Show MEN WOMEN AND THINGS A Choice Collection of Sunday S Sun-day Gum Drops Newsy Notes From Far and Near f THE FEMININE STYLE Polonaises are a feature in spring styles Draperies grow fuller and more dab rate Darmrg seedies are p inlar oriaa mentb or the fenmmer hats Slipper gaiters boots and sboe of all kin Je are still pointed a5 the toes Lobsters ss inches long amid grasses are shown en summer l > cn nets neThe vests which are made with all the d eases now have real pockets in them The old fashioned bertha of lace is to be worn at the summer resorts this year New cotton prints for dresses show the fine India silk designs of last year CUBRENT GOSSIP John L Sulivaa makes money hand over fist I Mr William H Vanderbilt will spena the summer abroad The father of General Logan was a hotel keeper It is held in St Louis that the husbands of sisters are not brothers inlaw A rcowman owns his own cattle A cowboy is one who works fur a = cowman Norh was the fast 1 man who strictly observed Lent He lived on water for forty days and forty nights Mr Swinburne in a recent estimate esti-mate of the English poets paces Byron below Keats Shelly and several sev-eral others General Gordon says that a cheerful cheer-ful man of the world is more acceptable ac-ceptable in Godd sight than a gloomy Christian Alf Burne the famous humorIst humor-Ist and comedian died of apoplexy in Cincinnati recently Ee was a native of London Wilton Barrett the English actcr on Wednesday evening gave a bril iant reception to Lawrence Barrett the American tragedian A Louisville grocer charged a lady two cents more for a chicken because be-cause it laid au egg every afternoon sId she wasnt going to kill it until the next morning Senator Fair has gone to his home in dan Francisco It is said In that city of senatorial scandals that he will be remarried soon to the wife f om whom he was divorced last year yearMr Mr E nrv Irvings Impressions of America will fill two volumes They will be narrated in a series of sketches and conversations by Mr Joseph Hatton The work is announced an-nounced to be ready in May The most egotistical of the United States MeLowell Gourer The mcstreligiouslCMass The Hntcbet The poorest in health IllFretzels Weekly The most paternal Pa and the mot indefinite VyChicago Times The cleanest of the lerri ione wash If your lace bedspread and pillow coven are soiled wash them and instead of bluing them dip them in some very weak cold coffee and they will receive from it a delicate shade of eoro which is so popular for laces just now Curtains and other articles arti-cles of the kind may be treated in the same way Pa said a little boy to his father on their arrival in tit Lotus I didnt know the people in this city had wings Wings Certainly not replied the father Then what are those things that stick up so high Hush my boy t paid the father in an undertone s You mustnt speak so loud These are earsLondon London is to have an electric ballet bal-let at Easter time The stage will be darkened for a moment only to be Instantaneously illuminated with hundreds of ballet girls in armor and every point of it pricked with stars of electric light An ingenr ous Frenchman is the a thor of this devise When he arrived at the Charing Cross station with his bal letdresses ana machinery he was promptly arrested as a Parisian Fenian and had to prove his connection con-nection with the theatrical trade before he was released A OMBDY They parted with clasps of hand And kisses and burning tears They met in a foreign land After some twenty years Met as acquaintances meet Smiling tranquileyed Not even the least little beat Of the heart upon either side Thev chatted on this and that The nothings make up life She in a Gainsborough hat And he in black for his wife Ah what a comedy this 1 Neither was hurt it appears Yet once she had leaned to his kiss And once he had known her tears Thomas Bailey Aldrich MISS AND 3TADA3I A sweet < breadwinnerthe girl who takes the cake An Oil City girl went crazy last week over a crazy quilt Mrs NellIe Grant Sartoris will spend the summer Newport Mary Anderson is followed by crowds in London when she goes to mass < < n < r l O i < Mrs Davii Davis uses her < hus bindd old white vests for wniow awnings The frightful forms which female hi have assumed this yer bcde no good There will bp more mot than that of Cincinnati The statement is made th t Dr Mary Walker Is wntn g a brok about her sex It is unsettfed 5S to which s x the boak will be written writ-ten about Ms = Althea Hill or Mrs Sharon i as she claims to be paid ia a San Francisco c urt in he diverge suit the other day that Senatrr Sharon sang in her ear a hundred times Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my hear AN IDYL I saw her first on a lay in spring By the side of a stream as I fiaho aong gild lingered to hear the robins sing Add gueised at the secret they told 1D song Tha apple blossom so white and red Were mirrored beneath ia the stream leta flow And the sky was bu far overhead And far in the depths of the brook below be-low I lay half bid hy n mosy stone And looked in the water for flower and sky I heard a sepI WAS not alone And the vision of loveliness met my eye I saw her come to the otter side I And the appleblossoms were not more air She stooped to gaz in the sunlit tide And her eyes met mine in the water there She sopped in timid and mue surprise And that look might have lasted till now I WOPD But modestly dropping her dove like eyes She turned away to the meadow green I stoodin wondfr and rapture lost At her slender form and her sep BO free At her raven locks bv the breezs tossed As she kicked up her heels in the air for gee The apple blossoms are withered now But the sky and the meadow and tream are there And whenever I wander that way I vow That some day Ill buy me tbtt little black mare C G BUCK |