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Wichita eagle., 1889-05-25
BowThey Are Written.

Mr.. Lytewaite visiting literary friendl
Leaf, who is that old colored man that
showed me in? l couldn't understand a
word he said.
Leaf (who writes dialect stories)-Oh, he
is my collaboration. l sketch the plot and
character and he fits IN tho dial ect.-Time
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-25
pailSR;g eagle
A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY.
Many Advantages Possessed BY DUCKS
Over Other Domestic Fowl.

Many Advantages Possessed BY DUCKS
Over Other Domestic Fowl
Not much attention has been given
in this country to duck-raising until
recent years, partly owing to the fact
that wild ducks have been so plentiful
that hunters have kept the markets
very well supplied at the season when
those birds are most In demand. The
wild duck has almost disappeared from
our markets and the introduction OF
the Imperial Pekin duck. together with
the rapid strides in methods of arti-
fetal Matching has made duck-raising
an important profitable industry. By
forcing their growth while they are
Young their flesh is sweet, tender and
juicy, and our city epicures are willing
to pay very high prices for them in the
spring.
There are many advantages pos
sessed by ducks over other domestic
fowl. They are very hardy, are en-
tirely free from vermin and are liable
to few diseases. They take to oonfine-
ment much better than fowls and
cheap very low fence is sufficient TO
keep them in the desired place They
stand transportation. either alive or
when dressed. better than most kinds
of fowls They are great egg pro-
ducers, and their feathers are OF con-
siderable value, about fifty cents a
pound. If kept growing when young.
the Pekin duck will commence
laying when five or six months
old, although like pullets, some
what less prolifcslly than when more
mature They will molt slightly in
December and soon after that will re-
sumo laying, producing one hundred
and twenty to one hundred and forty
eggs within year if well cared for.
We have heard complaints of the un-
fertility of the earlier ducks eggs and
have the impression that not until
about February l are they sufficiently
fertile to be profitable for Matching.
Ducks are not reliable sitters and
for that reason, as well as because they
are not as good mothers as hens, it is
better to allow hens to hatch the eggs
and bring up the young ducks. They
should be fed much the same as young
chicks for a week or ten days, mixing
their food with milk if it can be had.
Feed five or six times a day on bread
soaked in milk, table scraps mixed
with chopped meat, lettuce, onion tops,
cabbage, green rye, green corn Tor any
green stuff. with a little salt and
pepper added. Ducks are gross feeders
and eat almost every thing without
injury. Care should be taken the first
few days to keep the sucklings warm
and dry, as they suffer more from cold
and wet than chicks; after they are a
week or ten days old they will endure
more of either than chicks. Care should
be taken. also, to provide shade from
the hot sun, as they suffer greatly
from the heat.
Contrary to the general belief it is
not necessary for ducks to have water
to swim in and giving them all the water
they need to drink is sufficient 1t is
advisable to have water dishes so con-
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-25
Durn Your Ola Letters.

So much mischief has been done By the
foolish habit of keeping old letters, that it is
wise to adopt the rule of destroying them at
once. Their mission Is ended, what are they
good fori 81 may like to read them while
recovering from an illness,'' says some one.
Pshawi AS if these would be the tonic you
needed at such time. Better far q breath
of pure air. We are all prone to brood too
much as such times, and need no suoh help
In that direction. Let this plea for the
burning of letters be strong one. Bust
mes letters should be filed and labeled.
Have blank book into which to copy such
dates or extracts as may be of value in
the future for references. This can be
done when letters are answered. Then
burn them and see the ashes. It is the sor-
rows instead of the joys that most letters
contain. They are the safety-valve for deep
feeling from friend to friend, good in their
time, but sometimes worse than useless in
the future. Every day brings new expe-
riences. We are constantly changing, and
in many cases would be ashamed Of our own
letters written ten years ago.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-25

structed that they can drink freely
without getting wet themselves and
the water will have to be replenished
many times a day.
1t is the early duck that commands
the fancy price of forty to fifty cents a
pound and as they can be brought to
weigh nine to ten pounds per pair at
ten weeks old 1t is easy to see that
there is large profit in them.
Mr.. Rankin says: 81 keep my breed
ing ducks warm and dry during winter
to induce early laying. feeding them
on equal quantities of boiled turnips,
corn meal and wheat bran. and giving
them all the green stuff they will eat
in the shape of refuse cabbage, green
rye and ensilage. The young ducks
commence laying about January 1.
My ducks are all Matched and reared
artificially and are put upon the mar
ket at cost Of five cents per pound. ="
New England Farmer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

chatting on various SuDJectS, anu W thO
question by the News, ''Is Marriage
Failure?" she said:
'Sarah Bernhardt and Fanny Daven-
port, see, say it is. I'll have to fol-
low the footsteps of my sister artistes.
| suppose. The benefits or miserles OF
marriage can only be estimated by III
dividual experience. Every persons
opinion will be his or her experience"
"Then you say, Try it for yourself,
do y, 9u?" 49, r. .,,o ,,,-o,, ;, oonaoni.,
the love that propounded it will grow
and a lifelong happiness will follow.
If uncongenial, the reverse will be the
case, and misery or separation is lnev-
liable. hold that congeniality is the
secret of all contentment in the mar
rage association. Married people are
not unlike an audience at the play; the
auditors are naturally self-cOnstltuted
critics to the extent that they must be
pleased or displeased. For my part, L
am married and [ am pleased. AS to
the sacredness of the marriage tie. my
brother, in his play of 'Jocelyn.' eX-
presses my own thoughts when he
makes MARCEL say: Consider well.
How grave a thing is marriage. The
communion blest by heaven between
two immortal souls. not the fancy OF an
hour that can be laid aside at will, but
a holy sacrament to endure for all time
and all eternity"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
Gossip About Women.

nous contralto, is recovering from a
paralytic stroke.
Miss Kathryn Kidder has tall, grace
full figure and wears esthetic gowns.
Nearly 100000 women voted Nov. 1
in England, Scotland and Wales.
There are now about forty ordained
women ministers in the Universalist
church.
The sister of W. D. Howells, Mrs.
Frechette, will contribute stories to a
New York weekly paper.
The Women's Industrial Exchange of
Leadville has paid over 81, ZOO to needy
women during the last year.
Mrs. Russell Harrison is young and
blooming blonde with magnificent hair,
brilliant eyes and fine figure.
Fanny Maeaulay, the only surviving
sister of Lord Macaulay, died at Bright
on, England, the other day, aged eighty.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox dresses her
hair la Clytie, but fayorS the Empress
Josephine in the cut of her gowns.
Mrs. O. c. Converse, of Waterbury,
Conn.,, had President Garfield and Gen.
at North Bend.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, an active
member of Sorosis. carries her pretty
head as if she were always about to say
.'prunes and prisms."
Nine. Mutsu. wife of the Japanese
minister in Washington, entertains her
intimate friends with music on the
''koto," the Japanese piano.
Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk, the author of
1.-THE Story of Margaret Kent is put
ting through the press new book which
she calls ''Better Times"
1t is reported that Queen Victoria has
requested that foreign married ladies
presented at court must be accompanied
by their husbands.
Miss Vida Croly, the daughter of
"Jennie june" is member of the
Madison Square company, and is play
ing in the South in ''Jim the Penman."
1t is the custom in Philadelphia to
send young ladies to dancing school up
to seventeen OF eighteen years of age
and then turn them loose on society to
learn how to talk.
"Think Of 100000 clergymen trying to
defend their orthodoxy of 1,400 years
against the word of one woman" eX-
claimed DR.. Thomas, of Chicago, in
recent sermon on Robert Elsmere."
Nine girls in the Buffalo Telephone
exchange have struck against handling
fifty additional wires, or 100 altogether.
They fear that one-half of their number
will be laid off if one girl is made to do
the work that two formerly handled.
The girl blacksmith, Miss Anna Bole,
who recently exhibited dozen horse
shoes at the Mechanics institute in San
Francisco, is described as being s'about
five feet three inches high and rather
fragile than strong" She is fifteen
years old.
One of the proofreaders of the
Charleston Is. CO. World is an unmar-
ried woman. She goes to her work at
S O'Clock in the evening and leaves at 3
o'clock in the morning. Then she
lights a lantern, and with that in one
hand and loaded revolver i'll the other
she goes home.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

and point patterns exquisitely inter-
woven, and in lovely white founcing
laces are those which show a mesh as
soft and beautiful as Lyons tulle, with
intermixed devices Of Milanese, Flem-
ish and old Pompadour designs wrought
upon their fragile surfaces. Spanish.
Chantilly or Vandyke lace appears in,
more exquisite patterns than ever. The
fabric and designs are very choice, and
are far superior to any OF the kind be-
fore exhibited. One point shows del
icate figure in Spanish, the next in
ChantilIy. These are better known as.
Marouise lace. There is. an immense
display of stripes among the fabrics de-
signed for dinner and tea gowns, the
latest being stripes both wide and mar
row of faille Franchise and velvet, in
unique and novel arrangements
of color, the silk being in
most cases of the lighter hue.
Among these harmonieS and contrasts
are those of moss green and gold reseda,
pale rosy-violet on apricot, lilac and
gold on Florentine bronze, damask on
Venetian green, tea rose sapphire on
moss green and pale terra Gotta, and
bronze on cameo pink. There are also
very elegant materials with stripe of
heavy lustrous satin with magnificent
Pompadour brOcaded stripe alternating.
Far less expensive patterns show narrow
velvet stripes on grounds OF heavy
corded silk. These, however, are quite
handsome enough for any dress Occa-s
sion, and are preferred to the extremely
wide stripes by many women OF ire
proachable taste in dress. Do not ask
at balls. There seems to be no other
rule but the rule of miSrule. The left
front of a corsage is never the same as
its companion on the right. The same
is true of skirts, and sleeves are not like
the rest Of the corSage. The redingote,
which has succeeded the polonaise, is
full of irregularities. l.
DINNERS AND DANCES
are the order of the day, and every
thing that is new and pretty in the way
of toilet is eagerly snapped up. l am
sorry. however, to record the fact that
eccentricity is fast supplanting ele-e
ganee. To what extremes we may rise
or fall, according to taste-remains to
be seen. This spirit of innovation is
most noticeable in the plain silk or
cashmere evening gowns now worm
These have undraped skirts, cut so as to
leave the foot uncovered, full bodies
and very voluminOus sleeves. One Pc
culldr1ty is tudG tao iulueSS OF The
bodies is not continued above the corset
line, where the gathered portion is sewn
upon a sort of yoke piece, leaving
slight beading above. Sometimes this
piece is high and sometimes low,
while occasionally a compromise is eff
fected. AS to the sleeves, there is no
arbitrary rule. Here we see low tops
with sleeves to the elbow, arranged in
one long bouillonne, and there short,
pulled sleeves in conjunction with
high bodices. A striking feature of the
sash. This is very wide, and, in the
most approved costumes which have
come under my personal: notice is with
out ends. But much latitude is per-
mitted, When the sash is of ribbon it
may be bound twice round the waist,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
Philadelphia American.

and each has the names OF several
young women on its roll of membership.
Each club has also set apart
one room in the house Tor the
use of the lady members and
their friends. During the winter these
rooms will be handsomely furnished,
for both the Pennsylvania and Phlla-
delphia clubs expect to take in great
many young ladies next spring. 1t is
only recently that Philadelphla'ss far
daughters took the bicycle, and there
are now at least half hundred riders in
the city. Perhaps one-third of the
whole number were taught to manage
the wheel at the Park Bicycle rink, at
Belmont and Elm avenues. George 5.
Hart. who is one of the most accom-
pliShed Wheelmen III the country, is the
manager of the rink and he has taken
great pleasure in teaching his young
lady pupils how to handle the bicycle.
''Do young ladies have much trouble
in learning to ride the bicycla", was the
question reporter put to Mr.. Hart the
other day.
No" was his prompt reply. con
the whole think they learn much more
rapidly than do men. To be sure, they
are somewhat timid at the start, but
with little encouragement they soon
get confidence i'll themselves and handle
the wheel with perfect ease. You see,
with the safety bicycle they cannot get
much of fall, even if they should go
out of the saddle. They only have to
take their foot from the pedal and step
to the floor, distance of about five or
six inches, thereby saving themselves a
fall"
"How do they make out in mounting
the machine?"
81 find that is the most difficult thing
to teach them. In the first place, let
me remove popular impression that
the Ladies must sit aStride wheel just
as the men do. That is not the case at
all. The ladies' bicycle. instead of hav-
ing a straight bar running down from
the handle post. has a U-shaped bar.
This, You see, permits lady to step
right into the saddle. and there is
nothing to interfere with her skirts"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

spond. The ensuing house robe. or tea
gown, is still more .pretentious artistic
ally, with its pendant oversleeves, its
draperies drawn up at one side by means
of cord, and its generally classic
outlines. Some OF the new tea
gowns, intended to be worn by hos
tesses at afternoon teas, have less of
the neglige effect which makes the pic
tured dress have the air of gorgeous
house wrapper. On the contrary, they
are dressy affairs, retaining some of the
distinctive features of the tea gown,bu
in front more like the empire dresses
introduced at the beginning of the sea-
son. They are made principally OF
plush and velvet, heavy corded silks
and lowered pompadour brocades OF
light quality. A tea gown recently
made is of dark terra-cotta plush,
combined with pink silk. The
back breadths of the gown are demi-
trained, the fullness over the tournure
being introduced in cluster of shirring
below the waist. The front and side
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
POPULAR BICYCLE RIDING IN THE E
Americas Twelve Greatest
Women of the Pres
ent Day.
YES CANNOT READ HUBBY's LETTERS.

ing each other every time they get to-
gether. If twenty women were to meet
in the street every last one of them
would have to kiss the other nineteen,
and then there would be-let me see
$50 kisses worse than thrown away, for
probably in ten minutes the whole party
would separate into squads and go Off
talking about each other. When you
see one of these very violent miscellane-
Gus kiss-everyth ing-in-sigh kind of
women, it is safe to set her down as a
fraud. which she generally is. If |
had my way kissing should be confined
to family use and for family pur-
poses. Now, don't you put my name
to all this or [ will kiss you right on
Washington street the very first chance
[ have" Then the talk ran off on other
kinds of kissing, and story was told OF
a young lady who kissed baby held In
its fathers arms; then in moment of
temporary insanity. or abstraction, she
stood on tiptoe and kissed the papa.
Realizing instantly what dreadful
thing she had done. she wheeled around
and kissed the baby's mamma, who was
standing dear. and retired in good order.
Her satirical sister squelched the poor
young woman as they left the house by
asking her if she didn't want to go back
and finish it by kissing the hired girl.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
CHILDREN'S FUN.
IT SEEMED QUEEF

IT SEEMED QUEER.
Visitor-Well, my little man, have you
any brothers?
Freddy-Yes, Ihave one, but my sister
Stella has two.
Visitor-Why, how can that be?
Freddy Gin some astonishment)-Me
and my little brother, of course.
A FARMERS BOY.
'sWhat will you do. my little man,
When you are tall and strong?'
Says Berthe, with laugh II mean
To drive the plough along.
sit must be fun to feed the pigs,
Aud wear a white smock-frock,
And eat your dinner i'll the fields,
And rise at four O'clock.
'sBesides, to hunt for new-laid eggs
Is just what I'd enjoy;
Now, don't you think it must be nice
To be farmers boy?'a
WHY A HOG OUGHT TO BE SMART.
Teacher-Samuel. which animal, out
side of man, has the most brains?
Samuel-The hog.
Teacher {surprised)-Th hog?
Samuel-Certainly; he has hogshead
full.
2 AND 2 ARE ALWAYS 4.
'sWhere do you live, my little maid?'
Il live right here, at No. f."
sWhy how is that my little maid?
For % is ON the door,
THE number sir. is No. 4,
She slowly said it DER and Ger:
'sOur teacher says-and she should know
That and 2are always 4.
Youths Companion.
A HINT TO DETECTIVES.
Detectives are no good" said Tom
NV. who was reading a newspaper.
'Why not?n asked his father.
sit saws there are number Of con-
gressmen at large. If the detectives
were any good they would run 'em in"
BORN TO BE A sTArIsTICIAN.
Mother (writing)-Bobby, how many
times did l tell you to stop that noise?
Bobby (refectively)-Seven.
FORKS WERE FIRST THIS TIME.
Harpers Young People.
'.Eat with your fork, DEAR said man.
ma to little Lizzie.
FINGERS were made before forks,
weren't they, Lizzie?" said Uncle Tom
'.LiZzie'S fingers WEREN'T exclaimed
Charlie, ''for had fork before she
was born."
not GOOD, BUT HAD A GOOD TINE.
Youths Companion.
A little girl spent the afternoon at her
grandmother's.
When she came home her mother
asked, ''Have you been good girl.
dear?''
"Not so very" answered the truthful
little one. ''but, oh, Eve had lots of
fun!'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILD.

Oh, other women might be queenly fair,
With radiant eyes and shining waves of
hair:
Yet earth for HIM held but one Paradise
A wee, wee cot where ever to his eyes
Show'd a Madonna plain, but strangely
sweet,
With baby boy a-playing at her feet.
The crown was Love, the kingdom was his
* homel
A monarch more than other monarchs great
With the fee simple of his large estate
He clasped her to his heart, the world might
frOWn,
He still would smile from heights of heaven
down.
e. S. L. Thompson in Good Housekeeping.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
Gas, Water, Brine From One Well.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

One Of the most remarkable Of the
many wonderful things of which Pitts
burg boasts is the combination we'll that
has been struck at the cracker factory
of S. S. Marvin 81 Co., on Liberty street.
1t produces at one and the same time
cold water, as pure and sweet as the
dew that falls from heaven, salt water
as briny as old oceans waves, and a
flow of gas that when ignited illumin-
ates the entire surroundings. The we'll
was drilled some time ago, Mr.. Marvin's
idea being to get supply of pure cold
water for use in his bakery in the summer
and during flood timesuwhen city water
is not desirable. At 100 feet the fresh
water was struck, and at 200 the salt
water and gas were found. Two cas-
ings were inserted, one for the salt
water and gas, the other for the fresh
water; and now, when the engine is
started and the gas lighted, spectators
behold the wonderful sight of fresh
water, salt water and fire all coming
out of one we'll at the same time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

on it. With this costume gray gloves
are worn. The second dress is made in
a very original and becoming fashion,
the sleeves being especially new and
pretty. The material employed is very
pale yellow silk bastile, with an under
skirt only slightly visible, and a cein-
ture in muit:-colored embroidered old
gold silk. Small bows OF black satin
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

breadths of the gown are of pale pink
faille, alternating with long. straight
tabs of the dark terra-cOtta velvet. ex-
tending from the waist to the foot of the
skirt. The front of the waist is in
square jacket effect, opening under an
underbodice of pink faille. An under
sleeve of pink faille finishes the sleeve,
which is slashed up at the elbow, allow
ing the undersleeve to be drawn
through.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
WHICH PROPOSED?

They never knew. they never stopped
To ask which 'twas-and yet, and yet
The elimination came about
A fragrant spray OF mignOnette.
Her fingers held the dainty thing;
She softly said: Tits very sweet"
He lower bent, nor words he said
For lips of love in union meet.
H. S. Keller
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
NEW STYLES IN TEA GOWNS.
Picturesque Costumes Worn by
Young Ladies of Fashion.

Young Ladies of Fashion.
The two novel toilets sketched in the
accompanying picture were being worn,
at the time, of an evening as matter of
course, Notwithstanding that they made
the young creatures look as though
costumed for something in particular.
The first dress is somewhat in the style
of the time or the Restoration. 1t is in
very pale blue silk gauze, rather plainly
cut, and made with loosely plated col
guipure, with still darker blue silk spots
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
WOMEN OF THE WHEEL.
Bicycle Riding Becoming Popular
They Learn Rapidly.
JCYCLE riding is

JCYCLE riding is
becoming quite
popular a m Q n g,
the ladies of this
,ity, and it will
not be strange or
surprising to see
them on the road
in great numbers
next season. Two
Of h e leading
clubs, the Phil
adelphia and the
Penn S y V ania,
h aY already
opened their doors
to the gentler sex,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
Rose CoghIan's Venture.

OSE Coughlan
was at a local
photographers
to-day having
some pictures
taken in the
"Jocelyn" cos
tunes those
worn at Anjou
at the begin
ming of the
SGNG IL L Z Z IL L II
century. They
are historically
correct, b u t
build her out
much on the
plan of a Dutch
barge. She was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06
The Worlds Greatest Women.

The London Pail Mall Gazette's re-
quest for lists of the worlds twelve
greatest women has produced this
collective vote, given in order of pre-
ference:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-06

sometimes starting fromsthe. side seams
under the arms, and sometimes finishing
off in point on the bosom. Much in
genuity may be exercised in the selec-
ton of colors for such gown as that
have indicated. AS rule, combina-
ton of two shades of one color is the
best. In that case the skirt, the full
portion of the bodice and the sleeves
are of the darker shade, while the yoke,
scarf and ruching are of the lighter. |
can not say | altogether admire the full
unlined sleeves of tulle. which show the
stand out like the wings on a. panto-
mime fairy,