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shoes is that worn in Singapore and India. It
is merely a wooden sole, with ra Used heel and
toe and peg or post in front. The shoe is
adjusted with this peg between the big toe and
its neighbor. and the shoe is held on by
muscular effort of the toes.
There are variety of boots and shoes used in
China. The common shoe is made of thick
heavy felt with still thicker sole made of
woven straw or layers Of felt. This sole does
not come out to the end of the shoe. but rounds
upward at the ball of the foot. This puts the
Chinaman on pair of rockers, it were, and
gives him rolling gait. Chinese persons of
rank wear boots with thick soles and legs Of
fine cloth or silk that reach half way up to the
knee. Among the peasants rude shoes are woven
OF straw. Awonderful shoe is that worn by Chi
nese woman of rank. One of these shown at the
National museum is of silk beautifully embroid-
cred. The general shape of the shoe is more
like that Of hoof than anything else. 1t is less
than four inches long. The wearer of this shoe
had her feet bandaged in infancy and the
bandages were maintained and frightened while
she was grown up in order to make her feet
small. When she was grown she was a helpless
creature hardly able to hobble across her ROOM
IL she wanted TO go out shopping she had to be
carried in chair. The shoes or moccassins
worn by the North American Indians are nearly
all alike in their general structure. The
moccasin, slipper made of soft deer
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tons made from il her friends and only put upon
the market when circumstances drove her 10 the
cessity Of supporting herself and children.
The Recamier preparations IL is acknowledged stand
alone cures for diseased skins for
good ones With their phenomenal success a renewal
Of interest in the beautiful creature for whom they
were first made, and for whom they justly named
has naturally arisen.
The Recamier preparations are praised and used in
Paris and In London The Worth knows Of their
marvellous good work. of his most beloved
clients, Mrs James Brown Potter, wrote while yet
queen in society and before she had thought of going
the stage, personal letter Mrs Aver I'm which
she said she would never be again without the Re-
camier Preparations which she considered luxury
well as q necessity to every woman, young or old.
The Recamier Preparations have come through the
crucial tests of scientific analysis with flying colors
They are" said celebrated English physician who
had analysed them before q young member Of the
royal family was permitted TO them, ''the very
finest mixture of healing and invigoratng ingredients
ever compounded for the skin to my knowledge,
and should be used by men and and in the
nursery in place Of any other emoent. salves &C."
But perhaps the greatest triumph achieved by the
Recamier Preparations was the recent First Prize
awarded them at the great American Exhibition i'm
London. No cosmetics permitted TO compete for
the award and after exhaustive analysis the
mier Preparations declared Restorative. Cura-
tyes, and beneficial TO such degree that they were
awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Commit
tee The ladies of America have written Mrs Aver by
the thousands their expressions of delight and hsppi
in the restoration and of their
greatest charms, and to them she offers her grateful
thanks for the charming courtesy which has been
stantly afforded her every side. and with il a re-
newa of her promise that the Recamier Preparations
shall be maintained always up the high standard
which has made them the characteristic Toilet Prepa-
ratons Of this century. Every Druggist in the United
States who has not these preparations here very
few who do not keep them will be pleased order
them for any lady wishing them.
A Few Words About Soap.
Mime Patti gives her opinion of Harriet Hubbard
Ayers Recamef Soap in the following words:
CRAIG Nos CASTLE, Oct Ii. 1887.
Recamier Soap is perfect. 1 thought other soaps
good, but had tried the Recamier shall never
any other. 1t far surpasses all toilet soaps.
ADELINA PATTI NICOLINL
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BILE stills. These high shoes are for indoor
wear, and are made chiefly for ceremonial pur-
poses. They add to the height of a person and
enable them to wear long state robes with more
convenience. In these fnely-made wooden
shoes and the ruder ones worn by the poorer
classes one can trace out the beginnings of the
lines followed by modern shoemahers. The heel
is there. A japanese shoe for ordinary wear is a
block of wood with Hat top. an upward slant in
front, followed out place in front of the heel,
a covering of lghtly-woven straw mating on
the top on which the shoe rests. and V-shaped
cord or thong, with point at the toe and the
two ends at either side of the heel. The point
of the V is fastened to the shoe by another cord
or thong. The shoe is put on simply by rum
ming the foot into the V SO that the big cord at
the point goes in between the big toe and its
neighbor.
In this Japanese shoe the hollow in front of
the heel is made for the sake of lightness and
suggests the origin of the heel made on most
leather shoes. The Japanese in their houses
wear light shoes or slippers with woven soles
without heels, or else go in their stocking feet.
These stockings are made with thick soles. and
are divided like mittens, there being place for
the big toe and another compartment for the
four lesser toes. This bifurcation of the stock
ing enables the wearer to put on the shoe de-
scribed above and get good grip on it with his
toe. japanese peasants wear also a rude
wooden shoe raised ON stills, like the Persian
ceremonial shoe. One of the simplest forms of
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has been taken figuratively to represent ex-
treme restitution So when one wants to speak
of a person who is in impecunious circum-
stances. one. if he uses slang. is likely to say,
''he is walking on his uppers." The oldest
form of shoe or sandal seems to have been
merely fat sole secured to the foot by thongs.
This form can be seen represented in Roman
and Greek sculpture. The Egyptions had SIM
liar soles sandals made ordinarily of leather,
but some times of palm leaves or papyrus. In the
ninth and tenth centuries the common form of
shoe in Europe was the wooden shoe. Even
the mobiles and princes wore clumsy wooden
shoes, such now are found among the
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From the London Punch.
Old friend-well, Brownel what are you send
ing to the exhibition this year?
Our artist (who really thinks he's done q good
thing at last, and longs for q little praise) -Oh,
same old rot, as you seel
Old end-Ah-well-anyho il brings grist
to the mill, supposed!
0oTal-D0nt be too modest
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years, and all the
world knows that
Julie Recam Ter
when she died had
a skin rs fair as
when at sixteen the
great Napoleon &c
knOwiedged h err
wondrous beauty,
the only power he
! feared in France.
Mrs Harriet Hub
bard Aver bought
J this formula, used
il for years, and
gave the preparn-
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conditions of life Of the monkey that has it
In Prof. Mason's balcony are many drawers
filed with shoes, and in one of the alcoves Of
the museum are stored away another collection
OF shoes. II there was procession repre-
senting all nations and even the subordinate
divisions of all nations, the representatives Of
the different countries and localities could all
find in this collection the proper boots or shoes
TO wear.
Then scattered through the museum are eff
gies-armies of very little ones in cases, repre-
senting the dress and the implements and cere-
monies OF different people, and here and there
large figures, startling in their life-like char
acter. and on each Of these the student of shoes
can find an interesting study. Wooden shoes,
or sabcts. are worn now among the peasants in
many countries in Europe. Their advantage is
in their cheapness and durability. In France and
Belgium are factories where they are made of
maple and ash. There are some in the museum
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peasants. The fourteenth century produced
the grotesque long pc nted shoe. The points
had been extended by fashion so far that in the
days of Richard III they were secured to the
knee by little chains. The church Numbered
against this absurd and useless fashion but
almost without avail for it held sway for 200
years or more. In 1863, however. so much
Roadway had been gained against the mode
that decree of the English parliament. was
obtained to oppose the decree of fashion. An
act was passed prohibiting shoemakers from
making points more than two inches long
for the unprivileged classes. Hence
forth the long point became badge OF
the criminal class. But a reaction came,
the long point went out of fashion, and people
went to the opposite extreme. The toes of
shoes were made of grotesque width. This alb
surdity carried so far that Queen Mary felt
called upon to issue a proclamation restricting
the width of toes to six inches. If there were
any of her subjects who had a natural spread
of the toes greater than six inches they had to
60 bare-footed. In the sixteenth century boots
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SHOES AND THEIR WEARERS.
MANY FANCIEs IN FooTGEAR.
HOW SAVAGE PEOPLE ARE sHoD.
Sandals. Slippers, Moccasins, and the
Clang of the Wooden Shoe.
An INTERESTING COLLECTION IN THE NATIONAL
MUsEUN-THE CHINESE LADY's sHoE-wooDEN
SHOES AND SHOES wfrH WOODEN soLEs-How
PKRsIASs GET UP IN THE WORLD.

ARIOUS forms of foot
gear have been devised
by different people under
different conditions. All
the shoes made have one
thing in common, and that
is a sole. There are shoes
consisting of a sole with
out an upper, but none
that consists of an upper
without a sole. Not to
have a sole on ones shoe
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from Norway and Belgium and some used among
the scandinavian settlers in the northwestern
states and territories that seem heavy and
clumsy to one accustomed to fine leather.
The shoe is made all of one piece, followed
out They are fashioned in the form of the
foot. and sometimes have a little carving out
side to represent buttons and the toe-caps on
lsasher shoes. The uppsrs are about quarter
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Entomologist Of N. Y. Central Park

Ex-vice-P President Hannibal Hamlin re-
sponded to a toast of s.Our Fathers" at Sons
of Veterans banquet at Bangor, Maine, We'd
nesday night, and aroused great enthusiasm by
display Of his old-time earnestness and elo-
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PRACTICAL CHARITY.
The Work Of Some of New Works
Charitable Institutions.
ST. GEORGES CHAPEL 4
CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION,
10 STANTON at New York

CHURCH OF rae REPUTATION,
100 Stanton ST., New York, ,
Mrs. Harriet H. Aver:
DEAR MADAM: For some months have been using
your Vita Nuova among our poor aud sick with ex-
ceent results but buying at retail makes IL rather ex-
pensive for charity work. although never buy less
than one.haf dozen bottles at time. Win you supply
bottles At an ORDER Yours S truly, ,,.,...,.
NEW YORK. Aug. 10. 1883.
Having tried your Vita Nuovs with perfect salts
faction We cheerful recommend its use 70 all persons
fully Little Sisters V Of the Poe orr
ST. GEoReEs MEMORIAL HOUSE 1
Mrs. GarT'is Ha5bdra Iyer: - A''''
DEAR MADAME: The Rev. DR.. Rsinsford has desired
generously donated sarge quantity q vt. Nouys for
has proved most benehcisI to many. 1'''A'e1 SUI
The last bottle was gwen few days asO and the
remember the sick by contrblting Tor their
some %,,S more Of y0Is excellent lea. tonic
ferred by your gift remain dear madam yours truly.
Vita Nouva the best remedy dyspepsia nervous
weak stomach il viii rest the weary brasn. Il VIII
.brace up" the shattered nerves As IL made from
s.fins aaseI medicne As made W honest
Il aHd 0SoTsed By %.S snd gSa Il
know and respect, you are not using an unknown OF
untried remedy: only be careful 70 get the genuine;
refuse substitutes.
A Card to the Public.
The great success Of Mrs Harriet Hubbard Aver -
the introduction Of Recamier Cream, made from IT,
original formula Of Madame Recamier, has produced
such . crop OF imitators. most Of them men vorkinf
under the names Of women. that it really has become
exceedingly annoying 70 be Chased a. in bunlpe.
with such persons 20 Chat from this time henceforth
an 20 % sns
including applications for frss s.mpiss q y ,
order Of The Recanlier Manufacturing Company, o.
and 81 Park Place. New York City Mr. Aver 10 stu
president of this company but from and sftsr this
date attention will be paid 20 business letters not
THE RECAMIER MFG. CO.,
81 and 81 PARK Place. New Y6rk
r. white shirt. si.ssuRe lsnchsa
{s:ss .Sis Ssxsss &
1t HofiANDkR BROS 1917 fsnna ava NV.
ToB-ioc WHITE GOODS FOR Sc; CHALIIA
d Beiee eects &C.. Ladies 6wtss Rib VEGA l0c.;
.ss-ss SkfKru co.. lao sa a~
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOUSE RENTING IN THE
SPRING AND IN THE AUTUMN-soME OF THE
OBSTACLES wAsHrSaroNIANs HAVE TO cosrBAr
THE SERVANT QUEsTIoN-THE FUNDS.
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d Beiee e1fects Sc. LAdiss' 6Wis Rlb Ves1a loc
Children cause vessA. &c.
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carving tables, served their hours, and fash
Toned many cunning things.
PRIVATE TEACHERS.
Children who are educated in this way are
placed under charge of Swiss or German maid
who has been brought over for the purpose.
She has received them from the arms of the
yond the nursery governess, or the kinder
garten, she still has charge of them, but
masters and private teachers carry on their
mental training. The resident governess and
tutor are not preferred in private houses
Social matters are too chaotic here to render
ployer or employed. Many women look on a
governess as a species Of upper maid, to be
called on for thimble and needle if need be-
The native governess on the other hand wants
to be regarded one OF the family and feels
privileged to indulge her feelings at fancied
sights. The butler and upper servants on the
other hand persist in regarding her as one Of
them. I know Of governess who was dis
missed, the lady OF the house frankly avowing
that the servants resented waiting on her and
It was easier to replace her governess than her
butler.
THE RESENTMENT OF THE BUTLER
extends even to the visiting teachers. It hap
pens often and shows that wealth is not all
powerful in New York society. Women be-
longing to the same social circle, but who have
lost their money, are employed by their friends
as visiting teachers. One Of them tells me that
when she goes to her lessons the butler makes
her wait in the hall, or at the children's dinner
omits to serve her, but when she is q guest at q
dinner party she receives his most distinguished
consideration. The governess in o house has
not an enviable life. Her only companions are
the children, and they are frequently with their
parents. Even the mother who may have de-
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A Card to the Public.

TOR FAT MEN.
white Shirt: sizes 1siness>
i ss :s S;:::;. &
stHoLLANDkR BROS 1917 fsnna ava nv.
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Ten to one-12:50 o'clock Worcester Gazette.
A woman cannot throw a stone as well as a
man because she has too long a collar bone.
She can talk better than O man because-she
knows how.-Hdrtford Post
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KILLING THE INSECT WITHOUT INJURING THE
TREE.
Many experiments have been tried at differ
ent times in the New York parks to extermi-
nate the insect pests, and the fight to keep
them down has been long and hard one. Many
substances, which are powerful agents on
organic matter, have been known for years,
but they could not be introduced for general
use on account of being insufficiently soluble OF
in other respects not easy to handle. Espe-
cially in agriculture and horticulture many
chemicals have been known to have properties
destructive to insects, but their use has been
hindered for the lack of something to bring
them in an available form. The true mix.
ture desired has been something that would
destroy the insects, and not injure the
plants when applied. On all trees infected by
scales we use, in Central park, q preparation
consisting of polysolve, bisulphuret of carbon,
and carbolic acid-a mixture that has the ben
eficial result of killing the insects without in
Turing the trees This solution is applied with
brushes to the infested trees and plants, and
when the trees are large and badly infested
steel brushes are used to remove the scale in.
sects that still remain after two applications OF
the wash. Large numbers Of trees cleaned In
this way showed at once marked improvement
and in the case of horse-chestnut trees they re-
covered to such degree as to bloom in Sep
TENDER, the parasites having been so abundant
on them as to retard the leaf growth in spring
and keeping them from towering until they
were cleaned. White helebore, sulphur, pyre.
thum powder, paris green, and London purple
are also used extensively on the insects that in;
fest the foliage, some of them being applied
with horse machine. In this way we keep in
subsection quite successfully the twelve hun
dred or more species of noxious insects that
find subsistence on the foliage Of our trees and
shrubs in the city parks.
Ruknu.nloUisf NJ Gaufral park
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Marion Harland's Views.

Mrs. Edward p Terhune marion IIarland
was asked for an opinion on the subject of
love and friendship.
81 fancy school. girl intimacies TO be the
natural outcome of the strong necessity of
loving inherent in the true woman" said
Mrs Torhune. 81 have in mind several in
stances where the violent love, Stimulating
passion, existing between such passed like
morning vapor before the expulsive power
of a new affection. Mothers look indulgently
upon these vehement intimacies as quite
natural and altogether safe. They lead to
no troublesome entanglemcnts leave no seeds
Of shame and humiliation, and usually die
natural death with the arrival Of Prince
Charming and LIES real responsibilities.
True friendship, that which lasts while life
en1ures, sometimes underlies the ashes of
these ephe.ueral glows-but seldom. The
friendships Of mature years are not usually
the offspring Of schoolgirl fancies for those
who are tho sister souls This may sound
unsympathetic, but do not misunderstood
me. ! believe in the fond true and abiding
love of woman for woman when founded
upon the appreciation of kindred tastes and
sentiments, Friendship recognizes and draws
10 itself that which is alike in both parties
concerned. 1t is able to give Il reason for the
love that is in it. Love seeks counterpart,
complement, not n double, and in the quest
surprises us continually by bringing about
matches between what we cousUcl oppJs. .r-
''FrIendship often exists between wumal
and woman and man and man.
Love exists only between persons of oP
positc sexes. The girl who falls in love wit
her srhoolfellow madly and i,alousy bccaus'
the latter is lovely or fascinating enact, q
pretty part that probably keeps her from
moro than one imprudent 'scrape.' If th'
passion outasts the school days it become
ridiculous. Happily it rarely survives tn.
experience Of the real thng--the love de
creed by God for the best happiness OF hi
creatures
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giving lessons while they are themselves sUln
pupils OF the gymnasium tthe continental
grammar SCHOOL, and Of the university stu
dents at least two-thrds are defraying the
expenses Of their studies out Of their own
earnings. This works satisfactorily 80 long
as the minor examinations have to be
passed but when the students have the
doktor-examen, or the staats-exemen before
them, assistance becomes necessary, as study
ing hard and examining others have proved
to be incompatible. In such cases the poor
mother or the sister, perhaps seamstress or
u dressmaker, or may be the bride elect, who
is also dependent on needework, Will for
months strain her eyes and work her fingers
to the bone to allow the candidate, who is
the pride of the family, and may in days to
come be it's support, TO devote himself en-
tirely to his books to prepare for his exami-
nation.
The son of one poor widow was such can
didate, and while he was diligently applying
himself to his studies, the final examination
being very near, the mother deprived herself
even of the pleasure of seeing him. One
evening the poor old woman pricked her
finger with a needle Soon her hand became
swollen and the woman sought medical adj
vice at a hospital. There she was told that
the finger must be amputated, and she in
sisted upon the operation being performed at
once, 80 that the accident might be concealed
from her son. Twentyfour hours later the
whole hand was gangrenous and had to be
taken off. Not whisper of this misfortune
was allowed to reach her sons ears.
Al last the examination day for the doctors
degree arrived. The young man left for the
university after taking a hasty farewell OF
his mother, and he had hardly quilted the
house before the doctors arrived to amputate
the arm of the silent old sufferer 1t was al
an advanced hour of the day when the SOL
came home radiant with joy to tell his mother
| that their days of anxiety and want were al
an end, that he had passed with honors, aut
that it would now be his turn to provide fol-
his parent. But the one to whom he intended
/ to communicate his joy was no more. Ever
the last operation was made too late, anC
blood poisoning was the consequence of hel
endeavors to hide her pains from her son.
Chicago Herald
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How Many Women Read.

am now going to make an assertion which
is always loudly denied, but which is none
the less true, and that is that women are not
newspaper readers. At the family breakfast
table the first thing that three women out of
four glance ut is the column of births mar
riages and deaths, They go up 10y train to
town, and you see a morning paper or
sound and sensible weekly in 1hc hands of
nine-tenths of the masculine travellers. But
if the average woman buys printed sheet
there is sadly overwhelming probability
that IL is either Il senseless novelette, or one of
those terrible hotch- potches of nane vul-
garities, stale clippings from American publ
cations, and wantonly inartistic and silly
illustrations. These are strong terms, but
the mental mischief wrought by what may
be called an unvarying intellectual diet Of
peppcrmints deserves them. Long-continued
reading of this rubbish shapes the minds
vitality, and renders II incapabeo Of the effort
to appreciate "A good book, or even to follow
tie arguments of leading article upon some
important social problem, or TO grasp the
popular description of great scientific de.
velopment. 1t has been said that newspapers
do not cater sufficiently for the interests of
their female readers; but it may certainly
be questioned whether columns on baby
nursing would compensate for reviews, or
cookery recipes for political speeches -Wo-
mans World