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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1893)
WOMAN'S WOULD. LOVELY COSTUMES AT THE O.UEEN'8 LATE DRAWING ROOM, Inventor of the Huupiiklrt Two Inter esting Princesses Earning Money For n 1,B1L, 1 IIS a-mveniler uirl. The queen twd a perfect sunshiny spring day for her drawing room on Thursday, and the shewing of toilets wan all that the greatest lover of gowns hi the world could havo asked for. The colore which scented to find most favor wero delicate pinks, soft shades of green and dull gold except for debu tantes, who of course wore white or cream. Myrtle green and violet pre vailed everywhere. Had all the Indies pledged themselves not to wear reds and bines, and to combine in having gowns of delicate tints, they conld not have been more successful In the dainty "impres sionist" effect produced. Green and violet, violet and green these were the colors one saw on every side, displayed by matrons and maids from St. jamos' palace to (irosvenor place. Turquoise seemed to be the favorite tone in jewels and to find as mnch favor as did the emerald and the sapphire for ' merly. Light, ethereal fabrics like chiffon gauze, lisse and crupe wore mnch nsed to trim dresses. Satin was certainly the favorite stuff, and in many instances it was shot with another hue than its own, producing a fine effect Lace lappots wero worn in some in stances instead of white tulle veils and accorded well with court costumes in , light colors. Very few short skirts wore seen, and unfettered flounces were the principal form of trimming for dresses, especially for those of t he younger ladies. The bal loonlike arrangements of chiffon, gath ered in at intervals, and especially around the hem, were not again observed, as they were found to be rather ungraceful at the first drawing room. Almost tho only American present was the bride, Lady Crey Egorton, who only a few weeks ago was Miss Cnyler of Bal timore. Bho has been going everywhere since hor marriage and promises to make rather a stir in the sociul world. She wore a magnificent gown of creamy sntin, made empire style and trimmed with a quantity of lace, ostrich plumes and pearl embroidery. The train was of satin, drnjied iusido with figured gauze and bordered with ostrich plumes. The dowager Lady Egerton. who pre sented her daughter-in-law, wore a black satin gown, quite veiled on the skirt and bodice with an embroidery of cut jet in curved lines. The train of mirror velvet was shaded in tones of deep violet and hyacinth and was lined with satin of a paler hue. In all the frocks there was a suggestion of greater fullness and evidenced' crino line that perhaps may still come. More unpleasuut to record even than this is the fact that there seemed to be a general revival of the chignon. Not only was it very much in evidence among those in the drawing room, but at vari ous sociul functions of the past few months there has been a tendency to ward the propagation of this nnsightly bulb on the head. With it of course has come the untidy net, for all this building up of the hair needs a net to confine it From a purely masculine standpoint, and speaking as one without authority, the effect is certainly nut pleusant The general impression left after the drawing room is tint the chignon and fuller skirts are what the immediate fu ture has in store in the way of fashions. London Cor. New York World. The Inventor of the Hoonekirt. If the hoowkirt is to be a fact, Brook lyn will be ready for it, as the head dress maker of one of the large houses has been experimenting with a dress skirt six yards round the bottom. One woman walk ing round its extent of fullness declares that "she will never, no never, wear any thing as hideous, ovon if she should be the only woman in the city to stand out against it." "But you must keep in the fashion," says the next, and the third suggests that after all it is "dreadfully stylish," which meets with a murmnr of applause from those who have hardly dared express their opinions. If neither one's own good taste nor common sense can reconcile a fashion any other way, then it must be dreadfully stylish, and that settles it. The woman who invented the hoop skirt in the first place was a bright wom an, so bright, in fact, that she invented it for some one else to woar. and than stood aghast at the rapidity with which it was taken np. It does not matter that the fashion may have been devised to cover the deformity of some titled or con spicuous person; hitherto there have been plenty eager to copy. Mrs. Selby died in January, 1717, but she lived to see the article she devised for reasons other than beautifying the rage of the fashionable world. The mysteri ous origin of many other ridiculous fash ions might be traced in the same way. Yet once enconraged by the elegantes, few ask the how or why. But this is not the first time within recent years that there has been an attempt to bring in the crinoline again. During the winter of 1890 fashionable modistes tried to pave the way for its reappearance by asking their customers if they knew the hoop skirt was coming back again. Brooklyn Eagle. Two Interesting Princesses. It is now gonorully conceded by the "personB who know" tliat the real love of the Duke of Clarence was not his pret ty betrothed, but the Princess Hclene of Orleans, and that the myi Tious inter view that took place betwc'., that young lady and the pope some i: ; itha before the announcement of the . . ie's engage ment was to obtain the pot: tiffs sanction to her becoming a Protestant, as by the royal marriage act every member of the soveroign of England's family who mar ries a Catholic forfeits his or her right to the throne, ' The pope expressed his willingness to grant her the desired permission, but he strongly advised her against changing her religion, and she took tho holy fa ther's advice, I wrote concerning this statement at the time of the prince's death, but I only received fnll confirma tion of it from a source of undoubted authenticity a few days ago. Also I have been told that just before the duke breathed bis last he uttered frequently and piteouHly in his delirium the name of "Helen," calling npcm her with ac cents of such a fervent affection that poor Princess May, who was watching by his bedside, was seised with hysterics and was taken from the room. It is no won der, therefore, that she is snpnosed to be not inconsolable for his loss. There is no doubt but that she is still the choice of the English nation for their future queen. She is a true born English girl; she is pretty, and she is not too nearly related to the Duke of York, a combination of qualities that no other royal damsel in Europe possesses. Paris Cor. Philadel phia Telegraph. ., i&artitng Honey For a Choreh Pair. By long experience women who engage in the trying task of soliciting articles for use at fairs and other schemes of churches adopted to raise funds have conquered much of their diffidence, and they go forth boldly to do any legitimate work that is given to them in that line. The Ladies' Aid society of a went In dianapolis church was getting up a fan not long ago. and in the rounds they were making two of the ladies who were soliciting approached John P. Frenzel, president of the Citizens' Street Railway company, One of them told him of their mission, described the unfortunate finan cial condition of the struggling little church and ended her speech by asking, "Mr. Frenzel. will you give ns a street car?" It is said that Mr. Frenzel bluBhed at what appeared to him to be the monu mental "nerve" of his petitioners. In a hesitating way he explained that that he did not quite understand them. They repeated their request and asked partic ularly for car No. 17 on the Kentucky avenue line. The president recovered himself sufficiently to ask what on earth they were going to do with a street car at a church fair. The ladies said that they had a way of making some money out of this car, alth ough it was worn ont and of little further use to the company. Mr. Frenzel replied that he knew noth ing of the car, but he would speak to the foreman about it and let the ladies hear from him later. The foreman reported that the car was somewhat dilapidated, but would make a good Bait car, so the church did not get it. It transpired that a committee of west Indianapolis citi zens had offered the ladies (20 if they'd get the car off the line. Indianapolis News. A Woman's Defense. Fashions are fanciful and whimsical and cannot be taken seriously. There are complaints at intervals about all the ridiculous things women do in order to appear well dressed, and vials of wrath and of severe satire are poured upon ns by "grave and reverend sigmors"who know rather less than nothing about the matter. What on earth do they want ns to do? They are forever iault finding. There is no end to it, and then the men and wom en, too, who are not "grave and rev erend," like us, as we are, with all our glaring inconsistencies thick npon us, and as we are not foolish enough to emu late the venerable gentleman with his ass and risk all in trying to please two opposite parties, we are quite contented to secure the good opinion of those we like beet First we were spurned because our skirts were long. Now we are scathed because they are wide. Our high shoul ders were an offense, and now our wide sleeves are targets for criticism first our high hats, then our wide hats, now onr poke hats. Well, we do not mind, and what would they do if they had nothing to grumble at? Cor, Chicago Herald. The Lavender GirL , Some time ago I wrote about the erase for violets. Theoraze has become even worse or better, as you choose. For myself, I love the color and intend to be come a "lavender girl this summer. A lavender girl, you know, is one who wears lavender underwear, gowns, hats and gloves, oarries lavender parasols, eats lavender candies, whose favorite flowers are violets, lilacs, pansies or some other lavender flower. Of course the "lavender girl" will vary the monot ony by combining white or purple with her favorite color; then, too, she will we " different shades of lavender pinkisu lavender, or bluish lavender, or that with a reddish oast, and then the flowered or gandies made over lavender silk, and the white dotted muslins, with row after row of lavender ribbon. Or, if she wishes a auiet gown, she will have a black cloth, with a darker purplish shade of velvet. But whatever she wears will bo lavondor in some form or other. Do yon like the idea? Cor. Philadelphia Music and Drama. Sex OlftraroniM. On Monday the March town meetings I were held in Maine. Vermont and Mas sachusetts. Men. simply because they wore men, voted on every article in the town warrant. But women, who had the same stake in the result as the men, Who understood the town questions and were involved in them, had no vote ex cept for school committee, and that only in Massachusetts and Vermont In a town in Maine on one street were 14 widows, and the only other owner of a house on the street was an unmarried woman. But they had no vote for those who would levy taxes on their property and spend their money. It is time this shameful discrimination should cease, not less for the credit of men than for the sake of justice to wom en. Boston Woman's Journal A Rainbow Drees. ' A recent order in this city was for a rainbow dress, which was exceedingly pretty. The ground was of soft gray, with the skirt trimmed with very wide bauds of ribbon, following the colors of the rainbow. The very fnll puffed sleeves worn uisu uuuuii uiuiiueu, iuju a large ' gray fan was shaded in the same way. j The beauty of this dress was that the wearer did not try to overdo matters. , There were no patchy effects, merely the long, wavy lines of color on the soft gray ground. The waist had a trimming of I crystal beads and no color whatever. This raindrop effect was very good in deed and gave a dainty and artistic ' character to the whole outfit Cincin- Hati Enquirer. ' AU In the Manner of Dressing. "It's all in knowing how to dress," aid a woman's tailor, "and the posses- , sion of this happy faculty distinguishes one woman from another. Of course : modistes and ladies' tailors help them ont greatly, bnt the best dressed women are those who have ideas of their own. Take the plain girl with stylish tastes and ideas. A man forgets that she is not pretty, especially if she is bright and ' affable. Pretty women always receive attention, and you can't get around the : fact that men want the pretty girl first, but the stylish plain girl runs her a close i second. Whether plain or pretty, wom- en, so far as the adornment of their per i sons is concerned, have one central idea, ; which iB to dress so well that our admi ration is compelled and the jealousy of tueir own sex aroused. fine Stands Up For America. An ardent advocate of home travel for Americans is Miss Jane Meade Welch, the student of and lecturer on American , history. She has traveled a great deal, both in this country and in Europe, and ; she has a decided preference for Amer i ica, particularly in the matter of natural scenery. Speaking the other day of a recent visit to Colorado, Miss Welch said , that she saw nothing in Switzerland that j equaled the scenic wonders and beauties of Colorado. While in Colorado Miss I Welch made a brief but to her impres sive exploration of a silver mine 1,000 feet under ground. She was informed that few women had the pluck to go where she did. New York Times. Mrs. Whitney'! Estate. The will of the late Flora Payne Whit ney, wife of ex-Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney, leaves all her prop erty, real and personal, to her husband and makes him sole executor. The per sonal estate is valued in the petition of Mr. Whitney at (2.800,000 and the real estate at (760,000. A Violet Coitume. A violet girl was a pretty sight in a ballroom the Other evening. Her white silk gown had sleeves of violet velvet, with the upper part of the corsage com posed entirely of violets so cunningly scented with veritable violet odor that the Illusion was very effective. Buffalo News. The accessories of the Mural paint ings by Lafarge in Cornelius Vander bilt's New York house were done by young women students of the Academy of Design, and one of these girls did the same work in a New York church. Miss Mary E. Wilkins is extremely fond of quaint ornaments and rare arti cles from furoff countries. Among her treasures is a triple necklace of South sea shells in which all the colors of the rainbow play at hide and seek. For the throats of young girls who are restricted in their choice of jewelry the circlets of turquoises with pearls are espe cially liked. Sometimes circlets of en ameled flowerswhite violets or mar gueritesare wern. "Be shy of the young man who is waiting for a chance and is going to make millions," said the pastor to the young women of his congregation. His. Longtry and the Duchess of Mont rose have joined John Strange Winter's No Crinoline league. The league now numbers over 11,000 members. . Mount Holyoke seminary has realised its ambition and become a full fledged oollcge under a new charter, the semi nary course being dropped. PROFESSOR GRAY'S INVENTION. The Telautograph In Knny Respects More Wonderful Than the Telephone. Professor Elisha Gray's new and wonder ful invention, tho telautograph, has been tented by experts (n New York nnd Chicago, and they are full of enthusi asm over lis pos sibilities, though conceding that it is not yet working perfectly. It would fill four columns like this to give the briefest pos sible description of the invention, and not one per son in 10,000 could understand it, as professor GttAV. that would re quire much technical knowledge of elec tricity. Suffice it to say that by this machine any figure drawn on a piece of paper with a pen is reproduced at the other end of the line just as the voice is in a telephone. Thus a written message in reproduced in the exact handwriting of the sender, and a diagram or pen portrait is equally well reproduced, so ProfessorGray claims, and so theexperts testify. They add, however, that a double circuit is required and very delicately ad justed points and electrical machines for long distances, all of which will be pro duced, of course, now that the main point is assured. It is claimed that the telephone was really invented by Professor Gray, though Alex ander Graham Bell obtained priority of patent. Professor Gray has therefore taken the precaution to patent each successive discovery in. his progress, and beginning early in 1888 he has taken out nine patents. The Cassell autographic telegraph was In vented many years ago, and the so called "ticker" of the Stock Exchange long before that, butnoueof these employs the methods adopted by Professor Gray. The Gray National Telautograph com pany, at 60 Broadway, New York, is now conducting a remarkable series of experi ments on the lines of Professor Gray'B in vention, and signatures are reproduced with a fidelity which skillful forgers could not surpass. If one-halt they say be true, the world is soon to be surprised indeed. The Grief of Alaskan Widows. The native women of Alaska are said to think a great deal of their husbands, and if appearances go tor anything they think a great deal more of them after they are dead than they ever did while the dear fellows ware in the flesh. At the death of a hus band a widow's grief Is almost pitiable. She Bhows the tenderest devotion to the dear departed and has the sympathy, as sistance and affection of all her neighbors. At the funeral the widow is asight to behold. So severe is her grief and so much afraid is she that her neighbors will think that she has not shown a sufliuient amount of sor row that she paints the upper portion of her face a deep black. This particular badge ot mourning sue wears tor several days and sometimes weeks after the funeral, and then again she is very apt to marry some other fellow within a week or a month of the death of her first lord and master. Then she throws aside all evidences of grief. But while she's grieving she grieves hard. Where Columbian Stamps Don't Go. Ten miles from Asheville, N. C.isa post- office known as Candler. Mr. J. S. Henry sayB the Charlottesville Observer sends a good many letters there and lately has been using Columbian Btamps, ltecently he re ceived a letter from his correspondent there saying that the postmaster at Candler had made him pay regular letter postage ou every letter Mr. Henry had sent with the Columbian stamp on it and compelled him to state who it was sending letters "with them pictures on them for stamps" so he could "have the man indicted." In vain did Mr. Henry's correspondent explain and remonstrate. The letters with the Columbian stamps on them were not forth coming until, as the postmaster said, "the postage was paid." Large Price For a Cup of Water. In May, 1888, an old gentleman who was in a crowd watching the arrival of people to be presented at the queen's drawing room at Buckingham palace was overcome by faintness. Some of the crowd thought he was drunk, but Miss Mary Burch of Ashford, Kent, saw that he was ill and helped him toa bench in the park. Sheseut a boy for a cup of water, which quickly re vived the old mau, who asked for her card, Miss Burch heard nothing more of the oc currence until recently, when a London so licitor informed her that theold gentlemas had died and left 150.000 to the lady whs had given him her aid and sympathy nearly live years before. A Hint as to Theater tints. Men become bald. Why? Because they wear close hats and caps. Women are never bald except by disease, and they do not wear close headgear, Men never lose a hair below where the hat touches the head, not if they have been bald 20 years. The close hat holds the heat and perspiration; thereby the hair glands become weak, and the hair falls out. This should serve as a slight in ducement to the woman who indulges in the exasperating theater hat to remove it during the play. Philadelphia Inquirer. A Ring For Each Month, To have a case of 12 different rings is the fashionable girl's present ambition. Each ring must be set with the stone particularly significant of the respective month and is worn individually for luck. The idea is old, not so old as the hills nor even as the valleys between them, but only so old as Elizabeth's time. An Epicurean Cannibal. The London Graphic has a portrait and sketoh of Potara, a Maori cannibal, who is 85 years old and still has a good set of nat ural teeth. He has not eaten a white man since 1816. He speaks well of white folks, but for a Bteady diet prefers a Maori, as the whites, or "pakehae," have "a salty and bit ter flavor.1 Potara must have a retentive 1 memory of his tastes. Making Good Uoads. Tho movement which has been well begnn in mauy parts of the country to reform the wagon roads, which have to a great extent fallen into a sad state of neglect, is likely to be forwarded by the action taken by several agricultural col leges, and particularly by Cornell uni versity, in giving courses of instruction in roadmaking. Very often bad roads exist because no one in their vicinity knows how to con struct a road. The people often do the best they can; but roadmaking is a science in itself, belonging properly to the civil engineer's profession. In Cornell university the professor of eivil engineering, the professor of agri culture and the professor of horticulture have been directed to prepare a plan for putting the roads, of the university prop erty into the best possible condition; and when the road has been completed an inscription iB to be put upon it, stating how much it cost, what materials were used, and what methods were employed in its construction. In several agricultural colleges, courses of lectures are given by practical men npon roadmaking. Farmers institutes are taking the matter up, and the people everywhere are learning that much bet ter methods of roadmaking exist than tbe old one of heaping up dirt in the middle of the driveway, to be worked into ruts and washed into the ditches again in the course of a year. Youth's Companion. Gold Chain In a Lump of Coal. A curious find has been, brought to light by Mrs. S. W. Cnlp As she was breaking a lump of coal preparatory to putting it in the scuttle she discovered, as the lump fell apart, imbedded in a cir cular shape, a small gold chain abont ten inches in length of antique and quaint workmanship. At first Mrs. Cnlp thought the chain bad been dropped accidentally in the coal, .but as she undertook to lift tbe chain up the idea of its having been recently dropped was at once made fal lacious, for as the lump of coal broke it separated almost in tbe middle, and the circular position of the chain nlaced the two ends near to each other. As the lamp separated tbe middle of the chain became loosened, while each end re mained fastened to the coal. , This is a study for the students of arctueology who love to puzzle their brains over the geological construction of the earth, from whose depths the ca rious is always cropping ont. The lump of coal from which this chain was taken is supposed to come from the Taylor ville or Pans mines, and it almost bushes one's breath with mystery when it is thought for bow many long ages the earth has been forming strata after strata wiucb hid the golden links from view The chain was of eight carat gold and weighed eight pennyweights. MorriBonville (Ills. Times. A Landlady's Bill. In the house of a lady in tbe Kurf urst enstrasse, Berliu, an Englishman took a famished room and agreed to pay thirty three marks a mouth for it At the end of that time he asked for the bill, when to his surprise he fonnd the thirty-three marks had risen to eighty for his apart ment Among other peculiar items in the bill were. "For using the carpet four marks, for use of knife and fork, four marks; for putting tbe room in or der, ten marks; for use of a chair on the occasion of a visit from your brother, ' four marks. " The lodger considered this reckoning preposterous, and refused to pay, so the lady detained bis box, which contained a large sum of money. The Englishman has sought tbe aid of the law in revising the bill of the specula tive hostess. London News. Norway's Foremost Woman Mme. Camille Collett, the well known advocate of the emancipation of women in Norway, recently celebrated the eightieth anniversary of her birth. A icouvai un givcu ui vui LaLutiua m uouur of the day and was attended by Ibeen and many other famous writers. Pro fessor Loremy Diedrichsen made the ad dress. Mme. Collett is the author of "The Official's Danyhtar" and nrhni- books. She still enjoys splendid health despite her great age. An Enormous Toad StooL A huge toadstool has appeared every fall for the last ten years on a low branch of an elm tree, near Woldeck park, Ber lin. It stands about twenty-five inches hlo.h anil hue, e nan almna, fur, Saaf in diameter. Two years ago a policeman picked it, cooked it, and ate, and suf fered no bad results from the meal. On Sept 8 the big toadstool sprouted for the eleventh time. Paris Letter. No Obstacle. Objectionable Wooer (effusively) las sure you that if you are not kinder I shall take the next steamer and visit friends in Germany. . , 1 Fair One (calmly) Do; there (snow no reason why you shouldn't O. W. What do yon mean? F. O. There are no longer restrictions npon American pork- Pittsburg Bulle tin. , , A Letter That Came at Last, a Dory Coal, a farmer of Saunders county, came to the city Wednesday after bis mail, and one of the letters handed him was from his former sweet heart. Miss Harris, written at Port Bryan, Ills., May 8, 1875. It was six teen years, four months and thirteen days reaching its destination. Nebraska Stat Journal