, AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
And so the day ia orsr.
- And It's time for a cup of teas
I feel like the veriest rover .
Who returns successfully!
I shopped to such satisfaction;
My new hat is so neat;
My gown will spread distraction
- Among the girls I meet.
1 found the loveliest notions
For making Christmas things;
I'll return all Tom's devotions
With cute embroiderings.
Ah, if only that ring were Anna
Just the friend I long to see;
I shall tell her In what manner
I discouraged Dudie Lelgh.
Oh. aren't you a perfect treasure
To think of me at five!
The hour of coziest leisure
Human beings can contrive!
Bow merrily burns the fire x
Behind its glittering dogst
How the kettle's steam mounts higher
Like Narragansett fogsl
Shall I brew the flowers of Pekoe.
Or the wayward caravan!
Tor my daintiest cup I'll seek ofa.
Here it is. dear Nan!
Tea, this ring means that it's Tom. dean
Hi will be hers right away.
Of all my comings home, dear. L.
The happiest came today
Hawthorne Lathrop in Harper's Bazar
w The Dumb Book Agent.
' -A. woman has bit upon a deceptive de
rice bo original that it ought to be sos
ceptible of protection by patent, for it
invariably eecarea interested attention
to a book agent. It is true that its orig
inator and operator is an exceedingly
pretty young -woman, demure of aspect
and modest in dress; but hard hearted
man has learned to withstand the ordi
nary charms of the gentle sex when they
are applied to the arts of canvassing,
and the most beautiful specimen is just
about as quickly repulsed as the ugliest
one. But this genius enters on office,
silently approaches the object upon
whom she proposes to operate, lays a
neat little slate before him and writes on
it:
"i am dumb."
A book agent who can't talkt The
' wonder of it compels attention at once.
The winsome creature can hear well
enough (and it is hardly a secret that
she can talk, too, when she wishes to)
and to the questions of the man she
writes quaint little replies on her slate,
incidental to a display of the book which
Bhe is selling, and in nineteen cases out
of twenty she gets a cash order. Of
coarse her harvest may be brief, for she
can reap the field but once, bat it is a
rich one. New York Sun.
The Fashionable Handkerchiefs
The maiden fair of olden time who
used to wave her white handkerchief to
the knight departing to fight her battles
would open her eyes very wide if she
could see the handkerchief of today. The"
most fashionable are made of crepe lisse.
with an embroidered edge and in every
color imaginable, from brilliant scarlet
to pale Nile greeu, and from jet black to
clear white. Some very unique effects
are produced by contrast of color The
black handkerchief is usually a square
of silk muslin, with a full frill of fine
black lace about it. Any girl can easily
make one of these for herself. For every
day use the white handkerchief of lawn,
with a narrow hemstitched border a
very narrow one and a fine frill of lace
Valenciennes not half an inch wide
about it is preferred. Elaborate mono
grams are no longer fancied, but instead
the initials of the owner in small letters
and in what is known as running fash
ion are choRen. Mrs. Mallon in Ladies
Home Journal.
An American Sinner Abroad.
Mme. Belle Cole, the American con
tralto, has the finest turnout in London.
An experienced and daring horsewoman,
she is to be seen every afternoon whirl
ing in her stylish phaeton through Hyde
park, the admiration of lords, ladies and
hoi poDoi. who gape in dumb astonish
ment at the prowess with which the fa
mous singer puts her splendid bay
through his paces. You put a spirited
thoroughbred English horse in front of
a light running American vehicle con
taining a handsome, well dressed and
cool headed woman, and the effect upon
the British public is simply electrical.
Eugene Field in Chicago News.
A Girl Who Is a Mathematician.
Mathematical honors multiply for
women. Miss Julia Rappicourt. of
Melbourne. Australia, took honors in
Greek and French at Melbourne uni
versify at the age of 16. Now. at the
age of 19. in the examination for the
clerical division of the Victoria civil
service, with 190 competitors, the dili
gent young lady secures 493 marks out
of a possible 600 in mathematics the
highest rank ever taken in such a com
petition. She hopes to take her degree
of M. A., and to study law. Harper's
Bazar.
Her Hair Drags Two Feet.
Miss Laura Burns, of Martinsville,
Ind., is probably the only woman in the
United States whose natural hair has at
tained a length of seven feet It is very
heavy, and is of a light brown color
The lady is well known, and the trutn of
-the statement is attested to by many of
her friends. The lady is five feet and
three inches high, and when standing
erect her hair reaches the floor and forms
a trail almost two feet in length. Cor.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mrs. Clara S. Cochrane, who was re
cently ordained to the ministry at Bath,
N. H., pursued the regular course of
study in the theological seminary at
Mead villa. Pa., in company with net
husband. Rev. L. D. Cochrane, who is
now pastor of the Unitarian church at
Littleton.
Miss Louise Lawson is a talented
sculptor in Albany, N. X. She has been
commissioned to design a fountain for
Washington, and is also engaged upon
the statues of several distinguished pub
lic men.
The accumulation of wealth, estimated
at 14 per cent, of the gross earnings of
mankind, now aggregates $5,000,000,000
per annum, and is increasing, relatively
- as well as absolutely, from year to year.
Queen Victoria's Wealth.
' 'They have keetf fiyurmrr on the cost of
.maintaining the royal family m En
gland, and it .transpires that since Vic
toria's succession the present royal fam
ily has cost the nation the considerable
sum of $173,113,115. Of this amount
about $125,000,000 has been spent to
ward maintaining the state and house
hold and toward filling the queen's pri
vate purse. Up to this time the Prince
of Wales has drawn altogether $16,500,
000, and it is estimated that his debts
aggregate half as much again. The Em
press Frederick of Germany has received
.$1,425,000 fropa the British taxpayer, the
duke of Edinburgh $2,500,000, the duke
of Connaught $1,836,000, the Princess
Christian $810,000, the duke of Albany
$970,000 and the Princess Louise $660,
000. It is believed that the queen is the
richest woman in the world. Of the ex
tent of her possessions only those few in
her confidence have positive knowledge,
but occasionally there is brought to light
soma little incident that confirms the
popular suspicion that her majesty has
most successfully feathered her own nest.
The queen has always surrounded her
self with the shrewdest business advis
ers, and the manipulation of her finances
has been intrusted to the closest hands.
It is said that she has never lost a penny
by unwise speculation. .
The amount of real estate she owns in
London ia simply enormous. One block
alone is said to include both sides of , the
Quadrant and Regent street from Picca
dilly circus to Oxford street the most
valuable property in the kingdom. Vic
toria began her career as poor 'as the
average German princess. The lesson
in frugality taught her by her excellent
mother she has never forgotten. She is
provident to the degree of parsimony.
Of the extravagance of the Prince of
Wales she has a special horror, and it is
said that she locks up her wallet and
loses the key whenever she sees her son
and heir coming down the road - toward
the castle to pay her a calL Eugene
Field in Chicago News.
Furnishing; Skilled Maids.
An English, society for the employ
ment of women has established a new
branch of usefulness alike to employers
and employed. It is the sending out of
skilled waitresses for service at small
entertainments which yet prove too
formidable for the household. Such are
selected from married women on the so
ciety's list of beneficiaries who have
been trained parlor maids and waitresses
before marriage. They go for a single
dinner or series, or to tide a household
over two or three days of emergency of
unexpected company and the like.
. In this country undoubtedly such a
bureau would prove especially valuable.
American households as a rule, even
many pretentious ones, have not the
staff of servants an English establish
ment of the same rank finds necessary.
"Three men and five maids for a family
of five living quietly in a fashionable
part of London" is the indoor list one
correspondent furnishes in an English
journal, asking an estimate of food allow
ance for it In New York three maids,
with perhaps a door opener besides,
either, man or buttons, constitute an
average house service for the great num
ber of well to do residents of this city,
who entertain, too, and preserve a fash
ionable standing. Of course this num
ber is trebled and quadrupled in a long
list of the more elaborate establishments,
but these in their turn do not reach the
enormous retinue of an English aristo
cratic menage.
To be able, therefore, to slip in a
trained maid for a few hours or a day or
two would often be of great value to an
American mistress, and it would seem
that some of the various women's em
ployment societies on this side of the
Atlantic might introduce the service
with success. New York Times.
A Clever Artist's Occupation.
A young artist in New York is winning
a reputation all over the country for tal
ent in a peculiar field. It whatever city
an art exhibition is under discussion the
first move is to send for her to take in
hand the details. It is an unusual genius
which she possesses for hanging, cata
loguing and what is quite as much to
the point with people as impecunious aa
the artists of literature and tradition
for selling pictures.
She is really evolving a new profes
sion, that of conducting art exhibitions,
of which she has in course of the winter
probably half a dozen on her hands.
Grim necessity, they say, has invention
for her pretty daughter, and the need
that has set half the younger artists to
boiling their kettles with the proceeds
of illustrated soap and trouser advertise
ments while they wait for fame to bring
them fortune has pointed out to a clever
woman an equally convenient way.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Old Fashions Revived.
Dr. Julian J. Chisolm, of Baltimore,
has been inspecting the Babylonish cyl
inders in the British museum, and has
found from the intaglios cut on them
that the street dress of a society lady and
presumptive leader of fashion in the
year 2300 B. C had a tight fitting waist
and sleeves, and a flounced or accordion
plaited clinging skirt, such a? hangs in
all women's wardrobes today. Moreover,
the hat was high, and a general slender
ness and length of line was visibly
sought, the Babylonian Worth having
anticipated his French successor by near
ly 4,000 years. Harper's Bazar. .
The Craae for Smelling; Bottle.
A comparatively new craze is the taste
for smelling bottles filled with salts of
ammonia steeped in lavender water. The
odor is extremely sweet and pungent,
and a large smelling bottle of this sort,
if left open in a room, soon impregnates
the atmosphere with a delightful and re
freshing perfume. The bottles used are
plain, large mouthed affairs, mounted in
silver and varying in size from two or
three ounces to a pint. The demand for
the larger sizes is so great that one famous
fashionable establishment has been ut
terly unable to fill its orders. New York
Star.
STYLES IN STATIONERY.
Here Is the Proper Thing in Note Paper
and in Visiting Cards. -
Styles in stationery have not material- i
ly changed from last ' season, though
some of the distinctions are a little more
marked.' New varieties of note paper
with florid decorations, eccentric dimen
sions, and conspicuous tiutings are pro
duced, but fail to become standard. The
most elegant as well as genteel paper
sold is a heavy cream white sheet fold
ing once into - a square envelope. This
sheet may have a rough ' finish and the
curiously mottled appearance of coarse
wrapping paper, by the irregular ar
rangement of water lines, when it is,
known as Grecian antique. It may be'
smoothly finished, with no gloss and very
heavy and silky in texture, when it is
called "kid finished."
It may have a rough cloth finish or a
peculiar rough effect known as "parch
ment vellum.' Quite the latest paper
used is a so called "etching paper,''
which has a rough surface with various
irregular depressions, and rougher still,
almost like Bristol board, is the so called
hand made parchment, A new variety
of paper has broad water lines stamped
across the paper horizontally, and diag
onally applied to the envelope.
The same styles, too, are carried out
in the thin lined papers for those who
like a thin paper for the purpose of letter
writing. In all notes of invitation or
regret and formal correspondence the
heavier varieties are employed. The one
new tint produced this year is a very
delicate violet shade, which is sometimes
used by assthetic people. Another shade
known as azure, which is in reality a
dull, soft blue, is also somewhat popu
lar. Dull stone color and chocolate are
also sometimes seen, but the conserva
tive woman of good taste selects always
a plain cream tinted paper.
At the top of the page, and in the cen
ter instead of the comer, is her address
stamped in colored letters, surmounted
by her monogram, or coat of arms if she
has one. The monograms are much
more used this season than they have
been previously, and the fancy is to
stamp them in embossed letters colored
with metallic colors. The three initials
in script are sometimes used instead of
the monogram. For ordinary use the
letters and accompanying monograms
are of a clear scarlet or blue, printed
smoothly upon the paper.
Gentlemen's visiting cards are a trifle
longer and quite ns narrow as those of
last year, and have the address in the
lower left hand corner. The ladv's vis
iting card is large, square and imposing,
and engraved ia large script, especially
if the name ia a short one.
Wedding invitations are in every re
spect the same, engraved on a sheet, note
size, which folds once, to be inclosed in
the 'envelope. This envelope contains
sometimes three cards besides the invita
tion proper the card to be presented at
the church door, another for the recep
tion at the house, and a third which may
give the future at home day of the
bride, A card ia sometimes used for
church weddings indicating the hour and
place at which the bridal party take the
train, and which is practically an in vita-.
tion to see them off on the wedding jour
ney. New York Sun.
Lady and Woman.
'Mrs. Lynn Linton calls attention to
the curious fact that whereas fifty years
ago gentlewomen said "mamma" and
were called "ladies," while humbler
people said "mother" and were called
"women," we have now made a kind of
verbal somersault. What used to be the
sign of dignity has become the shibbo
leth of vulgarity aping gentility, while
the old badge of the common folk has
been adopted by the upper classes. The
philosophy of the matter lies, we are
told, in the strange desire to be thought
socially better than we are, which leads
in time to the universal adoption, of a
title that once bad a definite meaning.
Tho inevitable consequence is the re
turn of the higher to the simple con
ditions abandoned by the lower, for "the
fine fleur" always separates itself from
its immediate imitators and prefers to
adopt the style and manner of those who
are too far removed for the possibility of
confusion. "Woman," in Mrs. Linton's
opinion, is taking an almost Jnnoic sym
bolismgrand, supreme, all embracing,
while "lady" has fallen to the ground
like an overripe plum in the heart of
which the wasps have been at work.
London News.
Possibly a Sample of Slany.
I met a lady acquaintance a few days
ago who walked as though she was seri
ously lame. I sought the cause. At
first glance the symptoms would indi
cate that the trouble lay in her shoes, as
6he was large enough to take a No. 5 shoe,
but still she wore No. 4. She limped along
painfully, so I inquired what ailed her.
"It is my nerves," she replied. "Nerv
ousness is my great affliction, and now
my feet are so affected that I can hardly
walk."
"Nerves, eh?" I rejoined. . "Do yon
usually experience the same sensation
when you take jff your shoes?"
"Oh, no," she said, "but if I take them
off in the day time and put on my slip
pers, I find that I cannot get my shoes
on again; my feet seem to swell."
I had no more remarks to effer. Ex
change. .
Red Dresses Popular.
Dresses of vivid red English serge are
very -popular this season. These make
bright and becoming gowns for youth
ful women. . When trimmed with black
velvet ribbon, black fur. or black passe
menteries, the color ij toned down con
siderably. Astrakhan is much used upon
these dresses. Some Imitations of 1 his
short curly fur are quite good, and wear
extremely well In gray and black
mixtures it is common looking, but
made entirely of silky black wool the
effect is entirely different. New York
Poet .
Miss Mary F. Seymour, the editor of
The Business Woman's Journal, proposes
soon to organize a woman's business
college. She says it will be the outcome
of the Union School of Stenography and
Typewriting. -
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Also a
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