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THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 3 1890 10 pletely have disappeared He was forced to IN COUNTRY MP TOWN IFrom the Academy JEWELS OH SUHHY BEACHES and allowed to dry thoroughly The older boys will rest without being uneasy for a short time pulling twigs of fir to be mixed with the clover by and by or to make a pillow by itself When this employment becomes tiresome it will make a pleasant variety to follow the old fashion and let all the childlren who can "speak pieces" This is the time for patriotic verses old but ever new when repeated at the right time with the right spirit WILL STUMP FOR FEMALE SUFFRAGE A COLORED FEMALE ORATOR The first woman's rights convention ever held in the west assembled in this city in 1869 Among those who took an active part in that gathering was Mrs Naomi Anderson a colored woman Ever since then she has labored in the cause and for the present campaign she has been engaged by the State Suffrage -Association of California to lecture throughout that state among people of her own race Mrs Anderson is now a resident of Sacramento She began her campaign work last week in San Francisco Mrs Anderson was a prominent figure in the Kansas campaign two years ago She devoted six months to stumping the state and secured the colored vote for the suffrage cause During the campaign of 1880 she worked for suffrage in Ohio She has started innumerable undertakings for the care of colored children and the education of colored girls including the well-known colored orphan asylum at Wichita Kan Through her efforts the woman's auxiliary to the Grand Army of theRe- cans whose ancestors for generations have worked in the fields and their hands moreover are rarely small A woman may improve the looks of her hand by a glove if she knows how to wear it A woman with a short broad hand should have a glove made if possible and it is possible to get a glove made at the same price one pays for one ready made except in very cheap gloves The fingers should be made just as long as possible the finger seams running down 6nto the hand at such an angle that the fingers are not actually so long as they look the stitching should be narrow and run down on the wrist as also the thumb seam and the glove should be so fitted that the first button comes well down on the wrist instead of up on the palm of the hand SUMMER TREATMENT OF FERNS RESPONSIBLE FOR WINTER GROWTH Almost every housekeeper has a palm or two that she cherishes and tries to keep the breath of life in without success A woman who has been endowed with the gift of making things grow and to whom her friends send their sick plants calling her house the hospital says that much of the health of the palm so universally used for drawing-room decoration in the winter depends upon its treatment in the summer Like humanity palms thrive better after a summer outing Set them in the ground in the yard not in an exposed place where the sun will soon kill them but in a shady corner where the soft summer rains may beat upon them and pure ozone fill their cells The same is true of the ferns that form the center of most dining tables The wealth that housekeepers are in time forced to ex- 44 It's a Good Thing Push it Along Why buy a newspaper unless you can profit by the expense? For 5 cents you can get almost as much "BATTLE AX" as you can of other high-grade brands for JO cents Here's news that will repay you for the cost of your newspaper to-day give up the search at last but not without going over the common again in face of the fact that his better judgment told him that she could not have gone to it without being seen Dy nun when he reached home his mother and sis ter were at the door waiting for him They were very much disaDDointed to see him alone He told them what had occurred Kate was angry Her mother took another view of it She was alarmed that the srirl should be out alone so late in the streets She implored John to look again for her "Perhaps it was not Sally after all" said Kate "I am sure It was she" returned John de cidedly 'Go my son go" at once She may be wan dering about the streets this moment Ask in the houses too John" John hurried away with a heavy heart Kate looked gravely at her mother "I am sorry for John mother" she said "Sally is not treating him well I wish he did not care so much for her She is literally breaking his heart" "Why Kate how can you say that?" exclaimed her mother "John adores her" "But that i3 not saying that Sally adores John" answered Kate tersely "I never was more astonished in my life than I was when John told me that she had accepted him" she continued "I thought i' was Erastus Morgan she cared for" "Erastus Morgan!" echoed Mrs Oakley "I could have told you better than that I have seen for a long time that John wanted her" "Mother you only speak of John" answered Kate "Can we any of us say that we saw anything in Sally's conduct to lead us to suspect she cared for John? We cannot I haven't a doubt she was as much surprised as- we were when John asked her to be his wife" "You never liked Sally Kate" said her mother indignantly "It will be all right when they are married Sally is very young yet" "And that is where the wrong is mother" answered Kate "She is too young He is too old for her" Before Mrs Oakley could make the protest that was on her lips Kate held up a warning finger Jiohn entered the room and sank wearily into a chair Kate's wrath vanished when she saw her brother's hopeless white face She heartily wished the bright winsome girl was with them again "And you saw nothing of her John?" "Nothing mother" "Did you ask at some of the houses in the block?" "Yes Kate but I learned nothing I was told to be off about my business" John smiled faintly His mother and sister exclaimed indignantly A long silence followed they took no heed of time At midnight they were still in the drawing-room waiting listening and starting! at every sound "John" said Kate at last "you must h-ave been mistaken It could not have been Sally whom you saw She would surely have been in before this" He did not reply "Mother" he said after a moment rising to leave the room "mother I wish that you would pack my carpet-bag tonight I am going to Canada early in the morning" He kissed them affectionately and hurried out of the room Shortly afterward they heaTd the street door close "He has gone to look for her again" said Kate sadly "Come mother I will help you pack his bag" The next morning Mrs Oakley and Kate laughed at the night's adventure and apprehensions John had left for Canada They wondered who the unfortunate woman was and speculated on the possibility of John's going perhaps to the very house she lived in The morning wore away At noon a message was brought to Mrs Oakley It was from Canada She read it and screamed for Kate It read as follows: Dear Mrs Oakley: I am sorry to be obliged to send you such sad news Miss Sally Otway died last night soon after 10 o'clock She had been ailing with a sore throat for several days but made nothing: of it Yesterday morning ehe was taken much worse- and in spite of all the doctor could do she died in the eveming Her brother was with her MIes Sally's aunt your cousin asked! me to write this sad loss to you She is so broken by the young lady's death she could not I am a stranger to you my dear Mrs Oakley but you have believe me my sincere sympathy MRS LADD The shock was terrible especially so to Kate who besides grief was: suffering a keen remorse for what she had said to the dead girl "Who do you think that woman was that followed you atid John last night Kate?" There was a look of awe in Mrs Oakley's face when she asked the question "Why mother now should I know?" wailed Kate "I firmly believe it was Sally in the spirit Kate" she answered in a tone of subdued horror "Mother! Mother! Don't say that!" But Kate had already asked herself the awful question When John returned from Canada he found a letter from the dead girl with his other accumulated mail It had been written and posted the day of her death My Dear Old John: I am not at all well and I fear I am going to be very ill John dear there is an explanation due to you Brother Tom is here with me Not in the house but at the hotel He has done something bad again He will not tell me what it is He must not go back to the States and he says he will not stay here without me I am so afraid that he will go over and get arrested I do not dare leave him a minute without getting uneasy I feel his disgrace keenly and I am ashamed to come myself He came to me the day after we were engaged and insisted that I should keep his coming secret for he was in an other scrape so soon after the last one that yrA were so good as to help him out of My dear love I must not marry you with this cloud hanging over my head I am not a fit wife for you John I thought if I did not write often you would get angry ana give me up yourself I am getting terribly ill 1 cannot write any more One night some months later the Oakleys were sitting together talking John was re clining In an easy chair There was a look of settled grief in his face Except to answer in monosyllables he did not join in the con versation "John" said his mother suddenly with an irresistible impulse "do you ever think of the strange woman that followed you and iate tnat nignt?" "Kate gave her mother a warning look "Very often mother" he answered qui etly "Did you ever find out who it was my son?" Knew wno it was mother" His voice shook "Who was it John?" she asked eagerly uot Jttjeumg uar uaugnter warning look John looked sadly into his mother's ex pectant face "Who was it dear?" she repeated gently ji vao oaiij muiner ne answered brokenly "John!" I am sure of it Kate When ehe turned saw ner lace" A Street Car Incident A New Yorker in Minneapolis took a trip by trolley to St Paul and on the return re ceived a transfer to the car line that passed nis stopping place the West house Hb stopped tomake a small purchase before tak ing the car and when he did so the conductor refused to receive his- transfer claiming that the time limit on it had expired The New Yorker loudly announced his determination to ride to the West house without further payment and a lively discussion ensued In the midst of it the car stopped to take on a passenger the conductor glanced about and then he called out "West hornse!" The New Yorker smiling complacently got off the car The conductor started the car and then turned and grinned enigmatically at the New Yorker The latter was puzzled but the mystery was explained when not recog nizing the locality he asked a passer-by where the West house was- "Ten bloqks further down the street" was the reply Diminutive Augurs Lieutenant Derby who wrote the "Squibob Papers" at one time had his headquarters next to General Augur's Augur had a num ber of children and sometimes they made a good deal of noise One night the children were making considerable noise when there came a tremendous pounding on the parti tion and Derby called out: "Augur! Augur! I wish you'd make those gimlets of yours keep quiet! Fulfilled the Contract Barnum before the railroad shows were in existence traveled by wagons from town to town halting on the outskirts to en able the circus people to put on their show-clothes and prepare for the parade One night the show did not reach town in time lo make much of a parade Later Mr Bar num was seated in the village hotel when an angry lot of people who were disappointed at the size of the parade waited upon him This morning I heard the thrush sing From his branch at the edge of the wood I The oh he soared and trilled Just as gladly as ever he could And the children here in town as watcn mem pass along 7 Are all of them tripping with happy feet to tne tune ot tneir hearts' own song For it's June in the sunny meadow lira- It is June in the dingy street And the organ plays in the narrow ways tne cnuarens aancing feet -1 Oh it's June June June And the world is all in tune- I hear the beat of the children's feet And the buzz of the summer noon The sun is ablaze in the sky i ne grass in tne meadows is deep The windows in town are gay are gay And flowers in London are chean And the horses' feet keep time in tne noonaay arowsy' hum To voices that break into happy'song or joy tnat tne summer is come Oh it's June June June -And the world is all in tune 11 Ana nearts Deat when flowers are sweet And the summer comes so soon- Tonight with the moon on her throne All tne woods are a wonder of dreams: The streets in the town look strange -In the pomp of her silvery beams And the winds in park and square Go whispering to and fro And all of the leaves are awake "and stir At the touch of the fairy glow For it's June in the grassy meadow it is June in tne city street And the moon is bright in the summer night And the summer winds are sweet Oh it's June June June And the world is all in tune And all hearts beat in the summer heat For bliss of the summer's boon WHAT WAS TOLD TO WE From the Buffalo Courier! John Oakley and his sister Kate were returning home from an evening visit one mid summer's nightr It was past 10 o'clock and very dark Buffalo was then in its infancy and most of its streets were unlighted On a moonless night the belated inhabitants of the unlighted localities might be seen carefully picking their way over the wooden sidewalks by the dim lierht of a lantern Ten o'clock was considered a late hour in those days and people were generally at home and usually in bed The earlier hours of bygone times beyond a doubt were largely due to the dark unsafe streets Did you get a letter from Sally today John?" asked Kate keeping a sharp look out for the snares and pitfalls of the treacherous wooden sidewalk "No Kate" John spoke reluctantly "I thought not you were so down-hearted all the evening Sally ought to be ashamed of herself She is playing with you I am afraid John She ran off to Canada the second day of her engagement to you and there she has been ever since five weeks yesterday and written only three short let ters to you in all that time I am angry for you when I think of it And try as much as you will not to show how deeply you feel her neglect it is telling on you" "Hush Kate" he protested "Sally does not mean to neglect remember how young she is" "Not too young to flirt" with any man she happens to be near" answered Kate indignantly "Not too young to have some sense of her great obligation to you But for you where would her brother have been? In the state prison!" "Never dare to speak to me of that again" he exclaimedi angrily "And1 do not by any chance in her hearing! I will never forgive you if you do Do not feel she was weeping "I appreciate that" your alarm for me is from the best of motives but the best of motives Kate often do the greatest harm Come sister we will talk of something else "I am nervous tonight iKate Mother often speaks of feeling that something is going to happen I understand the sensa-tio nnow I dread something I do not know what" They walked on fn silence a short distance "What is the matter Kate? Why do you look back so often? What makes you so un easy? Have I made you nervous with my presence?" John spoke regretfully "Did you notice that "woman John?" 'No what He turned and threw the light of the lan tern in the direction Kate was looking A woman was coming toward them As she drew near they saw that she was reeling that she was very ill or worse badly intoxicated Giving her the benefit of the doubt regarding the last condition they waited for her to come up to them think ing she might be in distress and need as sistance But when they stopped she drew into shadow They resumed their way fearing to be intrusive She continued to follow them Kate grew very much alarmed and they often paused in their walk to let her pass but when they waited she also waited and when they walked on again she followed if the distance between them grew too near she drew into shadow until it was increased And the rocking and reeling became so intemperate when she resumed 'her chase It was a marvel she kept her feet Manlike John lost his temper and forbade Kate's looking back They hurried on and only for the rustle of her garments they would have thought she had given up the chase John whispered to Kate that they would return home by another and more circuitous route And they turned at the next corner But in a few seconds she appeared and continued her mad dance after them as before John looked about for a watchman as he was called in those days There was none in sight This capability of becoming non est on the part of the guardian of our peace within the memory of his office must be a problem of intense interest to the student of heredity Kate urged John on advising him not to notice the woman as long as she kept to herself and did not molest them Up this street and down that they hurried and on came this strange pursuer neither gaining nor losing her distance behind them It was growing weird and poor Kate was beset by her womanly fears That it was an assassin intending John bodily harm was steadily gaining on her convictions They found the dear mother at the door when they reached home She held a lighted lamp in her hand and was looking anxiously up the street for them Once inside the gate they closed It and fastened it By this time the woman had reached the front of the house She hesitated and seemed to Waver then continued on her way rocking and reeling frantically 'f Kate gave her mother a hurried account of their adventure Mrs Oakley held the lamp so that the rays of light fell on the retreating woman She looked sharply at her: "Why John it is Saliy!" she cried "It is one of her pranks She must have come over on the evening boat Go after her my son she must not be out alone on the streets so late the madcap" Nothing loath John started after the supposed Sally his heart? bounding with joy He soon came up with'Jier 'He hurried after her She hastened away 3Chen he moderated his step she walked pr rolled rather more slowly The end OfJ the block was reached vf Around the corner at the end of the block stood a row of basement hduses They were new and the pride of The infant city Next to the block was a large common very dark and much avoided of a night by the young people The dark bulk of contraband cows reclining on the common had givenrise to a hair-raising story John could readily have overtaken the woman had he not qtiestioned her identity He did not care to invite the abuse he would naturally expect from a woman so intoxicated if he made the bold dash he would have to make to capture his capricious little cousin One moment he was firmly convinced that it was she and the next he scoffed at the very idea of it He was growing impatient and beginning to chafe at the absurdity of the situation when the woman suddenly stopped in front of the last house in the row She turned "Sally!" cried John with loving reproach in his voice He sprang toward her then staggered back in bewilderment She was gone! But where? There was no one in sight He looked down the entry ways of the block She was in none of them He called impatiently at first then entreatingly in the most endearing terms If the earth had suddenly opened Tossed Up by Old Ocean on the Coast of California Visitors at Redondo Beach Busy Looking for the Beautiful Stones- How Horace Greeley Stopped His Wife's KaggiDg for One Bay Anyhow Colored Woman to Stump California for the Female Suffrage Idea TREASURE-PAVED PACIFIC SANDS A WOMAN'S DISCOVERY News from Los- Angeles is that jewels are to be had at Redondo beach near here for the picking up It is only of late years that the existence of these beautiful stones has been known and their discovery was made by a San Francisco woman Mrs Thompson the wife of the first-owner of the land thereabout At low tide it is the proper thing for visitors at Redondo to go barelegged along the beach grubbing in the gravel just below high-water mark for opals moonstones malachite and the rarer and valuable flower stones The supply is so large and so constantly renewed by the waves that no one is disappointed by not finding any and often one can pick up a particularly fine specimen that will be worth $50 or $100 Young women who are in the neighboorhood for health or amusement may be seen on the beach every day hunting for the prizes Witherill who is a lapidary has built up a large business in collecting and cutting and polishing these gems The water opal is the commonest stone found there and is of peculiar beauty It has not all the "fire" of the Arizona or New Mexico opals but it is no less beautiful It is nearly transparent and gleams fitfully with sparks of refracted light The most highly prized are those which encircle a drop of water the liquid having been held prisoner since the stone was formed about it The moonstones are like the water opals except that they reveal a dazzlingly white beam of light when exposed to the sun or even to artificial light Both of these stones are found in the gravel on the beach and also in trap rock where they could be quarried if the demand was sucn as to make it profitable Their size varies from that of a pin-head to that of a hen's egg and they are worth from 50 cents to $5 each They are remarkably dense compared to the diamonds found at Redondo Pescadero and Coos bay The most valuable of all the gems found are the flower stones These are wonderfully pretty affairs looking for all the world as if nature had gone in for art herself and had practiced inlaying The stone is of a soft brown tint and when cut there is revealed charming designs of all sorts of blossoms apparently inlaid in some pink metal These stones are high-priced because of their scarcity A good one well cut will bring from $20 to $100 The varieties mentioned are most sought for but do not exhaust the list by any means for there are sardonyx moss agates onyx and malachite to be had all along the beach and the summer girl and her escort instead of wading about on a crab hunt as at the eastern seaside places paddle about barefooted and search for jewels The re-cm 1 iq an tn Vie ATtnpnsive for the gems OUlb AtJ have to be cut by a lapidary and set in gold MRS GREELEY'S NAGC1NG TONGUE HOW HORACE STILLED IT "Anecdotes of Horace Greeley are a trifle out of date I know" said an old-time ac quaintance of the late founder of the New York Tribune "but some of the best of them have not yet been told I remember on one occasion Mr and Mrs Greeley were In Peekskill spending the day at my house in company with several other invited guests and as Horace seemed to be even more care less than usual of his appearance that day Mrs who also had her peculiarities spent the most of her time nagging at him and try ing to make him toe the chalk mark of conventionality so to speak Every few min utes her stage whisper could be heard: 'Now Horace see if you can't do this or 'Now made him wear both legs of his trousers on the outside of his boot tops and watched over his appearance and conduct generally like a hen over a flock of ducks or an anxious mother over an irrespressible 4-year-old and Horace bore it all meekly and did exactly what he was told as if he were a veritable boy and expected to be rewarded with an extra slice of cake at supper time "Finally a trip to Iona island near the western shore of the Hudson opposite Peekskill was proposed and it was while we were getting into the boat (a large-sized rowboat hired for the occasion) preparatory to starting that Mrs Greeley piled the final straw on the back of the patient and long-suffering camel as it were and Horace put his foot down There were the last couple to get aboard Mrs stepped carefully into the boat and settling down comfortably in the seat reserved for her and Mr Greeley placed her parasol alongside of her with one end resting on the bottom of the boat and the other on the seat and then glancing up at her big-brained and carelessly philosophical husband who was about to step aboard she shrieked: 'Now Horace be sure to step on this 'All responded Horace cheerfully at the same time obediently planking his foot down with all his weight on the article in question and then coolly seating himself by the side of Mrs Greeley as if nothing unusual had happened Mrs gave one glance of mingled reproach and amazement at her blissfully unconscious husband and then without a word picked up the wreck of her parasol and tried bravely to smile with the rest of the crowd I noticed that her smile didn't have that beaming look to it which indicates that one really enjoys the joke I have never Horace was the rest of the day Philosophy and good humor seemed to radiate from him in all directions and strange to say Mrs Greeley didn't make the slightest effort to repress or correct him during the remainder of their stay" THINGS FOR A PICNIC BASKET SOME WISE SELECTIONS Unfortunately in many households a picnic is of such rare occurrence that no one member of the family knows how to plan for it and the result is more tiresome than a hard day's work When packing the lunch basket it is wise to remember than when the thermometer touches the nineties foods should be mainly water The more solid portions of our diet should not contain an discomfort in warm weather Plenty of bread spread thinly with butter or just enough chopped meat for a relish should be the principal part of the contents of the lunch basket Lettuce and cucumbers are appetizing additions to sandwiches Cheese chopped or melted and mixed with a little cream and seasoning is an excellent filling for either bread or cracker sandwiches Of cakes the average picnic basket has a too generous provision cookies of some sort must be provided for the children but there need be little else Ripe fruit is more wholesome and more easily provided than all the host of sweets which so often make the preparation a burden The little children will be amused for awhile at least by picking the big heads of red clover in the pastures for auntie or mamma to make a pillow of after they are nicely dried Just now they are put in a big bag brought for this purpose and when taken home are sprinkled lightly with salt tf 3 1 1 1 nil a 1 kept exposed for half an hour at a temperature of 1800 degrees Fahrenheit When the safe was opened the contents were entirely uninjured Two churches in London that have been open every day in the week so that people might go to rest and pray have found to meir cost laui iiiiLiiy weut xxx iu yicj cm-Other sense Ornaments were stolen and as the authorities could not afford to provide a regular attendant they found it necessary to close the churches The Royal Academy of Arts is composed of forty "academicians" but there is a junior grade called "associates" When a vacancy occurs the academicians elect a new member but no young students can hope for admittance The honor is ostensibly a sign of fame and the reward of merit though it is often capriciously bestowed Linden secretary to the Naples Zoological gardens has made a boat which is said to induce the waves as well as the wind to propel It Mr Linden took the fins of the porpoise as his model and constructed after many trials a boat with metal fins fixed fore and aft on out-riggers which will travel in the teeth of the wind faster than any other tack There is said to be a snake in Oregon called the stupefied snake which is one of the most interesting species of the family This snake has a head on each end and runs either way One head is about one-fourth as large as the other It is of a yellowish color It generally lies in a loop and is frequently observed sunning in an aparently stupefied condition on a rock or log A captive balloon at Montpelier France provided the town with excitement one evening recently While five persons two ot them women were in the car the rope became wound around a factory chimney which it brought down The balloon fell with it" but no sooner had the passengers been taken from it than it rose again about 150 feet and blew up with aloud report In Paris the thousands of sardine and other tin boxes that are thrown away every month form the basis of an industry which has reached vast proportions and in which the entire youth of the country are interested These refuse cans are stamped into tin soldiers by suitable machines and sold so cheaply that the poorest children can possess them yet the manufacturer makes a fair profit which he could not do if he used new material A queer strike is threatened in England The government inspectors of factories being dissatisfied with the way they are treated have formulated their complaints and declare that unless they are heeded "a public protest will be made and a cessation of their duties will follow" They complain of too little salary and too hard work of not having power enough over the factory employes of haying their reports to the chief inspectors ignored and not published as they are sent In Prior to the outbreak of the Japan-China war the registered tonnage of the Japanese merchant marine stood at 181819 tons During the war this was enormously increased and at the end of January it stood at 332253 tons The navigation encouragement laW has further stimulated the development of Japanese shipping and schemes for opening regular services to foreign countries have been set afoot either by specially established companies or by those in existence and the registered tonnage of the Japanese merchant marine will soon reach a total of 472173 tons Charles Roberts of Boston has had a terrible experience in the wilderness of Maine being lost four daj's and nights and being all of that time without food He finally succeeded in getting out of the forest and arrived at the house of Bowman Crocker in Greenfield Proper restoratives were used and some nourishment was administered to the man and it was not long before he was able to tell something of the hardships through which he had passed For food he had eaten berries and grass One night during his wanderings he slept in an oltf camp and during the others he reposed under boughs which he placed against trees During his wanderings he had worn his shoes completely out and his feet and hands were badly blistered and lacerated by the underbrush through which he had pushed his way Roberts is 23 years of age and employed as a machinist in Boston cures scrofula blood poison CURES CANCER ECZEfVIA TETTER public in Kansas was organized Mrs An derson was born in Michigan City Ind and was educated the public schools of that A COLORED DISCIPLE OP state Although she is an eloquent speaker she has never studied elocution or received any training to fit her for the platform EVENING GOWNS FOR SUMMER FANCY SILKS EFFECTIVE So general is the custom now of wearing Jow gowns in the evening that every woman feels it necessary even if she feels she leads a very quiet life in her own home to have at least two gowns made in this style while women who go out a great deal find it neces-t sary to provide themselves with three or four To some people's minds this custom is a trifle absurd particularly if living in a simple way but that it is a good plan no one who has tried it can deny and the changing from the gown that has been worn aU day is- in itself restful There are many women who do not care to wear an absolutely decollete gown but the same smart effect can be given by wearing a fichu of muslin or lace or by having a yoke of lace net or some such soft material made to wear under or over the low-cut waist The shoulders and neck are in this way well protected and in many instances' the soft folds of the thin material over the shoulders are much more becoming that when the neck it left exposed To make one of these yokes fit well there must be four strings tied at the bottom of it two in front and two in back the front ones crossed and tied at the back and vice versa and these keep the fullness well in place and insure a good fit Fancy silks are always effective in the evening provided the light shades are used and the white ground with bright patterns lights up well A white ground with a pat tern of red was among the gowns in an out-: fit sent to Newport the other day The back of the skirt and was all of the silk but the front was of white mousseline de sole put on over plain white silk The entire front breadth was made of the mousseline de soie and the front of the waist fell over the narrow jeweled belt in blouse fashion This1 gown was cut with a low waist but a lace yoke finished around the neck with a full ruche of chiffon and narrow white satin bows made it suitable even for an afternoon reception MONASTERY STORMED BY NUNSO CURIOUS TALE OF TENERIFFE A curious tale of a besieged and conquered monastery belongs to the early history c-f the Canary islands and is retold by Charles Edwardes in his description of the isles In the early part of the eighteenth century there lived in Orotava on the island of Teneriffe a convent of Dominican nuns who after some years of ease had the misfortune to be burned out of house and home They went into temporary quarters for a year but became dissatisfied with such unconventional walls and began looking for a permanent abiding place At that time there was in Orotava a house of Jesuits which had lost its former importance and though commodious and healthful gave lodging to but two men the rector of the house and his assistant On this mansion the nuns cast covetous eyes and soon resolved to appropriate it One morning about forty of them advanced against it by strategy induced the Jesuit brother to open the outer gate and ther trooping into the courtyard fell on their knees thanking God for this preliminary success In vain did the two monks reason with them on their scandalous conduct They merely held their ground exclaiming: "Father Andrews this is a large cage for so few birds!" Some of the more reasonable members of the sisterhood explained that thev were really in need of a dwelling as spacious as this and that they did not propose leaving it The rector in despair fled into the sa- cristy from which retreat he exhorted his colleague to be of good cheer "Patience brother" cried he "and do the best to extricate yourself from these ladies!" That however was more easily said than done especially as the nuns were becoming so excited that they might momentarily have been expected to resort to the argument of nails The siege lasted for three or four hours News of it flew about the town and bands of young men scrupulously neutral watched proceedings from the bars of the outer gate Eventually the Jesuits yielded and the nuns occupied the house until a new convent entirely to their taste was erected for them ATHLETICS AND LARGE HANDS THE TWO GO TOGETHER Not only are women's feet increasing iu size under the influence of thletics but their hands also say the glove-makers Pwid- ing a wheel tends to broaden and thicken the hand and of course golf tennis and basket ball do so since they take far more muscular exertion in the hands than grasping the handle bars of a bicycle So glove numbers as well as boot numbers are growing larger in average Because a hand is large is no sign it may not be beautiful and muscular work with the hands cannot destroy the looks of a hand originally beautiful except of course in some exaggerated cases No people on earth have more beautiful shapely hands than the Afro-Ameri- and told him he was a fraud "How so?" said Barnum "Well" replied the spokesman for the crowd "you advertised two miles of parade and there was only one "Yes" replied Barnum "there was one mile of parade and another mile of damned fools following it That makes two miles doesn't It?" NOTES OF THE DRY Egypt's khedive suffers from stomach ache he must go to Corfu and then to Switzerland for a cure Germany has 29700 university students this term the law students outnumbering those studying in any other faculty Moscow's calamity will cost the Imperial exchequer 3600000 roubles The number of persons killed in the crush is said to be 4500 Mont Blanc is In a bad temper this year So far all attempts to reach the summit have failed either through heavy snowstorm Or fOgS The butter exports from Montreal to Great Britain this season amount to over 9500 pack ages which is within a few hundred packages of double the amount shipped last year to the same date According to an English correspondent $150000 worth of American bicycles have been entered in Liverpool during the past month and the English market has become overstocked resulting in a break in prices Berlin having determined to become a seaport like Paris and Manchester is now debating whether its outlet shall be Stettin and the Oder which means the deepening of the Oder-Spree canal or Hamburg and the Elbe "Diamond cutters all get good wages" says the proprietor of one of the diamond cutting establishments which have sprung up around New York within the last few years "We have to pay them well to keep them honest" Enormous gold fields have been found in the Orangei Free State on the Vaal river so announces Herr Emil Holub the African explorer The deposits are so rich that the Free State is likely to rival the Transvaal in gold production After November next the street cars in the city of Buffalo will be run by electricity generated at Niagara Falls: This is the first experiment In the transmission of electrical power for commercial purposes over any considerable distance Liquid fuel has been definitely adopted for the two German coast defense vessels Odin and Aegir The fuel consists of hydrocarbons of great heating power its principal element being products distilled from Russian petroleum mixed with other oils Enormous tracts of Africa especially the region between the Congo and Shari basins and much of the area inclosed by the great northern curve of the Niger remains unexplored There is also unappropriated territory to the extent of 1584398 square miles In an advertisement in a German paper a young gentleman is exhorted to returm to his disconsolate parents The advertisement ends: "Do return dearest Jack You shall not be put upon by your sisters again and you shall be allowed to sweeten your own tea!" The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company recently sold 20000 tons of machinery for scrap iron This represented an original expenditure of between $3000000 and $4000000 The machinery was out of date and was disposed of to make room for more modern devices An untamed swallow which had its nest In a farm near Chetwynd in Shropshire was caught and taken in a cage to London where it was released It returned to its nest in eighty minutes having accomplished the distance of 145 miles at the rate of nearly two miles a minute It is said that the health of the brunet type ot eye is as a rule superior to that of a blond type Black eyes usually indicate good powers of physical endurance Dark blue eyes are most common in persons ot delicate refined or effeminate natures and generally show weak health Quick-firing guns are more depended upon at the present day than extreme length of range and in this respect what is considered the most wonderful of guns perhaps is one of the Maxims which- can fire as many as 600 shots a minute and yet is so light that a soldier can carry it strapped to his back The longest distance that a shot has been fired is a few yards over fifteen miles which was the range of Krupp's 180-ton steel gun firing a shot weighing 2600 pounds The 111-ton Armstrong gun has an extreme range of -fourteen miles firing a shot weighing 1800 pounds and requiring 960 pounds of powder Bosella Babcock a girl of 15 is an important factor In the mail service at Palma-sola Fla Twice every week day wind or calm rain or shine she rows a mile to delievr the mail to the river boat Tarpon On the $20 per month that she earns by thi work she supports a mother and younger sister A centenarian in the Newry Ireland workhouse being troubled with asthma tried to relieve himself by opening his chest wfth a cobbler's knife as he said "to let out the wind" It was thought to be an- attempt at suicide but the man had done the same thing before and had obtained relief in breathing he said A safe composed largely of cement having wire netting imbedded in it was tested recently in Berlin in order to ascertain whether it is feasible to build safety vaults of such material The safe was placed on blazing logs which had been soaked in kerosene and SUSAN ANTHONY pend to replenish the centerpiece makes in roads upon the household allowance Econ omy teaches that it is cheaper to buy two centerpieces at once substituting one for the other at the first sign of drooping or drying leaves: No plant will retain life if kept constantly under the gas of a chande- lier The value of two centerpieces lies the ability to have one always in the air where with lavish treatment in the way of water and a spraying besides of leaves the life of these graceful tender plants may be prolonged indefinitely RIORE OB LESS HUMOROUS She: "Am I the first girl you ever He (surprised): "Why no! I have three sisters" Somerville Journal "Oh you just ought to see our flat" she exclaimed enthusiastically "We've the loveliest combination kitchen and folding bed that ever was" Detroit Tribune Boardman "Don't you think Footlight is a clever actor?" Hashley: "Clever? Well I should say so! He hasn't paid the landlady any money for six weeks!" Yonkers Statesman "What would you do dear if I were to die?" asked Mrs Darley fondly "I don't know" remarked Darley thoughtfully "which is your choice burial or Judge Mrs Cumso: "What have you done to the pudding Bridget?" Bridget: "The brandy (hlc) ye gave me to pour on it got losht mem so I ushed coal oil instead Won't it (hie) Town Topics Hicks: "Do you think it naturally follows uecause a man is a politician tnat ne is a liar?" Wicks: "Oh no but unless a man is an expert liar I should not call him much of a Boston Transcript A man who stuttered badly went to con suit a specialist about his affliction The ex pert asked: "Do you stutter all the time?" "N-n-no" replied the sufferer "I s-s-tut-t-t-t-ter only when I Bazar New spirit: "Who were those three young sters who turned up their noses so when was telling them about the hot weather we had last July?" St Peter: "They were Shad-rach Meshach and New York Press "I was unfortunate enough to leave my umoreiia in a street car yesterday re marked Manchester "Whose umbrella was it'" asked Birmingham "I don't know borrowed it from Pittsburg eiegrapn Politicians (arranging for music at polit ical meeting): "Isn't that a big price? You may not have to play half a dozen times dur ing the whole evening" Brass band leader "But my dear sir we have to sit thera and listen to the speeches" Puck Mrs Sweetser: "George you forgot to kiss me tms morning when you went away" Mr bweetser: "Are you sure of it? I certainly remember kissing somebody this morning supposed it was you out you say it wasn't so it must have been somebody Bos ton Transcript "I don't think the kids enjoy a circus these days as much as they did when you and I were Doys" said the man with the bald spot i Know mine doesn enjoy it as much as did" said the man with the brindle whiskers "I was taught in my early days that it was sinful" Cincinnati Enquirer "It wrong of you people to ring those gongs after 10 o'clock at night" said the man who lives on a rapid transit line "Why you don't mean to say that you go to bed at 10 o'clock" said the conductor no I can't say that I do But when I don't I'm particularly anxious that my wife shouldn't be Washington Star "They don't have the melons now that they did when you and I were young" said the landlady to the Cheerful Idiot and the Cheerful Idiot who always resents any remarks about his approaching middle age said sadly: "I guess they don't have the same melons now but I do think we have the same Indianapolis Journal PhotograiIiIng the Eye At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy Of Medicine Guinkoff stated that he had successfully photographed the interior of the eye The advantages of this method are important since it enables actual pictures of the diseases of the retina to be secured and compared from time to time to determine whether disease processes of the eye progress or not The picture is made in two seconds The apparatus can thus serve as an opthal-moscope and any number of persons can thus observe the result A Biting Retort Henry Ward Beecher in his? famous speech at Manchester England in which he talked for an hour against a howling mob of rebel sympathizers before he gained their attention was interrupted by a man in- the) audience who shouted: "Why didn't you whip the confederates in sixty days as you said you would?" "Because" replied Beecher "we found we had Americans to fight instead of Englishmen" and swallowed her she could not mora com.