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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-08
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-08
PAINTED DECORATIONS.

Ladies who paint will doubtless be much
interested to hear that prismatic bronze
painting is now not only used for furniture
decorative purposes, but has also entered
into the service of fashion, which favors
the idea of making painting serviceable for
ornamenting articles of dress. Among the
toilet appurtenances before US we can espe-
cially mention painted satin fan. further
short chemisette or waistcoat fronts made of
velvet, and with collar and cuffs to match !;
also a peacock-blue velvet skirt tablier with
plastron; very rich and effectsve trimming,
equally suitable for a visiting dress, or an
elegant deshabille. The metallic luster of
this peculiar, and yet in the execution easy
style of painting, is doubly striking when
seen by candle light The different styles
can be purchased either completed or only
sketched out and begun.
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Spiritual Manifestation.

Undertones IN San FranciscO Chronicle.
But am not disposed to ridicule all who be-
lieve in spirits, partly because l have, in mild
investigation. found many inexplicable and
astonishing things thai l am willing to believe
that the fummery aud humbug of it are excres-
cences on a most important branch of science. /
knew fellow who used to 90 in for table talk
ing, and his deceased parent followed him from
house to house, and badgered him because he
deserved it. ! knew a circle of table-turners
once who never could have ladies at their seance
because an evil spirit called Yonkers
Bill used to rap oaths out Of the
table as thick as they could come. This gentle
lively spirit of deceased fiirt one visited little
table sitting was at, and on my incautously
inviting her to go to tho theatre, which she had
been very fond of while alive, took possession
of the table and moved it out of the front door
after me. 1t was trihe too much. II she
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-08
GIRLS IN LoW-CUT GOWNS.
The Place to Draw the Line and by Whom
1t Should BE Drawn.


Some heated discussions have taken place Of
late In regard to what constitutes full" dress.
1t is undoubtedly true that the custom of wear
ing low bodices is extending and increasing in
direction that is least desirable, viz: among
young girls. Now, there is no particular harm
III the wearing of low, decently-cut bodices.
Forty or fifty years ago children and young
women wore them universally; but there is harm
in the wide difference between basques cut high
to the throat and bodices which form mere
strap about the waist; there is mmodesty in
stripping young girl so that the charm of her
fresh young womanhood is forever destroyed
and her sense of what is right and proper for
eyer blunted. Dressmakers are more at fault in
the matter than mothers, and could do more to
prevent fashion from proving a snare. They
tell girls that it is prudish and old -maidish
to object to cut which leaves the bust
exposed, and that fashion leaders and authori-
ties wear them so, and the mother may
utter her protest; she very often does; but
she is powerless before the combined influence
of the modiste and the desire of the girl, just
entering life, to represent the latest style and
show her pretty person to advantage. Yet it
not unfrequently happens that such exhibitions
are not only suggestiyely indecent, but very I'M
becoming
1t has been the fashion of late to leave the
edge of the low bodice at the neck quite plain
and bare with nothing to soften the line of vel
vet or satin in its contact with the skin, no mat
ter what the color, whether white or dusky
marThe softnesS of youth and the grace of
cumstancReauty triumph over very severe cir
is in spite of 4, the charm which they exercise
caprice which calls drawbacks of an ignorant
it. There are sostfashion; not aided by
perfect in color and te9n skins, so
rise of the neck and throat that the
the continuation of the fine, firm body only
fabric. But these are so rare as to claim aqe
| receive exceptional honors and privileges. The
majority require gentle medium to soften lines
and establish friendly relations between any I'M
yielding fabric and the shrinking sensitive, deli
cate skin, particularly when the force of color is
added to that of texture
That exaggerations are not needed is evident
by the presence at every ball. at every evening
entertainment, of dresses cut low, yet in a per-
fectly unobjectionable manner. They may be
round or square, pointed, but they are modest
and womanly. Low bodces are not necessarily
Objectionable, nor all high ones unobjectionable
The latter may be cut square or heart-shaped,
and left open so low in front that almost any
low bodice would be raiment for vestal com
pared with it. There is nearly always more
than one way of attaining an object, and if an
exhibition of that kind is an object an edict
against low bodices would not prevent it. What
! is needed is self-respect enough among women
TO draw the line, and not permit any imaginary
authority to intefere to the discredit of their
own judgment and sense of propriety.
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BAD NECKS AND ARMS.
Awful Temptations Encountered in Societ,
by Onr Virtuous Congressman.

awful Temptations Encountered in Society
by Onr virtuous Congressman.
Washington Correspondence Philadelphia Press.
know it is fashionable TO sheer at the virtue
of congressman but the country holds individual
men among them to strict account when they are
found out in guilt. Many man comes here to
sit in Congress whose family circumstances are
not such that he can possibly bring his wife and
little ones without sacrificing the school inter
ests of the latter at critical point in their edu-
cation, or without endangering the safety and
welfare of the domicle that both have united to-
plan and beautify. or some other equally cogent
reason operates to temporarily sever the
family tie. Thus men of domestic habits and
warm social natures are thrown upon Washing
ton life unanchoFed and preternaturally subject
to temptation. If even the virtuous among
women will, by their mode of dress, scatter fire
brands and arrows of temptation IN their path
how shall it be marveled at that, at the close of
such an evening they are ready to become the
prey of her whose steps take hold on hell. with
her portals made ten fold more attractive to the
unwary by INSCRIPTIONS moneyed corporations
greedy to secure his vote.
/ mention congressman not only as one of
many classes of men drawn into the winter
vortex, but also because they have these pecu-
liarly precious interests of the Nation in their
change. That which has specially led to this
little dissertation was soto voce remark over
heard on Tuesday evening from the lips of one
of the most fascinating men in congressional
circles. man of large nobility of character and
great popularity both among men and women
Striding rapidly from the dressing room to his
carriage, hat in hand, | heard him remark to
mother ''by George, this is my last evening out
Why soY reioined his friend. Because he
-nuttered hurredly between his clinched teeth,
Il don't want to 90 to the devil" After this in
terlude of involuntary eavesdropping. somehow
he bare shoulders and bosoms, the vaccination
arks so obiigingly shown on softly nodded
arms, the whole feminine pageant indeed.
rather palled upon the mind The lust of the
ve, the lust of the flesh the pride of life" were
ERE in radiant seductiyeness. but still. small
voice was imperatively needed to whisper in each
Circe's pinktipped ear. Destroy not the soul Of
thy brother for whom Christ died"
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THE ANSCHLAG.
A Finger Exercise Which Is Epidemic Among
Stuttgart Pianists.


Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle.
Lebert, in his youth gave promise of becoming
a great pianist but he made such colossal taSco
at his first concert that he abandoned playing
forever and devoted himself with heart and mind
to the theory of piano technique.
He elaborated a system of finger movements
based entirely on the formation of the hand. He
began with the anschlag-the stroke of the ing-
er independent Of the hand. He held. and the
glorious success of his theory proved him right
that no one can become a virtuoso on the piano
until he has mastered the art of striking clear,
decisive blow with any one finger independ-
entity of the rest His "Clavier- Werk" COM
prises four volumes. Dr. Ludwig Stark
wrote and harmonized the studies; Lebert did
the phrasng aud lingering 1t mattered not
how advanced the pianist was who entered that
conservatory. he was obliged to begin as child
with the anschlag-the stroke No wonder the
institution became famous. piano is not
necessary for the exercise of the anschlag 1t
can be practiced on a table, or ever on the back
of the unoccupied hand. You cannot be seated
with pupil of that conservatory. be the same
man. woman or child, without being made aware
of the fact by the devils tattoo which they are
continually beating in the cultivation of the
everlasting ausehlag. Let me add, in disposing of
Lebert and his method, that the cultivation of it
is paademic in Stuttgart 1t lays hold of you as
irresistibly as would the malaria in the Roman
Campagna. have in mind now an old English
lady q Mrs. Stone by name, who went to Stutt
CART SEINE ten years ago. AS beseemed a lady
sixty five years of age, the ambitions of the
world were nugatory to her, and she was COM
pletely wrapped up in her Spitz doe-a legatee
In her will by the bye, to the tune of f500 for
his honorable sustenance after her demse-and
the clipping of her coupons, Of which she had
many She was taken with the anschlag fever
With the English energy and perseverance she
mastered it. though she could not play before,
and is now fair pianist, among the vir-
tuosi of Stuttgart-a notable example of the
truthful old maxim. ''1t is never too late to
learn"-the moralsts say ''mend"
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HENDRICKS AND MCDONALD.
Mr.. Cleveland Said to Understand the Treach-
cry of the Vice-President.


Special to Chicago Tribune.
The great piece of treachery of the winter is
that of Hendricks to Mcdonald The people Of
this country, without any regard to party, can
we'll afford to pray that the life of Grover Cleve-
land may be spared for the four years to come
Hendricks has shown himself to be incapable of
the remotest conception of honor His DISPOSE
ton is of that miserably treacherous character
which betrays friend while beaming upon him
with hypocritical benevolenee Mr. Cleveland
has found out Mr.. Hendricks and has as little
sympathy with him as any of the principal Dem
ocratic leaders. Mcdonald is very popular with
his party. He has the record of a most honora-
BILE and upright man. In the Cincinnati Con-
vention of 1880 he stood up squarely and loyalty
for Mr.. Hendricks when he could himself have
had the nomination for Vice president. Nothing
but most scrupulous sense of honor made him
refuse all propositions to advance his political
fortunes. At Chicago the positions of the two
men were reversed. Hendricks here represented
Mcdonald only to betray him. Since that time
he has expressed his sincere friendship for Nc
Donald. He was practically intrusted with the
wish of his State to present McDonald's name to
Mr. Cleveland for Cabinet place. His presen-
tation of Holman is only another chapter in his
record of bad faith l do not believe, however,
that he has been able to destroy McDonalds
chances There is no President however, who
likes to make needless rows. 1t may be possible
that the President at the outset of his admins
tration may not care to sharply outline differ
ence between himself and Hendricks. He at
present is anxious to recognize Mcdonald, and
will undoubtedly do it in way which will be
satisfactory to Mcdonald.
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Spring Dress Goods.
Philadelphia Times.


Dealers have begun displaying the goods which
usually herald the approach of spring. Percales
for shirting, childrens clothing and home morn
ing dresses are shown in variety of STYLES. The
ever popular white grounds with small and
large colored figures upon them. are always de-
sirable having the advantage of being laundried
as easily plain white goods. Sateens are es-
pecially pretty; navy blue, mushroom, gray,
green, brown, maroon and chocolate grounds
have white figures strewn over them in every
imaginable shape and form. while pale tinted
grounds have upon them the most bewidering
array of lovely flowers, some of them so true to
nature that we feel that we must stOop to inhae
their perfume Scotch zephyrs are shown
in every imaginable combination of col
n~T sln paids, both large and small while
yes of different widths are seen with goods
the prevailing shade to be made up in comb
nation with them. The broche effects are the
s.owest, and bid fair to become very popular
White embroideries are marvels Of beauty.
The all over embroideries come in numerous new
designs, with the different width trimmings and
insertions to match. These desirable for
ladies and chdren's costumes. both white and
colored and are used upon different materials,
as we'll as cotton goods Ecru emhroideries are
shown in similar designs to the white goods A
novelty this season is the method of cutting
out the edges of the ruffiing. At glance moth
ing different would be noticed, but it is so man
pfactured by the machinery that by taking hold
of tho muslin, the outer edge comes off, leaving
the trimming cut out much neater. and certainly
more quickly, than it can be done by hand.
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Mrs. Langtry's Clothes.

london Telegraph.
Mrs, Langtry is beautiful woman, shapely
IN form and graceful in bearing, gifted. moreover,
with pleasant Conversational voice and an ex-
quisite taste in dress More than this can hardly
be said IN her praise, at least as far as her imper
Sonation OF Dumass heroine is concerned. The
part OF the Princess George is an emotional one
throughout Its eachet is that of passion some
times explosive, sometimes restrained but
always genuine, strong human passion This is
what Mrs Langtry does not convey TO her audi
ence, probably because she does not feel it her.
self. Her costumes were triumphs of the
.uilliner's art, and became her as ad-
iiirably as she became them, which
Is saying not little In the first act
she wore costume of some soft, gauzy white
fabric, glittering with pearlv beads, and gray
hoa round her neck; in the second, gorgeous
ball dress, consisting of pink body, white vel
vet skirt, embroidered with large gold leaves,
and lavishy trimmed with blush roses; in the
last, visiting costume of alternate light and
dark gray singuarly beautiful in color. Ar
rayed in these splendid garments, not one of
which, however. was handsomer than herself.
she was, as might have been foretold the chief
attraction OF the performance. Concerning the
merits of the play, the audience appeared TO
nave made up its mind early in the performances,
we need scarcely say in an uniavorable sense.
With regard to those of Mrs Langtry's acting,
the house was seemingly divided True, shs
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Expulsion from School.

Superintendent, In Philadelphia Progress.
regard expulsion from school, except IN most
extraordinary cases, as weakness 20 WHICH
school authorities should be ashamed TO resort
There may be occurrences oil sSch m9nstrous %.
lenses that nothing else can be done. But usually
the faults of youth arc but skin deep, and unde.
indcious control may be eradicated, while to put
upon the culprits the disgrace of expulsion Is
calculated to so depress them that they continue
in evil The men and women who assume the
management Of schools take on themselves, as a
part of their duty. the moral education of the
youth in their charge, and when they expel. in
stead Of endeayoring to guide and reform, they
confess their incapacity for their positions
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FEBRUARY FASHIONS.
Untrimmed velvet skirts are fashionable.
Iarra Maid gin rhar,ns hava the wool effect

Untrimmed velvet skirts are fashionable.
Large plaid ginghams have the wool effects.
Bfeteiles are again used for plain short waists.
Black prints are to be worn in combination
with red
White and colored yak lace is used for trim
ming silk
The combination of blue with red bids fair to
endure, and is becoming alike to- blonde and bru-
nette.
Dog-collars of velvet, with tiny flowers or
velvet leaves sewed on. and tied at the back
arc worn by young girls.
Jet-emhrodered net is worn over black satin
dresses. 1t is drawn up to the throat over the
low-necked and sleeveless bodice. It is but
toned or the shoulders. and is not open in front
The coming French mantle for early spring is
of velvet, trimmed with lace and made with the
Russian sleeve turning underneath, and appear
ing from the back more like large pleat than a
sleeve.
Mask wells just large enough to cover the face
are again coming in fashion. They are of black
spotted lace, or of spotted tulle of the color
as the hat or bonnet with which they are worn,
or OF plain white or gray tulle.
Among new dress trimmings is the mirliton,
COMPOSED of velvet ribbons which begin on the
hips and cover the whole skirt, being set on
diagonaily, with spaces a little less than the
width of the ribbon between the rows
The old time Louis XIII rufde around the waist
mas Deen revived In BarlS. 1t Is u piece OF SILK
folded double and CLOSELY plated, sewed to a
pointed bodice 1t falls open in two places, front
and back, and is very short over the hips
Buttercup yellow satin makes very beautiful
evening toilet, as under the gasght, it is deli
cate, sheeny gold This dress. however. must
be carefully chosen for only brilliant brunette
ar "divinely fair woman could safely venture
30 adopt it
Cloth Jackets decorated with very fine en-
broidery, are now worn over skirts of broche,
silk ottoman, velvet plush. If the skirt is of
plain material it can be made to correspond with
the tjacket, by ornamenting it with apphques
matching the color of the cloth.
Letters from Paris predict that the Russian
blouse, full and without trimming, will be the
favorite morning bodice for spring and summer
1t is worn either with regular belt or else it is
closely shirred in the back, and has half belt
coming from under the arm seams.
New York Evening POST Several very
valuable India shawls have been worn at
high class weddings lately and each oc-
casion they were draped in the old-fashioned
manner with the point falling low on the back
of the skirt. Cachemire shawls in winter natur-
ally lead to those of lace in summer, a fashion
suitable to rnatrons or elderly ladies only These
will doubtless be glad of the promised revival in
season to prevent handsome and expensive lace
shawls being cut up into tunics and close fitting
bodices or low cut silk lnings-which has lately
been the fate of many Of them
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
The New York Market Unusually Active, and
Higher Prices Prevail.

The New York Market Unusually Active, and
Higher Prices Prevail.
New York, Feb Mooney easy at a Ii pei
cent; offered at the close at per cent
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent
Sterling exchange steady; sixty days. 81 49,;
sight, $4.86S
Governments strong.
State securities steady
The stock market has been unusually active
all day, and the upward movement which began
with the opening of the board this morning has
been almost continuous for some of the most
active stocks, while everything the active list
Is higher this evening than twenty.four hours
ago. The news circulated on the street is gem
orally favorable. and this, no doubt, had its in
Huence in aiding the upward movement. A bet
ter feeling is reported in the coal trade and the
action of the presidents of the trunk lines, at
their meeting yesterday, was generally re-
garded favorably. To this was added
reports of abnormally large east-bound tonnage
from Chicago during the past week. The total
sales of stocks amounted to 1885, 1OS shares, an
increase over yesterday of 10000 shares. OF
to-days business, Lackawanna contributed So,
ISo shares, St Paul 66, 1000, and North Western
1898 shares
comparing prices THIS evening with the
closing quotations week ago, all the active
stocks are from to 6 per cent. higher the lat
ter Lackawanna. Among the few bonds which
are lower are Louisville g. Nashville general
mortgage 6s, which declined / per cent. to "a,
Chicago, st. Paul NJ. & o. consols are per cent.
lower, at III, and West Shore frsts 3, at 34s.
TRANSACTIONS 100000 shares, to-wit: 80, 900
Lackawanna, $4,000 Lake Shore, $4,000 North
Western, $4,000 New Jersey Central, 2l,00O
New York Central, 650 900 st. Paul, 10000
Union Pacific, 26, 900 Western Union.
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OUR NATIONAL EYESIGHT.
Mgr. Capel Thinks We Are in Danger of
Becoming Nation of Myopes.

beCOIlIHE q NdllUII Oh N1yUpBSs
Now York World.
II like your newspapers very much said Mgr
Capel yesterday. They are brightly headed
we'll edited and arranged, but the small type as
a rule dstresses me. Your papers are not so
we'll printed as the London newspapers. But
everybody reads tho newspapers here. I am
struck with that wherever go. Newspaper read-
ing is universal. But" continued the Monsignor
II am afraid that you are going to destroy your
national eyesight Much of the myopia and
nearsightedness in Germany is said to be due to
the bad style of the old German types used in
printing. Many of the German printing houses
arc now using the Roman letters You do not
pay enough attention to the eyesight of your
children here l have been visiting of late your
schools find that the common form of the
school desk is something like this
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Probably Free Tickets.

Albany Correspondence Buffalo News.
When Mr.. Cleveland was leaving for Buffalo
the other evening the ticket inspector at the
Central depot gate failed to recognize him.
Ticket he said. '.Show your tickets" The
President-elect held his ticket in his hand and
was passing through hurried;y. when the in
spector called a halt. Then punching the Pres
ident-elects ticket he allowed him to pass
through.
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.'Now. anybody can see that child sitting at
desk fat as this must strain its vision or be-
come round-shouldered 1t seems to me that
something in this line would be far more sensi-
BILE and fully as practicable:
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could have put ON her spirit hat and cloak and
come quietly and agreeably with me, it would
have been all right. bat that should walk into
the dress circle of the Baldwin on an opera night,
accompanied by four-legged table, more
than even well-condncted spirit could ask
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was recalled. though not over-vehemently, at
the end of each act; but finally the curtain fell
to conflicting tempests of plaudits and Kisses,
in which the latter got the best of the encounter
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ssUpon desk Of this kind child could read
without straining its eyes or bowling its spinal
column This is something to be seriously con-
sidered. Print your newspapers in larger type
and take care Of yclr eyesight"