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Show WOMAN'S WORLD. ; Worker Mrs. Booth of the Sal- " - vation Army. . WOMiM SLFFHAGE IN MASSACHUSETTS. ! Drawing Room Furnishings. The i Story of Buckie Brown. I 'I'll'.- must irnprrssive affair of tho past few wwks w;i when lin; puh.tma.ster back from the river. She was a great lover of flowers, bat her taste rather ran to colors than what others might call beauty. She was exceedingly hospitable, hospita-ble, anil often entertained friends with a dinner of her own cooking, which was a marvel, and topped off with her f anion? gingerbread was a dinner never to b forgotten. iier years of toil and trouble did nol go for naught, aa she leaves quite a sum of money to her children. In tho fall of lti$ masked men broke into her cabin, and nut finding aa much money aa they expected, they tortured the old woman horribly. The fiends who perpetrated I the fearful deed have never been discov- ing to --ay. If sue talks, it is about ih 1 weather ur the tcenery or the world in, general. Loudon Letter. Huw One Coat Waa Started. Sum time ago Lady Dunio, who ha- nt'VHr got uver her nste for theatr rai ap;arel. U li ' wearing a big ma.cui:ue j ii. coat ul white ib-ltuu cloth. It was intended tu by w.iru as a coaching coat, but Lady Duulo wurc it everywhere with the collar turned up about her ears aud her hands thru.st iuto her pockets. It wiisn'r long before these white Melton bo.t coats appeared conspicuously everywhere every-where in London, and now the Aineri- can girls are bringing them over here for general's wife opened tle-ir hoi Lie to a fashionable company a-ked to "a talk" ' by Mn. lialhugton Booth of the Salva- I tion Army. It was a woman's audience I all prominent women, from tho pres- J ident's wife down through the senatorial ; circle. They had come prepared for 1 well, certainly not what they saw and heard. Their faces, full of intent interest, i ! and much of the time wet with tears, were i aw great a study aa the woman with the I Madonna expression and inspired voice i who stood before them. If any one had 1 come prepared for cant and Bensatiomd j ! effects, tho very thought must have 1 i vanished beforo the beautiful face, 1 I young, pure, and strong; tones bo sweet 1 and hrm and manner so modest aud ' womanly. i As thin young English woman Btepoed forward to be introduced by the Kev. : Dr. Hamlin, of the Church of the Covenant, Cov-enant, t he-re was nothing in the simple well fitting black gown and quaint black bonnet to mark her calling. It was only now ami then that a turn of the head showed the little narrow band half around the bonnet crown, with the words m red letters, "Salvation Army." Though Knglish by birth and education, and ua-' ua-' til three years ago by residence, Mrs. Booth is not, save for a very slight accent, ac-cent, in the least like an English woman, i In tvue she is purely American.. Mis. Booth Is tho. daughter of a London Lon-don clergyman, reared in orthodox faith, ; aud, as is plainly evident, is thoroughly I educated. She began work in the ttalva-! ttalva-! tion Army eight years ago, when but ! seventeen, and with sister workers doing j 'rescue work" in the lowest quarters of London. Not long after her marriage to General Booth's son, Ballington Booth, i she came with her husband to this conn-i conn-i try, where he has become a citizen, and where their child, now two and a half ' years old, was born, "a boy," as the mother proudly says, "who will be a i citizen of the United States." The love for her own baby has made this young mother's heart even larger ' and more tender, and in one of the lowest low-est neighborhoods in New York city she has established a day nursery, where h',r bien of tho poorest, most wretched, and often depraved mothers are taken care of. Seventeen hundred babies were received re-ceived there last year. Not only are the little unfortunates cared for day by day, but in this way, as in no other possible, the mothers are reached and helped to better lives. Another method of "rescue work" is donning the tatters of poverty, going into the very slums, where church work with Bibles and tracts would be power-i power-i less, and living the practical religion of i raring for the sick, and for the time eet-' eet-' ting down to the lovel of the lowest. : Washington Cor. Springfield Republican. meir coacning trips, iney nave many recommendations to the American fashionable fash-ionable mind. They are neither pretty, nor suitable, nor becoming, nor cheap. New York Post. Among the unusual inventions patented patent-ed by women are improved bottle stoppers, stop-pers, improved method of fastening door knobs to their spindles, an appliance for plucking hair to be used in the dressing of furs, improved method of preparing leather for the soles of boots and shoes, i for improvements in electric arc lamps, and for more reliable indicators specially spe-cially applicable for use on the rolling stock of railways. Mrs. Bay ley, of Manchester, is a most courageous and enthusiastic fisher woman. wom-an. Despite the inclemency of tho weather, which it would seem that only hardened gillies could endure, this lady bravely faced the elements and landed on one trip six magnificent salmon, three of which weighed 23, 22 and 20 pounds respectively. Mr. Bayley succeeded suc-ceeded in lauding only four hsh on this ! occasion. The queen regent of Spain is a very i much overworked and worried woman, j despite her rank and authority. She is suffering from acute nervous prostration, and has been advised by her physicians to leave Madrid for a time to obtain per- feet rest from her anxieties. This she i cannot do for fear of endangering the security of her son's throne if she relaxes her vigilance in regard to state affairs. The smallest shoes in trade are made for Annie Pixley, who trips about the I country in No. 2. According to the same authority Mary Anderson wears 4. Lillian Russell, 4; Ada Rehan, 5; Lillie Langtry, 5J; Ellen Terry, U, aud ; Maud Kendal, 0. Bernhardt takes a : No. 4 bust, tmt the long use of sandals J has spoiled her feet for French boots and Spanish slippers. It ti Kinney Reno, the Nashville authoress, au-thoress, is the wife of Robert Ross Reno, who comes from the Rosses of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, aud who, with the Haldemans and Camerons, claims a share in the estate es-tate of old Philippe Francois P-enault, valued at 1)0,01)0,000. Mrs. Roas has j just completed a new novel. She is a j hard worker and frequently writes four- teen hours a day. A perfect foot is a rare beauty. The foot of Pauline Bonaparto, which was modeled by Canova. is spoken of by contemporaries con-temporaries as of marvelous beauty. She was well aware that her feet were the perfection of form and tint, aud bad them as daintily cared for as were her hands, -the nails being polished and rouged by her maid. : Here is an idea. Artists will pay good prices for the frames of old pianos. They i use the wood for panels to paint on. The j seasoning of the wood is such that it I will retain tho brilliancy of color longer I than any kind of canvas or other material. emL. For the past two years 6he has made her home witn ner son Samnel. She was eighty-five years of age, and the immediate cause of her death was a heavy fall that crushed and broke hei right hip bone. Butler (Pa.) Herald. ( A Woman's Hand. 1 It is only recently that the manicure industry has invaded London. It is now 1 in that city an established trade, as it h;is been for some time over here. An English paper, however, is still sufficiently suffi-ciently impressed with its flourishing to announce as a rather curious piece of information that some women who have plenty of leisure and money "go aa often as once a week to the manienre court," which will not strike an American reader read-er as remarkably frequent. Many New i York women send their maids to learn , the trade of the manicure, and thus se- cure daily trained care of their hands. J It is a fact, by the way, tested by ex-: ex-: pert observation, that pretty women rarely have pretty hands. And it was s ; wiso woman who said: "Give me a pair of tine eyes, a good carriage and a pretty : hand and I will marry the king." So i high an authority as Disraeli, too, ex-I ex-I tolled the charm of a beautiful hand in i woman, and ascribed to it a means of fascination which never disappears. ! "Women," he says, "carry a beautiful I hand with them to the grave, when it j beautiful face has long ago vanished or ; ceased to enchant. When other charms I have all disappeared the hand, immortal j hand, defying alike time and care, still I vanquishes and still triumphs, and ! Binall, soft and fair, by an airy attitude, j a gentle pressure, or a new ring, renewB with untiring grace the spell that bound i our enamored and adoring youth." New York Letter. She Found Her Lover Dead. A few days ago Mr. John C. Gore, a highly respectable and prominent citizen ! of Gainesboro, being informed of his ap-j ap-j proaching dissolution, at his request a I messenger was sent after his affianced ! bride, Miss Etta DycuH, who resides with j her father and mother seven miles beyond be-yond Gainesboro. The bravery and de-i de-i votion of this young lady is a matter of I admiration and universal commendation where the facts are known. She crossed Cumberland river, which waa very high, in a canoe, after dark and rode on horseback horse-back to Gainesboro, much of the way through woods surrounding the waters, at one place swimming her horse across a channel of backwater. When she and her guide arrived death had already claimed his own, and this noble and devoted young woman was given up to the most poignant, grief. They were to have been married in a very short time. At the funeral in the presence of a crowded house, in accordance accord-ance with his dying request, his Masonic pin was presented to the young lady by the acting muster of the lodge in appropriate ap-propriate language with the benedictions of the Masonic fraternity. There were no dry eyes in the vast assembly. Cooka-ville Cooka-ville (Tenn.) Press. Good for ATltta Caroline Husliticsl At a recent meeting of the school board Miss Uaroliue Hastings ottered au ordci that in all documents, records, etc. , of the ' school board giving the names of teachers, teach-ers, their baptismal names shall be given without abbreviation or diminutive. In support of her order Miss Pv stings said it was a shame to use sui names, as Nellie, Susie, Carrie, Hattie and Mamie in the official records of tho board. Teachers should assume the dignity which the places that they are called upon to fill demand. They should at least give a name that is in accordance with the calling they have chosen. If they were so unfortunate as to have been baptized Susie, Nellie, etc., Miss Hastings Hast-ings hoped the next generation would be more fortunate. When Miss Hastings was a girl herself her family and intimate friends called her Carrie. At one time she was about to have some cards printed with the name "Carrie," but a wise brother saved her. The order was passed. Boston Record. llcnt la Seeded lit the Spring;. The warning not to turn off heat too early and not to make haste to put away stoves in the spring needs to be spoken often. Many swrinns rases of illness have oeen traced to the foolish practice of letting let-ting down the winter fire as soon as the first mild breezes of spring blow. It is time enough in this changeable climate to let the winter fire down by May, and there are many cold days in May when a fire is needed. The spring, when the stoves are taken down, and not the fall, when they are put up again, Is tho proper time to Bee that stove flues and chimneys and all parts of the paraphernalia parapher-nalia of the heating apparatus of the house are cleaned. It is an easy matter for the man to attend to this cleaning in the spring, before the general house-cleaning house-cleaning is done. If everything is done now, at one time, instead of putting dirty Btoves away to stand for six months to be cleaned when they are needed, a great deal of tremble will be saved. New York Tribune. Perfectly Self Fit tin C Hoi wry. An invention recently patented consists con-sists in making any article of hosiery, for either under or outside wear, in such a manner as to render it perfectly self fitting, without being narrowed or stitches reduced or widened, or the stitches increased in any way by transforming trans-forming the fabric at intervals and so as to give the required Bhapes. This consists con-sists of two kinds of fabrics, termed one-and-one rib and two-and-two rib. These two kinds of fabrics are made and joined iu the knitting at one operation without changing, transferring or in any way narrowing any stitch or stitches during the process of manufacture. This causes, by the increased elasticity of the two-and-two rib over the one-and-one rib, the decrease in size to the necessary shape, and when changed again to one-and-one rib the fabric is again of its original width. These changes are effected ef-fected without any seaming, linking, sewing or any other device hitherto used for this purpose. Textile Mercury. A Great Sinpet' TYay. Mme. Pauline Lncca is now forty-eight years old and has decided to retire permanently per-manently from the stage. She is said to be the most approachable of all the great artists, fcicores of young singers besiege her home every week, who beg to be allowed al-lowed to sing to her for an opinion. The lovely Lucca listens on these conditions, "that scales or an exercise be selected in preference to a solo," "and that silence' ! be interpreted as an expression of my dislike." II the singer has a voice she ia praised and encouraged, put to the many whose vocal powers do not justify tha expense of study she absolutely noth-' Woman Suffrage In Massachusetts. The legislature will soon reach the discussion dis-cussion of the bill for municipal suffrage for women. Perseverance ifl the stronghold strong-hold of the woman suffrage cause, and this measure will be urged with the force and earnestness and eloquence that springs from belief in a just cause. If it fails, the battle will be only adjourned i to another session. The knight errants i of the cause ot woman's rights know no such word as defeat. Little by little the strong walls of prejudice and custom and iuberited injustice have yielded, and the position of women, legally and in almost al-most every other way, is vastly different ', from what it was when the agitators be-j be-j gan this crusade, though political equality equal-ity is still withheld. At first ostracised, then ignored, then laughed at, their cause has of late reached reach-ed a point where its opponents find it needful to drop sarcasm, cease sneering and train all their big guns of argument and iutluence against the once despised and unpopular measure. Younger Btates have passed and surpassed Massachusetts in the granting of rights to women, and some of the old ones are yet in the rear. Municipal suffrage is the next step here. It is the measure for which the strongest arguments can be made, appending for the voice of women in the legislation that nearest affects their own homes. Of course there are many women who don't want suffrage. It is not proposed i that they shall be compelled to vote. Of couise, too, there are some unable to appreciate ap-preciate that they have gained anything in that their sex is no longer doomed to inferiority and branded with ignorance, Springfield Homestead. I i Drawing Room Furnishings. No thoroughly smart drawing room is considered quite complete in these days without a glass topped table in which are kept on show all the especially odd bits of curio aud antique trifles possessed pos-sessed by its owner. A fragment of rare old lace, a miniature, au ivory fan, dim and quaint jewelry, and especially Binall dainty pieces of chintz, are all scattered in apparent disorder over the silk liniug of the table, aud the plate glass above it, glistening with diamond brightness, enhances the charm of the collection most effectively. The linings of these tables should be of old rose, pale blue, or green, or a silver sil-ver gray. The fashion is oue that existed ex-isted 150 years ago in Europe, and a few of the drawing rooms have tables of that time, "banded down," of course, by family ancestors. They may be bought, however, at very high prices, i and the furniture dealer will sell a rec-J rec-J ord with each to show from what palace j it came and which duchess it was that kept her miniatures and fans in it. The furnishing of fashionable drawing draw-ing rooms, by the way, is undergoing an important change just now. For the j past ten years it has been the custom to crowd the rooms with chairs o( every device, tables, cabinets, divans and lamps. Now the other extreme is favored, fav-ored, and a drawing room to be correct must contain the fewest possible articles of furniture, aud the few chairs mnst be set Hat against the wall. With one sofa and a table the room is thought Complete. Tbis is also an English fashion, fash-ion, dating back 150 years. New York I Sun. Tho Story or Heckle llrowo. ! Beckio Brown, the "ferryman" of Brown's ferry, nar Carmichaels, who I died recently, had worked that ferry ! forty years siugle handed and alone. She ; was the widow of James Brown, who ! died before the war, and Beckie con-, ! tinned to placidly work at the ferry. In her early days she attended all the fairs. 1 ; horseraces and old time musters, peddling ped-dling gingerbread and spruce beer, both , famous, as she made them herself. She had a secret preparation for her ginger-. ginger-. bread that inadt it famous, and no doubt did a great deal toward making it fa miliar at all the local fairs. HUo never told her secret to any one, and with Beckie died the gingerbread. For the past twenty years she has lived, alone in a moss covered cabin just |