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