or something like that. And all the
while the strange lady was staring at me
I«
A Pretty Jersey Girl Who Became the
so oddly, as white as a ghost, that I be­
Brilliant Duchess de Moachy.
gan' to think she must have somehow
The Duchess de Mouchy, the “Amer­
found' out What I was after. Her being
By RHODA BROUGHTON.
ican Princess,” as they used to call her
there and her looking at me like that al­
during the tjyight days of the Second
together made me feel so queer .that I
Empire, is now at Naples, where she is
actually shut the door and went away
suffering from a severe attack of illness.
again. I thought 1 would put it off till
It may be remembered“ she was . the
next night. But on the following day
Princess Anna Murat, and her mother
Mr. Smith returned and I never had an­
was origin all/ Miss Caroline Frazer, of
other chance.”
Charlestown. She herself was born at
HOW TO MAKE GREEK DRAPERY.
I had no sooner reached this last word
Bordentown, N. J. She was lookedu^on
than I rose to my feet.’ I was certainly
But These Directions Are Not for the
as the beauty par excellence, not only of
a yard taller than when I sat down.
Very Fat or the Very Lean.
the imperial family, but of the entire
“Girls,” said 1. calling to them in a
It is a whim just now to be photo­
court as well. The emperor tried hard
voice of solemn authority, and as they
graphed in Greek costume. The idea is
to find a royal husband for his fair kins­
il ¡i ml
gathered round, “be so good as to read
a good one, but how it is carried out!
woman, one of the alliances that he'en-
these paragraphs," pointing to them with
'BlIII
Bild
The average woman has a »voluminous
deavored to arrange, for her being With
my finger. I watched their faces as
ill Mà
eccentricity of cheese cloth, made with
the
Count
de
Flanders,
the
future
king
Victoria’s Personal Servant.
they did so, and when they had finished
much looping and several pieces of cord.
of the Belgians. But none of .the princes
I said, turning to Alice, in a voice of
Referring to the reports of the queen’s
This she puts on over corsets and stiff
of
Europe
-was
willing,
to
espouse
this
It Saves the Gown.
more than mortal dignity,“You see that
departure,
describing
how,
when
her
skirts. She looks like a '‘study of a majesty embarked, she leaned on the
Paris dressmakers add a deep band of charming lady. She was the intimate
wisdom is justified of her child.”
woman in a pillow” when she is photo­
waterproof goods to the underside of friend and especial darling of the em­
1 was interrupted by the door opening
graphed. ’The proper Greek or Roman arm of an Indian attendant, while the street dresses that sweep the ground. press, and she was wont to call the im­
POSTSCRIPT-
of Connaught walked behind, a.
and a lady rushing past the footman to
dress for a picture is made most simply, Duke
perial
lady
“
aunt,
”
at
the
empress
’
par
­
This band can then be sponged each
Just a year later the public was -precipitate herself into my arms. It was
and a lesson in draperies is a good thing London correspondent writes: “Her time it has dragged the mud and debris ticular request.
majesty,
who
is
faithful
in
her
likes
as
shocked by the account of a murder, I Mrs. Smith of ? Longmains, come to
to learn. Use soft cheese cloth, or bet­ she is pronoun'ced in her aversions, has after it. This cleaning process must be
The empress took great delight in the
me lor navi ng saved her life and
which, in its circumstances, exceeded thank
1
ter still crepe or China silk. If the stuff put the Indian in the place, occupied by a most distasteful task for either mis­ beauty of the Princess Anna, and tised
the measure of brutality usually con- to
1 apologize with tears for having ever
is forty inches wide one b^padth will do the famous John Brown, who for many tress or maid, but it is undertaken, if to lend her a number of her own finest
thought me ripe fo< Bedlam.
for the front and one for the back. If years watched over his sovereign’s safe­ only half accomplished, as nothing but jewels when decking her for any of the
nested with such crimes.
THE END.
the material is narrow sew two breadths ty with a zeal that was religious in its fire of fumigation could remcJVe the odor.’ grand entertainments of the-court with
It was the murder of a lonely old
together for the;--front and two together utter devotedness. The Indian succes­ The number of women who adopt this the interest and solicitude that a mother
maiden lady by her butler—a butler to
for the back. Run the two pieces on the sor to J ohn Brown began to take rank trailing street gown is rather surprising might have displayed. Tradition still
whom, as it appeared, she had been in Oil Paintings Increase the Cost of Moving.
same drawing string, letting the ends of about the time of the jubilee. He is a in view of the common sense, practical preserves the description of a gorgeous
I discovered the other day one of the
the
habit of showing exceptional kind­
the string come together in the middle splendid fellow, stalwart but supple, and cultured ideas of the present day and original toilet which; was worn by
probable
reasons why there was less
“
Come
in!"
she
said,
phlegmatically.
ness.
of the-edge of the front. Hereout down gifted with the curtly dignity that’ Still this ultra,, fashionable class who the princess at one. of the fancy dress
moving- on or about May 1, Everybody
Mrs. Smith had, as in my dream,
I read the account with about the same knows
a slit in the front so you can get into the comes natural alike to the well bred rush into every extreme is greatly in the, balls of the empire. It repres ed—or
that double rates are charged at .
rather its beauteous w^are id—a pea­ moved to the other side of the room, to degree of shuddering disgust, I suppose, .that, time Joy the owners of -vans. I ac-
gown.
Hindoo or Mohammedan; he has also minority.—New York Post.
the
piece
of
furniture
with
drawers^
at
cock. -« TOn^ rain—ered
as my neighbors, but without any^ feel­ comptinigAa friejid to, the office of a man
Now, get into it. Adjust it so that it the gentleness of a woman and the rev­
with the tail featherin? The royal bird, which I had seen her standing. Then ing of a personal character until it trans­ in the business to bargain for a van to
is properly low necked. It should be erence of a cTiild.
The Winner in an Open Contest.
drawn well down into a pointed neck,
Miss Jessie Sudlow, a seventeen-year- set with great precision, so as to pro­ she looked over her shoulder and said pired, in the course of the evidence, that move his office furniture’. The furniture
“To him the sovereign is more than
front' and back. Tie a piece of tape queen of Great Britain. She is also old South Carolina girl, has won the duce the exact effect of the peacock’s composedly, “Thank you, Harris; we dp the murderer’s ■ name was Harris—a would make one small load for one of
not want any more coal to-night.” Then, name by which 1 had once, and only the large vehicles, and the distance to be
around yourself well under the armpits empress Of nearly three hundred millions prize offered by The Times, ef Manches­ train.
The dress, of satin of a vivid bluish as he seemed, or seemed to me, to hesi­ once, heard Mrs. Smith of Longmains traversed was three blocks.
and bust line. The. neck should be drawn of his fellow subjects in India. Anyhow, ter, England, for the best composition
down almost to this belt. Yes;' the dress his qualities have commended him to on “The Best Book, and Why I Like It.” green, was made with a low necked cor­ tate, she added quietly, “I shall not re­ address her butler.
“I’ll do it for $8,” said the van man.
is open at the sides. We have not come her majesty as a suitable personal at­ The competition was open to the world, sage, crossed from the left shoulder to quire anything more to-night; you may
I dismissed the thought at once as far
“Eight dollars!” pchoed my astounded
to that yet. 'Have some one cut the tendant. Hence he now rides at the and there were competitors from France, the right side of the waist with a -wide go to bed.”
as
I was able. Had not 1 had enough of friend.' “Why, there are only a few
Could
I
believe
my
eyes?
Was
he
really
1
baldric
composed
of
diamonds,
emeralds
front length, allowing for hem, so that back of the queen’s carriage; he leads Germany, Canada, South America,
giving the reins to my imagination? Was desks and tables, a stove, some books,
it falls well’to the floor. The back should her pony, he is ever by her side ready to Mexico and the United States.. Miss and sapphires. A massive and elaborate retreating, shutting the door after him? i not Harris an extremely common name? no looking glass and nothing liable to
Were
those
his
footsteps,
whose
lessen-
1
be a little longer. Now the sides are fetth or carry, and, greatest honor of all, Sudlow is a pupil in the public schools necklace of the same gems encircled the
Almost as common as Smith * But when break.”
sewed up in a’seam that stops just under he is permitted to lend his arm to sup­ of Columbia, S. C. Her subject was lady’s neck, and above her brow the pea­ ing sound 1 heard along the passage? the trial came on, which, as the crime
“Can’t help that. We have to charge
the arm. Thus, .you see, an armhole is port his royal mistress’ steps when she is “Ivanhoe.” Miss Ethel Sudlow, a cock’s crest was reproduced by large For a moment everything grew dark be- 1 had been committed shortly’ before the at this time of - the year. Just 4ook at
fore
me.
1
clutched
the
arms
of
my
-
diamonds
and
sapphires,
mounted
upon
left.
weary or the way is difficult, or the in­ younger sister »of the prize winner, is gold wires. On another and similar oc­ chair to assure myself that this was assizes,
it*did very soon after the com­ that van (pointing to a hug® wagon in
1
Now for a sleeve that shall cover the jured knee troublesome.”
highly commended for a paper contrib­
mittal
to
prison, 1, perhaps unknown front of the door). I’ve just had it dec­
reality
and
no
dream.
Then
1
staggered
1
under side of the arm at the shoulder.
uted to the junior division of the same casion she was costumed as Venus, in
almost
to
myself, followed it with a orated and that oil painting put on,
'
flesh colored crepe, embroidered with to my feet and toward Mrs. Smith.
Cut a long tongue shaped piece of goods.
competition.— Woman’s Journal.
Mrs. Astor Eulogized.
keener
interest
than, but for this trifling and I will have to recoup myself some­
“Is he gone?” asked I, in a hoarse *
silver, with a diamond dove on“either
Instead of squaring off the upper end,
how.”
circumstance,
1
should have done.
In
a
sketclrof
the
late
John
Jacob
As
­
shoulder, each of these glittering birds whisper.
slant off that end into another point. tor, the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of Trinity
Anothor Cold in Sight.
There it was. The painting on the
The
trial
wad
a
short
one;
the
evidence
“
Gone!
”
-
repeated
she,
in
astonish^
having
cost
$5,000.
The sleeve shape then is like two trian­ church, said before the Genealogical and
There is a very good story told con-
sides of the van costs the mover the
overwhelming;
the
man
found
guilty,
ment,
all
her
old
doubts
as
to
my
sound
­
The princess finally got tired of wait­
gular pieces sr-t*'tnse to base, the one tri­ Biographical society of New York:
ceming a certain social leader in Bos»
and executed without any money. This van had a picture of
angle being very long and the other very
ton. At an evening musicale last win­ ing for a royal husband. She was not ness of mind rushing back in a flood. condemned
“
New
York
society
is
a
living
entity,
sentimentalist
being found to petition Washington crossing the Delaware on
much shorter. "The short triangle doubles and has an existence of its own. In it, ter she appeared in a tres decollete gown quite twenty-five when, in the year 1865, “Yes, of course, he is gone! Why not?”
one side, and Abraham Lincoln bless­
the
home
secretary
in his favor.
down under the arm, and is tucked idto as in everything else, there is good and with her hands thrust into a muff of she gave her hand to Antoine Marie de
“And he will not oome back?” atill in . S. On the evening before his execution he ing a lot of pickaninnies on the other.
Noailles,
due
de
Mouchy
and
prince
de
the slit of the arm hole, and there sewed there is evil fti our society there is no white fur. Sweeping up to her hostess
that husky whisper.
made to the jail chaplain a. full confes­ People who want to move have to pay
or pinned to the base of the two tri­ crown, no hereditary aristocracy to set she apologized for bringing her muff into Poix, who was. precisely her own age.
“Of course not. I told him I needed sion of his crime, and not only of that one for those pictures.
angles, is drawn around the arm and
thè drawing room, “But,” said she, “1 The young couple started in life with nothing more to night. I think”—eying
It costs to have your bedclothes and
buttoned to the top of the shoulder. The the fashion, but the leadership devolves have such a severe cold I really did not the neat little annual income of $140^- me distressfully—“that you really had which brought him to the gallows, but carpets transported under guard of Lin­
upon
those
to
whom
the
headship
is
tac
­
long triangle hangs. If you like, the
dare to come without,” and the bystand­ 000. They lived extravagantly and en­ better go to bed; »you seem a little— of a previous one. which he had been coln, Grant or Sherman.—New York
prevented from carrying beyond the ’ Herald.
tertained royally, both at their hotel in
edges of the sleeve left hanging can be itly conceded.
“Mrs. Astor was one of this number, ers, looking at her bare neck and shoul­ Paris and their chateau of Mouchy-le- a. little—feverish 1”
stage of intention by a curious accident.
buttoned together, again further down
ders,
smiled
involuntarily.
—
Boston*
Ga
­
“
Yes,
”
said
I,
making
an
effort
to
re
­
A Carolina Mountains Romance.
What that curious accident was you
the arm. and the shape of the sleeve is and so assiduously did she attend to her zette.
Chatel, situated near Chantilly.
cover some decent amount of composure,
From Tornatola, N. C., comes the story
At the latter residence there would “perhaps l am; I will go to bed if you shall hear, and judge of my feelings on
easily modified to suit such arrangement. duties that if ended in shortening her
reading the following extract from the of the marriage of Alpheus Badham and
Mrs. Ignatius Grossmann (Edwina often be assembled from thirty to forty
Your Greek dress is finished now. life. She knew that she must set a good
are,quite—quite sure”:----
Mrs, Grayling. Mrs. Grayling’s hus­
murderer’s confession:
Wear it over a closely fitting and rather example to society; that doors must be Booth) is the only woman permitted to guests, all invited for a prolonged stay.
She
looked
so
really
alarmed
at
my
“In January of last year I was living band had been dead but a few months,
heavy low- neck, woven under vest and closed against Rubious women and men enter the Players’ club in New York. It is, not to be wondered at, therefore, manner and words that I did not finish
a skirt made of India silk or very soft with profligate* tastes. She knew the When her father is in town and staying that the ducal pair finally went to pieces, my sentence. I followed her, still shak­ in the service of Mr. Smith of Long- and her new husband is one whom she
cassimere. , The skirt hangs full and extravagance, the low rivalry and the at the club, she goes there frequently, financially speaking. The Chateau de ing in every limb, to my bedroom, when mains. I was at Very low water at the had long mourned as dead;
When the war broke out she lived near
soft anil well to the floor in front and secret or open sympathy with an age passing through to the elevator and up Mouchy has been sold. The, Hotel de she left me, and into which I am almost time, over head and ears in debt and did
almost dragging in the back. This skirt "which tended to corrupt the heart. It to his room, almost without being seen. Mouchy has been rented furnished. The certain, though she tried to ; do it as not know where to turn for money, Raleigh, where Grayling and Badham
should be made on a deep yoke, or if not may be said for her that society was She is a very sedate little woman, and duke and duchess have-gone to Italy to noiselessly as possible, that she locked which 1 wanted desperately and felt had been her neighbors and admirers.
the skirt» should be drawn down over it rendered the purer for her loftier ideals.” passionately fond of her two children.
economize, and the lady has been greatly me. For hours after she left me I re­ that 1 must obtain by fair means or foul. Both went to the front, but the lady be­
Dr. Dix said that he had good proof
My chief inducement for entering Mr.’ came the wife of Badham before his de­
and securely pinned that no fullness at
missed this season in Paris, as she is
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton num­ usually the most prominent promoter of mained, sunk in the arm chair by the Smith's service had been that I had ac­ parture. When hostilities ceased Gray­
the waistbands may betray through the that Mr. and Mrs. Astor spent easily
$100,000 a year in unostentatious chari­ bers among her intimate friend.s in Eng­ all charitable enterprises as well as a so­ fire, into which I had almost fallen on cidentally heard that he was in the habit ling returned, but could give no. account
outer garment the presence of a skirt.
I still shook as if ague struck, of keeping considerable sums of money of his companion, who must have fallen
A chain of flat links or of medallions ties. Mrs. Astor herself used frequently land the poetess, Mrs. Arthur Tomson, cial leader of renown.—Paris Cor. Phila­ entering.
and every 'now and again I held my in the house for the purpose of paying in battle. Later, feeling assured that
linked together is worn to hide the tape to visit the midnight mission which she better known to the reading public by delphia Telegraph.
breath to listen—to listen for that stealthy the weekly Wages of the workmen em­ her husband was dead, Mrs. Badham be­
belt. The costume cannot be graceful had established in simple garb as Sister her signature, Graham R. Tomson. Mrs.’
step,
which even now I felt must come, ployed upon some extensive drainage came the wife of Grayling, and the cou­
Augustine,
her
identity
being
unknown
Treatmeirf'or^KjfSkin.
Moulton
will
pass
the
summer-abroad,
or Grecian unless corsets or stays are
for the noise of that, awful thud which works which he had undertaken.
and will make London her first tarrying
ple removed to Tornatola, where they
discarded. The chain belt is drawn close to the inmates.
If you want to produce-a good effect still
sounded so loudly in the ears of my
place. In that city she has a large circle on the skin steam it at'night, wipe dry
and up to the point of the neck, there
A Girl Tackles a Big Snake.
“I thought, oil reaching Longmains. purchased a farm.
that I couid not even yet that I had never seen a'house better
Badham had been taken prisoner, and
fastened, and thus serves to support the
and powder it with fine sulphur, dusted imagination
Last year a monster snake was seen of literary and artistic friends.
that it neither had nor ever adapted to my purpose. It was as lonely after his release from Camp Morton lin­
figure apd outline its contour. Another in the neighborhood of Donnell’s mill, in
on with a poWder puff. Sleep with this believe
would
have
any
echo
in
a
real
sound.
German
women
have
always
been
re
­
belt may be worn which rests on the this county, and its length was various­
a spot as I have ever seen, the’stables at gered in the north. Lately he longed to
wash off in-the morning and rub in
At length I dropped into an uneasy an unusual distance .from the hall and see his wife, and, returning, traced her
for their good sound sense, A on,
hips and digops low in front,
ly estimated by several parties who saw markable
a
very
little
of
this
delicious
cerate,
There should be no drapery except that it at from eight to fifteen feet. An at­ short time ago the ladies of Marienberg, lightly rubbing it along the lines of doze, from which I was awakened by a no dwelling house within less than a to the home where she had become the
afforded by the folds in the gown. tempt was made to kill it, but it went East Prussia, published a card in the the face. A bit the size of.a large pea is sensation of extreme cold, to find the fire quarter of a mile. The establishment mother of a large family by another
These folds in the upper dress can be into' a thicket on the banks of the creek. principal newspapers of that city, re­ quite enough, and one minute’s rubbing black out and the temperature of the consisted, as to men, of myself and one man.—Cor. Atlanta Constitution. .
drawn close about the knees, showing
Nothing more was seen of this mon­ questing the gentlemen not to remove by the clock is all the time that ought to room at or below freezing point; I rose footman; but about a week after my ar­
A Wonderful Child.
the underskirt. In fact buy classic ef­ ster snake until Friday, when Miss Ida their hats during cold weather in greet­ be spent on the soft fabric of the skin. and threw myself, dressed, upon the rival the footman fell ill’'and had to be
Mr. S. L. Smith, the editor of the Sil­
fect can be obtained. A word' to finish. L. Robinson saw a cow, the property of ing them, but to acknowledge their* bow Don’t rub it in, but rub it out to spread bed, and wrapping myself in a fur cloak sent home.
.
;
ver Lake Signal, at Silver Lake, on the
into a heavy sleep, from which I
Only a woman with fine arms and shoul­ Mr! Abner »Schoolfield, dowi and strug­ with a military salute.
it over the face. This will prevent the fell
“I had not yet matured my plans,n line of the C., W. & M. railway, is the.
was
only
roused
by
the
8
o'clock
entry
ders should attempt such dressing. The gling, and went to see what was the
natural
moisture
from
drying
with
wind
though
I
had
ascertained
that
Mr.
Smith
Miss Alice Parker, attorney at law, of
father of a child who is creating a great
of the housemaid.
very fat or the very thip will look better matter. Imagine her surprise to see,
kept his money in a strong box in his deal of excitement in his neighborhood
Massachusetts, is endeavoring to. amend and heat. After an hour or two wash
On
first
opening
my
bewildered
eyes
in something else.-«New York Sun.
coiled around the neck of the cow, an the existing state laws of administration the face if necessary, only don’t rub off
business room, and that in the case of by his wonderful arid astonishing powers
immense, snake some four inches in di-” of estates. Her purpose is to equalize all the film which protects the skin and I could not recollect; where I was, but his absence Mrs. Smith had charge of of what the father is inclined to think is
stared
round
wondefingly
at
the
un
­
••The Ideal Wife” Described.
ameter and at least ten feet' in length.
the key, when one morning my master mesmerism. The boy is alinost. seven
the right of the wife in-sharing property merely supplies the place of the natural
' Whether with a view to give precision
The cow was being choked to death, to that of the husband, and to set aside sterine which prevents evaporation from familiar room. Then recollection came was unexpectedly summoned from home, years of age, and is capable even now of
upon
me
with
&
rush
and
I
buried
my
to “the young man’s fancy” at this pair­ and the brave girl took hold of the
the pores.
leaving nm alone with my mistress and performing any of the feats of the fa­
ing season, or merely to keep the gentler snake with both hands, and, being a to the widow with minor children the
If your hands are to be in Water or face in the pillow. Oh, why had I ever the female servants in the bouse.
entire
estate
of
the
husband
if
it
does
mous Davenport brothers—rope tying,
woke
again?
Why
had
day
ever
had
sex informed regarding the demand in strong girl, she with great difficulty got
gardening or gathering flowers, whose
“Such an opportunity which, very chained box trick, table rapping, read­
not
exceed
$1,000.
■
'
the
inhumanity
to
dawn
again
upon
the matrimonial market, bur contempo­ it loose, or perhaps frightened it until it
juices roughen the skin, rub the hands
probably, might not soon occur again, ing sealed letters, slate writing, moving
rary, The Young Man, has been inciting uncoiled itself and ran into* the thicket.
well first with the cerate—nofthe bleach­ such a candidate for Earlswood? As the was, I felt, not to be lost. Mrs. Smith’s tables with heavy weights on them,
A
late
London
fancy
for
table
decora-,
details»
of
the
previous
day
’
s
incidents
its readers to define “the ideal wife.” After awhile the cow, with aid from the tion is the use of a small Turkey carpet ing kind, but'the bland sort—and draw
came back upon me with brutal vivid­ habits were Such as to favor my project &c. The little fellow may be bound
The replies appear to agree that this per­ lady, got upon its feet and was driven
a cover. It is gratefully recorded on loose gloves for outdoor work. For ness, I called to the rocks to fall upon She usually sat in her boudoir, situ­ hand, foot and neck to a chair, and;,in
fect person must strive to exist solely for home. The snake was of a brown color, as
ated in a rather isolated part of five seconds will liberate himself with­
the fancy does not seem a popular the soaking, let the hands take* their me and the mountains to cover me.
her husband’s pleasure, profit and con­ and showed no signs of striking or bit­ that
the house, until late at night, 1 out untying a single knot, no matter
one there, and it is .devoutly hoped that chance with the cerate, which will keep
Had
any
one
since
the
world
first
be
­
venience. One tersely, if a trifle un­ ing, as is common to.,all our native it will never pass the New York quaran­ them from getting watersoaked, whichin-
«made up my mind to wait until the rest
grammatically, says: “There should be snakes, hence it is believed to be an ana­ tine station should it attempt immigra­ jures the skin more than anything else. gan rolling ever written themsel ves down of the household had retired, and then how securely he is bound. These and
so egregious an ass? Befooled by an to go to Mrs. Smith’s boudoir on the pre­ many other mysterious feats which he
a healthy compact between the piano conda, which has made its escape from
—Shirley Dare’s Letter..
tion.
idiotic dream; misled - by a fancied' re­ text of taking coals for the fire, obtain performs have given him the title of
and the wringing machine, so that the some menageri e.—Greensboro-Record.
membrance of circumstances; flounder- .from her the key of the strong box, bv “Spirit Child.” His powers are all nat-z
dignity of labor is not superseded by the
The rage for gold has brought the gold
Round Tables Becoming Popular.
having been in no way developed.
dignity of art, but each contribute to the
A Popular Librarian.*
gauze veil to the fore. Its popularity . Round tables are becoming more and ing-deeper and deeper into the quagmire fair means if possible; but if she resisted ural,
—Cor. Indianapolis News, „
domestic’felicity.” Another, who may
The dismissal of Mrs. Mary Morancy should be limited to women who are more established in fashionable favor as of xmreason, which had landed me at —and she was a resolute woman—I had
have been dipping into Schopenhauer’s as state librarian of Mississippi, after young, whose complexions are above re­ the proper shape for the dinner board. last, fully dressed, on the strange bed, determined to Bhoot her through the
Don’t Demand the Earth.
abominable chapter on “Women,” put fourteen years of faithful and efficient proach. Chantilly lace' is noted with For some time the small round opes have and, with the appalling prospect before head, having provided myself with a re­
If you%o to the country don’t look for
his views into the epigrammatic form: service, has provoked widespread discus-- tiny gold balls scattered here and there been used at supper parties, and now the me of having to go down and meet Mrs. volver for the purpose, furnish myself all the city conveniences. There is a
“One whose life says ‘my husband and sion in the south, and a petition is in cir­ upon it.
English social season is emphasizing the Smith at breakfast.
with as much money as I could get hold vague idea that country people pay little
She would probably and wisely meet of and make tracks for America. I was or nothing for many things; therefore
1,’ and not T and my husband.’” Cardi­ culation asking that she be restored to
use
of the dinner size. It is an old fash­
Never Speaks to His Wife.
nal'Wolsey’s “Egoet méus Rex” wouldj office. Mrs. Morancy was the first woman
ion revived, and artistic dinner givers me with a lunatic asylum keeper and a
Ip the northwestern part of the city will welcome it. A table can be so pret­ strait waistcoat. And1 my children, my prevented from carrying out this inten­ the stranger expects a great deal for a
have been more appropriate still.
to hold a state office in Mississippi. When
small expenditure. While it is quite
tion by a very unlooked for accident.
Culling further samples from the epis­ she took charge of thè library it was live a couple who for twenty-two years tily laid when all the covers radiate from servants, my husband, how should I ■ “Late in the afternoon—the afternoon true that the actual cost of living is
tolary anthology, we find that in the badly catalogued, incomplete and lum­ never addressed a word to each other. a common center. The circular boards ever look any one of them in the face of that day—the weather was extremely much less on a farm than in town,»still
view of various correspondents the ideal bered with worthless matter. With a In 1869 the husband was a man of are decidedly more sociable ftoo. Just again? I, writhed. But writhing did bad, snowing hard, with a high wind, there are items of expense greater in the
wife “has skill enough to cook a good constantly diminishing appropriation for means, owning considerable property, as changing a company from one room not help me. I had seen the housemaid’s and bitter cold—a lady arrived in a fly country. City improvements when graft­
dinner without being wasteful, taste the purchase of books Mrs. Morancy but through peculiarities more than to another disturbs and; chills social astonished glance at my full dressed to call on my mistress. 1 could seo that ed on country life become expensive lux­
enough to dress well without being, ex­ made the Mississippi library the second generosity he became , a sort of “Coal warmth, so turninjwtteMggfeert the table condition, a fresh proof of my insanity, my mistress was greatly surprised when uries, just as irreproachable cream, but­
travagant, tact enough to know when in value of its kind in the Union, the Oil Johnny.” Houses and ground were splits the unanimity C^the Circle, divides which would, no doubt, be conveyed to I took in the lady’s card, for as far as 1 ter and eggs are the most costly items ’of
and how to speak;” and that, moreover, Massachusetts library only outranking it. given away without an instant’s con­ the diners into groups, and the amalga­ Mrs. Smith.
could make out she was very slightly city housekeeping. We would feel just­
, I must get up. I must go down and acquainted with her and lived a matter ly’hurt if some farmer folk boarding in
she must be “one whose love prompts
As a librarian she was an expert. She sideration. The wife expostulated, but mation of talk is prevented.
her to do what she can to make a home knew the contents of every book in -her in vain. Finally nothing was left ex­
The change, too, will be a welcome appear as soon as I could. That was all of twenty miles off. T
our New York home should expect a
on earth a stepping stone to a home in care, and most of this intimate knowl­ cept the little cottage which was then one to frequent dinner givers, who of that was now left me. And that much
“I have never to this day made out large tennis court, quantities of flowers,
heaven.” One matrimonial monopolist edge came from her constant and care­ and is now their place of abode. Fort­ late find their ingenuity taxed to devise I did. With what inward groveling, why she came. We all thought she was fruit and rich milk without seeing that
even goes so far as to say that she must ful revision of the catalogue. Her re­
novel floral arrangements. A round mentally though not apparently) on all off her head, and I believe she was. My these made a drain upon the household
“prefer the company of her husband to moval is regretted not only by her unately this stood in the wife’s name, table at once demands quite a different fours, I entered that dining room will mistress certainly thought so, all the finances. So exercise a little common
that of any other man, and let people see friends, but also by the judges, legisla­ and though he used every effort to se­ “laying” from an extension board.—New never be known save only to myself. more when she asked leave to stay the sense yourself.—Ladies’ Home Journal.
it.” We had al ways thought that “letting tors, state officials and lawyers, many of cure possession of it, pleading with her York Times.
She came to meet me, civil, dull and un­ night. I could see that my mistress was
people see it” in such cases was considered whom depended on her to hunt up cita­ and using violence and tenderness by
emotional; though I thought I caught a very much annoyed and rather alarmed,
Graduates Who »Use Ribbon.
CI cvct London Girls.
turns, she reihained firm and would not
bad manners.—London News.
A grave professor concerned with read­
tions and references needed in their let him have it. As a consequence he , Two or three ladies who live in a sub­ look of lurking apprehension still in her but as the lady would not go there was
eye.
no help for it; stay she must.
ing the essays of a large number of grad­
work.—New York World.
A Queer Occupation..
swore a tremendous oath that he would urb of London have started a sort of
Stupid woman! Why could not she
“
I
was
a
good
deal
upset
at
first,
as
I
uates from a co-educational college
■ It is possible that a new occupation
never speak to her as long as he lived, little carrier pigeon club among them­ have-been shot through the head and was afraid her being there would knock demolishes an old respectable tradition
A Bit of Calcutta Gossip.
selves. They have each a couple of these fallen with that thud I had expected of my plan on the head; but afterward I
has developed for that, in these days,
and
up
to
the
present
time
he
has
kept
when in a private letter he writes:
A charming bit of gossip has been go­
pretty messengers and send notes to each her? I felt a sort of anger against her
ubiquitous personage, “the clever wom­
his word.
comforted myself with the thought that “Brass clamps are a great improvement
other
irrespective
of
the
post
or
tele
­
an.” A little more than a year ago a ing the rounds aboqt some of the ameni­
From prosperity they have sunk to
for standing there so stolid and sound, she would be sure to go to bed early,
pink ribbon for tying up the loose
family suddenly put in straightened cir­ ties of fhe “upper fen” in Calcutta. The abject poverty. He makes what>he graph office. They say that the con­ after having wrought me such irremedi­ tired with her long drive, and I should on
page^of
wise young women’s wise essays,
story
runs
that
a,lady
called
at
a
house,
cumstances sat in council over the fut­
can out of a news stand which he keeps. venience of the plan is great, as they able woe.
find Mrs. Smith alone in her boudoir.
but the present generation of girl grad­
ure. A widowed aunt who was one of .sent up her card, was admitted, paid the, The old couple have two children, both can arrange impromptu tea parties and
Oh, that breakfast! Shall I ever for­
“I lit them their bedroom candles in uates would never think of using ribbon
usual visit, and enjbyed the usual t
collect each other for tennis with nc get it? How did I live through it?
it Was specially anxious to add her mite amount
the drawing room at 10 and then went anyhow, it commonly chooses cotton
of small talk with the fady of daughters. One has been married for trouble.—London Letter.
to the effort which it was realized must
Through it and the moments that fol­ off to wait. I would not risk it till 12. twine or mucilage.” Herein is shock­
of wealth,
the house. Returning home, she in-j some years to a man v*
i.™.™, while
be put forth/but felt her incapacity. formed*her, husband where she had been,' the other lives at home with her
Money Invested in Electricity.
lowed it, and the leave taking? At the- By that time every one would be sure to ingly exemplified the influence of the
Her niece, a young girl, involuntarily when that distinguished member of so- parents, and seems to take the responsi-
Some recent authentic statistics show, latter I do not think that I said any­ be in bed and asleep. 1 thought I never mind masculine over the character
solved the problemfor her.
ciety at once wrote off to the “Occupant, bility of both on herself. It is a pain- the extent to which the electric lighting thing. My tongue clove to the roof of had known time go so slowly, but at last feminine. The knot of ribbon is still
“Aunt Nell could go out as ‘cheerer,’ ” of the house, No. ------- .street,” saying
industry has grown in this country. The my mouth. I had just sense left to give the clock pointed to five minutes to 12. very much the rule in schools where
she said playfully. “That is what she that his wife had called by mistake, and
returns from about 1,400 central stations her my hand stupidly and to notice the. I put my revolver in nfy pocket, took up girls alone do congregate. —-Exchange.
ing
at
6
o
’
clock
distributing
his
papers
has always been in this house. Really, requesting the return of the card she left
aggregate a capital stock of $119,000,000, look of'scarcely subdued joy and relief the coal box, went up stairs and knocked.
to
the
very
houses
which
twenty-two
aunt.” she continued, more earnestly, on visiting the lady of said house. The
and this may be taken to be very near on her face at seeing the last of me.
No Details Needed.*
Mrs. Smith’s voice said ‘Come in,’ and I
“perhaps that is your vocation. You husbapd of the lady visited, however, ■years ago were his own, and by the the amount actually invested, as the
She sent me in her carriage as far as opened the door.
Mrs. Blank—The paper tells of a post­
know yoiir' poor sick people always say was equal to the occasion, for he replied gift of 'which he has made _neat little plants, owing to increases and recon­ Salcote, which I thought she looked
“What was my horror to find the master who was appointed by Johhj
you cheer them up. Why couldn’t you „that on returning home
w and finding the fortunes for many whose heirs are in structions, frequently' represent much upon as the surest method of being rid strange lady still sitting there with my Quincy Adams, and has held the positioni
succeed as well among rich sick people? *
he had looked at
wife-s visiting total ignorance of his existence. Year more than the nominal share capital. of me. At Salcote I got into my own mistress! The sight of her took me so ever since. Was he an unusually good!
They would like your funny stories and list, and not finding the name of the after year he toils on, daily becoming These stations have a capacity of 137,000 brougham and returned home a sadder, aback that I did not know* whether to man, do you think?
your comfortable ways, I know.”
Mr. Blaiik (an experienced citizen)—>
visitor, he had torn up the card, and feebler, “forgetting the world and by arc lights and 1,500,000 incandescents of if not a wiser, woman. Reader, will you come in or not, and as I was hesitating
. This was the crude idea, and in a was, therefore, unable to return it.— , the world forgot.” — Philadelphia 16 candle power, and the dynamos which I despise me very much if I tell you that Mrs. Smith said: ‘We do not want any Oh, not at all, not at all. It was an un-l
modified form it was acted upon. “Aunt San Francisco Argonaut.
supply current for these lights are oper- I I cried the whole way, and that on reach­ ' more coals. You may go to bed, Harris,’ usually poor office.—New York Weekly.
( Record.
__ . .
ated by engines of 856,755 horse power.-- I ing my own fireside I gathered my chil-
Nell” did begin _to go about among half J
Sick ana con valescent persons asa sort
of temporary companion with marked
success. She read to them, told stories,
and looked at things' cheerfully. She
had original ideas, tact and discrimina­
tion, and succeeded wonderfully -with
ailing children and nervous persons.
One patron suggested her to another.un-
til she found her time fairly well em­
ployed, when her varied career was sud­
denly cut short this spring by her ac­
ceptance, of a permanent home as the
companion and comfort of a young girl
afflicted with a hopeless spinal malady.
There is perhaps a suggestion in the
recital, though, after all, the office is
merely a special phase of the general one
of companion.—Her Point of View in
New York Times.
V.— KTA - --
A Youthful Western Diva.
A bright looking little girl, with the
voice of a nightingale, is the discovery
of Rev. W. S. Vail, of the First Uni-
versalist church. She is little May
Grithffis,. a ten-year-old child, whose
wonderful vocal powers are so unusual as
not only to attract attention, buttogive
promise of great future«excellence. Re­
cently she sang at the church services at
the Grand Opera House, and her rendi­
tion of “Thè Ninety and Nine” was a
wonderful piece of vocalization, and"
thrilled her, auditors like music from an­
other world. High C is a very clear and
pure mark for her, and her expression
and shading' gave evidence of the pos­
session of great talent. The young diva
is in the hands of Professor Lienau for
training arid will make her mark in the
future.—St. Paul Globe.
>’ c.vino ’ fuj g.ght to gge the old man every even.
AN AMERICAN
PRINCESS.
dren about me and made a clean breast
of my folly to them? They took my con­
fession characteristically.
Alice said that if I had taken her ad­
vice I should have been spared a great
annoyance.
Ruth said that all dreams were non­
sense, and reverted to her cwn puerile
one, which even at' that moment of
humiliation I felt wounded • at having
paralleled* with mine.
And Sue, dear Sue, held both my
hands fast in hers and said she should
have done precisely the same in my
case.
4
But I refused to be comforted, the
more so as it turned out that the most
valuable of the carriage horses had
caught in the cold White Hart stables an
influenza which was rapidly developing
into inflammation of the lungs. But even
without that final straw I had sunk
hopelessly in my own esteem.