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The Antiquity Of the Corset.


AS long ago as the days OF the Greeks and
Romans slight elancee figure was admired and
stoutness looked upon as deformty Martial
ridiculed fat women, and Ovid put large waists
in the first rank of his remedies against love.
Several remedies were tried then as now not
only to restrain an expanding figure, out to en-
nance the beauties Of yerv slight one But
they were OF a different kind from those with
which we are familiar. Bandages were worn
with the generic name OF fdsciOe n,aniLdres
These consisted Of the StrOphittn, the cloth worn
around the bosom; the tenid simple band be-
low, and the IONA, or waist belt. When bandapes
failed those who valued the beauty of their tig-
ures had recourse to a remedy prescribed by
Serenus SanmOnicuS. They enyeloped their
busts with garlands of Ivy which were thrown
on the 1re as soon as withdrawn and after
wards rubbed all the upper part of their figures
either with goose fat mixed with warm milk or
with an egg of a partridge. Men were as vain
as the women, if we are to believe Aristophanes
and other writers. The great comic dramatist
mOcAed ms contemporary Cinesas for wearing
busks of Underwood and Capitolnus. in his
biography OF the Emperor Anthony mentions
that he also had recourse to them to compress his
swelling figure. Testimony is conflicting how
ever Some contend that the ancients wore
verltable corsets, arguing that when Homer in
describing JunO's toilet when she wishes to cap
tivate Jupiter, speaks of the two girdles worn
around her waist-the one bOrdered with gold
fringe, the other borrowed from Venus-he was
really describing Greek corset and that the
egide or cuirass of Minerva which Virgil de-
scri6es is to be interpreted in the same man.
ner. But this view is surely mistaken for no
monument OF antiquity, no artistic work. no
evidence CLEANED from other sources point to
the use OF stiff. unyielding whalebone cOrsets.
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HOME MATTERS.

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Spelling Reform in Germany.

From the Woman's Journal
The subject Of reform in spelling is awakening
even greater interest In other countries than in
our own. German thinkers are devOting much
time to this topic, but, unfortunately the diver
sity Of opinion as to the 'superfiuous letters" 10
the German tongue has brought about general
confusion Of ideas. The OrthOgraphy sanctioned
by the late minister of education. Puttkamer is
now used in many parts of the empire vet the
Kingdom Of Wurtemburg decided on slight yari-
atiOns from this ''Puttkamer Orthography"-so
called. Indeed. it might be said that in the past
five years there have been as many different
methods of remOdeling the spelling as there were
different principalities in Germany.
At last the authorities decided upon a system
similar to what ia given few lines below. Yet
here another difficulty arose. The imperial gov
eminent forbade the use OF the reformed spelling
in official documents, SO that now the pupils in
the schools learn an photography which they
dare not make use of in business transactions
The postal officials require the old OrthOgraphy
with the h retained and the lie written out fully.
that all schools were to make use of the new or
biography after April l. 1883; yet certain mill
tary institutions were exempt from this regula-
ton (although now it is optional with the drec-
tors to do as they please In the matter)
Scattered all through the German educational
papers are short articles in the new spelling.
The sch is changed to an g; the Oh to h; the VITO
v; the to I; the oh to O; d to t; t. to z the h
generally omitted, and most capitals done away
with. The numerals are given simply instead of
being written out thus. for yier, for sscbs
etc. The lie Is now shortened to /, while the eli
remains as heretofore
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Il
TIE NIGHT-CAP "CHIORAL"-'A Woman"
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lessness in tying "a large handkerchief, a gem
.lemans, tightly around the temples under the
ears. In a small knot at the back of the head -"
The Knot at the back may he adopted or not. to
suit the wearer's comfort. II gives the reaui-
site pressure on the outer surface OF the head
which is one cause Of sleepness. Since the
Household suggested the might cap cure" for
insomnia some two years ago. Ii has been very
Interesting TO note the responses and gratitude
OF bromide and choral victims. who have been
enabled TO DO without their doses and secure
healthy sleep by such simple means.-Th,la.
Ledger.
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
How It Looks to Watterson.

We ere all OF one mind on the tarlif ques-
ton, Protectionist Democrats and Free
Trade Democrats. We have already given
our own construction Of the tariff plank OF
the Democratic platform. We give below
Mr.. WAT7sRsOS's. We are glad that he
asqulesces 80 gracefully, but we cannot TAIL
10 perceive that he maniiests no zeal or en-
thusissn In behalf Of the work OF the Chi
caao Convention. He says:
"A revision Of the tariff In accordance
with these resolutions will be entirely sat-
isfsctory 10 the most earnest reveaue re-
formers. A revision on any other plan h
not desirable nor practicable.
"Opeping With q recognition OF the fact
tha, the present unjust and unnecessary
tariff drains the people annually OF over
e1OO, COX, 900 more than Is needed to pay
the expenses OF the Government, the party
demands that the tariff be reduced to the
extent that this surplus be allowed to
remain In the pockets OF the people, and
that no more taxes shall be collected than
shall be necessary to meet the expenses OF
the Government, economically admins
tered. A tariff reduced 10 this point will
be a revenue tariff or, as 1t is designated
In tbe platform, tariff exclusively for
public purposes.' Such tariff Is the de-
mapd Of the resolutions. IL Is the declara-
tory clause; it is the ultimate and inevita-
bic aim OF tariff reformers. The rest OF the
platform relevant TO this subject Is simply
indicative OF the methods to be observed in
reaching this tariff exclusively for pubic
PURPOSES With the system OF CUSTOM
house taxation as now pursuod, unjust in
theory and injurious IN effect as 1t IL, class
OF industries is interviewer which would OF
course suffer by sudden and violent sew
ering Of its connection with the legislative
| conditions by which 1t has been shapedand
governed. The platform Is an assurance
that no such sudden ard violent change is
10 be made; that the revision Is to be
achieved jndiclously and gradually. fairly
and thoroughly, the points to he aimed at
being a reduction OF the tariff TO revenue
standard, the correction AS far us possible
Of its evils and inequalities, the enlarge
ment OF the free list, attained in such
manner as will promote rather than retard
the interests OF labor and capital. as rove-
nue. reiormers have always maintained
wise revision and reduction OF the tariff
would do.
"The party is heartily TO be congratu-
| lated on the wisdom and unanimity OF its
action on this important question. 1t has
disappointed its enemies by refusing to
wrangle aud divide over mere verbal and
inconsequential phraseology. 1t has united
on the sound and cardinal taxation-priaci-
pie Of Democracy, and 1t has expressed
this principle in unambiguous and une-
quivocal terms. Such action Is happy
augury; more than that, it Is an assurance.
IL Is An jnspiration under which the I'M
broken ranks OF the Democracy, reinforced
by the liberal and enlightened everywhere,
will march to noble purpose and victory"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
What They Say.

JOHN KELLY refuses to be interviewed,
but says that the Tammany Club has adj
journed TO September, and will probably
not decide previously upon its course in
the presidential election. That, we take
it, means that Tammany will support
CLEVELAND. 1t IL said also that at Utica Mr..
KELLY made speech in which he said that
Tammany would act in the future as she
had in the past, and support the ticket.
Sunset Cox, leading Tammanyite,
saws that CLEVELAND will carry New York.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is reported
in the Washington Post as saying that
Cleveland will command the progressive
element OF the Democratic party, while
Hendricks will satisfy sentiment and rouse
enthusiasm. Representative Blackburn.
although preferring Thurman, will work
for the ticket with all his energy and abill-
ty. Representative Willis, who also pre-.
ferred Thurman, thinks the ticket, all
things considered, the best that could have
been nominated. Representative Gibson
promises that West Virginia will give
Cleveland big majority.
Senator Brown, on being questioned
about the action OF the Chicago Con-
vention. said: 81 think 1t has done
well, and opened the way to Democratic
victory and all the good results to the
country that will follow such an event"
ADO you think Cleveland and Hendricks
can carry the country"
~ do" replied the Senator, emphati-
calIy "Cleveland is fresh, strong, able,
and conservative man. He Is honest,
practical, and has strength OF character.
lie cannot be swayed by factions, but Is
controlled by high and honorable princi.
Piles. He can carry New York and
the country, in my Judgment, and, since
Governor Hendricks Is Joined with him,
/ am convinced that we have the best
available ticket, and one that will receive
the enthusiastic endorsement OF large
majority OF the voters OF the country"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
Art and Artists.

Theadmissions to the late Salon amounted
to nearly G00,00)i.
The Louvre bought at the C,steliani sale
a Renaissance copper plaque for 1000
francs. The British Museum bid for the
same piece.
The city Of Nuremberg Is to hold from
June 10Th to SEPTEMBER 30, 1885, an inter
national exhibition OF gold-smithcry, Jew
clry, and bronZes OF art and announcement.
The Louvre has bought for 7,500f. coll
lection OF Grecian antiquities. Including
terra.cotla vases and Graco-E Egyptian vases
contemporary with Psammetichus |. and
other Greeks OF the time OF Pericles.
There are now in France eighty-nine
lady artists, of whom scVenty-nne are
painter. five sculptOrs, and five enSravers.
Only one. Nile. Rosa Bonheur. has been
decorated With the Legion OF Honor.
There have been placed on the terrace Of
the Feuillants. at the Tuileries, two fine
animal groups BY Auguste Cain. They rep
resent ~ Lion and LionesS Contending
for Boar" and "A Rhincceros Attacked
by Tigers
The portrait Of Napoleon Ill, by Flan-
drin. which appeared at the Salon OF 1860,
and was given by his Majesty to the PArls
Tribunal Of Commerce, is to he placed IN
the histo, teal galleries Of the museum at
Versailles.
The French Government has bought for
the city Of Lille the picture by Pharaoh de
Winter, called "The Sheep-Shcarer.
which was in the late Salon. VI. de Winter
was a student OF the schools OF Lille, aud is
pupil Of u. Colas.
The late sculptor DumOnt left to the
Museum Of Saumur all the works which
were In his studio at the time 81 his death.
Among them are the fuIl-size models for
the statues the Genius OF Liberty" on
the column Of July, and Napoleon L."
on thai OF Vend0me.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
Personal.

The Duke Of Edinburgh has turned
stamp-eoi!ector.
Princess Louise complains OF chronic
neur,lgic headaches ever since size was
thrown from q sleigh in Canada.
The Prince OF Battenburg was exclude
from the table OF his wife at It. Petersburg
n few days ago because he Is not oil royal
birth.
Its singular coincidence tia, the tune
raj Of the late Philip Hamilton last FRIDAY,
occurred on the eightieth anniversary OF
his fathers fatal duel with Aaron Burr.
Simon Knowles. OF Meredith. y. y, -
nineiy-ninc years old. with fair show %
living long ways past the century mars.
II gives this very old shoemaker a good
deal Of pleasure 10 mend the shoes OF his
great grandchildren.
Mr.. storey, the owner Of the Chicago
Times, is only siX;y-four years old, but his
life Of remarkable activity has 50 weakened
certain mental faculties that his family
have asked the Probate Court OF Cook
county TO appoint conservatOr to take
care OF his property.
Miss Mathilde Blind, toe author o. thu
biography OF George Eliot and other works.
has written q novel emitted TaraDtella."
II relates partly TO the south Italian super
.tltion rs to the bite OF the tlrlntula spider.
The chief interest, however, is more OF a
passionate aud partly OF an aesthetic Kind.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
WrII-EARNKD PRAIsE.-NOt forf our

wEIL.EARSKD PRAIsE.-Not fori our
selves only, but in the name OF the public,
we must speak with admiration OF the per-
feet service rendered last week by the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
the matter Of supplying us, and through
us the public, with bulletins giving from
minute TO minute the proceedings OF the
Democratic National Convention. We
have begun almost to doubt whether the
Government ought TO establish telegraph
lines Of It's own. In fact, we can safely
say that the Government could not i'm
prove upon the service we are speaking OF.
Would you believe that all that work cost
us and the public nothingg
And we must not forget to mention the
full and accurate, and therefore exceeding
ly satisfactory. reports furnished us each
day, after the bulletins had ceased to come,
Of the motions, speeches, interruptions,
and striking scenes in the same Convention.
This excellent work was done by the Asso-
ciated Press.
Both these companies have earned the
applause Of the public, and ii will be award
ed TO them as soop as the fact Of their de-.
serts In this regard Is made known.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
DEATHS.

BuRKMAN.-Died'a at l:l5 p. NJ July a, 1884,
=; the residence OF her husband, A. y. Burkman,
No. 525 Denny street, ANN ELIZA BURkMAN,
IN the thirty eighth year Of her age.
The funerax will take place at Union station
church TUESDAY, July 18th, sc 4:30 T.. VI.
Friends and acquaintances are Invited 10 attend.
Lynchburg papers please copy.
CHALKLEY.-Dled, July Ia, 1884, nj 7O'cIock
A. 81, JOSEPH TEMPLE, only son 90 W. p. and
Fannie II. Chalkley In the seventh year 81 his age.
Funeral will take place 1t O'Clock THIS Tues
day. MORNING from the residence OF hts parents.
500 south First street. Friends and acquaintance
are respectfully invited TO attend.
DRLANEY.-Die on the Iith instant, at her
residence. l4lS west Leigh street, drs SARAH
DELANEY, in the sixty seventh year OF her age.
The funeral will take place from the above No.
at 3 O'Clock TO-DAY.
DONLEN.-Died In Baltimore, on sun lay. July
18th, a. LII O'Clock A. NJ, FRANCIS JOSEPH
infant son OF Thomas and Gertrude Smith Donlen
aged Ave months and twenty-three days.
And IL our darling FRANCIS gone
our darling infant fed;
And l. our little FRANCIS como
To number with the deAdY
Funeral took place yesterday afternoon In Balti'
more.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15

Our good noighbor OF the Virginia lei
Mnq Qhe weekly edition Of the Richmond
Anssiger) speaks Of us the following kind
words:
"The Richmond Dispatch, which Is q
few years older than our own paper, and
which acted as sponsor at our baptism--a
fact still fresh In our memory-has In
creased it, size and improved It's appear
snce considerably. The new steam press
has capacity Of 1900 sheets per hour,
and these will be folded with equal rapid
fty. All this speaks well for the enterprise
Of The Dispatch Company but also tor
Richmond. whose people contribute 80 lib
orally TO their eldest English paper. With
out such encouragement no paper can
prosper. We wish our more fortunately
nclghbor continued pres.
perlty.n
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15
Foreign Facts and Gossip.

A destructive and yoraciOus enemy OF
the beet root has appeared in Germany. IL
is a bl.ck bug, and was first seen in Sile-
sia, where, IN the district OF LeOpschutz,
inward of fifty acres OF beets were COM
pletely ruined. One cultivator, on patch
OF less than ten rods square, killed 1,SOO
bugs.
One OF the first fruits OF the entry by
Corea into treaty relations with foreign
Powers Is the establishment OF anewspaper
called the Metropolitan Ten Day Gazette,
the character OF which is said to be good.
1t comprises sixteen pages, and the Chi
nese language has been chosen in prefer
ence to the Corean. Both type and paper
are creditable.
Among the letters received IN Coventry
by the promoters OF the movement for the
r stOratIOn Of st. MichapPs church Is one
from Lord Tennyson. He SAYS, under date
OF June 25 II need scarcely say that
heartily hope you may be enabled TO re-
store st. Michaels to its pristine glory.
Your friends are happy in having not only
the money to give, but the hearts To give
it,
About sixty miles west OF Tehcran fell q
metcorite five years ago. concerning which
the chief doctor OF the Shah has just made
report The stone belongs 10 the family
If the Syssideres. aad Is identical with those
which fell at Barea, in Spain, IN 1912, and
at Estheylle, Iowa. in 1879. and with those
which were found in Bolivia and West
phalia in 1856. and in Newton county, Ar
kansas, in 1860.
At the recent celebration Of its tenth an
niyersary the Prussian Bible Society re-
ported that up to the beginning Of the
present year 1t had distributed I.2S3,25i
Bibles and S23.j97 New Testaments. Du-
ring the past year the British and Foreign
Society, which bas'an Office in Berlin, dis
tributed in Germany Sj,i05 Bibles, as
against 69,G50 Bibles and -, 19i New Tesla
ments published by the Prus'ian Society.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15

for good many OF the best years OF his
life resided in this city. where also he
married his wife. We counted II an honor
TO be numbered among his friends. OF
whom be had many IN Richmond. not only
in the congregation he served so well
whilst here. but amongst our people gen.
orally. IA great man has fallen In israel"
some will say, but we ask only the priyi'
lcge o; saying, "a good man has fallen In
u
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15

The Tribune calls attention to the TACT
that "GaovgE CLEVELAND frsi became
known in 1872 as county sheriff because Of
The meat and expeditions hanging OF two
murderer" Yes. and he has kept hts
hand in so well that he will have no dill
Guilty in executing two more-one mur'
dcrer Of Republican harmony and Cue
other OF the Kings English.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-15

On the ballot being taken informally lin
the New York delegationl as to the choice
Of the delegates, Cleveland received the
necessary two thirds.
The Dispatch claims that the result OF
the caucus Of this delegation Is Cleveland
victory. - Highland Recorder.
And wasn't IL a Just claim ?