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The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Dyeinc Mt Home.

There is n custom now in vogue with ladies'
that is not only originated for economy,s
sake, but also for the facility with which
delft, accomplished hands can carry it out
well. That is tho dyeing system. Take, for
example, my daughter. She had a purple
satccn which she wore until the brilliant
color grew tircsonne to her and slo desired a
change. Still, tho material was perfect, and
not fitted at all TO be discarded. A happy
idea struck her. 1t should be dyed and ap-
pear like another dress. The expense of dive.
ing at an establishment would almost equal
tho cost of a new toilet, so she resolved to
play dyer herself, and did so efectually.
She procured u quantity of diamond dye, and
by u clever handling of it SO none should
touch her hands, she transferred the weari-
some purple to n beautiful shade of green.
Over this she draped a Swiss white lace, and
at the first entertainment where she wore it
there was not n prettier gov in the room,
and obtained simply at tho cost of a few
cents. the amount of the dye. Some ladies
even make u practice Of dyeing their lace
curtains to suit the color of each room. For.
instance, an artistic woman on Chestnut
street recently took her soiled whito curtains
and died them herself, pink and blue, alter
nately, and i'll each room where the color tint
predominated they were assigned. The effect
was lovely and novelist. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
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PLAYING Two I.,rts I'm Real Life,

A handsome Boston woman, whose manner
of dress is more or less criticised us beng
too young" makes out II good case for her.
self with an apt little story. 1t is worthy the
attention of women who compute the age
and make an inventory of tho costumes of
their sisters who. being neither girls nor
brides, insist upon wearing hats and bright
colors when their advisers would have them
affect black and seal brown and invisible
green.
Mrs. Tailormade had been prevailed upon
By Il conventional sister md numerous advis.
ers to buy what one of the dear 500 friends
called Il 'chastc bonnet" a fat arrangement
with wide strings which tied in u large bow
under her dimpled chin. Its color was q sad
brown, and an innocuous ornament of dull
jet was its only garniture. She declared that
that bonnet should last her a life time, and
carefully preserved it in q bandbox. Ono
rainy day, when sho was obliged to 20 down
town, she saw a happy opportunity to make
a concession to prejudice, and preserve the
curl in her hat feathers by wearing tho bon
net. She put it on with a de1nure veil and q
waterproof cloak, and stopped at a dress
makers to leave an order for some button.
holes. The next day dawned bright and
clear. She donncd her dark red tailor made
gown, her directoire hat and Hading veil.
and calling at tho drcssmaker's was greeted
with, "Ah, here is the garment. | hope your
mother will like the buttonholes .n-Boston
Gazette.
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a wit belonging to the skating club has
declared that i'll order to be n dcservcdly
acknowledged belle p~atincusc a lady should
DO gifted with the thirty following good
points: "She should ave three things white,
tho skin, teeth and hands; three black, ewes,
cyclashes and eyebrows; three rosy, tho lips,
tho cheeks and the finger nails; three long,
tho waist, hair and hands; three short,
teeth, ears and tongue; three broad, fore
head, shoulders and intelligence; three small,
waist, mouth and instcp, three finely formed.
the nose, head and feet, three artistically
shaped, fingers, upper lip and chin. three
beautifully developed, tho arms, the limbs
and tho dowry." To which catalogue of per.
fcctions what lady would not gladly have the
right to lay claima Nor would she lack I'D
mirers even if she happened not to skate
New York Truth.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

Tho ~favorite domestic way of packing eggs,
and one that keeps them well for limited
periods, is with salt. Put u layer of salt two
inches deep OH the bottom of n stone jar and
put i'll the cggs, ends down select your own
authority us to which end it shall be-, being
careful that the shells do not touch, fill and
cover well with salt and proceed rs before.
Another method, said to keep eggs perfectly
for a year, is the same as tho foregoing except
that each egg before packing is rubbed over
with n piece of fried fat.
a pickle which. it is said, will keep eggs
perfectly for two years and which is success
fully used or ships ut sea, is made by adding
one pint of fresh slakcd limo and onc-half
pint of salt to each three gallons Of water;
mix we'll. Have tho barrel or tub in which
they arc to DO kept half full of the liquid,
then with a dish let the eggs down into it,
tipping the dish after it fills with water so
that they roll out without cracking the shell.
for if tho shell is cracked tho egg will spoil
A piece of board should DO laid over. the tons
Of tho eggs and a little limo and salt kept
upon it.
Other methods are, to coat the shells with
a thin gum arabic mucilasc, with n thin var.
nish made by dissolving gum shcllac in alec.
hoi, or with grease, and packing them in
bran, oats, powdered charcoal or sawtlust.
Or, make n thin mixture of fresh slakcl lime
and water, put tho eggs in for n few mo
n,ents till the lime setti"s into the intcrstices
of tho shells; take them out and dry them,
then pack in any desired matcrlal.-Good
housekeeping
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Tropical Storm.

In 1926 tho Magpie struck a hurricane in
the West Indies and was instantly whirled
over and snatched to pieces. Eight men rose,
cllnglng to fragments, and were so fortunate
as to regain one of the ships bouts. After
suiferlngs too terrible to be detailed, five of
these were picked up. In like manner many
vessels wrecked in the South seas have been
heard OF only when one or two survivors
drifted to some island. Thedanger of falling
into the hands of savagcs is not what it once
was there, but much of the wild coast of
Africa is still as it was in tho days of the once
noted Capt. Riley, when "the land was more
dangerous than the sea-" In tho South seas
many Of the islands are surrounded by coral
reefs, between which and the shore there is
usually a safe channel, and this is the case at
Apla. So the vessels could probably have
escaped if they had known a cyclone was near.
But that is tho difficulty in that latitude
they could not know.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
A Critic.

"Nym Crinkle," the brilliant dramatic
critic, is known in private life in New York
as Mr. A. e. Wheeler He is q slender, we'll
made man above the average height. He has
nervous hands, IN aristocratic head, and ewes
full and blue. His gray blonde hair and
mustacl.e testify to his forty years. Mentally
he reminds one of Robert Louis Stevenson.
There is the same fascinating facility in pic
turesque phrasing, the same love Of dainty
argument, and fine spun analysis in quaint
lines of thought. Socially "Nym Crinkle" is
gentle, his cruelty is all in his pe1. Wit,
poet and cynical philosopher, he is anything
in appearance but a journalist. Instead Of
growing thinner his writing gets broader and
better as he gets older He has written a
book. Once upon a time he wrote a play.
This play is not a pleasant memory with him.
-Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
The Dear Old Folk.

To a person who has once been active and
self reliant, tho dependency attendant upon
old age is hard to bear. Upon those whose
privilege it is to care for them devolves the
choice of making this dependency easier or
harder to bear. Tho little attentions and
cares may be presented in such a form as to
give the idea Of merely suggesting what the
recipient would unquestionat1y have done
himself. Unless the person is entirely help.
less there are numerous bits of work about
the house which these aged people can do to
advantage and in other ways they can work
with another, and even though it be more
work to attend to them and show them what
needs to be done, than it would be to do the
whole alone, yet the satisfaction which they
feel in the thought that they are helping a
little, and the moments that are made to hang
less heavily on their hands, more than out
weigh all hat can be brought to bear on the
other side of the scales .-Lewiston Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
incubation Treatment for Disease.

The method of treatment to avoid the dan
gers of hydrophobia invented by Pasteur
seems to be making rapid progress toward
an extended practical application in many
countries. Seven anti-rabic calrostines nave
been founded in Russia, five in Italy and one
each in Roulnania, Austria, Brazil, Cuba and
the Argentine Republic. Two others are
proposed-one in Chicago md another in
Malta. The Pasteur institute, which is to be
the central establishment Of this system of
laboratories, has now more than half q dozen
experts employed in its work-that is, in the
practical treatment of patients and in the ex.
perlments connected with the extention of
the method of treatment. With the magniH-
cent enthusiasm which characterizes Pusteur,
he u.s. according to u report, pushing his re.
searches in the incubation treatment with
reference to other forms of disease. There
are still wide worlds to conquer. but those of
this century may fairly hope that contagious
diseases may in time lie generally conquered
by an extension of such treatment.-New
York Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
oxerdressed Children.

French children, according to q Paris let
ter, are overdrcsscd Tho littlo girl of 4 or 5
years old in Paris wears stays and tournure
and feathers, and often rings and bracelet,
while earrings arc not usfrequently fixed in
her ears when she is in her nurses arms. This
exuberanco of detail md want of sinplicit-
in childrcn's dress is not only detrimcn.s to
tho character of the doll like wcarcrs, but
rohs their appearance of much of its native
grace and beauty. In this respect English
children contrast favorably with their little
French ncighbors. The higher wo look in
French society tho moro We SEQ English ideas
prevailing in tho treatment of children.
When tho Comtesse do Paris was living in
Franco her nursery was like an English ono
wilile her children wcro often dressed with q
simplicity bordering on severity.-New York
Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Some Good Advice.


DR.. Lucy NJ. Hall writes; l wish tho Amer
lean women woulddo as tho European women
do when they go to the theatre, and that is,
get up and walk about, chat, and visit with
acquaintance, and get their blood into circu-
lation between the acts. Why. it's perfectly
abominable, this sitting cramped up in n
chair for three hours without stirring. To
me it denotes a lack of comprehension of
ones physical needs. have no word Of re-
proach for those men who go out between the
acts. l know there are some men who avoid
as much as possible taking a lady to tho
theatre solely because they dread having to
sit still from the beginning to tho end of the
play. But if | were present at the theatre
with Il gentleman | should tell him to go out
md get exercise, for that is what | do myself
when ! SO. which, however, is seldom.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
A Royal Nurse,

This pleasant little anecdote is told of the
Empress Frederick. During tho Franco.
German war Of lS70-7l, when she was crown
princess of Germany, she acted as nurse to
the wounded soldiers, and rendered great aid
to tho Red Cross society.
One Of tho wounded men to whom she had
been kind, not knowing her, asked her one
day if she had any relative ut tho front. IL
have two" sle answered; my father and
my husband"
May bc,"said tho soldier, II might know
them. What AFRO their names, and what reg.
iment do they belong tol"
My fathers name is Wilhelm" replied the
crown princess, land they call my husband
'Unscr Fritz"
Tho soldier saluted and remained silent
Youths Companion.
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HOPES SONG.

And will it be. " said Hope to me-.
THAT over the snow he'u come.
And the b%eckon,ng light OF your window bright
Will guide nun. weary home,
"Or will 1t oe. said Hope TO the.
On a summers eventide,
When the tender glow Of the sunsets low
You shall walk side by sides
q will II tie, " SAID Hope to me.
When the sky Is dull and gray
And thou duwncuSt. he will come at last
And brighten all the day.
0 will 1t TIE. :" said Hope to ME.
'fon may pit my pictures by
Save one the best and tho faithruiest
10 look ut when you die
"of a cleaning sen. " said Hope to me,
And a fair shore calm and sweet,
Where hearts | wis like thine aud his
Have never failed to meet"
Elsie Kendall In Scribner'R
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
THE R E

Three riders set out for the temple Of Fame,
Each booted and spurred and equipped the same
The first rode forth at a rafting pace,
Like o jockey who wins an exciting race.
The second set out with caution slow,
So that, when need was, he might faster 20.
The third rode steadily, quietly on,
at q quick jog trot he could reckon upon.
And which do you think will the winner be:
The hare. the tortoise. or number three2
Tho first one soon broke down, of course,
He saved the saddle. but lost his horse;
The second met the regular fate,
Dallied too long, and was just too late.
The third, grieve andregret to soy,
Did not get there. for he lost his way.
He thought so much Of his regular trot,
That to look at the signs he quite forgot
See how strangely things befall.
Another, not thinking Of Fame at all,
Who was on his way to the bread fruit tree,
TO provide for hs wife and children three,
Went straightway into the temple of Fame,
And innocently asked its name!
They answered him With q q~uizzical face,
lie gemarked, TITS a most uncomfortable place.
Then he went on to the breadfruit tree,
And home to his wife and children three,
The moral? We'll, If you can find 1t,
Write 1t out. for | sha'n't mind it!
Tudor jerks In Christian Union.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
a Lion Killed With Stones.

a large Mexican lion was killed six miles
from town by Mr z. s. Duff without a
weapon of any kind but stones The Craw.
ford boys sent word to Mr. Duff that the
lion was in their ~neighborhood aud for him
to bring his dogs Ae responded promptly.
The dogs were soon in combat with the lion,
and actually held h.m while MIR Duff beat
hill, to death with stones. The lion measured
seven feet from the tip of his nose to the end
OF his tail ialo Pinto Cor New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
An Abused Man.

A man who catches dogs on which no
license has been paid is only one degree more
unpopular than the public executioner In
some parts of the city we are booted and
Kissed US if we were criminals, and no one
seems to think that we are justified in doing
what is quite regular and legal. And our
work isn't easy If we happen to wire a dog
with a license tag on its collar, woe betide
us. for an action for damages is at once
brought if compensation on an exorbitant
valuation is not Forthcoming. And as scores
of limitations of the city badge are in use. a
man has got to be pretty careful how he
catches even the meanest looking cur or
passes by a dog with a right shaped tag on
it.-Dog Catcher in Globe-Democrat
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Queen Mary's Sycamore Trees.

To Mary Queen of Scots, so Mrs. Jameson
relates, are the people of Scotland indebted
for the lu2uriant u%pspringing Of sycamore
trees in their realm. A little one was brought
from France by 1.-THE fayre hand of royalty
and wa:i planted by tho noble lady herself in
the gardens of Holyrood, and from this
small beginning a sprung all the beautiful
groves of sycamore now seen in Scotland.
This sycamore tree is sometimes called Egyp-
tan fig tree. -Harper's Bazaar.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Her Safety Valve.

Calmboy-You wife seems to be more
equable in temper of late. Tom. Have YOU
reformedi
Tempyrrost-No, | nave not. I'm worse.
II anything. But Mrs 7. has improved. She
has a safety valve. It's q p%honosraph. You
see, she's fiery but proper. and sometimes /
have thought She would really explode. But
she got some one to load up a phonocraph
with all sorts of emphatic words, Including a
mild swear or two, and when | como home
and act badly she just lets that machine
loose on me and sits. down and smiles r.
saves a deal of wear and tear on Mrs T.
n she's getting to be simply angelic.
Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
"The Mhirlirir of Tina,

In glancing over old volumes of The Ion.
don Punch, or American humorous papers
or portions of papers Of thirty years ago
nearly every mention of a literary woman
pokes fun at her personal appearance. Such
dowdy, lean, strong minded creatures as
those who are caricatured under the guise of
intellectual" women, were enough to deter
almost any girl from becoming a poet or
novelist. But now all is changed Every
poet and novelist is beautiful, or described as
such; or at the very least. she has a wealth
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
A Double Headed Snake.

Mr.. John Wingdeld, of Washington.
Wilkes county, has q two headed water moe
casin. Mr. Wingfeld captured the snake
last summer near a wash hole. The reptile is
ten inches long and as large around Us a pen
staff. The snake has two distinct heads, two
mouths and four eyes. When stirred up ut
the wash hole one head started for q small
boy, but the other head moved to reconsider
and went back after another boy After a
short scrimmage the snake was captured and
given a dose of alcohol. He is low in n bot
tie of alcohol. upon which he subsists alto
gether. Macon .Ga.' Telegraph.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

of satiny hair, or a tiny foot. or glowing
eyes. And she dresses in high art gowns.
whose smallest frill or fold is carefully de.
scribcd by painstaking interviewcrs 1.-THE
Whirligig of Time has at last crowned
genius with what every true woman values
far more than genius-lovablencss and beau.
ty.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

beautiful Spanish eyes above the edge of a
crimson fan. This grew quite a rage for
awhile, and all the women with pretty eyes
had themselves painted in like manner. 1t
was she, too, who started the fashion of hav-
ing her beautiful hand photographed, and
giving It to her friends in place of pictures of
her face.-New York Cor. Chicago News.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
Mime. do IRarrios.


Mime. de Barrios, the widow of the South
American dictator, is 3 years of age. the
mother of seven children, u beauty, and
worth $ 7.0OO,OW. She is one of the prettiest
women in New York, of a rich. dark South
American type, and despite the seven chill
dren has not lost the least hint of her fresh
ness and charm. Her story is n romantic
one. At IA years of age she had reached that
sudden development to womanhovd which
comes to South American girls almost as soon
as they turn into their teens. the Dictator
Barrios, who was then nearly 40. caught a
glimpse of her one day, and being inspired
with a sudden passion demanded her hand.
Very naturally the girl rebelled at being
turned over to a mar old enough to be her
father, and her parents objected to the match
also. not only on account of disparity in the
years, but ON the ground that the position of
q South American dictator is not one of sufi-
Gent security to insure the future happiness
of the woman who marries him, so the young
lady was whisked off to d mountain convent
and Gen. Barrios' offer was respectfully but
firmly declined. The dictator, however, was
not OF the stuff Of which rejected suitors are
made, his only answer was to clap the lovely
senorita's father into jail and to inform him
that be would remain there until his pretty
daughter became Nine. de Barrios,
The old gentleman stood it heroically for a
while, but prison life and fare not agreeing
with him, the senorita reappeared a. sud-
denly as she had gone, and was welded with
great pomr and ceremony to her hardy
wooer. There ,s sopa quality in the femi-
nine heart which responds promptly to these
Lochinvar methods of courtship, and in a
very short while the pretty girl was more fond
of her rugged and imperious husband than of
all the young fellows who had been playing
mandolins under her window ever since she
turned of twelve. He on his part was pas
sionately enamored of the little girl he had
married, and at once began investing large
sums in the United States and in France
against the coming of any damp day, so that
when he was suddenly taken off in an up
rising his widow found herself not only the
mother Of several children, most of whom
came in pairs, but also the sole owner of over
100000. invested in the solidest fashion.
She is a very prominent figure in society and
usually spends her summers at Newport, a
devoted mother TO h%ersit,le dark eyed brood,
and so far seems to have no intention Of re-
placing her soldier husband, though the for
tune hunters spare no pains to persuade her
to do go. One of her curious fsncies was to
have herself painted by a famouS miniature
painter in a picture which showedxply her
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
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The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08
The Girls do Not Scare Easily.

ID the passengers who ride up with you
ever become frishtenedf" asked Il reporter of
the elevator conductor at tho Washington
monument the other day.
"Some do and some do not" was the reply,
as the ral'lc puller turned toexplain toa lady
in the car that the trip upward occupied
about nine minutes. III tell you" he cx-
planned, turning back to the reporter. THE
first lady who became frightened in the monu-
ment came the other day. She was the first
and only one. We had hardly started from
the floor when she began to get nervous, and
kept getting more and more SO, and finally
asked NE to let her off. OF course | could
not 60 back, SO | kept OF to the first landing,
two or three levels higher, and there | opened
the door and led her out to the platform.
She was very nervous. | did not want to
leave her there alone, SO | called to a nico
looking young man who was walking down
and asked him if he would not stay with her
until could get to the top and send a watch
man down to help her. He said he would
and ! went Oh. When the Waterman went
down lie @. AID not find them. she had walked
.kaA-witn tins young man."
Here the conductor had to interrupt him
self to reassure u man huddled away back in
the corner Of tho car that the same elevator
uul carried uOllS ullu lOllS Oh SLOne 10 uno Top
of the monument, and had been pronounced
perfectly safe by all the authorities. Then
he resumed, lowering his voice somewhat US
he said:
o the other hand, | have had to stop at
least twenty times for the benefit OF men who
would not go any higher. Why, | have seen
great, big, strong men, who looked as though
they weren't afraid of anything, get to trem-
hliuu and finally oSIy mo to Left thntp mt oP
and walk. Particularly fat men, too," with
a reminiscent chuckle. Fat men are afraid
of their weight, particularly if they are with
a large crowd. | can't explain why this
should be" he concluded, just as the car
emerged from the semi-darkness of the shaft
into the whittier, brighter light of the top
landing, but | must say that Two come to
the conclusion that the women are not tho
towards after all, it's tho men. If tho
women are they don't show it here."-Wash-
ington Star.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

Useful napkin rirgs are made by crochet
ing them out of old gold macrame cord, and
are made glossy and stiff by an application
Of varnish. Work baskets, waste paper has
kets and whisk broom holders aro all durable
and prettily made in this way and bright
end by bows of ribbon.
The Dickinson press., 1889-06-08

This appears in the Lewiston (Me., Journal.
1.-Two Lisbon women used to look so much
alike that they fooled their own children,
The babies often cried for the wrong mother
Jactl"