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CARE OF THE HAIR.
Advice Given by Helen Bertrnm, One Of
the Prettiest Women on the Stage.

Advice Given by Helen Berrram, One Of
the Prettiest Women on the Stage.
Miss Helen Bertram, prima donna, who
joins the Howe Opera Company this week,
is one OF the most beautiful young women
on the stage. Her beautiful wealth of
brown hair Is source of the keenest de-
light to its possessor. She fairly revels in
it, loving to thread the shining masses
through her white fingers when it is un-
bound, watching the progress of arranging
it with liveliest satisfaction and giving little
surreptitious peeps at it as she catches her
reflection in mirror and pier glasses while
moving about.
Speaking about the care of the hair Miss
Bertral gives some valuable pointers in the
BALTIMORE American. ''The fne-toothed
combEoes more harm than good to the hair,
it leg Yes the scalp irritated, Injuries hair
cell fand prepares the way for fresh supplies
of hndIuf. Wire brushes are also very
Objectionable, they tear the hair, however
cafefully used. A good bristle brush is
hest neither too stiff nor too soft; it should
be used night and morning from 5 to 15 min
utes, brushing every portion of the hair
with downward strokes from roots to ends,
being care ul not to wound any part OF the
scalp by too severe application OF the bris-
ties. II ttt tir has grown thin or is fall
ing out DEF We circulation is indicated,
and to reD this rub the scalp briskly and
thorough. with the fingers. A mixture of
West India bay rum and pure water, in
equal quantities, rubbed we'll Into the roots,
promotes hair growth and is excellent for
cleansing purposes. 1t should be used spar
ingly, not oitener than twice a week. Clip
ping the ends OF the hair once q month is
also recommended. This clears away the
dead wood, SO to speak-those split ends
which are SO ugly. Avoid as you would
pestilence the many hair tonics, etc., which
flood the market.
"Whenever a woman speaks of having
her hair cut at new moon, it invariably al
lords an infinite degree of room Tor lest
on the part of her friends, who deem to
misname il superstition The reason
have for cutting hair at the new moontide is
this: There are two tubes to each separate
hair; one tube contains the coloring matter
by which the hair is colored, while the other
tube supplies the hair with oil.
Sat the new moon the color and the oil
recede TO the inner skin OF the scalp, which,
when the hair is cut, does not go to waste:
while il the hair is cut at the lull moon, the
oil and the color reaches the top of the hair.
and when it is cut at this period the oil and
the color drop to the floor, thus leaving the
hair in dry and unhealthy condition. One
or two trials will convince anyone of the
value of this plan"
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admiration. Among the new colors lately
produced is red which is almost purple,
but which is much brighter and richer than
the dahlia shades of last winter, and is
named after Louis XIV, and its combina-
ton with warm, vivid yellow is rather
startling at first sight.
HATS FOR THE CHILDREN.
There is no very marked change in chill
dren's hats this season. The same pictur-
esque broad brims shading golden curls or
dark, waving locks, bend as if burdened
under their weight of wreathed flowers or
feathers and loops OF ribbon, and the same
sailor hats are worn by boys. Fine straws
in dark and artistic colors, such as green,
brown, heliotrope, old rose, lichen-green,
gray and pale cream, are selected for girls
of all ages in low crowned shapes with ex-
tremely broad brims, and the garniture is
usually wreath OF flowers, such as lilies
of the valley, buttercups. dandelions.
daisies in all colors, apple blossoms,
or mixed flowers, such as poppies, daisies,
buttercups and field grasses.
Wreaths of ostrich feathers, in matching,
contrasting. or mixed colors are used in
stead OF flowers on many hats worn by
young girls, from 3 to s; girls from to II
wear flower wreathes; and for older girls,
punches of ribbon loops fastened on with
long fancy headed hat pins are often the
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PHGBE COUzINs COMPLAINS.
How Cheap Clerks Sit in Judgment on Her
Accounts and Pare Them.

How Cheap Clerks Sit in JUDI dgment on Her
Accounts and Pare Them.
Miss Phoebe Couzins has delivered herself
as follows to the press: Il United States
Marshal is often compelled to advance
money from his own private purse to pay
the expenses of the District Court. and
sometimes he loses by it. His accounts are
examined by a corps of clerks in the First
Controllers Office at Washington, and
these clerks are given almost absolute
power in suspending accounts.
They sit in judgment Cd the Marshars
work, and the Controller simply signs the
papers when they are sent up to him. Dur
ing my term in the Marshal's office young
clerk suspended an item of mileage. The
Marshal is allowed &c. mile lor bringing
prisoner. l had a man, who was needed
Immediately, brought from Cape Girardeau
to st. Louis-171 miles. The smart young
clerk nosed over government map, saw
that there was a river route, and he cut, the
mileage down to 148 miles.
That's the way these clerks show their
zeal and enterprise and ingenuity in order
prisoners by the slow river routes in this
day and time. Another time was ordered
to bring in two men from Clayton imme-
diately. The train wasn't running, and 1
paid S16 out of my pocket for carriage hire.
This account was suspended by a young
clerk, who thought, perhaps, that the cars
ought to have been running for my especial
benefit.
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question, and we look elsewhere for our
stylish garnitures.

question, and we look elsewhere for our
stylish garnitures.
THE ROSE is QUEEN.
Large hats, straight or bent in fantastic
forms will rule the mode. The rose is easily
the queen of flowers, and clusters of these
far-famed beauties are punched and
sprayed upon the brim or careless
ly falling off at the back. Let who
will proclaim the merits of the lily, the
laurel, the tulip. or the peony, when the
rose appears we drop allegiance and defer to
her claims. Roses are SO various in color, so
sweet in their fragrance, so wonderful in
their beauty, and so charmingly adaptive
are their habits, blooming as radiantly by
the cottage door as in the palace garden,
that all the world is glad when the roses
open.
The lovely Baltimore belle. which grows
in palest blush clusters of such abundance,
the crimson Jacqueminot, the snowy Mabel
Morrison, the blush moss rose, and the old
fashioned, ineffably fragrant double damask
are so closely copied from nature as to fatter
her by the delicacy of their structure. and,
seemingly, to distl upon the hat all Of the
affairs of the East. A famous New York
pelle recently wore hat bedecked in roses
plucked from her hothouse beds. aud her
appearance in public created a furore of
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=, dutuOllLy anu Oecl'
sion that have come from personal contact
with over $4,000 registered medical and sur
gical patients, in hospital and private prac-
tice.
Inc Importance Of careful nursing can
naroly be overestImated. MANY times to
tnls' more than to medicine, is recovery
from sickness due, and in very manv cases,
unless the skilled labor of the physician is
supplemented by this necessary auxiliary.
his labor is lost and his patient dies.
Ii you are to care for the sick you should
enter upon your duties with cheerfuIness
and earnestness. The work is of the kind
tnat wears and worries if you let it wear
and worry; so at the outset let it be under
stood between you and your inner self that
you Will not worry, and that if you wear, it
Will be to wear well.
LOYALTY TO THE PHYSICIAN.
You have three classes of people to please
cesloe yourseli-the patient, the patients
friends and the physician; if you satisfy
the flrst you generally will the Others, but
whatever you do, be loyal to the physician
ana salts him in every reasonable possi-
oillty. Remember that your work and his
i0iT uistIncs ana separate and
yours is subordinate to his. Do
not let yourself consciously or uncou-
sclously usurp his place. and remember that
many times without him you can do abso.
lutely nothing. Remember also that unless
YOU do your work we'll, all his efforts and
skill may avail nothing. II, in attempting
TO carry out his instructions you have made
a mistake, do not fear or fail to promptly
tell him of it that he may help you to recti-
~ any harm that might otherwise ensue.
ihe work OF nurse is in one household
To-day, IN another next week, or next month.
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TWO CONSPICUOUS WOMEN.
A Picture OF Mrs. Aver md Mrs. BigeIow
at Vichy Four Years Ago.

n
at Vichy Four Years Ago.
Seeing the announcement in all the Amer
lean papers of the engagement OF Mrs. j. C.
Aver, of sarsaparilla fame, to Prince Dolgo-
rouki, cousin of the morganatic widow of
the late Gar of Russia, takes me back to
four years ago when met Mrs. Aver at the
famous springs of Viehy, the fashionable
health resort of France, says a writer In the
St. Louis Globe Democrat. She was accom-
panied by Mrs. John Bigelow, vie of the
Hon. John Bigelow. who was for so many
years American Minister to France. The
two ladies were conspicuous figures in the
crowd of fashionable visitors rom every
land which thronged that famous health re-
sort Mrs. Bigelow was, that summer, the
guest o Mrs. Aver, and WIS as much no.
ticed for her eccentrIcities in dress as
Mrs. Aver was for her splendid toilets.
The latter, who has pleasing but scarcely
handsome countenance, is a woman proba-
bly, about 30 years Of age, but yet so welded
to the gay world that she devotes much of
her time to personal adornment. Her ward
robe included, at that day, a great variety
OF wigs OF every shade, so that one day she
appeared as blonde, the next as brunette,
and later as a Titan beauty, with rich
auburn hair, which seemed to be her favorite
color. Her favorite necklace was a string
of fine pearls, almost as large as wren's eggs,
clasped with diamond aiguillette OF great
value.
Money was no object to the fair widow.
Mrs. BIgelow, who was a welcome visitor at
the houses of the oldest nobility in France
and England, was, on the contrary, verita-
BILE dowdy, notable for the entire absence of
taste in her attire. On one occasion she wore
to the little English church in Vichy a
gorgeous-hued barege. cut surplice, with
piece of ribbed cotton tape tied around her
neck, while her hose were of pale pink, and
her shoes of light yellow leather.
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ings and rosettes OF the same. Notifications
OF these pretty hats are made for baby boys,
and have wide lawn strings to tie in bow
under the chin. The little woolen caps are
worn by girls for tricvling.
A noteworthy summer hat, which was de-
signed by an artist and must have been sug-
gested by poet. looks as ii it had been
woven in an old fashioned flower garden OF
twigs thickly set with thorns. Over the
open lattice work is long spray of lilacs,
white and purple, tied here and there with
soft lilac ribbon. Hovering over the flow
ers is a small gray bird. The whole effect
is wonderfully spring-like and dainty, and
is especially appropriate for lovely young
girl. A large yellow rustic straw picnic
hat, which is interesting as freak, is bent
into an eccentric shape, and is stylishly
trimmed at the back with yellow poppies
and bow of satin striped gauze ribbon.
ORA SEANEY,
Partisan Man Milliner.
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THE LILY's PIETY.

Some Inconsistency In the Recent Reports
From Across the Brine.
Boston Herald.1
The latest important intelligence from
London is that Mrs. Lsngtry has become
distinctly religious. We might credit the
rumor if the thoughtless cablegrsm had not
likewise mentioned u wild and lurid supper
party whereat Mrs. Langtry and her friends
appeared in anything but a pious light
These little slips will occur sometimes
but they are to be particularly regretted
when any new theatrical advertising Il On
the carpet.
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CAN'T LOSE A DOG.
Story of n Pointer Who Found His Master
ThOuRh the Sen Infervenad

Story of Pointer Who Found His Master
Though the Sea Interviewed.
Mr.. Edward Cook, after having lived
some time with his brother George at
Tugsten, in Northumberland, went to
America, and took with him pointer dog,
which he lost soon aiteryard, while shooting
in the woods near Baltimore. Some time
after Mr.. George Cook, who continued to re-
side at Tugsten, was alarmed at hearing
dog in the night. He admitted it into'the
house, and found that it was the same his
brother had taken with him to America.
The dog lived with them until his master
returned home, when they mutually recog-
nized each other. Mr.. Cook was never aoie
to trace by what vessel the dog had lels
or in what part of England 1t mao Deen
landed.
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preferred garniture. The little narrow
brimmed sailor, with tarpaulin crown, has
obtained firm hold upon the affections OF
the young misses of the school girl age.
Wide-brImmed sailors, In white, colored or
fancy mixed straw, trimmed simply with
ribbons, are worn by boys and girls for play
hats, and blue or black Tam O'Shanters are
worn by bows for travelling, boating, etc., as
they are not likely to be ruined by occa-
sional lapses overheard.
A TRI-CoLoRED FANCY.
The combination of three colors or three
shades of one color is striking fancy in
London and is greatly admired BY fashion
able American women. Green, gray and
black, tan, green and black, red, yellow and
pale blue, pink and two shades OF green,
white, gray and black, heliotrope, yellow
and purple, and red. gold and black are
twisted IN ropes around the crown and
trimmed in three bows of the same shades at
the back Red, gold and black was one of
the favorite combinations for the costumes
of Mary Tudor, the mother OF the unfortu-
nate Mary Stuart, Queen OF the Scots, and
is much worn by the Spanish women Of to-
day.
Charming garden hats for little girls are
of pink, blue, heliotrope or white lawn
shirred on reeds in a round crown, fiat brim
shape and trimmed with lace-edged ruch-
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tennis, picnic, seaside or neglige chapeaux.
For tennis, the jaunty joli sailleur is pre-
ferred, and these are simply trimmed in
band and bow of wide fish edged ribbon,
silk null and quills or scarf OF surah or
crepe de chine. These should never have
ties and are to be worn only to and from and
during this most fascinating game.
The picnic hats are light in weight, light
in color and light in texture. The CAV and
pretty miss, with her so t, clinging wooden
dress, fresh complexion, loosely coiled hair,
and broad, Tapping brimmed hat, presents
picture Of native loveliness. These hats are
OF chip, hair braids, MiIans. lace braids,
husks, null or French crepe, and are
trimmed in crepes, mulls, ribbons and
flowers. At the seaside resorts will soon be-
gin the influx OF summer visitors, and their
promenade hats will receive much admira-
ton, and the selection as to their appro-
priateness will be the first consideration. As
feathers and damp sea air do not take kind
~ to each other they are entirely out Of the
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rr.KendaI,, Proposed Book.

As soon as Mrs. Kendall has said "How
d'y do?" to her friends in London, she pro-
poses getting out book all about the late
visit over here. 1t is to be called ''The
Kendsls in America; or, What Had Better
Lett Unsaid.'
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woman alone who, convinced against her
wlll, is OF the same opinion still, as the
rhymer would have us believe.
And what did he buv? Ten chances to
one II the purchase was a dress and in
tenoeG 10 be an elegant one, the material
was plush, velvet or silk, and the color pea
cock-olue or flaming red He has penchant
lor hlgn colors. and as to quality, it never
enters his head that cloth dress can be
considered elegant, or that they are as ex-
pensive as silk.
TAKE THIS, FOR INSTANCE.
a lew days since several ladies were in a
millinery store examining and discussing
the seasons supply OF oddities in headwear,
when our attention was called to a man
raptly gazing at the display in the show
window. While we were agreeing that his
thoughts at the moment would be worth
more to us than the proverbial
penny, and theorizng as to his
probable choice. if we were to make one. hs
surprised us by stepping inside. and not the
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Queen Victoria. White Feather.

Queen Victoria is not the sort of woman
to scream at the sight of a mouse. and yet
she always shows the white feather in pub
lie. It il dear, curly, little ostrich thing
supplied. By the court milliner,
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will wa MT to
wager the price
ofhis investment
that she would
have spent the
entire morning
in the store be-
fore she could
have settled def
nitely upon
any one thing.
The fact that she
groaned in men,
tai agony when
she sees the color
one she knows
will be ruinous
to her complex-S
ion; one she has
ALWAYS avoided
as she would a
and
that she shows
him a purchase
she has made
that is better
suited to her; of
better quality
and cost less
money, does not
prevent him
from doing the
8 a m e thing
over again
when the pur-
chasing mania
next takes pos
session of him;
for it is not
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BRING yonr photos to be copied to Elec-
trio Portrait Company, 10 and IL Sixth st. |;
crayons, water colors, etc.; best work;
lowest prices wsu
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idea on the mans part, that he can and will
buy more economically than his wife. There
has been so much jesting in regard to the
extravaganza of women that men have come
to religiously believe in it. Once in while
man will be heard to say: well, must
admit my wife can drive better bargain
than can, but the man who makes that
admission is the exception that proves the
rule.
However, think IS wife would hardly
appreciate the compliment he no doubt in
tended, for no woman of refinement ever
tries to drive bargain" by so much as:
"And that is the very least you can take for
it?" Neither does she 'fb" to get away
from an importunate clerk; nor buy what
she does not want; she simply examines the
goods, inquiries the price, buys if it is what
che needs, and is, in her opinion, worth the
money; but if it fall short in these regards
no amount of Establishments will induce her
to make the purchase; she simply smiles
upon the clerk for his trouble, and with a
thank you, this is not Just what l want;
will look farther before deciding" passes
on to another department or out of the store,
leaving the clerk as unrufled as if he had
made the sale, and wondering why every
person cannot know what they want and be
courteous when trying to find il.
HOW MAN BUYS.
When a man enters a store it is with
mind made up to buy, and to buv on short Or
der, and the first thing shown him that comes
any ways near answering to his demand,
especially if the clerk assures him sits ali
the rage; can't keep enough in stock to sup
ply the demand" pays two prices for the ar
ticle, then hurries home to tell his
vile it took him just ten min
utes to make the purchase and then he
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BEDECkED WITH P0SIES.

June Millinery IL Garnished With Flowers
So Perfect That They Almost Perfume
the Air-Hats for Marrons and Misses
and Baby Boys-The Picnic Straw.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH,1
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of a gray bonnet with pink flowers ne oeslg-
ratedas as his Clancy" an immense wide
spreading red Grape hat, with gilt and jet
trimmings. / don't think any of us
breathed while the saleswoman was taking
that thing from its rightful place among the
show hats; but one of our number, having
she courage Of her convictions, thought to
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UNE, the month
weddings and fcw-
ers, witnesses an
entire change in
stylish head gear
and a great multi
plicity of gorgeous
conceits are eexposed
to the gaze of the
beau monde. Apro-
pos of the coming
"outing season" the
modistes are pre-
pairing the dainty,
ethereal and fragile
creations known as
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NURSING THE SICK:
A Carefully Prepared Letter From
One Ripe In Experience.
GOOD NEWS IN THE SICK ROOl
Qualifications Necessary to Minister to the
Patients Wants.
POISONING THROUGH CARELEsSNEss.
wRITTEE FOR THE p1srArcHI

N presenting to the
readers of this paper
a few thoughts on
household nursing.
it is no more than
just to say that we
speak with the ex-
perience to which
gray h airs be ar
record and with the
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least confused by the
three pairs of ewes,
black, indigo and
butter-milk blue
which were leveled
upon b i m, a n
nounced with no
more embarrassment
than ii be were buy
ing a tile for his own
good looking head,
that he wanted to
buy a bonnet for his
wife. When tn e
lsa ] ELS W oman en-
: quired if he saw
anything he liked,
he answered with a
mind made up that
there was one in the
window that pleased
his iancyi that he
had seen a girl on
the street with one
something like it
and it was quite the
prettiest b e had
seen.
i Now this man was
| fine looking, fault
lessly d ess d,appar
entity between the
a ages of 40 and so;
a evidently a man Of
means and indisput-
Zably refined in man
ner, therefore imag-
inc our horror when
instead Of the love
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prevent such millinery tragedy by timidly
suggesting the hat might not suit the shape
of his wi'e's face nor her complexion; that
different faces required different shapes and
different colors, and it he would give us an
idea of his wife's style we might assist him
in selentinp.
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0W few men
there are thatcan
suitably select
wearing apparel
for women, and
yet there are men
who seem to en-
joy buying more
than giving the
wife money with
which to make
her dress pur-
chases, I think
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LOVING HUSBANDS GONE ASTRAY.

Upon the Gentler Sex Through Mans
high Opinion of His Own Judgment
HtnTs for Pretty Summer Costumes.
rwRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l