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bilt was the first of long procession of
beautiful rooms inspired by it. The wood
work was imported from an old dismantled
French chateau. 1t is of oak and has its
rich ornament cut in the solid panels. The
quality of the wood itself gives it dignity,
for almost all our modern work in kind is
in pine, the ornament being modelled in
composition and applied. The joinery of
the work has been admirably done, but
warps and cracks still testify to its long and
honorable descent. The ornament marks
the transition between Louis XIV. and
Louis XIV. styles; the heavy, flowing, con-
tinuous forms are interrupted BY the
straight lines that form the panels. The
woodwork is disposed in the form of dado,
and the windows, doors and pilasters divide
the wall space into eight panels. Seven of
these are filed with old gobelin tapestry,
after Boucher, in tints of pale rose, blue
and green, that chime in with the lively
cream and gold of the wood.
TASTEFUL DECORATIONS.
In the eighth panel is full length por-
trait of Mrs. Vanderbilt by Madrazo, which
keys in happily with the rest of the room,
although under more strict ruling the por-
trait, as a piece of decoration in Louis
XIV. room, would have been outlawed.
Confronting this portrait is a marble man.
tel overlaid with figures In gilt bronze,
modelled from the styles of the period, and
above it, framed in the same manner, is a
mirror. The ceiling is divided in the
usual manner into circles and ellipses, con-
nected with outer squares and forming deep
panels. These combine to form frame
work Tor the great Baudry painting, fThe
Apotheosis of Fame" which fills an ellipti-
cal frame almost the length of the room.
This panel is on canvas, and has been placed
on stretcher with such ingenious mechani-
cal contrivsnces that in case of fire it may
be quickly removed.
The doors are all double, the long,
straight panels being without ornament and
simply finished in cream and gold. The
handles have been specially designed, and
attached to them are bolts of steel that run
up and down and, when the door is shut,
catch in the frame and floor. The floor of
inlaid woods comes from Paris, and the fur
niture, made of pine in the forms of the
period, are finished in cream and gold and
covered with old tapestries and brocades.
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The windows which complete the room, for
the furniture and decoration require no
other accessories, swing In the French
fashion on steel frames and are filled in
with geometrical forms defined by the leads.
The drawing rooms of Mrs. Ogden Goelet
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt were
originally decorated in. the more personal
manner alluded to, but yielded to the
dignity and propriety of declared style.
THE VANDERBILT DRAWING ROOM.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbiit's drawing
room is made from the spoils of an old
chateau. 1t is paneled in old oak, the
ground being painted water green tint,
and the graceful ornament picked out in
white. The molding is in dead gold, and
makes most effective frame for the panels.
Above each panel is a medallion with carv-
ing in relief The ceiling panel is paint
ing, it is said, by Huet The subject is, of
course, allegorical-a beautiful woman in a
trIumphal car drawn by Cupids wreathed
in roses. The mantel is of marble overlaid
with metal and surmounted by a mirror.
The room is in fact brilliant with mirrors
rejecting its beauty at every turn. The
furniture is gilt, covered with salmon tinted
brocade embroidered in wreaths and bor-
dered with blue plush.
Mrs. Goelet's music room is in size
novel apartment The walls are paneled in
wood, richly carved. The ground is over
laid in cream and the decoration brought
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Beacon Lights.

Mr.. Harris announces the first appear
ance of the beautiful spectacular melodrama
in Pittsburg at his theater commencing
Monday, March 25. "Beaeon Lights" has
met with great success upon the Western
circuit and in the matter of scenery and
mechanical effects nothing will be found
lacking. Beacon Lights" is mounted sec
ond to no other attraction now before the
public. The scenery deserves recognition
from an artistic standpoint, being perfect
representations of the places and localities
wherein the action is laid. Although the
preliminaries to the presentation of the play
have been so extensive and costly. we await
the reception of "Beacon Lights with the
utmost confidence and without single mis-
giving. We believe that the play will
meet the wants q the public. and the ield
in which we are the pioneer is as vast as il
fertile. Every one should go and see 'Bea-
con Lights" the greatest play of its kind
on the road.
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and measurably our later manner of build
ing.
The only conspicuous example of Louis
XIV. styles of which have any knowledge
is the drawing room of Mrs. Potter Palmer.
of Chicago. The room is wainscoted and
the walls divided BY the pilasters, doors and
windows into appropriate panels. These
are filled with pinkish hued brocade, with
borders of embroidered green velvet. The
pilssters, as all the wood OF the room, are
deliberately carved in the accentuated rich
forms peculiar to Louis XIV. decoration,
and these are enameled in white and gold.
The ceiling is divided into medallions,
which make in turn Dart of the frame for
the central panel. This is filed with a
NEUROLOGICAL subject, painted for Mrs.
Palmer in Paris, and the medallions also
contain paintings.
AN EXQUISITE INTERIOR.
The lighting of the room makes unique
feature Of the ceiling. 1t is accomplished by
electric lights concealed in colored cups
sunk in the wood and in flowers of colored
glass suspended by threads from the ceiling
and making part of its design. A beautiful
detail Of the room is the mantel of onyx,
richly carved, and above it q mirror elsb-
orately framed. The furniture is construct
ed after the models of the period, and is
covered with pink brocade and green en-
brcidered velvet. A psrquet floor and rich
rugs complete the room.
The drawing room of Mrs. W. Z. Wander
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This assurance has not been met. The
extravagances and eccentricities that were
merely personal, not national, were soon
spent. Restraint aud repose have succeeded
to restlessness and are well marked charsc-
teristics of the best that is now doing in dec
orative interiors. Architects and decorators
base their work on well-known and &C.
cepted styles. In these they work more or
less freely and with more or less apprecia-
ton of how they can be adapted to our
needs.
FRENCH FASHIONS IN FAVOR.
Fashion has for the moment dictated the
direction in which they work. The pre-
ference for the French styles of the eight
eenth century is too marked to require any,
thing beyond the statement that Louis
Seize, Louis Quinze and First Empire are
household words. 1t is not the first time
that fashion has had an opportunity to
Justify her commands as something more
rational than a caprice.
There is in French styles a certain Gallic
piquancy to which we are related, for the
American of to-day is not the same man who
came over in the Mayfower or sailed up the
james. Moreover, in the most popular of
these styles-Louis XVI.-there is some
thing direct and straightforward that conf
mands our respect. They suit our climate,
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use them much at night or walk IN the
teetb of an east wind without veil over
vonr face. To be graceful, don't wear gro
tesoue bustles and tightly drawn sklrts'
The most unrraceful animate things in the
world are men and women. And yet TOD
meant them them to be graceful. Every
thing in nature is 20. If you nave ever
Watched a kittens movements, the circles 9
bnzzard makes in flying. the repressed
Strength in the dignifed step OF mastin,
the dainty. arch movement OF thorough
bred's neck. YOU must know this. But men
and women have degenerated in their mo-
tion: thew are careless. They patter OF
slouch or limp or shuttle, as general tnlng q,
from sheer thoughtlessness. According 70
some. writer's on the subject women snouI9
be feline in movement. taking the cat ana
the panther for models in the act OF Walk
ing.
To avoid jerky step practice continuous
NOV. ment from the waist, not from tne knesS
lifting the foot parallel to the ground, 70 nos =
bringing it down heel or toe hrst. fnis
may not give one the "pantheresque, pau
ding step, 50 often ascribed 70 ner9inss - n
novels, but it will enable the walker 70
get over the ground with an easy, light mo-
tion.
A lively expression is great attraction,
and the homeliest face is never uninterest-
ing with it. Let the eyes portray what the
lips utter, and don't let smile play about
the mouth while the eyes remain unsymps-
thetic and expressionless. Montaigne says;
I'm face which is none Of the best there
may lie some air of probity and trust, as,
on the contrary, I have seen between two
beautiful eyes menaces Of dangerous and
malignant nature" EVELYN MALCOLM.
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VLIN1GE black; the Sultan's
>dN> favorite paints her
eyelids and colors her
finger nails with henna.
The enlightened woman does none of
these things, of. course. She understands
the law of beauty better than the be-
nighted Hottentot, better than the indo-
lent beauty of the harem. Nevertheless,
according to her light, she follows the same
instinct and "for ways that are dark and
for tricks that are vain" to enhance her
beauty or hide her blemishes, civilized wo-
man is not one whit different from her less
fortunate sister.
This sweeping statement admits without
doubt of many exceptions. 1t would be q
very sad state of affairs if there were no
girls whose cheeks boasted of the freshness
acquired only from innocent applications of
cold water. Nevertheless in all the large
cities Of this country and Europe cosmetics
form an important part of the average
woman toilet. Every drug clerk will tell
you of the large trade in pastes, powders
and hair washes. A certain manufacturer
of Paris does an enormous business in his
face powder alone.
A DANGEROUS BEAUTIFIER.
Arsenic is sold under different names, and
its effects may be noticed every day on the
faces of very young girls, who, it appears,
are the only ones silly enough to buy il.
These arsenical preparations remove every
spot and freckle from the skin if taken in
sufficiently large doses, and leave it not
only smooth, but dazzlingly white-the
whiteness of wax, not natural flesh tint.
II continued they shatter the constitution
and eventually destroy every vestige of
former beauty. If commenced and used
only for short time health may be saved,
but the skin, still preserving its waxen ap-
pearance, slowly turns yellow, deepening in
color till it reaches genuine jaundice hue.
The moral is-shun arsenic in any form as
you would plague. Your physician will
tell you that although it is sometimes given
as medicine, it is never given in quantities
sufficient to affect the skin. When it does
the result is ruinous.
Not more than three years ago there was
small store on upper Sixth avenue, New
York, kept by an old and very interesting
Frenchwoman. She sold everything that
could possible be required on the most arti-
fetal woman's toilet table.
One winter night, during the ball season,
stopped in to buy some manicure articles,
and found her just commencing operations
on Subject" as she called customers Of
this kind.
PREPARING FOR A BALL.
The subjects eyes were closed as she lay
back in a chair in curtained niche. At q
sign from the Frenchwoman took a chair
at little distance, where 1 could not be
seen, and watched her process. 1t was GER
tain1y as astounding as interesting.
She first dipped silk sponge in warm
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out in violet tints, the upper services being
gilded. In the cornlce Loves holding gar
lands are nodded in composition. The over
doors make beautiful feature. There are
seven in all, beautiful types of women and
children, painted by Chaplin. In the CELL
ing is a painted allegorlcal panel. The
mantel of amethyst marble is supported by
female csrvatides and the crosspiece is over
laid, according to the fashion Of the period,
in bronze figures and garlands. Above the
mantel is asuperb mirror elaborately framed.
The room is lighted by over 200 candles.
These are held by u candelabra supported
by caryatides attached to pilasters. The
floor is glistening surface in mosaics of
white wood. The furniture was made after
models at Versailles and is upholstered in
gray, brocaded with bouquets.
An example of how the usual city room
can be remodeled under the inspiration of
Louis XVI. styles is that of the drawing
room Of Mr.. Henry Steers, of New York.
The walls are wainscoted with the usual
squares and circles. The space above is
divided into panels that are filled with
Lyons silk, specially ordered by the archi-
tect, Mr.. Henry o. Avery, in which the
salmon ground is strewn with punches of
roses and mignonette, held together by float
ing ribbons.
A NOVEL INTERIOR.
These panels are separated by pilssters,
with ornameut in relief oonsistin0 of intar-
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New Spring Goods.

Our new stock of choice spring goods Of
the latest and most fashionable patterns for
gentlemen's wear has just been received,
and is now ready for inspection. For .
good-ftting suit or overcoat go to Pitcairn's,
No. 434 Wood street. This
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WOULD WE'D A COUNT
Bessie Bramble Specifies the Evils
Which 0Yertake the
YANKEE GIRLS WHOMARRY TITLES
Some Peculiarities of Foreign Legislation
Affecting
THE RELATIONS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE

IKEN,S. G, March
2O.-An American
girl who marries a
foreigner does so
usually with her
eyes open. In these
days Of widely
difused d intelli-
gence, there is lit
tie or no excuse for
any woman posses
sing average COM
mon sense being
inyeipled into a
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Away. Keep the Upper Hand of Disease.

Changes of temperature are apt to cause
dangerous sickness; in the full-blooded apo
plexy is to be feared. When you have pain in
the head, feel dizzy, feVerish, rheumatic or sick
at the stomach, take at once three to ten OF
BRANDRETH'S PILLS. Such slight affections
are only the harbingers of disease OF sudden
prostration, and the thing to do is to master
the trouble at once. Never let little sickness
get the better of you. Drive it out Of doors
Immediately. Let there be no compromise, al
ways have with you box of BRANDRETHS
PILLS, and you are prepared to fight the worst
form Of sickness in its incipiency. 81
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At Edward Groetzinger's. We paid mors
for the spring stosk than the goods sold at
last season, but will sell all grades at old
prices. Mammoth carpet and curtain
house, 627 and 629 Penn avenue.
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busy, and commercially disposed. The
American housewife was for q long time
the genius of our decoration, and pre-
scribed dark gilt and brown walls and
grained woods, because they did not show
dirt. But the new era of wealth has de-
posed the American housewife, bought
more pals and brooms, and engaged men
servants.
From the style bourgeois itwas not surpris-
ing that we so rapidly swung into the style
bric-a-brac. This was directly due to the
incursion of Queen Anne architecture, as
we fondly believed it, and in which novelty
and unexpectedness were held to be the
most desirable qualities. The doors at last
seemed to swing open to something alto
gether independent and original, and the
most Sanguine received assurances that we
were on the eve of an American style or
school of decoration that would be indig-
enous and as estimsble as the potato.
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MISSES fine B. embroidered kid gloves,
75c, worth 81 90, at Rosenbaum & Co.'S
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Business Change.

Cash paid for old gold and silver at
Hauch's, No. 295 Fifth ave. wFsu
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Walter Anderson has opened out at his
new place, 700 Smith6eld street. with ine
stock Of woolens for gentlemen's garments.
.I... .sS7s s.s-- Su e
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NATIONAL taste clearly defined; the sale
of Atkinson's extracts is constantly in
creasing, and must exceed half-million
bottles annually.
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EXTRAORDINARY kid glove bargains
this week at Rosenbaum & Co.'S.
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iKAMPLES OF TASTEFUL DECORATION
rwRrrrrN FOR THE DISPATCH,

NE might almost say
that the prevailing
taste for light gay in
teriors is a witness to
the emancipation of
the national tempera-
ment. We are not a
somber people, al
though We are very
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A NOVEL INTERIOR.

These panels are separated by pilssters,
with ornament in relief consisting of inter-
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FACES AND FIGURES.
Evelyn Malcolm Discusses the Mystic
Subject Of Cosmetics.
COMPILATIONS MADE TO ORDER.
Danger to Health Turks in all Forms Of
Arsenical Compounds.
SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS OF BEAUTY
COMPILATIONS MADE TO ORDER.
SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS OF BEAUTY
rwR1TTEN FOR THE D1spAroH.l

HE Hottentot belle
hangs a bangle in
her lip and paints
her nose sky blue; the
Malay beauty files her
teeth close to the
gums and stains them
black; the Sultan's
favorite paints her
eyelids and coIors her
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
ABOUT HALF-sReep SCRIP.
Secretary Villas Hands Down q Decision
of Importance to the Northwest.

Secretary Villas Hands Down q Decision
of Importance to the Northwest.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE secretary
of the interior has rendered a decision in
the case of Joseph w. Allen ct al, of
Glendive, Mont, against Lewis Merrill,
ct al, involving the important question
of the validity of location of Sioux In
dian half-breed scrip. The defendants
in the case located Sioux scrip upon un-
surveyed public land As attorney in fact
for the Indians, and under the same
powers of attorney made the improve
ments required by law. The professionals
maintained that the locations SO made
were invalid and illegal on the ground
that it was not shown the improvements
were made for the benefit of the Indians,
as required by law. The secretary in his
decision, sustains the professionals and
holds that the locations as made were
in effect the result of a sale and transfer
of the scrip which is in direct violation
of law. The secretary also decided the
cases of John F. MCGEE ct al. versus
OAK, and Hyde and Mcdonald versus
Eaton Steram, of Duluth, Mimi, in
which are involved substantially the
same questions. 1t is said at the interior
department that these decisions will
effect the titles to large quantities of land
lying Immediately adjacent to towns on
the Northern Pacific railroad in Montana,
Minnesota and Dakota, upon which scrip
of the character described has been
located, and the lands sold as town lots.
A large number of cases are now pend
ing in the general land Office which viii
also be affected by this decision,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
Still IN THE WOODS.
The Conference Committees
Splitting Hairs Over Da-
kOta's Admission.
Springer Thinks an Agreement May
Be Reached if he Is Not
Pushed Too Far.
Secretary Villas Hands Down an Inn.
pOrtant Decision Regarding Sioux
Scrip.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE territories
are not quite out of the woods. There
are difficulties in the conference commit
tee which foreshadow apostolic difficulty
in the hous The committee had a two
hours session. 1t was for the most part
a conference be. ween Springer and Platt,
to whom the other members of the COM
mittee referred the minor points of diff
ference which still remain to be settled.
1t does not appear that much progress
was made, as there is to be another meet
ing during the day. Asked whether the
committee would report to the house,
Senator Platt replied: Better wait
till we get somewhere near an
agreement before asking that ques-
tion." Mr.. Baker was more conf
dent and looked for a speedy agreement
and report. Springer was tired and
irritable after the conference, but
thought the agreement possible if he
were not pushed too far. Springer has
been a veritable marvel of concession in
this matter, and his irritability over the
apparent fruitlessness of his yielding is
excusable. The disgust of the Dakota
people with the constant creation Of new
difficulties is growing. They are nearly
a unit in the belief that the Democrats
have made concessions enough and that
an agreement ought to be reached forth
with.
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Four new States Will pc ADDED to the
Union this year, making the United
States fortY-two in number. This is a
victory, says the New York Press, second
in importance only to that o Dy'the
G. o. P. in November last. With eight
new Senators and a squad of new Repre-
sentatives the Republican party will be
stronger in both houses of Congress, and
by its wise and progressive policy of
home rule,ja free ballot and a fair count,
it Should make friends rather than lose
them. The aggregate area of these new
States is 1854, $50 square miles, or more
than one-tenth of that of the whole
country. including Alaska's 577 800 miles;
bSore than seven times as great an area
al that of New York State, and of won
dsrful agricultural capacities and miner
ss resources. The Republican party's
economic policy of protection and home
development will be likely to make the
kakotas, Montana and Washington grow
and thrive with an immense bound up
ward, as the Industries of the Eastern
and Middle States did after the Republic
can tariff of 1852. The eagles scream
will be accompanied by the music of a
million wheels,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-22
THE WORK IN WASHINGTON.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Mr. Vest en-
tered a motion to reconsider the vote by
which the conference report on the d.
rect tax bill was agreed to and said that
he did SO for the purpose of submitting
some remarks later.
Mr.. Palmer offered resolutions extend
ing the thanks of congress to the state of
Michigan, for the statue of Lewis Cass,
which was unveiled in statuary hall, and
proceeded to address the senate. Several
other speeds were also made, all
eulogistic of Gen. Cass.
The senate resumed consideration of
the Texas outrages resolution. and Mr..
Coke began his fourth days argument
against it. At the conclusion of Mr..
Coke's speech, the resolution was laid
aside.
The senate proceeded to the considera-
ton of the house bill to provide for
taking the Eleventh and subsequent cen.
suses. The bill passed, after amendment.
The direct tax bill was recalled from
the house on motion of Mr.. Vest, who
wished to explain his reasons for voting
against it. The senate at 6 o'clock ad.
iourned.