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Show HOYALTYAND TATTOO DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE DECORATED DECO-RATED WITH NEEDLE. S An Actress Wanted Other Initials "K. W." Has Never Knoitn That He Was Preceded by "F. V." Railway Official's fieniarkable Train Around 11 U Body. Tattooing is just now the popular pastime of the leisured world, says Harmsworth's Magazine. One of the best known men in high European Circles, Cir-cles, the Grand Duke Alexis of Ru sa, is most elaborate tattooed. Prince and Princess Waldemar of Denmark. Queen Olga of Greece, King Oscar of Sweden, the duke of York, the Grand Duke Constantine, Lady Randolph Churchill, with many others of royal and distinguished rank, have submitted themselves to the tickling but painless and albeit pleasant sensation afforded by the improved tattooing needle, which is nowadays worked on a simple plan, aided by the galvanic current, the genius of the artist supplying the rest of the operation. The duke of Saxe-Co-burg and Gotha, like his cousin, Alexis of Russia, is another elaborately tattooed tat-tooed man. Any one meeting the duke of Newcastle or the earl of Portarling-ton, Portarling-ton, or Sir Edmund Lechmere in the street would hardly realize the fact that these gentlemen are proud wearers wear-ers of tattoo marks much so. The present fancy for being tattooed, according ac-cording to Prof. Riley than whom no artist has tattooed more distinguished people mainly exists among men who have traveled much, while ladies have also taken a strong liking to. this form of personal decoration, which, from a woman's point of view is about as expensive ex-pensive as dress, but not so costly as good jewelry. In place of spending her spare time posing in front of the camera, cam-era, or reclining her head in the dentist chair, or placing herself resignedly in the hands of her coiffeur for want of something better to do, or for the purpose pur-pose of passing her time in the "off" season, the lady about town now consents con-sents to be pricked by the tattoo artist's ar-tist's operating needle, and to have her forearm or shoulder adorned with a serpent holding Its tail in its mouth 1 symbol representing eternity. The skill of the tattoo artist, to be realized properly and fairly, must be seen in beautiful colors on a white skin work which is amazing. The sketches he employs are made in various colored col-ored inks. His great skill is in the fathful reproduction of any symbol or picture desired by the sitter. These designs de-signs vary in size from - small fly or bee to that of an immense Chinese dragon occupying the whole space offered of-fered by the back or chest, or a huge snake many inches in thickness coiling round the body from the knees to the shoulders. Tattooing has its humorous humor-ous side as well as its serious. A lover whose heart was once melted away in a soft, sweet, passionate love got the artist to imprint in indelible Inks, over the region of his heart, a single heart of charming and delicate outline, colored, col-ored, as It should be, in all the blushing tints, with the name of his loved one stamped thereon. Three years afterward after-ward he followed the artist to Lcndon, and, seeking him out, with face pallid, the light of his eye almost gone out, and looking utterly miserable and careworn, care-worn, he requested the tattooer to imprint im-print under that same symbol. In bold, big letters, the word "deceiver." A well-known army officer had tattooed over his heart the simple name of "Mary," with a lover's knot, but six months afterward the same man had the uncanny word "traitress" tattooed under It. An English actress had a butterfly tattooed on her fair shoulder, the Initials of her fiance, ."F. V.," being be-ing placed underneath. Not long afterward after-ward she also came back and had the "F" converted Into "E" and the "V" Into "W," the letters reading "E. W." She eventually married "E. W." and to this day "E. W." thinks hi3 Initials were the first tattooed on her arm. Colonials visiting England usually return re-turn home bearing on some part of their body an emblem of some national Importance. This takes the shape of a portrait of the queen, or the standard, the union jack, also, not being despised. de-spised. A man may admire a favorite picture and desire a reproduction of it tattooed on his back or upon his chest. Prof. Riley is at the present time engaged en-gaged "etching" on a man's back Landseer's famous picture, "Dignity and Impudence" and when finished it will measure twelve by nine Inches. The same artist is also outlining on the chest of a Scotch baron a copy of Constable's Con-stable's famous etching, "Mrs. Pel-ham," Pel-ham," after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the original etching of which fetched, in June last, at Christie's, the record sum of 425. While most people are pleased to go through the performance of being be-ing tattooed just for the fun of the thing, as it were, many, on the other hand, approach the tattooer with a serious object in view. Eschewing all fancy designs, they choose frequently their own name and address as an aid to identification In case of accident, or, as has been the case recently, a wife may Induce her husband to have ner name tattooed on his arm as a guaranty of good faith. An official connected with one of our leading railways has had tattooed around his arm, in snake fashion, a train going at full speed. The scene Is laid at night. The shades of evening envelop the snorting locomotive loco-motive and flying carriages, while the rays of light proceeding from the opened open-ed furnace of the locomotive are effectively ef-fectively shown lighting up the cars. There are lights, tooissuing from the carriages, showing how the passengers inside are passing away the time. Some of them are reading, some sleeping, some talking, some sullenly looking out of the windows. A darkened portion of the train is passing the signal-box and the dim light therefrom faintly lights up that part of the train. The picture Is a perfect ideal of the tat-tooer's tat-tooer's art and shows the great advance ad-vance tattooing has made during recent years. Prof. Riley has never done anything any-thing more striking or effective, if, perhaps, per-haps, we except the large snake he tattooed tat-tooed all around the body of a certiln popular member of the royal farnfly, which is an extremely lifelike reptile. There are over 100,000 people in London Lon-don who bear on part of their anatomy some evidence of the tattooing needle. Charming Custom. The surroundings of a home should he made lovely and attractive to those who dwell there. If there be paths designed de-signed for comforting strolls, every tep should be pleasing. A charming fffstom is that of planting snowdrops and crocuses singly and scattered through the grass of & lawn, from which they peep In the early spring. It Bhould not be regularly planted, like a calico print, hut scattered in natural profusion. SWINDLES. TKat Have Been Successfully Worked Cpon Fawnbroke.i. New Orleans Times - Democrat: "People" who put faith in the tradition tradi-tion I shrewdness of pawnbrokers," said a veteran In the business, "would be surprised if they knew how often tl"?y are fooled into loaning more than the value of a pledge. Most of the big shops have experts who are hard to deceive, but they make mistakes now and then, while with others of less experience ex-perience overvaluation Is a distressingly distressing-ly common occurrence. A certain class of sharpers make a living victimizing pawnbrokers, and they regard them as comparative'.y easy prey. Colored stones are often used for that purpose, and I have known dozens of large loans to be made on fake rubies and emeralds. The bogus stones are usually usu-ally mixed with the good ones in the setting and are hard to detect. A few years ago an ingenious chap discovered discov-ered that by dipping an off-colored diamond dia-mond in a weak solution of aniline ink he could render it temporarily blue-white blue-white and extraordinarily brilliant. He saw a fine field for operation in the pawnshops, and these 'painted diamonds,' dia-monds,' as they were called, were worked off all over the country before the trick was exposed. A big yellow stone worth, say, $75 would look like a $500 gem and it was no trouble at all to borrow from $250 to $300 on such security. The ink cost only five cents a bottle, and so, you see, the profits were large. Another common swindle is a filled watch case, reinforced at all points where it would be apt to be tested, and pawned for solid gold. When these watches were first made there were very few pawnbrokers that didn't get one or two. The works of a watch may also be 'faked,' as the saying goes. For years a firm in Switzerland Swit-zerland made cheap works in imitation of famous and expensive varieties and forged the name on the dial and inside plate. It was only a surface imitation, but it was good enough to pass muster mus-ter at many a shop. Lots of men have been forced out of business simply because be-cause they were loaded up with worthless worth-less pledges. They were no blockheads, either, but the crooks were too clever for them." MAGIC TALES. One of the oldest forms of magic was the transformation of a person into the shape of some animal or bird. In a story by Apuleius the hero looks through the keyhole to see a witch change herself into an owl, and while trying a similar experiment is himself changed into a donkey. Unfortunately, he docs not know the secret of resuming resum-ing his own shape, except that he must wait through the winter until the spring brings back the roses, when he must devour a rosebud, which will restore re-store him. The book contains an account ac-count of his adventures and sufferings in this disguise. A story has been found in a chronicle chron-icle which is evidently a reminiscence of this superstition. The story is assigned as-signed to the eleventh century, a thousand thou-sand years after Apuleius wrote. There were two old women living in a cottage cot-tage near Rome. If a stranger came to the house alone, these ladies transformed trans-formed him into a pig or a horse, or Some other animal, and sold him, spending the guilty proceeds in "wicked "wick-ed gluttony." One day there passed along the road a young man who was by calling a minstrel and a dancer. Him they transformed Into a donkey. The victim preserved his Intellects and his skill after the transformation and performed all his former feats and tricks in asinine shape. Nothing more wonderful was ever seen than a donkey who could do conjuring tricks and could also dance and execute the most graceful capers you can imagine. im-agine. Accordingly these ladies were enabled to sell the animal for a large sum of money. A rich man bought him, and whenever when-ever he had company sent for him to amuse his friends. But the witches warned him that he must never suffer the donkey to be within reach of running run-ning water. In the end the performing animal managed to reach a stream; he drank of the water and instantly resumed his shape. "Where is my donkey?" asked Dives, bewildered and baffled. "I am the donkey," the young man replied. They took him to the judge, who heard the story, sent for the witches, and made short work with them. Feeding Bottles. Most people are of opinion that feeding feed-ing bottles for babies must be an invention in-vention of modern times. According to Prof. J. N. Mosby, noted English antiquary, an-tiquary, however, this is not the case. This gentleman, who was lecturing recently re-cently before an antiquarian society, stated that it was the custom among the Greeks for . the nurses to carry a sponge full of honey in a small pot to stop the children from crying. The professor went on to say that there are two Greek vases in the British Museum, Mu-seum, dating from 700 B. C, which closely resemble the feeding bottles used subsequently by the Romans. In the old Roman cemetery of St. Sepulchre, Sepul-chre, Canterbury, England, a feeding bottle of bright red polished ware was dug up in 1861, and Prof. Mosby came to the conclusion that this bottle must have been buried with the little Roman child to whose wants it had ministered during lifetime. Their Effect. Dairyman Ah, your reverence, those sarmons o' yourn keep stickin' in my brain for days arter! His Reverence Ah, I am sure, Johnson, John-son, that what you say is right. Only this morning my wife remarked that your Monday's milk was the creamiest and your Saturday's the thinnest of the week! Tid-Bits. lEicepted. "What do you consider the greatest object of interest in America?" asked Miss Cayenne. "Well," answered the lecturer, "I arrived here day before yesterday yes-terday and " "Of course," she exclaimed, ex-claimed, apologetically, "I meant the greatest object of interest next to yourself." your-self." Washington Star. 'A Good Idea. A good plan to dispose of magazines and illustrated papers after they have been read at home is to send them to the firemen at the nearest engine house. The time between alarms hangs heavy and reading matter never comes amiss. She Wa Fortunate. Mrs. Gadabout "That Mrs. Hard-Mad Hard-Mad next door doesn't seem to have many friends." Hostess (wearllyy-'N-no. I wonder how she manages It." New York Weekly. HER OWN FAULT. Tramp, tramp, tramp! Pray, Mrs. Melllck, Is a regiment marching over this house, or has a private lunatic asylum taken possession of It? It would be a relief to my mind to knov tli o worst." Mr. gempronius Swirton stood erect and bustling in the middle of the floor In a gorgeous dressing gown, bis light blue eyes glittering with indignation. Tm sure.. Mr. Swirton, I'm sorry, and I can only hope no offense will be took where none's intended, but when there's a 'To Let' in the house, the law demands as it should be showed to all as Is civil and decent spoken, between the hours of 12 and 4. But Mr. Swirton " "House hunters, eh?" snarled Mr. Swirton; "I wish I had the settling of them. But I tell you what, Mrs. Mel-lick, Mel-lick, admit any one of them Into this room at your peril, ma'am! I am not a wild beast in a menagerie to be exhibited ex-hibited to everyone who has a permit from the landlord, and I won't stand it. Do you hear, ma'am? I won't stand It." "It's dreadful trying," said the meek and much-enduring woman to Eliza Ann, her freckled niece, "but there's one blessing he's to be married in a few months. I pity his wife." "I don't," said Eliza Ann. "He's kind enough if you only manage him a little; and he pays his way like a prince! Hark! There goes the doorbell door-bell again." Eliza Ann, only staying for a moment mo-ment to see if the bow of blue ribbon in her saucy tresses was straight, hurried hur-ried to answer the tinkling summons. Two ladies, radiant in spring bonnets bon-nets that were all narcissus buds and yellow ribbon, and rustling silk flounces, stood there, two ladies who put the stereotyped question: "Is this house to let?" "Why, Blanche Beames!" cried Eliza Ann Melllck, "is it possible that this is you?" Miss Blanche Beames looked with some ungraciousness at poor, shabby, hard worked little Eliza Ann, half disposed dis-posed to forget that she had sat on the same bench with her at the establishment es-tablishment for young ladles kept by Mme. Tarelli (in everyday life, Mrs. Tarelly). "Yes," said Blanche, it's me. I hope you are well, Eliza Ann. Aunt Sophie and I are looking for, an eligible residence; resi-dence; I suppose we can see this one?" "Yes," said Eliza Ann, rather chilled by the frigid reception of her delighted recognition; "it's a nice place. My Aunt Melllck keeps boarders here. "Boarders!" echoed Miss Blanche Beames, drawing back the silken flounces. "How common!" "O, but they're quite nice people!" said Elisa Ann, mistaking the meaning of Miss Blanche. "Genteel, I assure yon." "I dare say," said Miss Blanche's aunt, in a patronizing, mellifluous way, I'VE BROUGHT YOUR GRUEL, SIR." "but dear "Blanche is so fastidious, and just about to be married, you know." Miss Blanche laid hold of the door handle of Mr. Swirton's room at this moment and gave it an energetic shake. "Is this door locked??" demanded he, sharply. "Why won't you open?" "O, please don't," faltered Eliza Ann; "It's one of our boarders, a particular gentleman, and I'll tell you all about the room, only he won't let anybody in." "Perhaps he don't know," said Miss Beames, purposely elevating her voice, "that we are looking with the intention inten-tion of buying." "Yes," added Aunt Sophie, her own voice rising a note or two higher, "my niece is to be married to an old man as rich as Croesus, and we want a stylish house for the ceremony. It don't matter mat-ter what we pay, for he'll settle the bills afterward. Blanche is fortunate, I assure you, Miss Melllck. "And the best of it is," add id Miss Blanche, with a laugh, "that he is so old, it won't be long before he leaver me a rich young widow." Just at this moment the door of the big second story front swung open and Mr. Sempronius Swirton stood bowing in the portal, with a red fAh upon his temples, and a peculiar mocking mock-ing smile playing around his lips. "Walk in, ladies, walk in!" said he, "you are quite welcome to look at this room. I don't allow it to be shown in general, but you shall be an exception to the rule." "Sempronius!" faltered Blanche. "But you were mistaken about two little things," remorsely went on the old gentleman; "I shan't settle any little lit-tle bills of your contracting neither do I intend to leave Blanche there a rich young widow. To be my widow, it is first necessary that you should become my wife, my dear, and I've changed my mind on that subject. And, with a flourish, Mr. Swirum shut the door and retreated once more into his privacy. When the peaceful twilight shadows settled over the chimney pots all was restored to quiet again, and Mr. Swirton Swir-ton meditated deeply. "I'm well out of that scrape," said he to himself, "and it's a good thing I found Miss Blanche out in time to spoil that piece of fun about the young widow! But there's the wedding suit ordered, and the wedding ring, and I'd made up my mind to marry somebody. Is that you, Eliza Ann?" "Yes, sir," meekly responded that faded young person. "Upon my word, Eliza Ann," said Mr. Swirton, "you've learned to make gruel exceedingly well, and you're a good girl, Eliza Ann. Did you ever think of getting married?" "Dear me. what a strange question!" said Eliza Ann. "I've a mind to marry you myself, Eliza Ann," said the bachelor abruptly. And so Eliza Ann Mellick married the rich old bachelor, after all, and Miss Blanche still remains Miss Blanche. London News. Her Way. Friend "Do you perJtiit your wife to have her own way?" Husband (positively) (posi-tively) "No, sir. She has it without my permission." lit w$&- HER "RATIONAL DRESS." Lady Harberton a Good Deal Dlsguted at Lord Salisbury. . "One reads Lord Salisbury's remarks at the Royal Academy banquet on the subject of women's dress with some amazement," said Lady Harberton to a representative of the London Daily News. "Evidently the outline presented present-ed by some cycling skirts and 'ratlon-als' 'ratlon-als' are not what his lordship happens to consider graceful, and that such forms as do not come up to a certain ideal standard are to be relegated to a place at once low and warm! But let the members of the Rational Dress league and others take heart, for when we consider the popular pictures of uie noble lord himself, smothered in greatcoats, great-coats, and in outline otherwise unlike representations of Apollo Belvidere, we mey be sure that wherever we are there ako will he be. The place to which he wculd consign us may be warm, but at least it will not be dull, for our witty premier will be present to cheer us with some of his delightful comments on passing events. In the meantime let us look with calm collectedness at the position women's dress is beginning begin-ning to assume in the public mind. If sk'rted dress with its attendant disgusting dis-gusting nakedness for evening dress is rer.lly so charming and desirable, it seems strange that it should require so much bolstering up on all sides to prevent pre-vent a revolution. But the fact is that education and knowledge of hygiene ! are slowly beginning to bear fruit, and the exceeding folly and discomfort of women's dress are becoming a little too glaring for them to be quite sure a change would not be desirable. That the dresses worn for cycling are not necessarily Indecent, because made on a new principle, is now admitted on all hands. Rude remarks and things of that sort become, therefore, a distinct interference with individual liberty, and signs are not wanting on the part of the public that the day of quiescent toleration of insults to women because they prefer to cycle in a dress which enables them to do so in comfort and safety is nearly over. So, perhaps, Lord Salisbury may find himself frequently in the company of cycling skirts and knickerbockers, without going to such a far-off place as he hinted at in his speech." DIDN'T LIKE HIS LUNCHES. How the Beauteous Cloak Model Fooled Her Admiring Employer. The heroine of all this is a beauteous beau-teous cloak model, and the story romance, ro-mance, comedy, tragedy, or whatever you choose to call it is told by the heavy villain himself, says the New York Commercial-Advertiser. The latter lat-ter is a gentleman of persuasive manners man-ners and much wealth. He is the cloak model's employer, and (he doe3 not tell this part of himself) had tned for something like a year to induce the lovely creature to accept an invitation to luncheon. She finally accepted (he tells that part) and was duly escorted by him to a restaurant noted tor its swell company and its ruinous prices. The lady promptly proved that her looks were superior to her manners. (Her host tells that.) She swallowed her soup from the end of the spoon, with a sound like the exhaust pipe of a bathtub. In the consumption of her entree she performed the feats of an Asiatic sword-swallower; she conveyed her salad to her mouth with her lingers lin-gers and drank her coffee from the saucer. Before she had time to eat the lemon "from the finger bowl her employer was ready to quit (he telU that, too), and later he asked his friends, tearfully, if it was not a shame so lovely a girl should have had such a vile bringing up. The model gave her own version of the affair to her associates In "the store." "I was afraid I'd get fired if I didn't go," she explained, "but," naively, "I don't think he'll ask me again." She dined that night in Sixth avenue with her "steady," and her table manners were those of an empress. The employer does not tell that part. How can he? He doesn't know it. ATLANTIC STEAMER'S LARDER. Two and a Half Tons of Butter Are Used. One tidy little refrigerator about six feet wide and twice that depth is the butterman's stall in this market under the sea. Little tubs of butter are arranged on shelves to the amount of 5,000 pounds, and in company with these are 20.000 eggs. Twenty-five hundred quarts of milk and cream are stored in a separate room, all having been sterilized. This market has a room especially for salt meats, and here are hams, bacon and tongue to the amount of 4,000 pounds. There are some articles of food without wnich the epknre would be unhappy, and which must be alive when cooked. Chief among these are oysters, of which 16,000 are carried to meet the wants o( the passengers. Clams are only provided pro-vided to the number of 1,500. Lobsters are not abundantly supplied; 7uU pounds is all the toreroom shelters. This market in the bottom of the ship contains, beside the things mentioned, fruits, green vegetables and an enormous enor-mous stock of groceries. The latter is only limited by space, for groceries are not perishable goods and will keep from one voyage to another until used. Tea and coffee are used In largs amounts about thirty-three pounds a day xt tea and fifty pounds of coffee Perishable -..pplies are taken on board in proportion to the number of passengers passen-gers booked, and anything of this kind which is left over when the ship reaches port is eaten by the crew. Ladies' Home Journal. Death Penalty. The death penalty is rarely enforced in Germany, Austria, Denmark or Sweden. In New York eleven out of twelve murderers escape without ay punishment, and in the United States only one murderer in fifty suffers capital cap-ital punishment. A S9.0OO Dinner. The bill for the Bradley Martin dinner din-ner in New York for 86 persons footed up $9,525, of which ?53 was olives, caviare, ca-viare, celery, radishes and bread, which shows that the Bradley Martins do not overlook the little luxuries of a dinner. No Cause for Doubt "I'm afraid I won't be able to get through," faltered the young knight, preparing for his first tourney. "Never fear!" grinned his opponent, as he playfully poised his lance, "111 run you through." Answers. A Clean Sweep. "Somebody broke into my stable last night and stole my best harness. "Didn't he leave any trace?" "None. He took the traces and U.m Cleveland Plain Dealer, FOE WOMEN AND HOME ITEMS OF" INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. Some Current Fashions for Old and Young A Girl's Costume A Summer ' Fancj Millinery for June, July and August Household Affairs. When Iove Comes Home. Lie still, O my love, lay your head upon my breast. Forget the shame and the sorrow of the past. I have waited, while you wandered through the East and through te West. For I knew that you would turn to me at last. I was patient, and I waited, for I knew that you would come, Bhamed and stricken, spent and weary, when ybu heard me call you home; Heard me sing once more the song, You've not heard so long, so long; Hearken now, and dream that once again we wander side by side, Calling through the mountains to the sheep at eventide. From a poem by Fannie B. Leighton in the Illustrated American Magazine. Summer Millinery. Straw is shown in an infinite variety of combinations in summer millinery, according to the Milliners' Trade Review, Re-view, and much of it. may compare for lightness, delicacy of coloring and minutiae of detail with the most complicated com-plicated flower-petal shapes and those which are made completely of tulle or gauze. Many of the fancy shapes are "made of paillarson braids, edged on one side with three or more tiny frillings of straw, chosen in as many shades. Brims have sometimes two braids on the edge, or the brim is made of three separate layers, and when these are bent upward and waved the little ruchings with which they are bordered form a trimming in themselves, them-selves, and only need some flowers exhibiting the same variety of shadw as the straw to complete them, these being placed either against .ue brim, turned up against the crown, or on the side of the crown itself. Plain straws are also made with several layers lay-ers on the brim, the widest being flat and the other slightly full, so as to undulate gracefully. A bergere hat made in this way, of plain, fine violet straw, is trimmed with a voluminous drapery of violet tulle, on which bands of plain straw are sewn every two inches. The &'raw bands give a certain cer-tain firmness to the tulle, so that when arranged in big poufs it keeps its shape, care being taken to stitch it down through the braids. A half-coronet half-coronet of Bordeaux-colored roses finishes fin-ishes this hat charmingly. Paillarsons woven In two colors promises to be a good deal worn, especially in small shapes and toques. These may be trimmed with turban-like arrangements arrange-ments of tulle forming a ulg pouf In front, tulle of the two colors being used. Suppose the straw to be woven of dull red and flax blue or stern green and lilac, the drapery would be formed of four doubles of tulle, the colors placed alternately, and then arranged in a torsade. When the straw is of one color the trimming may be chosen an exact match. Latest Ideas In Millinery. A small, golden-yellow satin straw hat, something of the cocked-hat Ehape, with points over the ears, having hav-ing two white ostricn feathers placed against the upturned brim In front beneath a cluster of tea-roses, one curling round the right side, the other to the left, is among the latest ideas on millinery, according to the Millinery Milli-nery Trade 'Review. The white tulle strings are fastened to the back. A Bergere hat in rose-pink fancy straw,-trimmed straw,-trimmed with four bunches of .hydrangea .hy-drangea blossoms, shaded from pale pink to blue, i3 tied under the chin A SUMMER Youthfulnes3 i3 by no means an idea to be discarded in the designing of midsummer gowns; in fact, one might almost say that it is the keynote of midsummer fashions. It is a fact not generally known that gathers add more youth and grace to a gown than any other mode of treat-ment. treat-ment. A midsummer costume is shown in this illustration made of green muslin mus-lin figured in pale purple violets. The kirt is finished with a "Dewey" ruffle trimed with narrow ribbon, and two smaller frills. The girdle consists of folds of light purple satin ribbon ter- with extremely light blue tulle, a portion por-tion of which Is puffed in among the pink blooms on the left. The last model on this list a black Tuscan turned up in front has for chief decoration deco-ration a long scarf of pale turquoise blue surah, the whole width of the silk, which, after torming a loop to fix the brim to the crown, is carried round to the back and serves for strings. To this is added a cluster of forget-me-not leaves placed on the iwyht of the pcuf. Fas hi. 'ii of the Day. This very stylish little frock Is made, according to the accompanying illustration, of white lawn trimaied with embroidered insertion and edging. edg-ing. The waist lining is fitted by undev-arm and shoulder seams, and is overlaid to yoke depth. To the lower edge of the yoke facing the full front and backs are attached by gathers, being first gradually shaped at the upper edges; these portions are connected con-nected by under-arm and tiny shoulder shoul-der seams, and are shirred at the waist line. The scalloped bretelles are attached at-tached as indicated by the perforations of the pattern, and the two-seamed sleeve, which is gathered into the arm-hole, arm-hole, is surmounted by scalloped epaulets epau-lets and faced at the wrist. The neck edge is completed by a band collar, and the closing is effected down the center of the back. To the lower edge of the bodice the three-piece skirt is smoothly attached; its lower edge is completed by a deep hem or facing, and the circular flounces, which are scalloped at the lower edge, are joined smoothly to it, one above the other. The pattern may be developed tastefully taste-fully in swiss, organdie, lawn, dimity, duck, pique, chambray, gingham, percale, per-cale, China silk, cashmere, serge or chal'lis, and may be trimmed with braid, gimp, ribbon, lace, insertion, embroidery or ruching of the material. Copyright by Standard Fashion Company. Dressy Shirt Waists. The conventional style of the shirt waist as we have seen it year after year is this season frequently changed for more dressy rorms, including inserted in-serted fronts of all-over embroidery fancy yokes of pink or brilliant red dotted with white, etc., with cuffs and belt to match. However, there is a certain cer-tain air of trimness and severity lost in the change and while the more expensive ex-pensive models may find purchasers among those who crave novelty, there are yet many who will still prefer the old styles made of new fabrics. FANCY. mlnating at the side with a full bow and long ends. The waist has a short, round bolero of the satin which is detachable. de-tachable. This bolero is, however, so light weight that it can be worn throughout the season, and it gives quite a touch of elegance to the gown. The sleeves are small, trimmed with two rufiles of the dress goods, edged with narrow ribbon. They are finished at the wrist with deep rufiles of lace. An English walking hat in rose green is designed to accompany the gown, trimmed with loops of purple satin ribbon and pale green rosea. CAMPEIEE SKETCHES GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. Offifhtl Thieving Among the Spanish In' the Philippines What Our Officers Have to Contend With How Capt. Moffatt Coined a New Word. The Awakening. But yesterday I parsed along this way. And naught of life or beauty could discern dis-cern In all the valley lone. Strange wintry shadows lay Across the brook's brown rim, and on the withered fern That drooped beside it was the cold white gleam Of April's frozen rain. But yesterday! And lo! as in a dream To-day I walk the self-same path again. Silent and dark no more, for fount and loosened stream Flash in and out among the springing weeds. Making low laughter In the tufted reeds And elders straight and tall While clear and sweet across the tangled tan-gled brakes I hear (what tender memories It wakes!) A bluebird's piping call. Adelaide X. Houston in Collier's Weekly. Week-ly. Official Thieving. One obstacle with which the United States has had constantly to contend in the Philippines is the suspicion of American motives by the natives. This is primarily a racial characteristic of the Malay stock, from which the natives na-tives are descended, but an incident reported re-ported by Mr. J. F. Bass, correspondent of Harper's Weekly, is deeply suggestive. sugges-tive. When the city of Manila fell into our hands, one Captain Moffat, a plain American citizen, "who had managed a newspaper somewhere out West," was made a superintendent of prisons. Three Spaniards were administering the affairs of the institutions when Captain Moffat assumed control, and they gladly consented to remain temporarily tem-porarily in charge. Captain Moffat, however, was a keen observer, and a quiet investigation which he instituted soon disclosed the fact that one-half the sum allowed by law for the maintenance of each prisoner pris-oner was regularly diverted to the pockets of the three Spaniards. The prisoners were suffering from the necessities nec-essities of life, but their keepers were waxing fat. As soon as the evidence was complete, Captain Moffat placed the three men under arrest. "What is the charge?" asked the Spaniards. When told, they greeted it with laughter. "Why," they exclaimed, "that is nothing but our beneficio!" "We call it robbio," said Captain Moffat, as he committed them for trial. The significant thing about the incident in-cident is the laugh with which the Spaniards greeted the charge of embezzlement. em-bezzlement. To them, evidently, their actions represented only what any man with their opportunities would have done. It is not surprising that suspicion sus-picion should be the normal attitude of a people whose knowledge of political morals is drawn from the conduct of Spanish officials. The value of the lesson les-son will be lost if the United States acts upon the assumption that the only j question to be considered in connection with the Filipinos is between Spanish and American civilization. There are doubtless incorruptible Spaniards. Spain's mistake has been in not putting them in authority in her colonies. There are plenty of corrupt Americans. Our safety will depend upon cess in keeping them at hor of office. ;uc-"K ;uc-"K Authority in the Philipp be a matter in which indivn rity and competence alone ai ered, and not personal ambitio.. political preferment. entleness of War. War Is savage in its very nature one looks for war among savages to jc peculiarly barbarous. That such is not always the case among the people of Samoa Is attested by a letter sent from Samoa by an American gentleman who recently visited Apia, and who gives a description of Mataafa's army in camp after a battle between the rival claimants claim-ants to the throne. We went all about among the huts where the savages were resting after the battle and making preparations for the next fight. It was a very peaceful scene, for their arms were all concealed under the mats where the men sat, and many of the soldiers were accompanied by their wives and children. They were amusing themselves by smoking and beating tom-toms. The Samoans are a most amiable race of savages, and white people are always perfectly safe among them. Everywhere we were greeted with smiles and friendly nods and the salutation, salu-tation, "Talofa," which means, "Love to you," from men, women and children. chil-dren. One instance of their friendly feeling occurred during the big battle. A white man, who lived in the street where they were fighting, saw that two of his horses had strayed out between the hostile lines. He did not want to lose them, and he did not want to venture ven-ture out in the line of fire. So he stuck a white flag out of his window. Upon seeing it, both chiefs ordered their men to stop firing, and hostilities were suspended while the white man went ont and drove his horses to a place of shelter. Then the combatants went at it again. When Lincoln Sat for His Picture. The death of Joseph Medill, late editor ed-itor of the Chicago Tribune, recalls the story of a picture of Lincoln, the one by which he became known to the country, taken very soon after his first nomination for the presidency. A correspondent cor-respondent of the New York Sun gives the incident in Mr. Medill's words: I knew him so well that we called each other Abe and Joe. He came to see me in the Tribune office soon after his nomination. I said to him, after we had talked of more important matters: "Abe, there are not many people in the country who know how you look. You must have your picture taken. Why not do it now? I'll go with you." Snapshots were unknown then, and so were newspaper artists, as they are called. Lincoln went to his hotel to fix up, and I called for him at the appointed ap-pointed time. I think he saw that I was surprised. "How do I look?" he asked. His coat was buttoned from top to bottom, but it was his hair which made him look strange. He had evidently wet it, and it was brushed to the skin and across his temples as smoothly as if it had been Ironed. "It will never do," I said, as soon as I could recover breath. "Abe, you never could be elected president if the country thought you wore your hair that way." H looked at me as if he were dated. He had plastered his hair down in thai way honestly and innocently. He looked in the mirror, and then that peculiar expression of humor dawned in his face. He took both hands and shoved them through his hair until It looked like a brush heap after a hurri- ane. Then he turned toward me, and I told him that was more like him. We proceeded to the photographer's, where Lincoln ran his long fingers, through his hair again. From the picture pic-ture then taken all copies for campaign purposes were made, and whatever caricatures and cartoons' were made of him during the campaign were suggested sugges-ted by that picture. "oblesse Obi ice." It Is not every host who has the art to prevent an awkward guest from feeling feel-ing ill at ease. The London papers tell a story of one such host. Not long ago the officers of the Twenty-first Lancers, a corps which has rendered itself famous by a gallant charge at the battle of Omdurman, gave a non-commissioned officer who had distinguished himself at the charge a mark of honor by inviting him one evening to a seat at their table. He had been decorated with the Victoria Cross, and this distinction was well won. The young man came. Colonel Sir Robert White presided at the dinner. The non-commissioned officer was somewhat ill at ease, being unaccustomed unaccus-tomed to the dinner customs of polite society. He did. very well until the finger-bowls were brought around; then, imagining that the bowl which was handed to him contained some new kind of drink, he lifted it and drank out of it. This presented a serious emergency to his host, for if the other guests proceeded pro-ceeded to make the proper use of their bowls, the non-commissioned officer would discover his mistake, and be humiliated. The colonel was not willing will-ing that the pleasure of his brave guest should be marred by any such humilia tion. He therefore rose, and was imitated imi-tated in this by the other officers. Tiien he took up his finger-bowl; the rest did the same. "Gentlemen," he said, " I ask you to drink with me the health of our brave guest who now wears the Victoria Cross!" Then he drank every drop of the tepid water in his finger-bowl, as did all the other officers. The story is a good one, but one wonders what the non-commissioned officer will think when, as is likely to be the case some time if his advancement advance-ment continues, he learns the proper function of a finger-bowl. Thrashing a King;. During the Ashanti campaign there was a grotesque exhibition of a native policeman's indifference to -the "divinity" "divin-ity" that "doth hedge a king." General Gen-eral Colley, then the major commanding command-ing the transport column, writing to his sister, describes how one monarch had his foolishness driven out of him by "the rod of correction." He says: I am afraid one's idea of the majesty "that doth enshroud a king" is not exalted ex-alted in this country. At one station on my way down I heard a rov in camp during the night, and the next morning morn-ing sent to inquire what it was. A native na-tive police corporal of mine, a first-rate fellow, came up and saluted. "Heard row in Mankassln camp last night, sir. Found king making great noise, gambling with his subjects. Very bad form, sir. Gave king great thrashing, sir." WHY JAPAN LIKES AMERICA. A Deep Undercurrent of Sympathy Its Cause. It was not that America first discovered dis-covered and opened Japan to the world, says the Atlantic Monthly; it was not that alone of the western powers she refunded her share of the ill-gotten Shimonosiki spoils; it was not even that, from the first, the western republic re-public was seen to have no "ax to grind" in its professions of friendship for the rejuvenated empire. It was for none of these things that Japan has so steadfastly cleaved to her first love. These were mere incidents in. the course of that love, which has been all the time a deep undercurrent of real sentiment, based upon an instinctive recognition of American magnanimity. Russia, from the beginning, has been the object of an equally strong instinctive instinc-tive dread, which is now and always will be impossible to overcome. England, Eng-land, admired and respected as the masterful nation of the world, has never won the Japanese heart. Quick to recognize the unconquerable British prejudice against all Asiatics, no such thing as genuine affection has ever existed ex-isted between the island empires of the east and of the west. France, in turn, has appealed to the aesthetic sensibilities sen-sibilities of the Japanese, but there the friendship ends, for it rests on nothing solid or enduring. Germany, with its impressive imperialism and its spirit of intense loyalty to the fatherland, has struck a responsive chord in the Japanese breast, which always thrills at the watchwords of empire and loyalty. loy-alty. But apart from this sentiment there is nothing in common between the German and the Japanese natures. Had there ever been, Germany, together to-gether with France, has forfeited all possible claims to the nation's regard by joining hands with Russia to inflict upon Japan its bitter humiliation. England Eng-land and America alone, among all the powers of the west, can now count the rising empire of the east as a friend; and as between the two there is no shadow of doubt where the preference lies. Japan, for many reasons, would hesitate long before forming an alliance al-liance with England alone, but instinct as well" as policy would draw this nation na-tion with irresistible force Into the triple compact which, we all now trust, i3 to dominate the peace of the world. John's Good M-als. Several ladies sat .n a parlor a few evenings ago and discussed the virtues of their husbands. Mr. Bingleton," said one of them, referring to her life partner, "never drinks, never swears nor does he chew." "Does he ever smoke?" some one asked. "Yes, he always lights a cigar just after he has eaten a good meal. But I suppose that on an average he doesn't smoke more than once a month." Some of her friends laughed, but she didn't seem to understand why. Questions. Wagg Howler has just recovered from the measles and now he has broken out again. Wigg Relapse? Wagg Worse; anti-expansion poem. Cleveland Leader. There is no sin whatever which will not, if persisted in, be a rock of shipwreck ship-wreck to our faith and hopea. Blslue |