Answers.

••Blot Oat the San."

At Princeton a young theologue persuaded a fellow student to go into the auditorium and listen to him while be rehearsed a sermon. The preacher in embiyo began. His subject was "Light" With a violent gesture with the right arm, be said, "Blot out the sun!" With a similarly frantic movement of the left arm, be roared, "Blot oat the moon!" Then with a combined gesture made up of both arms, be bellowed, "Blot oat the stars!" But it was enough. The auditor arose to leave with a hoarse, cruel whisper, "Turn off the gas!"— New York Mail and Expires*.

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Austria is the country most I nldH to muniem*. In ten years over periods were found guilty of murder, of wham only S8 were pot to death.

Court Presentations.

Here is one of the posers which I occasionally find in my letter box, sayB London Tnxth: "Some young married ladies—quite loyal to the queen—beg Truth to tell them what is the good of being presented. Two of them have been teased to go through this ceremony."

Personally I do not know what return is to be gained by the process at all commensurate with the expense involved. As, however, a young married lady's point of view may possibly be different from mine, I have sought further information among my feminine acquaintances. As far as I can make out from the information I have obtained, the chief advantage of being presented is that it enables a young lady, married or otherwise, to make her husband or father, as the case may be, pay for a magnificent frock, which she would hardly be able to get out of him under any other circumstances. It also enables her to be photographed in this frock and become an object of envy and admiration to her less fortunate female acquaintances. Of course the frock, after it has served its original purpose, will, in the hands of a judicious owner, come in useful on many subsequent occasions. I must leave my correspondents to decide for themselves whether the possession of such a frock is worth the worry aud anxiety incidental to being presented or whether it is better to stay away and submit to further teasing.

Paris Milk Supply.

Paris consumes 209,000,000 liters of milk a year, which comes to about only two-fifths of a pint daily for each inhabitant. City oows yield 21,000,000 liters suburban oows within a radius of 12 miles, 53,000,000 liters the remaining 158,000,000 liters come by rail from a greater distance.

Plants growing near the sea have thicker leaves than those growing inland. Apparently the sea salt is the oause of this phenomenon, as plants cultivated in artificially salted soil yield thicker leaves.

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It is said that Charles Wesley was sometimes easily annoyed, and on one occasion at a conference he become so irritated at the prolix remarks of a speaker that he said to his brother: "Stop that man's speaking Let us attend to busiuess."

But the offender was relating his religious experience, and though it was at so great a length John Wesley evidently thought that no one had a right to intorfere with it. He was therefore allowed to coutinue, but the moment came when Charles could contain himself no longer. "Unless be stops, "he whispered to John, "I'll leave the conference."

By this time .John waa enjoying the man's simple story, and he only turned and whispered to some one sitting near: "Reach Charles his hat."—Youth'* Companion.

Action yalckcr Than Words.

"How did the old gentleman receive yonr request to become a member of his family, Sloper?" "He- didn't five me time to ascertain. Detroit Free Press.

Attractive Dress.

A circle enclosing the words "Purity, Strength, Perfection," makes the label used on Cleveland's baking powder particularly attractive.

The Clevelaud Baking Powder Co. has not only set a high standard for quality of goods, but has adopted a frank method of denling with the public, which should be followed more generally. All the ingredients used in this baking powder are published on every label.

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Mr. Gladstone as a Sport.

While ou a visit to Mr. Gladstone Sir William Harcourt mentioned that the boys at Eton take in a large number of evening papers. "Dear me, how remarkable!" said Mr. Gladstone. "How things bave changed since I was at Eton! But it shows what a remarkable interest the youth of the present generation take in current events.'' Sir William ventured to suggest that it might be that the youth of the present generation took a remarkable interest in sport "Indeed," said Mr. Gladstone, "not gambling, I hope." Then Mr. Gladstone became reminiscent. "I think the only thing I ever did in that direction was to put an occasional shilling on a prizefight."—Household Words.

In Drowsy Debate.

"A man has to keep his eyes open to be a politician nowadays," remarked one statesman. "Possibly that is correct as a general principle," replied tbeotber, "but if yon had looked around at your colleagues while you were making that last speech of yours you would have had your doubts."—Washington Star.

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