Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 September 1897 — Page 3

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THE FUTURE STYLES.

WOMSM WHO RACE AROUND FOR BIZARRE EFFECTS.

New Covert Salt*, Blouse*, Basque* and Winter Gowns—Some of the More Pop alar Drew Goods—New Lace Curtain*.

Olive Harper's Fashion Gossip. [Special Correspondence.}

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—No matter how bizarre a new style may be, there will always be women not only ready but anxious to try it, and now it seems to me half the women I know are racing around trying to find a bayadere to suit their taste. It is but a short time since they were all as anxious to get ruffles enough around the bottoms of their dresses. Ruffles one sees still, even on

KEWOOTO8 FOB YOUKG LADIES.

the imported model gowns, out they are evidently not as popular as the stripes or as braiding. Indeed, I think I never saw prettier or more elaborate braiding in my life. Scroll designs and set pieces round and round and a hundred other fancies are wrought in soutache, wide or narrow and sometimes both. An effective fancy is to have a flat inch wide braid with picot loops of very narrow soutache sewed along against

Tho pretty shepherd's checks and plaids aro made up for young ladies and growing girls, and also for useful gowns for more elderly ones, with yokes, belts and faucy trimming of black velvet ribbon, according to the prevailing liking for that stylo of ornamentation.

The new colors for woolen gootls, after the brilliant greens, blues, reds and yellows ht»ve leyi disposed of, $re very refintni aii3 pleasing? Among them we find grays in every shade, tan and all the pale shades of beige, biscuit and mode, mouse color and beaver color. All these are fine in quality and are smooth fact goods r.ud are of cashmere, camel's hair, covert and broadcloth. There are smooth camd\« hair and the curled, with the lonjr v.hite hairs iu different colors Had sized curls.

Plaids for late fall and winter have the outlining often done in closely woven bourette, which gives the-whole fabric a very rich effect. Wooleus for

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and the short and natty little jackets nrw Icing made up for the season are ali.-.ost all of shaggy effect— some light, some dark. The white stuff, with a s* ft urfnoo besprinkled with little vkiti v.tf, is railed "snowflake." and is the prettiest thing 1 have seen for cor.ts for the little tots. Border* ed with white tucufi'ou, or coon's down,

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it is worthy of a child's sweet beauty. There are many very pretty fancies for frocks for little girls, a very quaint conceit being a broken plaid in rich browns in several shades, the design being so vague and broken that it is only on the •pcond sharp leek at rre mviroi-rs it MB a real fccoieh iJLicl. 1 In tv are light cheviot*, mixtures and homespnns with all sorts of brekc designs. One ha* broken scrolls. Another ha* a mottled pattern, like that in tho taffeta glace silks. 1 saw in one importing house a Una

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edges. It is a pretty trimming and shows well even on a black gown. A dainty design has brown braid on a mouse colored covert tailor suit

Braid is put on tailor suits, and tailor suits are made of covert cloth, which is having an unusual popularity, thougi. it is always well liked. Nearly all these covert suits aro in two pieces—viz, close jacket and a skirt, with a blous-v to wear beneath the jacket.

There are ninny blouses—very maiiy —among the new designs for full, ln there aro also many neat, snug pointer': basques and basques with plaited ni' sprung frills also and others with slash ed and batt.lemented points. And then are some plain French waists, neat and tidy,, made of the samo material and sewed to the skirt, to be wr.rn with a belt. Besides all these, there arc also numbers of princess shapes. These are, according to the material of which they aro made, considered correct for street as well as home wear. A handsome figure is always sot off by a princess gown. Evening attire is very-graceful cut with theso long flowing lines, which slope gradually to a sweeping train.

A new fancy in many of the modci fall and winter gowns is to havo cm inset tnblier in frout. This is in flatways a good idea, for short patterns can be pieced out to perfection, and a judicious arrnngemeut of tho inset makes a stout woman look thinner, which is a result much to bo desired.

oi new lace curtains, something tliafe mult please all women. The curtains in question are of bobbinet in white, cream or ecru. Along the edge some have a •wide border of torchon, or other durable lace, and an inset band of insertion to match, with a line of bobbinet between about four inches wide. This extends down one side and across the bottom. Another, and I think prettier, style has the inset of insertion down and across, but there is a ruffle of bobbinet, with a row of lace on the edge. When this is hung, the ruffle falls in most graceful jabot folds. These will wash as well as muslin. They make beautiful sets for windows, bureau and dressing tabic, also bed drapery. The same plan is also carried out in fine swisses, organdies and fancy lace. OLIVE HARPER.

Too Lazy to Walk In His Sleep.

"I certd'-Jy think that yon should take steps to have yonr brother watched, so that !:».• i.us Acome to harm," said .Tiiiks "It's 'ihghly dsngcrou3, yon know br.j pose he sbcuia"— "What »ie yon driving at?" asked Bliuk.s in suipiiee. "What is the matter with my brother? Do you think he is a poet?" "A man who is given to somnambulism"— "What's that?" asked Blinks anx ionsly. "Is it catching? I didu't know be was suffering from any infections disease." "I mean that your brother walks in bis sleep."

Then Blinks smiled expansively, heaved a sigh of relief and shook his head. "You've made a mistake," he said impressively. "You don't know my brother. He is the laziest man in the United Kingdom. Had yon said he bad ridden in a bus in his Bleep I should not have been surprised, but as for walking, that's altogether out of the question. He doesn't waik when he's awake if be can anyhow help it. You're wrong, Jinks. "—Pearson's Weekly.

Couldn't Fool Stewart.

The late A. T. Stewart belonged to the Century club, although be rarely visited its rooms. The club once bought a carpet of his people, and when it had been down for several months Stewart happened to come in. He seemed to be greatly interested in the carpet, studying it attentively. "Where did you buy that?" he demanded of one of the house committee. "At your place, I beliove." "Impossible!" rejoined the milliouaire. "We never had the pattern in stock. We have had a pattern exactly similar, except that those little violet flowers were white." The committeeman took the trouble to hunt through his vouchers and produced a receipted bill of A. T. Stewart & Co. Mr, Stewart shook his head. "There is some mistake," he said. "The little flowers on our carpet were white. It was found on investigation that the little flowers had been white—so offensively white aud spotty to the eyes of some of the festbetic members of the club that Louis Lang bad gone over them with a stiff brush dipped in violet ink.—New York Letter.

Milton's Cottage.

One of the best preserved historic country houses in all England is John Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles, to which the blind and uging poet fled when the great piague swooped down on London. That was in July, 1665, and Milton had just finished "Paradise Lost" and received a £5 note for it, with a premise of three more £5 notes if the poem sold four editions of 1,800 copies each. The cottage stands at the top of the village, uud it is in practically the same condition as w\»en Milton left it. Here the poet received his distinguished guests during the latter part cf his life. It is now one of the fnycrite objeotive points of London bicyclists.

Well He Might,

Ethel—And what did George say when he proposed? Maud—He said nothing. He started to say something, gasped, turned deathly pale aud then fainted away. Of eomse I knew what that meant so when he came to 1 told him he might a«k pupa.

Ethel Aud then? Mau»i—Then poor George fainted ttway ttRuiu.-— London Figaro. ... r-

A Japanese Argument.

Japan has an income tax, and this is the way they enforce it: If a taxpayer protests that he is rated too high by the citieiuls, he is thrust iuto a dark room and fold to "think it over carefuMy JsountiUH* a man stats there Ss-l our* lumen iu darkness uud thought, and finully he is apt to agree with the cfiicrls thj.t he is rid er than he had at tirst supposed.

Missouri produced in 1896 300.000,000 bushels of corn, 18,000,000 bushels of wheat, 23,000,000 bushels of oats, 500.000 tous of bay, 14,00!),000 pounds of cotton, 7,000,000 pounds of tobacco, 600,000 bushels of flaxseed ind 8,006,000 bushels of potatoes.

Tired, Nervous. Sleepless Meu and women—how gratefully they write about Hood's SarsapariUa. Once helpless and discouraged, having lost all faith in medicines, now i&goOd health and "able to do my own work," because Hood's SarsapariUa has power to enrich and purify the blood and make the weak strong—this is experience of a bast of people.

Hood's Pills are the best family cathartic and liver medicine. Gentle, reliable, sure.

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MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

In Street Railway Operations Great Britain Leads the World. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YOEK, Sept 20.—In the municipal operation of street railways the kingdom of Great Britain is notably in the lead of the rest of the world. Thirtythree cities within its borders either own or own and operate the means of local transportation. The other countries where this system prevails are Germany, Switzerland, Holland and the Australian colonies. Toronto owns, but does not operate, its street railways, and New Orleans of this country may in a measure be included in the same category. It is, however, to Great Britain that all interested in the progress of municipal ownership of natural monopolies, of which transportation is the chief, turn for tho best illustrations of the results of the system.

In Great Britain the tramways act of 1870 authorized municipalities to purchase or construct tramways, to be left open for tolls or leased to private operators for a period not to exceed 21 years, with the right of the city at the expiration of the term to take over the plant at a valuation without allowance for good will. Under this act most of the cities of Great Britain own their street railway franchises and permanent plant, the operation being conducted by private corporations under leases expiring between 1891 and the following 21 years.

Hon. John De Witt Warner, chairman of the committee on municipal administration of the Reform club of New York, who is also vice president of the Association For the Public Control of Franchises, has secured an article on "Municipal Operation of Street Railways" which contains statements from the mayors of British cities where municipal operation either prevails or is in contemplation of the latest aspects of the situation.

In London the years since 1891, when the earliest leases of her street railways commenced to fall in, have been those of steady assertion by the municipality of its rights, of litigation by tramway companies and of slow but sure victory for the city (more properly the county) of London, as in one after another case a valuation for city purchase was made. By this means London has now acquired as city property the plant of one private operator after another, although, as to tho greater proportion of her tramways, old leases are still in force, and London is thus prevented from inaugurating any comprehensive system of municipal operation.

In 1898 Glasgow, the second city in the kingdom, failing to induce the private company which was negotiating for a renewal of its lease of part of the city tramways to build new lines and give better accommodations, obtained the necessary parliamentary authority, and in July, 1894, when the lease expired, commenced to oporate directly for city account the tramways involved. As opportunity offered other lines have be in

Fares have been markedly reduced and halfpenny tickets for the first time issued. The hours of the staff have been shortened and their wages increased, and with it all the accounts show a handsome surplus.

Liverpool, the third British city, commenced municipal operation of her tramways Sept. 1, having just obtained parliamentary authority therefor. The terms were so characteristic that they are worth noting. It was arranged with the operating company7whose lease was falling ii£ that it should co-operate with the city in getting the city's bill through parliament, in return for which its directors, employees, etc., should be a

Manchester is so situated with reference to surrounding municipalities included in her. street railway system and to the several parts of the system itself, the leases of which expire ,afc various •dates in the future, that the obstacles to undertaking municipal operation seem for the present insuperable. Conferences have been held and the programme seems now to be to secure parliamentary authority for municipal operation before 1901.

In Dublin local tramway service has become*so unsatisfactory that, after struggling with conditions under its present operation by a private horse trsjniway company, on Nov. 2, 1896, the city council resolved: "That the time has come when the corporation of Dublin should seek parliamentary powers to enable it to construct, purchase or lease and work, by animal or mcchanical power, all or any of the existing tramways within the city boundaries also to construct and work new tramways," eta

Whereupon the company promptly opened negotiations and offered, in case the city would leave the tramways in its hands, to institute such reforms and pay such revenues that the practical effect would be that of public operation. This proposition is still open.

The corporation of Bradford has a bill now in parliament which, if passed, will authorize it to lay 6*^ miles of additional tramways and will also enable it, if it thinks fit, to work the whole of the tramways in the city after the expiration of the leases now subsisting.

TERBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25,1897.

M. M. MiiJJtR.

Victoria's Chief Batter.

The Salary of Queen Victoria's chief butler, who looks after the beer, wines, and spirits, is £500 a year. This functionary must have a palate of exquisite delicacy, as in him is vested the purchase of the wines drank by royalty. He is also expected to superintend the decanting of the wines, which be accompanies to the royal table with an air of affectionate solicitude and sees that they are partaken of at the proper moment The present bolder erf the office is raid to be the finest jodge of Rhine wines in tbe world. Hcrm«jetty*a chief tetter to abo respoooible for the laying of the table, the actnal work being performed by two principal table deckers, with £900 aa year eaeh.— Strand Magazine.

A Moslem Solomon.

Readers of the "Arabian Nights*: are familiar with the manner in which the cadis dispensed justice with more regard to equity than to law, and it seems that instances of the same kind are of modern occurrenca An example is given in Golden Days:

Not long ago a Turk, while repairing a roof, fell into the street upon a wealthy old man, who was killed, withont any serious damage to the workman. The son of the deceased caused the workman to be arrested and taken before the cadi, with whom he used all his influence to have the poor man condemned, and, though the innocence of the laborer was clearly established, nothing could pacify the sou but the law of retaliation.

The cudi stroked bis beard and then gravely decreed that the workman should be placed exactly upon the spot where the old man bad stood. "Now," said he to the son, "you will go on the roof of the house, fall down upon this man and kill him if you can."

Of course the son declined to do anything of the sort, and the case was dismissed

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Zebra Culture.

On several South African farms experiments have been tried with Bui obeli's zebra. The zebras become as tame as ponies, and are readily broken in for draft work. "The object of their tamers has been to breed a mule which, like the zebra, is proof against the tsetse fly. The zebras themselves run well enongh in a mule team, though they cannot stand overdriving.—London Spectator.

How to Make a Fortune.

When old Zaobariah Fox, the great merchant of Liverpool, was asked by what means he had contrived to bealize so large a fortune as he possessed, his reply was: "Friend, by one article, in which thou mayst deal, too. if tbou pleasest— civility. "—Golden vs

Back from the Grave

We cannot come, but we can often stay our progress thither. Disease, like everything else, must have a beginning. All chronic maladies tend to shorten life, and render it a species of martyrdom while they last. Malaria, kidney complaint, chronic indigestion, rheumatism—all have small beginnings, and may be stayed at the outset with rfostetter's Stomach Bitters. This excellent tonic and alternative is adapted alike to the prevention of disorders of the system and to their removal, and its early use cannot be too strongly advocated. To renew appetite and Insure tranquil rest, there is no surer and pleasanter means than the Bitters. The effects of overwork and exhaustion, mental or physical, are counteracted by it. and the busy merchant, the tired clerk or operative. and the brain-weary student, author or newspaper man. derive from it present relief and future energy.

There is a Class of People

Who are injured by the use of coffete. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not Cost over as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per packagc. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

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To Cure Constipation Forever* Take Cuscarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 2Bc. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund muuey.

Rebecca Wilkinson, of Brownsvalley, Ind., says: "I have been in a distressed condition for three years from nervousness, weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia and indigestion until my health was gone. I had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any 150 worth of doctoring I ever did in my life. I would advise every weftkly person to use this valuable and lovelv medicine a few bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the world." Warranted the most wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

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