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Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-29
Written for SOUTHERN LADIES JOURNAL.
NELLIE'S DREAM,
OR;
The TOad's Lesson.
Continued from last Week. J

on" She obeyed, and, going on fol-
lowing closely beside the stream, her
feet sinking into the soft green moss
every step she took, all the while hear
ing the sweetest of bird songs she ever
heard before, and every variety of sweet
sounds, which seemed to be made BY the
waving of the tiny insects wings as they
flew around her, and the low rustling
breeze as it passed through the leaves.
The sounds seemed mingled together
so smoothly and tremendously that it
sounded like one grand piece of music.
She really did think she was in fairy
land, and that she was enchanted, and
she thought, ''Perhaps my toad friend is
a wood-nymph or fairy in this form;
whatever it is, love it and am not
afraid to go anywhere with it, it is so
good" Toady hoped slowly on, and
little Nellie followed, filled with wonder
and delight at all she saw and heard. At
length they came to an opening in the
wood which they had just passed through,
where, presented to her view, was a per-
fectly level plain, or prairie, covered
with flowers of variety. size, shape and
color. She opened her eyes wide, look
ed on in wonder, clapping her hands,
crying out: ooh! oh ! oh how beauti-
full ! how beautiful Can | have some?
Won'tyou let me have some to take home
to my mamma, and tell her I gathered
them in wonderland. Oh, how lovely !
DO let me get some" Toady replied,
eyes, put out your hands and gather all
you want to just take what you choose. /"
She did so, and gathered all that she
could carry of the fairest and sweetest.
She then plucked some blades of ribbon
grass, green and yellow striped, and tied
the flowers in bunch together The
toad told her to make belt with some of
the grass and bind the flowers with #
around her waist-the flowers just over
her heart-and always wear them there
and never turn her mind away from
them and ifshe listened very attentivelv
especially when alone, she could hear
soft, sweet music murmuring like the
sound OF a gentle brook on mild, still
day, or the hummlng of bees. She did
as the toad told her. 1t continued
"There flowers are immortal-thev
never die, never tade-and those who
wear them will seldom, if ever, 90
wrong The names of these flowers are
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-29

"'iu hereafter In a hpt.
ter world. Z,
Inc traditional dog which alwayhI.
lows the small boy was reposing n A.,
back yard ; he was somewhat mjser,br.
because once or twice, with a fancy tr
roaming, he had broken his chain, and
as the French have it, was avbprp
away He had been captured BY little
Jim's friend, who, with a stealthy evefr
dog-catchers, had rung the door.ben
early IN the morning to rouse little I'm
to the emergency. J I'm had trotted down.
duly embraced the returned spaniel
promised to 60 halves next game With
his friend, and, highly pleased, returned
"Dote'' to the back yard. He it was who
had rendered the dog miserable, trh|
had fastened a block to his collar, and
"Dote' sitting overlooking the situation
with one ear dropped forlornly, vSI
possessed with all the evil fancleS Of a
dog in the ''dog days." u.
"Tll do it again he thought. "bbck|
or no block. How nice the broad sIIeP|
was; how soft the dust as | gallOPfa|
along. Here "Dote'' made q sD's
bound, and skillfully the block IoP P'a
after him. "Dote" sat down and luln'u|
his eyes, red and glaring, upon 'DF NV
passive block W, ,o1,
howled, but the block and he were 'l'|
dotes, indeed, just then, ..,u,d tAe|
With little hovlh e daEted iea ared' o@l
holse with a great effort he leap ..no os
fence, went over. Alas poor :, ID .o q
"What makes old 'Dote np Nv bnttorI|
YOU Think" little Jim SAD 'S ~
ed his shoes. ,,.1 'spoa,
"He don't like the block
was the reply. ,,ooop E" Oh, OhI
"He's in front Of the house s4s% and leap
oh! Jim ran from the wv, wlp br tbe el fence
ed down stairs. lie was vas HACK ~ k over afri
a minute, had thrown \ the 1nbO OiOi IN trying
[ uet i'd Of the block, had nq hI9ck dlns
Securely on the pa!i1ngs' the NV
Inc on the other side' 81 and boy net
still 81 side By side, while t he Collar
tears in his eyes looset u breathe, a 49,,
length ~Dote' began S Ii and ;h' MI
him. him : bore him in trump : Hprodiga,
y T.; ~ T1 %stsrsd d' .a NAM @a'' "
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
Wraps, Travelling aud Riding
Habits.

The prettiest wrap for cold summer day
is made of tan-colored tweed
Waterproof tweeds are used for travelling
costumes and also for mountain dresses.
The best and most durable dust cloak is of
some washable fabric like China silk
All Jacket wraps are very short in the back
seam this season. In fact, to be very stylish
they should hardly come below the waist line.
The summer sleeveless wraps are very
graceful. The shoulders are elaborately
trimmed with jet falling in sparkling showers
upon The upper arm, while the rest of the
mantle is bit of lace of brocaded gauze,
hardly perceptible under the jet which covers
both back and front OF the waist.
Little sleeveless gray wraps have a very
Frenchy effect over black dresses.
The latest fancy for summer travelling
dresses is pale gray alpacas. They are very
cool and so wiry that they will not crumple
easily and do not hold the dust
one pretty model of travelling dress is de-
scrlDed as having straight plated skirt,
with one broad box plat down one side like a
panel and three-cornered apron. Upon the
panel plat are three large metal buttons
The jacket WAS lined with the thnnest of
gray silk, with plaits behind, and was but
toned over high upon the chest. Under it
was loose Russian blouse of gray silk The
hat was high gray English straw crown and
fancy brim with bunch of pink sweet pea
blossoms IN front, showing Under gray net
OF the sort known as "Mikado" yelling
Unlike other articles of feminine attire la
dies riding habits have undergone but little
alteration either in style or color for many
seasons. The most fashionable habits are
made either of very dark green, black or
golden brown cloth. They are still made in
elegantly Shorthand thus prove far less grace
tui than the sweeping folds of the habit skirts
formerly worm
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
nlanaeement of husband.
Aunt Harriet in Cleveland Plaindealer.


came in to tell how many WON EN- lose
their husbands because they think they are
lovers no longer. have been watching a
few young couples lately, and really some
times feel like shaking one dear little
woman [ know. When her Arthur used to
court her she looked so neat and pretty land
L think it was the neatness in her dress
that captlvated HIM, but now she is his
wife she is oftener found with an untidy
dress or her hair in a very disordered state.
She claimed that she was never fixed up''
around the house, but she made herself neat
for him. as he always liked to see her so. [
am very umch afraid that his love will cool
down unless she keeps up for him now and
always. as he is very neat man, l think Il
woman should make herself look as well
as she possibly can without wasting time
or money doing it. Above all things sne
should read the papers and keep up
with the times, so as to be able to talk intel
lgently with her husband on topics of the
hour. L heard charming-looking lady say
once that she really thought that her hus-
Dand didn't love her any more, as he did
not caresS her as he did at first Now
came to the conclusion after watching them
few times that it was her fault in great
measure. She was irritable when things
did not suit her, and every detail of the day
was such mountain to her, and she en-
larged 1t when repeating it to him. He
soon got tired of this. aid when he did
offer TO be afectionate she repulsed him,
and insisted on finishing her grievances.
and by that time he was annoyed too much
for any demonstrations Of affection. Did
you blame him or her?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
that her little girrs feet had not hoon Whit,

that her little girls feet had not been white
for whole year. and yet she bought her
several pairs of black stockings.
Are white ones really fashionable now?
Why. of course. All English women have
discarded the black ones because the Prin-
cess of Wales no longer appears in them.
but wears pure silk balbriggan of snow
white color. Her daughters follow her lead.
and it would be rather difficult to find a
woman of fashion in London to-day wear
ing black hosiery. Black stockings make
the feet look smaller and do not soil so
easily, and for that reason they have re-
manned in favor a long time. This warm
weather, however. makes many converts to
the lighter colors. and now that they are the
more fashionable. it will not take long to
turn the tide in their favor"
Some of the newest white hosiery are of
the finest silk or Lisle thread with open
work over the nstep. Others of the same
material are marked with a dragon or
snake in black, gold scarlet or some other
vivid color, and, while unique, these are
not at all beautiful. Tiny polka dots,
butterflies, bumbe-bees and forget-me-
nots are scattered over these new stock
ings and Others have stimulated anklets of
silk embroidery with rubies or sapphires
fastened in them. The cream Balbriggan
are among the cheaper kinds, and are con-
sidered far more comfortable and healthful
than the jet black ones. which have had a
long and successful reign, but must now
abdlcate in favor of snOW-White.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01

satin and hand painted in floral designs.
Nearly all the fine fans are in the old-fa fash
Toned shape with sticks of even length,
sticks of irregular length being only sue
cessful in Japanese fans. A special nov
city in Japanese folding fans is in painted
Grape. They are mounted in gold or silver
hgures, or bright-colored designs which are
very effective, on a crinkley Grape. Some
OF the large Japanese decorative fans are
on brilliant red paper, with gold figures,
and Others with blue paper and silver fig
ures.
Plain satin fans in all colors and at all
prices are in the market, and sometimes the
guards are finished in black and gold.
or gold with any color to match
the satin of the fan. These can be
had from 81 up to Sc, and olive-wood
SUCKS with satin mountings cost all the way
from $3.50 to $40. Embroidered fans are
much liked, the gloss silk embroidery on
satin or gauze being very popular. Plain
~nite satin fans of eXquist material run up
as high as S25.
Black fans are appropriate with almost
any costume for any time or place, being
ihcohspcuous and very ladylike. The
prettest ones have guard-sticks OF carved
EBONY, or some other fine black wood, satin
races and silk backs, and are usually bound
with fine silk ribbon.
AT Paris there is yet preserved. under a
glass fan which was presented to Queen
Marie Antoinette on the birth of the
Dauphin by the city of Dieppe, celebrated
for fine work in gold and ivory. 1t is
masterpiece of skill, delicacy and taste.
ana is regarded as the most beautiful fan at
present Ill existence
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
FASHIONABLE FANS.

Important Accessories of Every
Woman,s Toilet at All Prices.
ga beautiful woman'S fan is the sceptre
of the world"
The fan derives its origin from the
Oriental nations of the most remote antiq-
uity. Later the Greeks received the idea
from the Ph9nicianS, but in those primeval
days ''the leaves of the eastern palm,
branches of myrtle, acacia, and leaves of
the lotus, plant sacred to Venus, were
used as fans" Subsequently the fan was
introduced among the Romans by whom
it was called ''fiabellnm," and made in val
liable stuffs. painted in peacock plumes. it
was highly esteemed and used not only
by the eleganticlasses of society in much the
same way as at the present day, but it was
made available in kindling the flames of the
sacred fires during their scrifces."
Dress fans are among the most expensive
of the minor details of lady's toilet and
cost from SIS to $40. while it is not unusual
to have them range from $50 to $500, which
is the price asked for very elegant fan of
point lace with pearl sticks, with a mono
gram of chip diamonds. Fans covered with
lace, or the new gauze FANS are the first
choice for dressy purposes, and the sticks
may be OF ivory, pearl, carved or plain. to
please the fancy. Water colored sketches
are worth from $65 to $3.50 for the painting
alone. There are many ladies who do very
creditable painting, and buy plain gauze
| or satin fan and decorate it charmingly
thereby having very rich-lOoking fan at
| comparatively small cost. The painted
| fans are among the handsomest now in use.
Pearl and point lace are the most elegant
and costly One lovely specimen OF satin
| painted has cover of rich lace yelling the
satin. and the effect is exquisite.
Natural wood sticks are in every imagi-
nable sort, and are very popular. These
highly polished sticks are very effective
mounted with gauze, lace or satin. Rus
| STA leather sticks are mounted with red
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
How to Keep Houses Handsome.

A very pretty trif1e for the toilet table is a
pincushion of three lace bags pinned together
at the top with a ribbon bow; a little sachet
mixed with the bran makes a pleasant per-
fume in the room and makes the pincushion
more attractive.
A delightful work for summer hours is in
beautiful and elaborate patterns Of fagoting,
which ornament table cloths. 1t is not too
trying to the eyes, and has an effect which
will repay one for the labor expended.
Fine table damask has the worked mono
gram in the center Of the napkins and table
cloths.
Cedar oil is the surest preventive against
the devastation of the buffalo bug. and if a
weak solution of it is sprinkled on the backs
of costly rugs one need not fear the destruc-
ton of its beauty.
ToDka beans are said to keep out the moths,
and any one in the possession of fine camel's-
hair shawls or such treasures would prefer
this remedy to the usual camphor, which
leaves SO disagreeable an odor in the gar
ments
Dinner cloths or tray cloths are now. fash
ionable when made of new Irish linen with
coored borders in so-called peasant-work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
WOMEN JOURNALISTS.
Some OF the Difficulties and Some
of the Advantages They Offer.

Some OF the Difficulties and Some
OF the Advantages They Offer.
There is one great drawback to women
adopting Journalism as profession (writeS
a 'horrid man" journalist, and an English
man at that)-a drawback, the mention of
which should certainly not be omitted. I
refer to the physical qualifications that are
necessary to fit one for a life ON the press.
physical qualifications being almost as
essential as mental to the journalist. Can
you work late at night? Can you, should
the occasion require it. do with little or no
sleep? Can you arise early? Is your con-
stltution strong enough to bear without col
lapslng the taking of your meals at irregular
hours? Can you write an article at ten
minutes notice-say, receive your inStruc-
tons by the last post and drop your copy
into the box the same night in time for the
hrst delivery next morning? OF course
there is plenty of literary work to be done
for the press which does not call for the
display of such feats of physical endurance;
but in writing OF any profession l think it
is wise not to neglect the mention of its
possible bitterS as well as its possible
sweets.
If not as a reporter, how should young
woman make a beginning in newspaper
work? One must begin somehow if one
would enter upon any calling. | should
say the best way would be for the fair as
plrant to become all amanueSiS to flour
ishing journalist. This | should strongly
advise her to DO, even though she may be
quite sure that she is capable
of more ambitious labors. She would
thus acquire knowledge of all the techni-
no lc nf ,1i
vantage to the 1Ovice-and might after
wards, with this stock-in-trade and fair
share of brains, be able to set up as con-
trIoutor to the press on her own account.
Providing she be the possessor of ability,
abe would sooner or later find markets for
the disposal of her wares, in which she
need fear little or no competition from the
monster man. The lady-journalist could
write an article, founded on her own eX-
perienceS, on stocking the larder. What
do men know, as a rule, of the graceful
touches required to make home pretty?
The feminine pen could write book on
the subject. At a queens drawing
room, again, where would the mascu-
line pen to be in comparison with the fem
mime? There is, indeed, scarcely a limit
to the subjects which the lady journalist
could not find ready to her hand--or rather
for her pen-and subjects, too, in which it
were the widest folly for the male journnl-
list to attempt to rival her. 1t has for long
been a matter of surprise to me that Eng
lish literary women have not played more
conspicuous part in om daily and weekly
newspaper press. What they have done
hitherto in journalism has been, with one
or two notable exceptions. almost infin-
itesimal. If most OF them would at once
cease writing weak novels and devote their
pens to that now daily necessity, the news
paper, we might even yet get some good
and useful work out of them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
THERE WAS FUN In THOSE DAYS.
An Editor Looks Back Forty Years
and Recalls a Few Things.

An Editor LOOKS BACK Forty Years
and Recalls a Few Things.
There was time to live.
Men slept yet in their beds.
The epoch of haste had not come.
The saddle was the emblem of speed
Drawn and brains went hand in hand.
We were still a nation of hand workers.
A days Journey was a serious matter.
The highways were dusty and populous.
No house contained sewing machine.
The canvas-covered wagon was the ark
of trade.
The turnpike was still the great artery of
travel.
There was n OF mower or harvester in
existence.
The land was lighted with candles after
nightfall.
Butter was unmarketable 100 miles from
the dairy.
The steam saw mill had just begun to de.
YOUR the forest.
The lord of 1000 acres sat with his har-
vesterS at dinner.
The day began with the dawn and moi
with the trains arrival.
The spinning wheel and shuttle sounded
in every farmers house.
He who counted his possessions by the
square mile kept open house for the way.
farer.
The telegraph had begun in Washington
and ended in New York twelve months he.
fore.
From East to West was the pilgrimage OF
a life; from North to South was voyage
Of discovery.-Port Deposit (Md.) Call.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01

as frequently the reverse, all depending on
the grace and beauty of the wearer.
The newest gowns require from six to
ten yards for drapery alone. The skirts are
made quite plain and the drapery is fin
ished with an invisible hem or binding.
White silk gauze is one of the pretty ma
terials used to trim the yachting or sailor
hat. 1t is fiuffed up into simulated wings
between and on either side Of the genuine
article and gives the chapeau the appear
ance of little angel flying downward.
There is dangerous fancy among the
bellies of Saratoga just now. They take
two or three dozen gilt pins with fancy bead
heads and stick them all over their dresses,
lust for ornament, you know" The
young men who dance at the hops are be-
coming discouraged over the numberless
pricks and many of them have threatened
to go home.
Broad satin ribbon of the same color as
the low ties are used to fasten them. The
bow is held by tiny silver or gold clasp,
and for the ballroom some of these are set
with rubies and even diamonds. A lovely
Baltimore belle at Long Branch has two
clasps set with butterflies in rubies and
sapphireS, and when she dances they
sparkle like stars. She is at once the envy
and admiration of most of the other bellies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
The Dressy senators.


The most dressy senators are Messrs
ingalls,, Henderson, Ransom, Butler and
German. Mr.. ingalls, almost invariably
wears Prince Albert coat buttoned closely
with punctilious care. He does own. how
ever very conspicuous seersucker suit of
the most pronounced state prison type of
pattern, and on really hot days he is not
ashamed to wear it. In spite of the season
most of the senators adhere still to the reg
ulation black broadcloth frock coats, with
sober vests and trousers to match, which
constitute the uniform of the American
politician, but others have been forced into
rebellion. Mr.. Frye appears this month in
an ordinary sack coat and Lighted
trousers, and Messrs. Logan and Mcmillan
in skeleton alpaca coats. Messrs. Chace,
Gray and Evarts diversity the general
gloom with jsunty grayish suits of spruce
appearance. White vests are affected by
Messrs. Wilson of Iowa. Conger. Allison,
Miller, Coke and Call, while corpulent old
Senator Sawyer wears no vest at all. Mr..
Conger persists in adhering to his time
honored claw-hammer coat on all occasions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
A SENSIBL STEP.

The Best Place for a YOnth Who il
Always Too Fresh.
Boston Courier.
'Haw, Miss De We're. I've come down to
the beach,"
$50 see. What have you come down
for? To attend the hops?"
''Yaas, but, more than that, to enioy tn.
fresh breeze, the salt air the bathing in ths
salt water-I get seasick. We know. Yacht.
ing, and l can't WEAKLY enjoy that pleasure
so, as most of the felahs are away on thei1
yachts getting salted, thought I'd CONS
down here and get myself saIted, too
doncher know" WV
Il think it is the most sensible stem yor
ever took in your life.n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01

That was all. Just little word of per-
mission that gave the pushing. hurrying
tens of thousandsIthat swept down town
with the morning flood and ebbed back
again at night the right to stare into the
calm eyes that looked out upon the busy
way. 1t didn't seem much but somehow 1
cannot get used to the custom of making
ones face public property that way. 1
never liked it in London, where the thing
was done as matter of course. l suppose
it is provincial to feel so, and English peo-
pie used to laugh over my squeamishness
just as we do over the queer horror of the
decollete-f frightened countryman at his first
Italian opera, but nevertheless, the objec-
ton was there, and deep-rooted, too.
So, moralizing in front of the show will
dow until the sharp elbow of an interested
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01

instead of going away satisfied with Mrs.
Cleveland L carried off all the beauties that
you see scattered down this column. They
are American girls. every one of them, and
all went across the water and married
Englishmen. When they still lived here
the mere mention of the public sale of their
photographs would have frightened them,
but things are changed now, and these
American girls can look as calmly at their
pictures hung side by side with Cora Pearls
as the veriest street gamin that gapes at
them.
This little sketch doesn't intend to bore
YOU with a repetitlon of the social standing
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-01
Assurance of a FOur-Year-OIdM Miss
Providence .Ionrnal

Assurance of a Four-Year-OId Miss.
Providence Journal.
A four year-old miss who has been in
the habit of making daily visit to her
music-teacher, via the High street car line,
found herself OH recent morning minus
the customary ticket or the necessary three
cent fare, says the Providence Journal
Nothing daunted, she stopped the car at
the usual corner. took her seat and quietly
awaited events. The rest of the story is
best told in her own words: The conductor
he came and said:
Ticket, please"
81 haven't any this morning."
''Then must have three cents"
But havdn't any money either.,'
where are you going?
"Oh. I'm going to 'Cademy of Music and
want to stop at Dorrance street."
But did you think you could ride with
out ticket or money!"
"Oh, yes, cause always pay when 1
have money"
Her credit was good and she got there.