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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
Fashion Items.

Newmarket jackets, both long and
short, are again in high vogue.
The blouse bodice ranks next TO the
Camargo bodice in popularity.
Hoop earrings, set with diamonds
and other jewels, arc very fashionably
worn.
Cloth toques and velvet jockey caps
will be worn with costumes of cloth and
of velvet
A favorite brocaded velvet, used just
now both for wraps and costumes,
shows light ground of almond or pale
doe color, with large brocaded figures
in dark plum, ruby and golden brown.
The satin or velvet made up with this
material sometimes matches the color
of the ground, and is sometimes the
shade of the velvet. On some of the
patterned brocades the design is
immensely large, but the best-dressed
people draw the line at the medium size.
Society young ladies, with plenty OF
time on Their hands, are just now busy
ing themselves by painting small bright
flowers of every description in tiny
clusters upon yards and yards of white
and pale-tinted satin ribbon. These
ribbons they will use later to decorate
their dancing toilets of cloudy India
silk gauze and tulle. A dress of this
kind, lately completed in this city, had
over two hundred yards Of painted rib
bon as its trimming, to say nothing OF
the enormous sash draped at one side,
and painted in large blush roses and
foliage. The narrow ribbon was paint
ed in moss buds set ipto wood MOSES.
Velvet will be the rage for this and
the coming season. The handsomest of
the imported costumes in velvet for
autumn wear are totally nntrimmed
save in the matter of buttons, which, to
make up for this simplicity of style, are
often very beautiful and very expensive.
Silver is the favorite metal for these
buttons designs copied frequently
from buttons worn in the time of George
/. and those worn at the court of Louis
XVI. Some of these are very chaSte,
but are nevertheless said to be excellent
limitations of the genuine article. Many
of these buttons are studded with half
precious stones, and appear to great add
vantage upon the fronts and large
pocket flaps of the Old Guard waist
coats now so fashionably worn.-N T.
Post.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
Fashionable COlOrS.

The great color this season is to be
red, not only poppy red and carOubier,
but also shade known as red copper,
or in French cuivre rouge. 1t is Gu.
rious fact that nowadays the new colors
come to Paris, so to speak, from across
the Atlantic, and during the summer
months there is a great curiosity among
the manufacturers of all kinds of articles
to know what shades the Lyons dyers
are producing for the American market
Last season the great color was mashed
strawberry, and no sooner was the
secret known at Limoges than Haviland
and other makers began their expert
ments to produce the fashionable tint in
porcelain.
But fashion in color does not limit its
influence to modern products; it has
also an influence in the curiosity mar.
ket. I remember, for instance, last
spring one of the great Partisan de alers
in Oriental pottery relating to me a visit
he received from an American.
"Have you got any mashed strawber.
ry?' said the American, coming into
the store.
eyes," said the dealer, not having
the slightest idea what his visitor meant,
but conforming to his invariable rule Of
always professedly having everything
in stock. Thereupon the dealer led the
visitor to case full of porcelain.
"Ah! there is one,' said the Amerl.
can, pointing to a little vase, and there
by enlightening the dealer; "there is
one, but it is not fine. Have you got
any more??''
The dealer not knowing what mashed
strawberry meant hunted up some
other specimens, and this summer he
sold small amphora-shaped mashed
strawberry vase to a Baltimore collector
for the modest sum of three thousand
dollars. A similar one was sold in Lon
don recently for three thousand six hun
bred dollars
Shall we see next year a red-copper
craze in porcelain, too? 1t is possible
enough, and so in the future we shall
be able to name the years of color
crazes-the mustard-yellow year, the
MISUNDERSTANDING year, the red-copper
year, and so forth.-Paris Cor. n. Y.
Sun.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15

''Bother, bother" said he, with a wild
air; but my friend had seen the dam
ages. and without any loss of time had
given the signal and the march was
commenced. The young man. to save
appearances. went through the motion
OF playing, but his face, which 1 could
see from below, was worth painting. 1t
was a mixture of Encouragement and
spite. The fury with which he struck
the poor dumb instrument which could
do nothing was very funny to see.
That was well done, gentlemen"
said my friend, on entering the artists
room, ''but the effect was less than the
first time"
The mischief" said the young fell
low: my piano broke all at once.'
Well, the secret was kept long
time. but it finally leaked out. or at least
my friend and 1 had reason to suppose
so from the manner in which the young
man saluted us on meeting him one day
in the street. Mary's Bazaar Jour
nal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
A Baby Walrus.

A baby walrns is now housed in the
Westminster Aquarium-the second of
his kind ever caught alive, so it is be-
lieved. The little fellow was captured
in Davis Straits by the crew of the steam
whaler Polynia, who killed his mother
as she was floating asleep in the water.
As the men neared the old walrus, the
baby suddenly appeared and was taken
into the boat; but its piteous cries
brought two male walruses to its help,
and the crew had a severe fight before
killing the would-be rescuers. On board
ship the young walrus soon became very
docile, and perfect plaything of the
sailors; while now he is so fond of hui
man society that he growls and grum-
bles vigorously if left alone. He is
about five months Did, and is between
four and five feet long, with bright
scarlet eyes, but is not at present in
good condition, having been kept with
out water on board ship. while he has
caught chill in travelling Further,
he is cutting his tusks. which seems as
trying to the little walrus as teethinc is
to baby, and he greatly enjoys having
his gums rubbed. The creature lives
entirely on fish, devouring eight pounds
of musseis daily in default Of his favor
lite food, raw salmon. Graphic.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
Something About the Astors.

Look at the Astors. Only few gen.
eratiOns ago and they were butchers,
selling meat to any one who wanted to
buy it; now they are considered the
most exclusive family in New York.
Old John Jacob AstOr came over here
from Germany hundred years ago and
set up butcher shop in the Bowery,
where he made great deal of money.
The brothers of this original Astor were
musical instrument makers, and when
the famous John Jacob started in the
fur business in New York he had
musical instruments as one of the de-
partments of his trade. Between flutes
and furs he made about $3.50, 900 in SIX
teen years. They were real merchants
in those days and owned their own
ships, and Mr.. Astor used to load his
vessels with furs and send them to Lon
don; from London they would 60 to
China and return to New York with
cargo of teas. 1t is said that he often
netted as much as $4,000 on a single
importation of that article. The greater
part of his money, however, was made
by judicious investments in real estate.
The Astors bought property up town
when other people were buying below
Canal street. believe they own as
many as 800 houses in the most-thickly
populated uptown districts. Most Of
their houses are built of gravish
yellowstone, and are devoted en-
tirely to renting. The AstOr home
is now on Madison avenue-at
least that is where Mr.. William
b. Aston, the senior member Of the
family, resides-and it is built of the
same colored stone as his tenant houses.
Over the front entrance is glass and
stone Enclosure devoted to flowers,
which breaks the monotony of the stone
walls and gives it a very pretty appear
ance from the street. Mr.. William B.
Astor looks every inch the millionaire.
He is not pretty, but he is distinguished
looking, is tall and stout, with ruddy
complexion and cloSe-cropped mustache
and longish side-whiskers that grow
straight down from the ears. But MIR.
Astor is very much afraid of getting toe
stout, and used to walk all the way from
his office, which was in the lower part
of the city-Prince street, l think-up
to his house on Madison avenue. This
is about the only exercise that most OF
the New York men get. They dislike
walking for walkinss sake, but will
walk up or down town once day as q
sort of duty. fancy they find it neces-
sary, because most of these bankers and
brokers are high livers, and if they do
not take some exercise are very apt to
be visited with ills that come from high
living. The wealth of the Aston family
now is said to amount to $50, 600, OOl
apiece for William and John Jacob, the
two oldest. John Jacob has but one son,
William w. Astor, famillarly known as
Willie, the present United States Min
lister to Rome.-M Y. Cor. Philadelphia
Record,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
At the Stamp Window.
''Has postage been reduced to two
centS?'

HAS postage been reduced to two
cents?'
"Yes'm."
''For letters?''
"Yes'm."
"Then tw2.cent stamp will actually
carry letter?'
ut will''
"And there's no need of putting on
three cents?"
''Not Bit
"Do you know Mrs. Blank?''
NOM"
"She says it's two cents in the CITY,"
''It is two cents anywhere in the
country
''She says she sent letter to her hus-
band in Chicago with a two-cent stamp
on it and he never got it. ~
II can't help that, ma am
s'Then two cents is enough?'
"Plenty.'
''And her husband probably got the
letter and didn't answer it?'
Probably"
"Well, I'll take a two-cent stamp,
but if there is any doubt about the mat
ter I'd as soon pay more. 1t will 60,
will it?''
"Yes'm."
go right out to-day?'
"Yes'm'
swell, l hope so, for it's very i'm
portant letter. You know Mrs. D.,
who used to live on - street,"
Nom"
s.Well, it's for her. She lives in Buff
falo now. She asked me for the best
way to pickle mixed ~
The woman had to stand aside fol-
two or three minutes, but as soon as
the window was clear she returned to
say: :.
1--WE got the stamp on"
"Yes'm."
1.-TWO cents"
IL see."
''And it'll go:"
cit will" -
'.f it don't
And she probably didn't sleep wink
last night.-DetroI Free Press.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
How 1t Pays.

It pays to feed well. Let me give
you o case. Having good lot of cows,
which / have bred and reared myself
and trained them well to be kind and
gentle in every way, 1 do not like to
part with them. But having q few more
than could well take care of this yeaf
l rented out five of them to neighbOr.
One of these COWS is u cross-bred pure
Ayrshire and Jersey, and with her first
calf gave eight pounds of butter in the
first week churning; with her second
calf she gave 124 pounds the first week
after the milk was kept, (the calf was
fed on skinned milk only. This cow
is now six years old, and in her prime
The man complained of her and said
she was poor COW. "What feed do
YOU give her?' mo feed Mt all
but the pasture in the swamp
meadow; and she milks only four
quarts a day." 1 brought the COW
home, and she was mere skeleton in
bag of loose skin. The first milking
was three pints. l began to feed her
as knew she deserved. l gave her,
two quarts of fine ground corn-meal and
middlings mixed with cut sweet corn
fodder three times day, with what
grass the pasture would afford. The
fourth day she MIXED nine quarts, the
seventh day III quarts; the first four
DAYS her milk made three pounds of
butter; the last three days it has made
four pounds seven ounces. This is not
her full yield, as she is putting on flesh,
and will do so until she weighs $50 or
POO pounds more than she did when she
came home.
If we figure this up the profit on this
feed can be shown very easily. -Four
quarts day at five cents-the price at
which her milk has been sold all sum-
mer-is 20 cents. That is the value
of swamp meadow feeding. Eleven
and half quarts day is equal to 573
cents; the feed costs - cents, so that
this Is cents gives 224 cents profit.
And to me the satisfaction of the thing
is worth good deal more than adollar
day would be, for certainly have
good deal of regard for my cows. which
l have reared from the first, and each OF
which is n pet and regards me with
evident kindliness and affection. AT
the rate shown by these figures ten
cows would return 1926 daily profit
for the expenditure of $3.50, which is
in itself rs much as many mechanic
in city is obliged to support his whole
family upon. And yet there are
farmers and dairymen who are growl-
ing every day of their lives that farming
does not pay. wish some of them
would change places with some of the
people in towns and cities whom they
profess to envy so much. What mis-
take they would make.--M Y. Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
Captain Mayne Reid.

OF Captain Mayne Reid boyhood we
hear little, except that his father, a
Presbyterian minister, designed him for
the pulpit.
The clerical profession was not 10 his
taste, and at the age of twenty he left
his tutors and his tasks. to cross the
sea.
Landing in New Orleans, he began q
career of adventure in the wilds of
America. He made two excursions up
the Red River, and ascending the
Missouri, explored the vast prairies
which the wave of civilization had not
then reached. He afterward travelled
extensively in the States, writing de-
scriptions of his journeys for the news
paper press.
He was thus employed when, in 1915,
war between the United States and
Mexico broke out. and young Reid
threw himself ardently into the strug-
gle as volunteer. He greatly distin-
guished himself by his bravery at the
storming of Chapultepec, where he re-
ceived a painful wound, from the effects
of which he frequently suffered.
The war over, Captain Reid resigned
his commission. But the spirit of adj
venture was reused in him again when
the Hungarian struggle for freedom en-
listed the sympathies of liberty-loving
people everywhere; and in 1S49 he
organized in New York body of men
to Join it. He had arrived in Paris, on
his way to Hungary, when news
reached him of the failure of the insur-
rection.
Reid then retired to England and set
tied down to literary work, and there
in his home he lived the life of quiet
country gentleman, devoting himself to
literature and rural pursuits.-J. Z.
IrosC5ridqe, IN 81. Nicholas.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
Mrs. Popperman Regales Her Husband
with COmDariSOnS.

"My DEAR" said Mrs. Popperman to
her husband last evening, II was look
ing over bundle of old letters to-day,
and found this one. which you wrote to
me before we We're married, when you
were young and sentimental.
"What does it say?'
"I'll read it."
"Sweet idol of my lonely heart: IF
thou wilt place thy hand in mine, and
say, dear love. I'll be thy bride, we'll
fly to sunny Italy, and meath soft, &C.
rulcan skies We'll bask and sing and
dream of naught but love. Rich and
costly paintings by old masters shall
adorn the walls of the castle I'll give
thee. Thy bath shall be Of milk A
box at the opera shall be at thy COM
mand, and royalty shall be thy daily
visitor. Sweet strains of music shall
lull thee at eventide, and warbling
birds shall wake thee from thy morn
ing slumber. Dost thou accept? Say
yes, and fly. oh! fly. with me.
"And 1 flew. said Mrs. Popperman.
"But if l had been as fly as l am now, l
wouldn't have flown"
"Why not, dear?'
"Why not? Have you done as you
promised in that letter? When we
were married, did we fly to sunny TIA
ly and bask meath soft, cerulean Skies
or did we 60 to Hoboken and spend two
weeks fishing for eels on the ed &c of the
wharf p
"Well. yes"
"And how about the pictures? You
know very well that every rich and cost
ly painting in this house is chrome
from the tea store"
"Well."
"'Thy bath shall be of milk Do /
battle in milk? DO battle in milk, or
is it like pulling teeth every morning to
get ten cents out of You to buy milk
for the baby?''
"Kinder.''
"'Royalty shall be thy daily visitor
The only daily visitors l have are the
book agents and clam peddlers."
"'Taint my fault ~
"Sweet strains of music shall lull
thee at eventide.' The only chance l
have to listen to sweet strains of music
is when you and l 60 out walking at
uIS III 1uO IOlIOW IL ulOIIhCy uIIu u uIAlAA.
organ around the block"
"Oh, l am so sleepy"
II don't care if you are. Where are
tho warbling birds you promised me-?
l hear Mrs. Maginis' growing ROSTERS
next door every morning. Perhaps
they are what you meant
"Well, never mind"
"But will mind. Il was to have a
box at the opera Where is itp The
only time 60 to an opera is when you
get bill-posters' tickets to dime muse
um."
"It's too bad"
cit is really too bad. And then you
said we'd talk and dream of naught but
love. Since married you we've talked
and dreamt of naught but rent.
Goodnight, SIR" and Mrs. Popperm an
turned out the gas and jumped into bed.
leaving Mr.. Popperman to bark his
shins against the bureau in trying to
grope to bed in the dark.-Boston Her.
add
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
Cooking Apples.

When apples are plenty, they may be
so cooked as to form an important ar
ticle of diet, and that, too, without
cloying the appetite. The core removed
through the blossom end of fair, sour
apples, the cavities filled with sugar
and the apples baked, will make nice
dessert. Sweet apples are delicious
when boiled in sugar and served in their
own sirup. Apple shorscake and
dumplings are variOusly made. One OF
the best is to fill baking dish half full
Of tart, easily-cooked apples; spread
over it a dough of sour cream, made
stiff with flour, and a little salt and
soda. and bake. Eat with sweetened
cream, or nice sauce made of one
third of a cupful of butter, one cupful
of sugar, two tablespoonful of corn
starch, one tablespoonful of vinegar,
half a nutmeg and pint of boiling
water Nice apple dumplings can be
made while stewing apples, either fresh
or died. Take a cup full OF rich, sour
cream, with salt and soda, and stir
quite stiff with flour. When the apples
are nearly done, drop the batter on top.
a spoonful in place; then cover the
stew-pan and cook rather slowly until
done. Take off the dumplings, and lay
each in saucer with bit of butter on
top; then sweeten the applesauce, and
cover the dumplings with it until the
saucers are full. When stewing apples
add occasionally little lemon or orange
peel; always stir in a little butter with
the sugar; sometimes slice the apples
thin. add sugar, little butter and Gin
namon, and stew very slowly and not
quite soft. Baked sweet apples are ex-
ceedingly healthful, and with bread and
milk make nice supper for little folks.
Crab apples, either whole or quartered,
are good if stewed in sweetened water.
Fresh apples, mellow. or crisp and
juicy, deserve a place on the dinner and
tea-table, and are sure to be much rel
iShed.- Country Geatlsman.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-11-15
About the Children.

Now that the long, cool evenings are
upon us, it behOoves us who are parents
to look well to it that we know where
the boys are after dark, and also how
our girls ore progressing in their school
duties. 1t is a blessed order of things
in the Divine economy that each season
| brings its own special attractions and
duties. The lassitude of spring time is
usually succeeded by the whilom rest OF
summer, but it naturally ensues that as
the busy seasons of autumn and winter
come on, renewed physical energies adj
NIT of extra diversion and exertion. 1t
| is now that the influence of the home is
felt in peculiarly strong degree. And
let us remember that the impressions
and instructions our children are re-.
ceiving from us now, during the period
of youth, will d6ide-whether for good
or otherwise depends mainly upon the
heads of the household.
1t takes patience, perseverance and
prayer to maintain an even wholesome
influence in the family, particularly
when the daily duties are constant and
irksome; but it is matter of vital and
enduring importance that parents be on
the alert to secure the best welfare of
the children iutrusted to their charge
an immortal charge. We know a
father who is anxious that his boys
shall enjoy all the wholesome enjoy
ment he can afford them. With this
view they are frequently allowed to at
tend evening amusements of On in
structive or entertaining character, but
he always goes sUith them.
Is this not a most wise course, far pref
cradle to allowing them-they are lads
of twelve and fourteenth 90 in COM
pany with several other boys We have
watched the progress of this plan, and
find that at the same time these bows
show their father all due respect, as they
are properly required to do. they yet re-
gard him as most desirable compan-
ion, not exactly like Zone of the other
boys" but quite as agreeable.
Remember that these little folks are
watching us, and are shrewd, observing
and retentive. But little escapes their
keen eyes, and many is the wound un-
Willingly inflicted by really kind par
ents. We shall not readily forget the
silent, reproachful eyes of little cMild
who once heard her mother make a
slight remark, comparing her unfavor-
ably with some other children. In later
life the child declared that many was
the cry she had over that unintentional
wound. They are both in Heaven now,
mother and child, and the wound is en-
tirely healed, but the memory of it
lasted for all time.
The precious children! Oh, let us be-
ware. They will not be the children
long. but will be the fathers, the moth
ers, the writers, the statesmen of the
future. God grant us grace to so train
them, consider their wants and their
feelings with such judgment and prayer
fulness that we shall never cry unavail-
ingly in time TO come: "Oh. that the
children could be young again"'-
Golden Rule.