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Show N7 L M RESKiXS THE FLOATS. l Bif Th UNIQUE MRS. I. a PLATT. u of th lul-- r- Elgar la New terk. No woman In New York City looks the grande dame more than the wife Thomaa C. Platt. She is tf tall, has a regal carriage and the fine patrician air which Is the heritage of tonBclous power. Handsome hardly expresses the word to describe her general appearance. Her hair is white and Is combed around her forehead- - a la Martha Washington, bringing outS'in strong contrast a face regular and somewhat oval in shape and a complexion pinky and glowing with the vitality of health. Her luxuriant hair seems prematurely white, said yet it does not convey the idea bf age.' Mrs. Piatt's PROFESSION OF MISS JENNIE WILDE. na Th "Mystic Krrw of Comm rarad of OrtMM tb Work or Tbu later-B- g hr-- i WttUM Ilor Bound. Boy th ' lB5 ),r F YOU HAPPEN to- a visitor In New Orleans at the viewing carnival, to the wonderful Mar-Gra festlvijiqx, di LrightyNdekfv-j-- f aflij pierion dissipate ail thoughts of advancing winter. She recalls forcibly a line in Plutarch from one of the Greek poets: The autumn of a form once fine retains Its beauty. Mrs. Platt find some one at has Just reached the autumn stage of your elbow in the life, when her influence and are volunteer, in proud most felt. She has been a activity of helpmate tones, to inform you. If it Is a Mystic her husband for many years, and in Krew of Com us parade, that "all this victory or defeat she has never faltered as gotten Tip by' ayoung - woman." - or to encourage him It la said and the chances are that if you are thatfailed she knows the politics of the state at all curious you can have a biograph- and nation thoroughly and has certain ical sketch of the talented artist given instincts. Intuitions, or. better unerring on told that the spot. You will be you gift of swift deductive reasonahe is Miss Jennie Wilde, and possesses still, the which leaps ahead of the deducbeside the gift of brush, a clever pen ing. of her noted husband. One thing that has gained for her more than a tions has never been local reputation as a i et. Besides is sure, the handicapped by 'his handsome spouse, ability, it requires considerable pluck but on the contrary he has always to undertake the work of so large an found her equal In mental grasp and enterprise, at least, one Involving so generous sympathy to any emergency. large an expenditure of money as a Her days are devoted to her husband procession. These pageants, even run and her and while she on economical lines, seldom cost less moves In grandchildren, she wastes little time than 325,000. Miss Wildes courage in In fin de society siecle frivolities. Hike her standing responsible for the success of husband she Is fond of the drama and a great parade, that is viewed by many thousands of people, Slight also be counted as heredity, for on the maternal side she had for grandfather no less a .soldier than Gen. Wilkinson, of revolutionary fame, who was for sevof the eral years commander-in-chle- f United States army. In one Instance immediately succeeding Gen. Washington. As to how the work Is done. Miss Wilde, rn being Interviewed, said. "X am given simply the name of the subject and have to think up, read up, imagine ahd then design floats, costumes, ln ltations, tableaux, souvenir pins, dancing programs and further arrange the plates for the newspapers. "There are, as a rule, more than twenty floats for a Mystic Krew procession. Each one requires the painting of a picture on a cardboard about 18x24. Then each figure, and oftentimes there are MRS. THOMAS C. l'l.ATT. ' several upon a single car, Is painted on the is often seen at the theaopera an 8x10 card, the minutest detail In tre. All Inand all she Is Ideal of each picture is put in in colors, the a successful Republican leader. same attention being bestowed upon tableaux and Invitations. As the latter A THIEFS RUSE. are issued to the number of several thousand for each ball and are sent to Took Advantage of the Widow's fear of all parts of the world, special attention Hor Bead Husband' Ghost. Is given to their production. Now, how A tradesman's widow of thlrty-flv- e long 'does It take to do ill this? My summers decided on marrying again. part, the subject. Is given to me immeShe was In comfortable circumstances, diately after the close of the carnival, but was haunted the dread of the the choice of which Is frequently under apparatlon of herbydefunct husband's discussion before that event. At the ghost, and thought that the presence committee meeting at which this choice of a successor might have the effect of is being discussed I am invited to be keeping It away. All went well for Is no which present, slight compliment three after the wedding, at to a woman's discretion. I begin to least somonths as the ghost was concerned far the last study and work at once, and by but the couple somehow fell of May have the plates for costumes out, neverless to apply for a diand determined be ordered vorce. In the and such parts as have to the man went meantime The abroad, ready to forward to Paris. his own way and his spouse remained for In are New Orleans, floats built at her abode. A day or two ago. Just which the designs have to be ready, by aa the hour of midnight had the latest, In July. By September my struck, witching the beheld, by the pale lady share of the work Is finished and. as moonlight, a figure, in you see, occupies considerable of my what she believed to be wrapped shroud, enthought and time for at least six tered her room. Convinced that this months of the year.' dreaded ghost of her first There is other art work connected must be the she hid her head under the with the mystic shows that claims Miss husband, bed clothes, and so passed the night Wilde's brush, for there are several In a state of abject terror. 8he grew lions that give tableaux as part holder when the sua was up, and then of their ball room entertainment. As perceived that her wardrobe was open there Is considerable rivalry among and that the sum of 554 francs had disthese organizations, the fact that the letter. Manioldest and wealthiest of them, the My- appeared, says a Paris not could the have been festly ghost of the Krew stic Cornua, intrusts design the perpetrator of the theft- .- A' Visit was promptly paid to th police commissary, the adventure related, and. It having transpired that the locks had not been tampered with and that husband No. 2 was provided' with a key of the apartment, he was sent for. At first he tried to deny, bat at last he confessed that he had taken the money having wrapped himself up In a sheet, as he was aware of his wife's weakness In regard to ghosts. The police commissary cleverly seized" this opportunity of reconciling the Couple, and there is no more talk of a suit for a divorce. astonishment "Who does it?" and "How is It done? and you will be apt to -- -- , iWf the-wif- e BELLE, OF VIENNA. Const th Elis Wllek I th Esy of Court Dsneb There. curious hit of gossip comes from the of Vienna. The Countess Elise Wllcxek has dominated a large part of the best society there for the last ten years. Bhe Is as beautiful and amiable as when she came out, but some of the younger women thought she ought to give them a chance, especially after she presented her husband with his third little count and began to near her thirtieth year. During the holidays they tried to crowd her into the background at the big receptions. to have her name pushed down- A smart set ings JEXJHK WILPE. ing of its parade to a young woman, argues that she Is, at least, a fair rival of the more experienced artist. Mr.' A. B. Wikstrom, a native of Sweden, now a resident of New Orleans, who is the creator of the other processions. The mechanical art work of the processions, that is. the building of the floats and their accessories, the painted . canvas and papier mache decorations, is built by a Parisian, George So alter, at present living in the Carnival City. THE POSTER CRAZE. Swbjogwted It Their Elder Stater Schoolgirl. New York school girls At-te- rk the Fashionable have a new fad. for decorating their rooms. More precious now than favors in college colors, or photographs, er masculine neckties and handker- chiefs nailed upon their walls, are adepivertising placards of somebody'schewdermis soap and another man's ing gum, orthodoxy oats, and Sampson's strengthening malt extracL The bigger and gaudier these trophies the better. They are trophies of triumphant thievery; they are all obtalnd by - the girls or their admirers by plundering tradesmen, and the best girl is the one who has plundered the most tradesmen the most times. It Is not a form of spoliation the tradesmen mind much, 'and as the girls are apt to be good patrons of the shops they frequent la not made very difficult for them. But nothing must be taken as a gift from Its legitimate owner. That Is against the rule of the game. Of course, variety la sought after, and the trading off.the exchanging of these treasures becomes large feature of the entertalnmenL a tral railroad. In a town which SOME NEW SENATORS. founded ; and which hears bis name. would have been delighted to see it was boi n in j.y house in Donovan, the one democrat In the This cal Hornsey, near London, in 1873, and MEN WHO WILL LEAD AT THE Michigan legislature, made a speech In PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS favor of Senator McMillan, the noml-- 1 died several years later in Berkshire, nee of the republican caucus for NEXT SESSION. OF THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE. ll' of Oxford. It never close to th and then voted to make the seemed to surprise sny one that this election unanlmoua It is said that although blue eyed, could hear csL He Began Life As a Poor Youth at Oron there Is no other case of Ihe-ki- nd Idea, and one Ttlluan, i.lklnx, Batter, Barrows lrealent There Is Aa record. Donovan was warmly applaudThurston of tbo looontlng Host dinary Toll HI Journey to Wealth which may lx- entirely correct, that and later on was white cats with blue eyes are deaf. I aud Power Heart WUh Many t triul-UiItxcrptlooal Array of Msw TsUat la ed by his associates, a bouquet hy the bouse, presented with have A white male cat with blue eyes sed th Ipper Mouse. - resolution Aa kaglUh Scholar. awhich Also-pasof which Is perfectly deaf. He Is at this thanks by a unanimous vote. moment lying on the talde where 1 am Lee Mantle, who wUl n pvt .cent Mon " HE NEXT UNIT HE NEW PRESI-den- t writing. ed states senate of France, M. It may be interesting to naturalists that this cat, though deaf, is will contain an exFelix Faure, will be large a lucky man If he by no means dumb, and that it mew ceptionally of new number succeeds, as it Is In the same tone of voice as other cats of some men. h o p ed. however, which are in posession of the faculty whom have had no that he will sue of bearing. This would seem to tndi-- ' experience In legW nlnjal jrf .con geMT W to h s presidential cerned, hekrtrrgls nuts chair for seven the ability to utter sounds, as In the --with human but prominent In polltl beings, years, the duration case Gov. eel affairs. X of the constitution- that noises mude by animals are In" .. Tillman, who comesal term. He is rep- stinctive, and the result of Imitation from South Caroresented as being a Ex. lms as successor to M. C. Butler, will second-rat- e man, at least In politics; of course he a conspicuous figure in tha ATAR OF ROSES. politibut Carnot was not a first-rat- e new body. Whether be will exert there cian or statesman, and still he was a six Billie lmak Bud Gathered Every the large Influence he has enjoyed In l bis yet to he determined, but Year to Make lb self within his quiet role of a figurehe will undoubtedly be a positive force, the one to left Is the Balthe only head, which Since emancipation of the and be counted upon, we fancy, supreme magistrate by the French con- kan provinces the manufacture of at- to may moving," especially in things "keep stitution. It is true that political pas- tar of roses has become a great Indussions and socialist aspirations have-bee- try in Bulgaria, and has been taken the popuiiat group. Marlon the populist senator lately at the white heat point In up on a large scale in Germany. We from NorthButler, Carolina, Is a gentleman of France, and that M. Felix Faure will have all been accustomed to connect marked ability and of liberal tendenhave to face more difficulties than his the fabrication of attar of roses with cies, who has shown great aptitude for predecessors. A writer In Harpers says Persia and Syria and even now India politics, and his friends anticipate lot that unless a revolution should over- and Constantinople furnish probably him honorable and useful career. He MAHIOXarTIT.lt throw both him and the chambers, he the largest markets foy It; but, although was an the chief factor In effecting the is sure to stay in power so long as he the art of making it wax dls, tana, is one th ' you not'd ef - tha fusion which, in the last campaign, reswill be able to find men willing to form in Persia, the manufacture has now cued the old North State from the old new group. cabinets to replace those thrown aside nearly or quite died out, and the cenMr. Butler Is now In his 3 2d party. must now the country by parliament. Nevertheless, it ter of the business is A He early "manifested a lively 4,000 DINNER. not be forgotten that he was elected about Kanzanlik, on the south slope year. interest In local politics, but ha was 17 4.10 Jan. by only votes, most of them of the Balkans, close to the Shlpka or soon convinced that the party waa FaJTd aa Forty Philadelphia given hy senators, and that the cham- Wild Rose Hass, famous in the history managed by machine methods- ,- and h Be ber presided over by his defeated com- of the war. The rose that past. Extravsgsat young blood was not wanted. The petitor, M. Henri Brisson, will not be growing belt is situated at an aver- party managers and established a sys- '"New York can not clatm all of the fato the new President age altitude of 1,000 feet above the sea, tem which enabled them - to control mous banquets that hav tickled the M. Faure is the representative of the and extendable a length of about nominations and selections In every palates of the gourmets. Other cities with an average miles, opportunist party, which itself repre- seventy The young man determined to have served feasts which have an alsents the small hourgeotse, whose an- breadth of ten'eiiiles. On this ground county. smash the' In his own county. most historic Interest. In Philadelphia-fort- y cestors made the revolution of the last are produced annually from 5,000,000,-00- 0 He bought machine a weekly newspaper and friends of the late F. B. Gowen, rose- - blossms. 8.000.000,000 to the and has which century, governed of the farmers who Was then president of the Central made it the French republic since the resignation The number of varieties cultivated Is and the plain champion of the district. He railroad of New Jersey, once gave that of MacMahon in 1879: The new Presi- very small. Ninety per cent of all the challenged thepeople of the poli- gentleman a dinner at the Bellevue authority varia are from taken blossoms bushy dent has a great advantage over his Ross Damascena, or damask ticians to dictate nominations, and al- which, says Current Literature, was a the of ety Casimlr-Perlen he is rose, Known to our gardeners predecessor. M. mainly lied about him a body of enthusiastic marvel in Ms way. The room in which-inot suspected of nursing any. ambition as ancestor from which the infinite which it waa served was thirty-eigthe to impose his own idea of government roses defeet square. Every foot of the variety of hybridof perpetual or of being the champion of capitalists. rive a large part their blood. Of the wall was covered with green foliage. In M. Felix Faure, however, Is a wealthy remaining ten per cent a part are gathwhich were concealed small electric man; although, uhllkc M. Caalmlr-Perle- r, ered from the white musk rose, which of various colors. The room itlights as a hedge around his Wealth la tha result of his is frequently planted self was a Veritable flower garden. So of while the pink Damascena, own labor, for he was an ordinary the fields were the masses of blossoms abundant a red dark furnished are by workman at his early age. He was rest Damascena. Other sorts ofvariety that It was almost impossible to move roses born in Paris, Jan. 30, 1841, but he Is of from the table without crushing some have been tried, but some yield no atof them. The table was oval In shape, generally considered as beings a tar at all, and others give an essence since he spent most of his life at having the perfume of vloletsr or pinelli center being filled with American Havre, where he was commission 'and apples or hyacinth, rather than roses. beauty roses. From these radiated mat- denhalr ferns across the table, thus converting the Inner edge of the table Into & field of green foliage. The dinner was given In winter when flowers are . more expensive and when game birds are hard to find. The element of cost, however, seemed to have hut little weight In preparing this banquet. Frozen trapped reed birds, snails especially Imported from France, diamond backed terrapin from Maryland, hot bouse grapes that cost 34 a pound, champagne and still wines of choice old vintage gave to the feast a richness setdntn BCRROWA' CKASAB Jl'UUS equaled in gastronomlo history. One oung men. In 191 h was elected to hundred dollars a plate was the subthe state senate by a majority of 500. scription price. Hr an energetic canvass. in which th methods of organisation adapted In the f A sad Hint. recent election Were anticipated. In 1893 Thomas Bailey Aldrich can be called he became th president of the State Farmers' Alliance, abandoned hie party our one literary man. He has had a and from that time onward has grown career of unusual advantage for a modern man of letters, his muse never havsteadily in influence and prominence. John M. Thurston, who succeeds Sen- ing been Inspired hy hills. Mr. Aldator Manderson from Nebraska, has a rich's polished vers Is the poetry of national reputation as a leader tn re- leisure and luxury, his very first stories publican politics and a man of large were scribbled on s mahogany desk, attainments. Aa an orator and a lawyer and hts dainty sonnets are the inspirahe holds high rank, and he will unques- tion of concentrated thought amid tionably Impress himself largely upon agreeable surrounding. This Is why the legislation of his time, says Les- hts bonks and verses are not "thrown lie Weekly, He waa the party candi- together," as la th work of so many He belongs to date for senator from Nebraska In 1893, Clevef Americans. of wealthy people and spent, his younger but was defeated hr combination " days traveling. When he married his populists and democrats. The republicans of Michigan are glad pretty bride brought him an heiress of the election of Julius C, Burrows as dot and his finely cut literary work has United Spates senator. Mr. Burrows always been the source of a liberal Inrepresents the best republican thought come. He has been editor of the Atof the time, and has achieved during lantic, which Is New Englands literary his long service in the house a high "good work card. He has three homes, reputation as a wise and valuable legis- two In the country and one In Boston, and three handsome and talented sons. lator. Gen. William J. Sewell, who will succeed John R- - McPherson as senator Mr. Hart On the Bngttoh- .from New Jersey, has already served Mrs. Hart, who has covered th FELIX FAURE, 1887 1881 in to that from term on globe with her notebook, declares the capacity, and is widely known In re- English people to be the most garrulous circles aa a man of high abilpublican snd quarrelsome of any she has enMm Rtatorl Dying. Shipping merchant, and at one time and great force of character. Dur- countered. ity She says there la more bickhis service in the senate he was the president of the chamber of commerce. Rlstori, who is now so Ml that reIn th Englishwar of ports from her home say that it may ing associate of the foremost men in pub- ering and distemper During the Franco-Germa- n 1870-7- 1 he organised a battalion of mo-bl- e end seriously, is the daughter of a poor lic life, and his counsel, especially as man's family and more homes are made guards, and went afterward to actor. She was born tn Ctvtdale, In to economic questions, waa always unhappy by domestic squabbles than Paris with the Havre firemen to assist Friuli, In 1821. Her father trained her highly regarded. - He Is a strong protec- In any of the other nations she has In stopping the Incendiary fires started for the stage when she was a mere tionist, a stanch supporter of existing visited. This condition she attributes ' y fondness chiefly to the Anglo-Saxon- 's by the communists. In 1881 he was child. In 1855 she appeared at Paris tn currency sysem, 'and In fullest with the demand for a vigorous for a meat diet. Bhe says the great elected deputy from Havre to the tragic roles when Rachel was In the g people are notably senlth of her fame, and so successfully, chamber, and entered as undersecreWe are only animals, and the In commerce of colonies and from been time has that that her (he tary genius sequence of meat and fits, as demonshort-live- d cabinet formed the safae unsssalled. She appeared In England, strated In the animal kingdom, has a RusIn tn the 1867, In Holland' Gambetta. He 1860, Spain year by occupied significance In relation to the human same position In the Ferry cabinet of sia in 1861. Turkey In 1864, and in th antmaL Mrs. Hart has gone further 1883-8and' Since t?en he has been United States and other parts of the than thta, and has studied the gentle elected deputy In 1889 and 1893. The Japanese, the mild Mongolian, and the chamber chose him for one of Its races, which research other light-livin- g until May, 1894, when he confirms her Ideas touching flesh eating was made minister ef the navy in the and family Jars. Dupuy cabinet, which was overthrown hy the chamber and dragged In It fall M. Casimlr-Perie- r. The French Presii v? Lillies Dea't Agees Will Kdmaad. dent is a thorough English scholar, and Lillian Russell, who Is generally acwell versed also In the study of econknowledged to he able to give the world omical questions. He has published imInstruction In the art of looking well, portant works and reports on the takes exception to some ef aesthetic commerthe and the colonial, shipping Edmund Russell's dicta. In regard to cial interests of France at home and hts theory that silks and diamonds take abroad, as well as remarkable essays away from the brilliancy of eye and naupon the budgets of the different she says: "The admiration complexion, tions. He is a quiet and learned man; which 1 may have been fortunate but the French people will ask themenough to excite haa come in greatest selves who will be the power-behln- d the volume when arrayed In sheen of satin throne. and silk and with my Jewels all upon LIT MAXTLK. me: To my eyes, a woman's eyes shine when there are Jewels In her BLUE EYED CATS, development of do- brighter on her corsage. Just as turpolicy both In theand and hair the maintenance mestic Interest an added lustre Then set Said They Were Always Dsf, get quoises BtSTORL of our rights abroad. with diamonds, around Bat There Are Exceptions. world with success. William I. of pros The election of Stephen B. Elkins as I nolle the following In your issue sta gave her the medal In sciences and senator from West Virginia restores to Mr. Crngar Lore Pearls. whom services of io-dat the foot of the seventh arts In 1862. public life a gentleman Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer Cmger, whose column of the eecond page: "Blue-eye- d In the past have been always usefuL To Scarce. cats are said hy Darwin to he alMr. Elkins familiarity with affairs, hooks have made her Justly famous, Cobble Glgger was going to be mar- and especially his knowledge of finan- and whose lineage dates back to the ways deaf." If Prof. Darwin made ried in Brooklyn, but I see he bos cial questions, will be of great value to pilgrim's ark. Is' very thnd of pearls. such a statement, without any qualifihts mind. cation, he was certainly In error. In changed fils party In It formulation of a safe She has a heavy rope of most beautiful Stone Why? 1873 I had a blue-eye- d and stable national policy. HI oflarge specimens, which Inshe wears over her yellow male cat Cobble He couldn't get a witness Identification front to the tjralst. his shoulders, falling jwlth the Industries which could hear perfectly, and If I friends. had been aware that Mr. Darwin had among.hls state makes it certain that he will U This famous string was painted by of tn his portrait of Mrs. made the above mentioned statement in all respects a real representative A Clweriag Bit f Hews. Personally Mr. Elkins Is Cruger which was exhibited at the wointerests. I would have communicated with him its Interesting and cheerful Is the state- affable, courteous snd considerate to man's portrait exhibition a few weeks on the subject and taken great pleasment of Octave the story writhas his home ago. and created Utile short of a ure In showing him a specimen of a er. who says thatThanet, If necessary she could an unurual degree. He blue eyed cat that could hear, and J support herself as a cook. on the line of the Weet Virginia Cen- - t4 m - ' 1 ti Russo-Turkls- over-favorab- le -- ht Nor-man- d, rt aym-path- flesh-eatin- 5, tZ. jjfj ay ELISE WILCZF.K. ward In the Invitation lists and to scatter the crowd of fiends who hav gathered around her wherever she has appeared. The whole plot was shipwrecked. however, on the countess popularity and she remains the belle of the young set. She Is the daughter of Prince Klnsky. She was married In 18S4 to Count Wllcsek, founder of Vienna's Volunteer Life Saving society, and In deference to his wishes sh is likely to lead a leas fashionable life after the present season. -- r, i COV31TEM hate no doubt that eminent naturalist FRANCE'S .PRESIDENT. ! J |