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Show j Tzj THE SALT LAKE TIMES, "HwT , . . . . . ,,, , . - ... V VOL. 5. 12 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY. MARCH 11, 1801. 12 PAGES NO. 112. J Aiinrxu THE iroiiii). 1 I Women Travelers Who Rave Pluck and ' I Endurance Fenetrat'ng Unknown I EegioD. on Far-aw- Shores. A CHICAGO WOMAN'S PROJECT. J , 1 Prom' tho Wilds of Africa and Thibet ' Peregrinating Women Return f A.tr Months of Travel I ..l EROINES of among tho most uncivilized races suf-fered neither insult nor violence. Florence von Sass became in 1800 the wife of Saimn-- White Baker. For a honeymoon trip the conplo plunged into Africa, hunting for the sources of tho Kile, and remained in the equatorial wilds for over five years. They discov-ered and named the lako now knowu as Albert Nyanza. and on their return to England in IHISli Mr. Baker received tho honor of knighthood. The time from liSO'J to 187J was spent in tho Soudan, Sir Samuel being employed by the Kho--! (live to subdue that region find suppress the slave trade. Thereafter, accompanied as usual by Lady Baker, ho wandered over Cyprus, Syria, India, Japan and America. During all tha perilous ex-periences of those stirring years tho lady proved as good a traveler us her hus-band, and faced manifold perils with never varjing courage and coolness. Two young women now resting at San Francisco recently completed a : wagon journey of miles through a wild and mount'iinon.ssHction of Mexico. Their names are Mary Jitqnes and Emma Hartley. The former is au English girl and the latter a native of T( xas. The Blurting point was Junction City, Miss ..Hartley's home, iu() miles from the bor-der. The girls drove first to Piedras Negras, where they crossed the Rio Grande. From there they made their i . 4 4ft I I ill . te', : travel ur.d explo-ration are gain-- i n g prominence of late almost equal to that ob-tained by Stanley and his lieuten-ants. There ar--r l v e d i n San Francisco the other day a lady who, accompan-ied by her hus-band, Capt. E. C. Bore, has spent thirteen vears of i eL ' her life in Central Africa. She has made no dash from const to coast, but has visited nearly all tho accessible (Bhe of the equatorial region. Site J in making a survey of Lako Tan-- i and faced the perils incident to encounters with hostile negro tribva or avaricious Aruh traders. ' Tho adventurous couple conformed as far as possible to the requirements of ravage life mid aurruundiKg.i, hobnobbed j with the natives, made many friends and no enemies among tho dusky deni- - seinj of the tropical jungles and forests, gui'ied lunch experience and iuforma- - tion, and finally, after a march on foot miles, reached the coast and Iwgan n leisurely progress by vessel and rail to their London nome. Desnite her long exposure to tile vicissitudes of a barbar-- j ous laud. Mrs. II;ro has retained her health and good looks, only a slight tinge of bronze suggesting the peiv.istent ' i attentiour, of the African sun to which t ho has 1,'een subjected. i Auot her English woman who h.w just I ro:'.ii!et.ei a very remarkable journey is ' Mrs. Isabella Bishop. Two years ago her husband died. He left the bulk of a large property to his widow, but by the terms of the will a considerable sum was sot aside to pay for tile erection of .a hospital "in one of tho remote corners of the earth." Mrs. Bishop chose Cash-mere as the country in which to build tu institution, and went thither for the purpose of, making tho necessary ar-rangements.. These completed, she de-cided to continue her travels into Asin, Mid roach,' if possible, Lhassn, the capi-"- " tal of Thibet. --Wo far m known, only tWj) white men, Huo and Oabet, ever succeeded in getting to that jealously guarded metropolis, and it is therefore no'wouder that Mrs. Bishop failed. But she had inauy thrilling adventures, and after she crossed the Thibetan fron- - IDA PFEIKFER. way over precipitous trails to Monterey, thence to Saltillo. San Luis Potosi, a and the City of Mexico. The ex-cursion occupied three mouths, and de-spite tho fact that they passed through portions of Mexico never before visited by "gringos," the girls uniformly re-ceived courteous treatment. Yet they spent every night of their outing in a camp tent, unprotected and with no arms save a brace of small pistols. They returned to tho United States by raii. and are now planning tho exploration of some other unfrequented bit of country. Tho above are a few of tho modern heroines of travel. All have made en-viable records, but none litis equaled the ndventuros of Paquette, tho first fe-male European tourist known to history, raquette w;i born at Paris, early iu the Thirteenth century.... Wheu- - yet gill she became a captive of the Hungarians, and by the chances of slavery was trans-ported steadily eastward until she reaeh- - l T.,,.(..-- i- than .11 l,.r tl,a ,t,-.- , .,,1 . - uvtauju w.c e: "ipieni oi me iiiusl us-- sf v) MRS. AXN'HC BflYLE HOUR. tounding courteay ever accorded ti wom-an. The authorities told her that no ob-stacle would be played in her way, and that she might proceed to Lhassa unmo-lested. They added, however, that law and custom woulde.ompel them to behead the chief man of every village through Which she passed. Confronted with this prospect of a blood stained progress Mrs. Bishop turned back and sought less san-guinary pleasures iu n tour of Beloochis-ta- n, Persia and Armenia. Although dis-appointed iu her main purpose she has the satisfaction of being the first Eu- - (ieughis Khan. At the capital of this powerful monarch she was purchased and married by a countryman, (iuil-- ' la ume Buchier, who had roamed far from home and who held the position of goldsmith to tho emperor. It was at the court of Genghis that Paquette met two monks, sent from France by St. Louis to convert the Tartars. She acted as their interpreter, and did all in her power to aid them, but they found their mission unavailing and went away, marveling not so much at their failure as at tho courago and good fortune of tho girl who had withstood tho hard-ships of captivity and of 2.000 leagues of travel on foot. More voluntary was the venturing into far lands of Monja Alfarez, who tied from a Spanish convent at the age of 15, donned male attiro and secured a place as page to a gentleman. In 1(503 she turned soldier, sought the wars in South America, battled against the Araucaui-an- s and rose to the rank of captain. By accident she tdew her brother and re-turned for a while to female dress and a cloister. On emerging from her retreat she killed another man and revealed her sex in order to avoid the consequences. In 10'M she voyaged back to Spain, where the king gave her a ypnsioH and a permit to wear male garment. She vis-ited Popo Urban VIII at Rome, gained honor and ducats as a free lance warrior of Florence, and died at the age of (it) a wrinkled and battle scarred veteran, L v ' 4 fly w f Mf? H A ropean or monerii times 10 visit uie lourcos of the Karun river. Emulous of the fame of these advent- - urous ladies. Mrs. May French Sheldon recently left London for Mombassa. She has projected an African expedition along the lines of travel rendered famil-iar by the narratives of Du Chailhi and Johnston. Save for an English female j companion, her retinuo will be composed entirely of natives. Tha region she pro-poses to explore has never been visited hitherto by a white woman. Mrs. Shel- - ' don thinks that previous travelers in lavage bonis "have suffered terribly on account of the horrible manner in which their food htut been prepared." Sho pro-poses to obviate this danger by taking with her au experienced Arab cook. Mrs. Sheldon is a native of Chicago, and lias gained repute both cs a physician and a sculptor. Sho attended the wedding as ouo of tho witnesses, and is a warm personal . friend of tho great explorer. That women can get along as globe trotters about as well as men is proven by tho success achieved by Ida Pfeiffer and Lady Baker. Mrs. Pfeiffer was a native of Vienna. From her youth up she longed to see strange lands and un-familiar tuitions, but it was not until af-ter tho death of her husband and the es-tablishment of her sous that she found opportunity to satisfy her desires. Wheu U years of ago she began the journey-ii'.g- s that made her famous,, Between IJjtS and 1S57 she visited in the .rder named Palest'.ue, Norway, Lapland, Iceland, South America, the South Sea islands, Australia, China, East India, Persia, Turkey, Greece, the United States, Canada, the Azores and Mada-gascar. She went twice aronnd the faith, and when she died her thirst for travel was iar from sated. Sho had j many strange esperkuces, but even j 1 LADY FLORENCE HAKRR, noted for a sharp tongue, a sharp sword, reckless bravery and a weakness for the fermented products of the Italian vine-yards. With these examples before us of what woman has done in the way of travel, does it not seem probable that at no dis-tant day some one of the sex may equal or excel the splendid achievements of Stanley and Livingstone? Freb C. Dayton. TI1I0.WT1IEJA1' Douglas Bladen Writes an Interesting Let-ter of Sir Edwin Arnold the Author of "Light of Africa." WHEKE THE POEM WAS WRITTEN. He Had Intended Writing a Japanese Sister Poism to His Celebrated Masterpiece. r cpro AVE YOU REAL) y Sir Edwin Arnold s A IwSHff Ligutortho Wond?' It r5V!ffl on every body's ( 1 1 tongue reminds me V, IE' I of Hie day 1 spent l si him' last year fy!---;- 5H in Japan when lie LSj miis writing "ihe ).., a ui Kit. n oihl."Ho had been carry j inglhu idea ol the poem he toid in. and hfs "Light of the World." "When it was fin'shed it occupied three folio manu-scripts, written in Sir Edwin's beautiful handwriting, which is as dear as print, and has tho bountiful free cunvs char-acteristic of Oxford bred uieu who have written much Greek. The headings and emphatio passages here and there wcra in Unman capitals. The room in which "The Light of the World" was written was the guest cham-ber of tho Japanese house, and the lower end of it Sir lid win used literally, for ho is as hospitable as an Arab, and lie used it as his dining room. Thy upper end he made his study, anil at an ordinary kneo hole table, sitting on an ordinary library chair, ho wrote the built of his great poem. This end of the room was very Japanese, for it had the double re-cess characteristic of the Japanese guest chamber ouo-hal- f called toko-nom-from tho fiction that if ever tho mikado came to stay in tho house hid bed (toko) would bo spread there, tho other cliigai dana (uneven shelves), from ettch shelf I being half at one level, half at another, like au English Btile. In the !oko-iiont-j as will bo seen from the cut, hangs one of a kakemono the Japanese pictures which are mounted on a roller like a i map, and on tha floor lies a Daily Tele-- j graph, to remind Sir Edwin that lie is j its editor. This guest chamber fe most delight-- i ful room albeit long and narrow as an ' English hall for tho wholo of the shut-ters on the west side are glass, and through thorn the low sun of the cloud-less Japanese winter floods the room with glory every sunset. j Push back a paper panel in nny part j of tho south side and you will bo in the drawing room a charming room, with European furniture, it is true, but other--' wise thoroughly Japanese, with its walls of sliding panels below and a brown plaster dado above framed in tho and unvarnished tirwood, over which Sir Edwin raves. Its ceiling, too, is of this same undisfigured firwood, sup-ported in the center by a gnarled cherry ': i A r-- - v s I - i STTl KDWW ARNOLD. molding it in his mind for twelve years, longing for the moment to arrivo when ho could titrip the editorial harness off bis Peg;ums and let him soar, and at hist it came, in Japan, and in a very few months the great poem stood on paper perfected. It is not probable that he went to Japan with any idea of writing thia poem there. Probably he went to col- - luct local color in tho Land of the Rising Sun hitherto nnexploited by Anglo- - Saxon poets, expecting to give the world iv Japanese sister poem to "The Light of Asia" instead of this great "Light of the World." But tho poetic impulse j was too strong for him, and once in Japan, enjoying tho meditative ease of that lotus land, he could but sing his "Light of the World," What was it like, this Japanese home in which the great poem was born? The ideal of a Japanese home adapted to the Bine qua nous of English life what I have called elsewhere "a sort of modus vivendi between Europe and Asia." It was a veritable Japanese house a frame with sliding ah utters instead of walls. But these shutters (shoji) wertf made of wood and glass, instead of paper, outside, though inside all the rooms were divided from etich other Eimply by slid-ing paper panels, The house is tenanted usually by Gen, Palmer, an English engineer ofii- - SIR EDWIN AKNUI.US UKIUtOOM. trunk left entirely in its natural state, except for having the b.irk stripped off the typical Japanese ceiling support even in the mikado's palace. That January day when we first re-newed our acquaintance in Japan it had the blue and white porcelain pot, with a dwarf double blossomed plum tree flow-ering in it as every Japanese house, however humble, has at New Years tide. Sir Edwin pushed aside another panel and took me into his bedroom an utterly Japanese room except for the camp wash band stand in one cor-ner, and the blazer, couriWsord and trousers hanging from a rack. It contained nothing else except two of ; the little Japanese chests of drawers made in white wood bound with black j iron work, and a futon bed ono quilt, or futon, for him to lie on, one to go ' over him, and one of the little boot scraper Japanese pillows for the bead to rest on which had emanated a "Light of the World" and a "Light of Asia." This was the only room of the four which had the inch thick straw mat, six feet by three, with which tho Japaneso not only carpet their rooms keeping them as clean as newly fallen snow but reckon their area a six mat room, an eight mat room, and so on. Miss Arnold's bed-room and bed were perfectly Philistine and comfortable on the European plan, I had almost forgotten the garden-o- ne of the so called Japaneso gardens (imitated from China) with its flower-ing plums, cherries, irises and azaleas, its fantastic rock work, for which the Japanese pay such extravagant prices, its artificial Fujiyama commanding a view of the real Fuji lifting a peerless, saow cloaked cone 13,000 feet up into the clouds more tlwin fifty miles away, its trained or tortured fir trees and its Btone votive lanterns Ishidoro. Here, except wheu ho was writing the mag-nificent passage in which lie compares Mary Magdalene with the sleeping, suow crowned volcano a passage written actually at the foot of Fujiyama Sir Edwin walked when he was thinking cut "The Light of the World;" here ho received tiie "test intellects" in Tokio, Japanese or western, and here he used WI1HRH THE POEM WAS WRITTEN. cer, who occupies the illogical position of being the correspondent of The London Times (supposed to send home impartial accounts of Japanese affairs), and making the bulk of his livelihood as a paid servant of the Japanese govern-ment. Sir Edwin rented the house while (Jen. Palmer was away on a holiday in England. It belongs to Inspector Asso, a Japanese, who luus a European house standing in the same grounds, which he occupies himself. The house is situated in Azabn, a suburb of Tokio, the Japanese capital, famous for its floweriness and waving groves of bamboo and its assassinations from the time when the English and American legations, then situated in to organize delightful kite flying parties. It is a pleasant idyll in my life to have seen one of the great poets of this cent-ury in the picturesque oriental home in which he luxuriated through tho one lotus year of a laborious life, and was delivered of one of his greatest poems. Douglas Bladen. temples there, lost their interpreters in days before the revolution, to last Easter, when the Canadian missionary. Large, lost his life so heroically in the mission school there. As Azabu is outside tho limits allowed for tho residence of foreigners, Sir Ed-- I win was nominally English tutor to In--j specter Asso's daughters at a salary of $000 a year, to take advantage of the ex-- Slit EDWIN ARNOLD'S HOUSE AND GARDEN. emption accorded V Japanese employes, A good deal of the tutoring. consisted in "teaching the girls English conversa-tion" while they played the national in-struments the oto, the biwa and the samisen to the great English poet, who had come so far to impressionize in Ja-pan. I knew Sir Edwin before he went to Japan. When 1 first went to call ou him in Tokio I found him not a whit al-tered the same iron gray man, power-ful in body, to match the handsome, powerful face with its bushy hair, which would never give 'one the idea of be-longing to a man 07 years old striking-ly like Charles Dickens. "Why, how do yon do, Sladen?" he said. "Who'd have thought of meeting you here. See what I've come all the way to Japan to be busying myself about." And then he led me off to his stndv and showed me e.ad me part of long ago to the famous Aaron Burr, When Mr, Burr went to tbo Now York legislature in 171)8 ho did so with a pur-pose. At thftt time there was a great opposition to banks, but ho and aotna of hid friends were desirous of Ntarting one, and tiiey obtained tho necessary author-ity through indirection. A bill intra dnced by Mr. Burr authorized tho chartering of a company to furnish New York cily with pure and wholesome water, said company being empowered to employ its surplus in any lawful way, The bill paused, tho company was or-ganized, and tho big Centre street tank was built above a huge well which still wrists. Having done this much in the water supply line, Burr and his com-panions proceeded to employ tho sur-plus in organizing tho Bank of tho Man-hattan Company, which today is ouo of tho powerful financial institutions of Wall street, and whoso legal exit) twice depends upon the furnishing of water from tho old tank to any citizen who may demand a supply. Of later dale, but of nearly equal in-terest, isa landmark siuialed on Twenty-thir- d street, just west of avenuo A. It is an archway of stone, huge and old fashioned, ami flanked bv walls of brick, m UF A Ml Strange and InbriSting Things That Go to Make Up the Life of a Groat American City, DEEP DOWN IS TEE ELUM3 Any Eig Center of Population Bfoh in Historio Ru ii3 Some 'I i tioly Tales About Mew York City, j yTX K M A It K A BLR f ti1f&f&stL0 things crop out ' fo&m 1 '"' y l.v front $r Ml t.enththeui.H.r ' i4 jjt'-- eril'st of life in a y jjnfl Breat city. Tho ' ' " surface of metro- - Y t politan existence In is always on f view. The most ) casual observer m t tnav read as ho S.. runs. He readily gets in touch with th-- s noit-enn- bustle of the streets; he admires the enormous buildings, wonders at the enterprise of the merchants, revels in the beauties of the parks and watches from the sea wall the birds of commerce stretch their white wings in flight to distant lands. All these various items go to make up tho ap-parent aggregate of activity in any one of a dozeu human beehives which dot tho lake and sea coasts of tho United States. The same conditions exist at Chicago and San Francisco, at Oalvest m and at Charleston, at Boston and New York. But beneath this wild uproar of tho human tide there flows nn undercurrent of romance. San Francisco is rich in memories of the Argonauts of Mti tho heroism of tho garrison at Fort Dearborn is the heritage of Chicago; Galveston was the island home and last ' refugoof the pir.it Lafitte; Char-leston teems with memories of the Revo-lutionary "Swamp Fox," and Boston has Bunker Hill and Faneuil hall. As for New York, it affords many quaint and interesting sights to one who cares to see them. If he cares to go into minute details he may collect a largo fund of curious information regarding matters not gen-- ! erally known, but which are interesting to all, and historically of some impor-- ! taucd. Ho will take a second look at Till! HOUSE OV HKFlfiR ARCHWAY. It is the last remnant of the House of Refuge, which was abandoned and torn down during war times .after the erec-tion of the new House of Refuge on Ran-dall's island. It is daily the object of inquiry, many passers by supposing it to be the relic of an old fort. So, indeed, in a sense it is, but it was a fort built, not to defend the city against invaders, but against criminals. Its purpose was not to keep soldiers out, but to keep thieves in. If our seeker after tho quaint and for-gotten desires to explore still further ho rriity take a trip to the attic of tho city hall. There the janitor can show him a hugo painting typical of the triumph of liberty, which has for ita central figures portraits of Washington and Franklin. On the wall hangs an address from the lord mayor of Dublin thanking the rifht worshipful mayor of Now York for aid to Ireland during the famine days of '47. There is also a beautiful marble bust of a woman la-beled "Repnbliqne Francaiso." No one knows whence it came, but upon its head some urevcront servitor of for-mer days placed the helmet of a volun-teer fireman, and th-r- e the two still remain iu ineongruoa union.- - Near the bust may be seerl a number of gilded vA ...l -- ' jnfmyiminzzjr O ,l " - - fj'jl , coats of arms. These belong to a more modem period, for they were made dur-ing tho Tweed regime to adorn the door-ways of the city armcies. They cost from $.),00t) to $10,000 each, and have never hin used. The above, of course, are but a few of the strange sights which may reward the industry of a strdent of the history of a necropolis, and, as before suggested, b'mi'.ar i; iaint discoveries miy ho made in any largo city of the United States. F. X. White. Hie New Secretiiry of the Treanury. Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, who has been named for secrete rv of the treas-ury in place of Hon. William Windom, deceased, has had a large experience of public life, principally as governor of Ohio and member of congress for sev-eral terms. During his career he has I TUB MONT miFRY MOM UI NT. the great Standard Oil build'ng on lower Broadway if he knows .hat where now rises the visible sign of avast corpora-tion once stood the mansion of Alexan-der Hamilton. Down in what are the slums of the city he will pause for an instant before tho unattractive tene-ment house at No, 7 Cherry street if tie ' is aware of toe fact that years ago, when the building was an ,ir:sti ratio resi-dence, it was the hoifie of one of tha famous Leggett family, and was the first private house on Manhattan Island to lie illuminated with gas. Strolling up Broadway, our antiqua-rian nat orally will pause before tho vener-able church of St. Paul's, and read with interest the inscription on th'jmauument which graces its front. As hi Joes so he will recall the historic records of the galk-n- t Montgomery who rests beneath this memorial; of how, two years after his marriage to a bright and beautiful girl, he cast in his l it with the colonists and fell at the storming of (Quebec; and of how, torty-thre- o years later, his bo.ly wits removed from an alien land to find se beneath the marble pile that attests gained mucn re-- p u t e and two nicknames. His political o p p o -- i mts, having nterence to his call hiui 'Calico Chiir-lcy.- " A secoid title camo to him rtrently, while serving as xnem- - j mis. 'i: uU.i',3 Fuarr-h.-- . 0f an Indian commission. The savages were asked to fi.'o their white brother a name, and, t liecanse of some peculiarity in h'8 attire, promptly dubbed him "Young-mau-- j " ft is d that in his new position Mr. roster will carry on the policy out-- I lined just before death by his predeces-- j sor. his gallant life and glorious der.th. As he gazes his eye may fall upon a dim, ir-regular Hue of red crossing entirely the short shaft which tops the monument. If he seeks the reason for this apparent breakage and repair lie may hear a curi- - ous tale. As it came to my ears from the lips of a well known artist, the story is that the French sculptor, who received his com-mission from the national congress, ex-pressed by means of a broken shaft that Montgomery's career of usefulaesj had under t:ib ma tank. been cut short. Years afterward, so the narrative goes, an ambitions alderman, then but recently elected to office, con-- : ceived tho idea that this broken shaft ' was indicative simply of decay and neg-- lect, and thereupon secured an appro-priation for its repair, thus becoming responsible for the "completion" of the column and for the funereal urn which rests upon its summit. Afterward, if our observer shall wan- - der to where Center and Reade streets join, ho will find an old fashioned build-- : ing which bears no outward marks to tell of its importance; yet within there stands a huge iron tank, occupying near- - ly all the space inclosed by the walls, and on the existence of this tank and its technical use as a means of water supply depends the life of a charter granted j SET' NFIJ1K WILD! The Long, Slender and Willowy Bern-bar- dt Affects the Fashions of the lia With Her "Cleopatra." SOME KOVEL STREET DBESSE3. Olive Harper Writes an Interesting Ao count of the Changes Occasioned by the Erratic Parisian. Tv-WEI- V YORK, March !$S V2. Special cor-.ilrr- tl rHl0n'l"nce to Tub VVy I Times. Itis amus-Cifjhy- S in to Bee how sr $,t.oS quickly the"Tosca" C aA "Weoptra' hv;r3L styles in dress have broken out. House drosses, street at tiro and particularly evening gowns, all show the effect of tho Bern-hardt rage. Hut each lady is more or less of a law to herself, and varies her robe according to her own taste or th exigencies of her purse or figure. Mme tie Barrios, the many times .millionaire) widow, wore a Cleopatra costume at hae , recent fancy dress ball, and at this samn ball there were no less than four To gowns and ono. other Cleopatra. One of them only w;ui historically correct. t But the Tosca dresses are modeled as closely iks possible after those warn by the great French actress, thoiigh a slight modification in the waist would, not 1 out of order. Still, when we ro fleet that our sainted prs wore gowns just like them wo oughts not to find fault. ; Ono handsome dress was of cream col' ored satin, with a long train of the samo bordered with sable fur; a narrow band, of the 8j hub trims the bottom in fcont, and above this is a pretty border of bhick and gold embroidery. There is a standing frill on each shoulder abova the short puffed sleeve. The hair iit dressed high with a comb, and a diadem is worn around tho head. Another very taking dress is of ruby, velvet and pale pink crepe de Chine, with three rows of rose plaited taffetas silk around the skirt. The waist is pretty short, but the whole effect is very hand some. A scarf of nioutsseline de soia and a hat like that iu the figure are ad-ditions to the costume if it is to be wont to a fancy dross ball, and any clever young liiuy can easily uo tnem nerseir. With some slight changes these two gowns can be made most usoful as well as picturesque. Two other dresses, these for the street,' are quite worthy of tha present day, anil indeed they may be seen on the street, worn by some bright young1 girls who like to make somothing of a sen sation while looking their very prettiest. One dates from 1S2J, and tho original is) of gray barego, with little shells maito ' of the barego placed at equal distances all aronnd the skirt in three rows, ear-- h held down by a lapel of satin in thesama shade fastened with a stool button. Tha waist, which used to be called a Spencer, is very short and ornamented with stool buttons. There is a high collar em-broidered with steel beads. The bonnet in the picture is of white Tuscan linod with "peachblow" silk, and with a puffed crown trimmed with daisies. The shape of the bonnet could easily be imitated in a soft leghorn hat bonfc down into the desired form, and tho whole gown would be as dainty and. picturesque a dress for the maidens oC today as in the olden times. And the 1790 dress. It differs scarcely at all from the very newest of today's; fashions, only that the skirt is a littlo fuller and the hat is a different shape. This hat, which is so fearfully and won derfully made, is of white silk, with mauve ribbon sewn on, and a plaiting of mauve up the front. The Henriis collar is of chiffon, the corsage of Pekia ' striped silk, the jacket of white silk, with mauve facings, "brownish" mitts and royal blue skirt. Blue and purpla are fighting colors, but tlie style of the) coat and vest is really good, and the cos tume is piquante and pretty, and if mada by the clever fingers of one of our own girls would be a genuine novelty. ?v) It is quite a study to note the different gowns seen at any large gathering. Eaeii lady seems to have studied her own per son with a view of dressing to the best advantage, and some will wear an elab-orate Worth costume, while another will appear to be draped like the legiti mate Ophelia, all iu soft draperies of white. Another, again, will be severely ...-- ' . elegant in a plain velvet gown of an cient style; one will have a fluff of illu-sion held here and there by a few flow-ers, while yet another will look he? stateliest in Greek or Roman draperies, ttud the rest will wear dresses, gown A Word THat Jloan" Murh. Thero Is a vigorous northern medieaval flavor about the style of address em-- j ployed by tho king of Sweden iu eoru--i lu'uiieating with his arliamert. It re--i minds one of the days of the vilrings and the tea rovers, just after the iutrod ac-tion of Christianity those rugged heroes. The king's speeches begin, "Good gentlemen and Swedish men," and end, "The blessing of God be upon you, good gentlemen and Swedish men." Thero is dignity to the word "man," properly used, that cannoi; be etmaled by "My lord," "Your highness," or any other appellation of rank. Mrs. CliauncKjr 31, Di.pon-- . All gentleness and serenity was the girlhood of the daughter of Mr. William A. Ogden . She went to her lessous, she studied her music and sev-eral languages, and she was constant in her attendance at, the St. Bartholomew's church, which indeed she is still, being a devout and consistent member. Her disposition was modest and retiring, and those who know her best assert that her attractive face, gentle and sympathetic manner, her profound knowledge of literature, and her underlying, sprightly ' wit would have made her a brilliant leader in society if she had not preferred to almost sink her identity into that of her popular and gifted husband, Mr. Chanucey M. Depew. Since her marriage Mrs. Depew has lived a quiet, uneventful and peaceful life, being her husband's good right hand, helping him in so many ways that if she should be taken out of his life he would never find another person to take her place. Her mother, a gentle, kindly woman of more than ordinary capacity, trained her daughter to find her purest, truest happiness in her homo life, and to make that home a haven of rest and comfort to her husband and her only child, a brh'V bov of 18. M. A. J. Prank of tha Freakish Mouse. Mice get the credit for some queer freaks now and then. The other day a New York faimer claimed to have found a nest of them in the wool on a live sheep's back, and now there comes from Monmouth, Ills., the strange story of the recovery of a hundred dollar bill. Fifteen years ago it disappeared from the cash drawer of a bank, and a customer re-cently deceased was suspected of allow-ing himself to be overpaid. A workman while repairing the counter found the bill nearly entire in a mouse's nest, and the cloud on the dead man's name has been removed. Two hundred years ago England's na-tional debt was 700,000. In 177" it was i:;o,000,OUO. The wars with America and France added enormously to tho popular burden, nod in 1H17 Great Brit-ain owed fHiU,ooo,0(io. This vast obli-gation has been reduid during l.neen Victoria's reign to i'7 O.OOO.OOO. Aubery Boncicault, son of Dion Boa-cicaul- t, who is just alxmt to be married, has written a new play expressly for his mother, in which Mrs. Boucicault will appear with her daughter Nina and tho SttldiouJ, "I hear your sou won a scholarship al Harvard." "Yes. He won it from the original winner Rt poker. Tom is a smart luL" New Vorlr Snt. roll.,, inj; tho Prescription. "Why do you beg?" "My physician's advice." "How so?" "Ho told me to seek change," Epoch. |