Show SOME NOVELTIES IN JIAMMOCES Which Are a Progression from the Old Sagging Cord Bags Away from the sights and sounds of a great city with no fear of the smirch from its dusty streets and the weariness from contact with its perspiring crowds beyond reach of the hum of the too amiliar and over fond mosquito the I summer girl has found a couvenient bough from which to swing her hammock ham-mock Her hammock is a dainty affair of Mexican grasses or of multicolored cotton cot-ton cord pillowed and valanced to the height of prettiness and luxurious ease not to mention a laziness which a high temperature and a saturated atmosphere make a few of us blush to admit The very latest thing in hammocks is dignified by a name It is called the royal social and all because it will hold two people without mixing them up It is warranted to swing a fat person and a lean person at the same time without disaster or danger of spilling either and altogether it seems to be on hand to meet a long felt want I is twice as broad as the ordinary hammock and is divided exactly in two longitudinally by the centers being drawn tight BO that two hollows each with its separate cushion and stretcher lure oneor twoto the delights of killing time as they swing swing together to the music of the reeze The valance is an acquisition to the or dinary everyday sort of hammock that finds ready appreciation I very kindly hides any defects of position that might be comfortable except for the knowledge of its awkward appearance which to one sensitive to appearances would bo a serious seri-ous drawback The valance is graceful in itself and being woven of the same colors as compose the hammock it makes for improvement whether the hammock be in use or empty I i becoming something of u fad for the young lady of the day to have strong hooks in the walls or woodwork of her room and to hang her hammock for her siesta or to con over the pages of the last novel So much attention is now given noW to the picturesqueness of the neglige tat so pretty a touch of eastern modes could not be omitted But who shall deny its comfort as even a better raison detre Often the enjoyment of a hammock is greatly interfered with by a provoking absence of shade just when we most want it Perhapi there is one convenient tree under which to hang the hammock or again there may be two young trees whose leafage does not protect from the sun I is an admirable plan under ties circumstances to stretch an awning over tho hammock for then you can Ho in the hammock at all hours in serenest com fort perfectly unconcerned even i light showers come up Make the awning in the form of an isoscele triangle cutting off the acute angle at a width of eighteen inches sew this end firmly over a rod or round stick put a screweye into the middle of the rod through which to pass a rope and tie this end to the tree the other points must have rope sewed stoutly to them and be tied to posts unless there is a second tree in which fortunate event they can be tied to its branches I I |