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WOMEN BLAINE HATES.
Those Who Mount the Stump Don't Stand
Very High With Him.

Those Who Mount the Stump Don't Stand
Very High With Him.
James g. Blaine was asked by the Wash
ington Post last week what he thought of
women. He smiled and then asked: ''What
sort of a woman do you refer to?'
''Well, take for example the woman who
mounts the stump to make political
speech"
The smile vanished, and in its stead came
that perpendicular line between the eyes
which all Mr.. Blaine's friends. will recog-
hize.
81 hate that sort of woman" he said,
and ne said it as if he meant it, too.
"She is out of her place. God never meant
that woman should unsex herself in that
way. A woman's power is for love, not for
battles. She should not enter the contest,
but remain outside, an infallible judge of
who should win the crown of victory
81 have observed, continued Mr. Blaine.
''that on great occasions it is almost always
women who have given us the strongest
proofs of virtue and devotion. The reason
for this is that, with men, either good or
bad qualities are the result of calculation,
while in woman they are the result of i'm
pulses, and impulses usually spring from
the best that is in u.s.
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Curious Uses of Potatoes.

To sweeten new IRON vessels boil potato par.
ings in them
To KEEP potatoes from sprouting scald with
boiling water.
AN excellent starch for fine linens and laces
is made from grated potatoes.
POTATO flour, so much used in French cook.
cry, makes fine bread and extra pastry.
OLD potatoes should be pared very thin. Use
a vegetable brush to remove the skins from
new ones.
IN selecting potatoes examipe the eye. The
smaller the eve the better the quality. Spotted
potatoes should be rejected.
WATER in which potatoes have been boiled
will cleanse delicate-colOred woolens or worsted
goods and chintzes and calicoes.
SoILED silks are renovated by sponging with
potato water and then rinsing in clear water
To pound of grated potatoes use pint Of
water.
DIsCoLoRED decanters. carafes and vinegar
cruets are made bright and clean by the use OF
grated potatoes or chopped pesrings. Partly
I'LL these vessels, add water, and let stand for
day or two to ferment Rinse WELL
SOME geniUs has discovered thar an artificial
ivory can be made from POTATOES. After going
through process. in which diluted sulphsric
acid is used, they are dried and colored. and
then formed into Various articles. both useful
and ornamental, ELLIcE SERENA
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privilege to Danish the most distant hint Of
them from our houses, our wall paper and
cushions and carpets or our women's and
children's dress. II crude or debased~ Gothic
or Florentine taste chose for its patterns the
dock and thistle leaves which grew rank at
the foot of castle walls, when gardens were
scarcely known, it is not for US to follow
their poverty of design.
NEED NOT ACCEPT MISTAKES.
1t is our fortune to select what was best in
the work of earlier art without accepting its
mistakes and propagating its blunders. So
every Daisy or Dorothy who is careful TO
choose her gowns of the prettiest figure and
fashion does her part for encouraging good
designs and better art. The fowered dresses
preserve the garden charm for US.
When Della comes down in her French
flannel house dress of material firm and
finished like amazon cloth in those rich col
Ored stripes which repeat the hues of dahlias
and Brompton stocks and choice asters, she
brings hint of pleasure with her which all
eyes gratefully acknowledge. Or when she
goes tripping out in visiting dress of fine
Henrietta cloth, whose printing is one of
the choice effects of the trade. where small
rich roses glow on the dark ground in clus-
tiers of Provence and Prince of Morocco to-
gether, deep rose and red, the PLAIN velvet
jacket and bonnet set off z costume SO de-
licious that one would follow her a streets
length TO look at it. Such toilet betrays
acute sense of the becoming, the sufficient.
ERRORS IN TASTE.
Another young woman, who lacks taste,
takes figured gown with lighter ground.
She trims it, perhaps (fatal mistake), in
stead of leaving its fowered beauties to falP
in long pleats, and she mounts it with one
of those new French bonnets, which come
in three pieces, with the animal, vegetable
and mineral kinuoms under contribution
for garniture, and wears frogged military
coat with ii. Then she looks like the over
dressed young lady and nothing else
neither chic nor distinction about her.
"Greta" wants to know what she will buy
for outer wraps, not to be expensive, as she
has narrow income, and wants to devote
part of it TO taking lessons next winter.
Yet she wants to look jaunty and not betray
economy, though caring less to follow ultra
styles. "ls the military coat, figured in the
last Bdzdr, desirable in her case?" ANY
thing but desirable, to answer the last
question first. 1t will do for Tuxedo girls
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WHAT THE GIRLS CHEW.
Composition of the Gums That Are Prom
inent in the Market.

Composition of the Gums That Are Prom
inent in the Market.
New York SUM-
Three kinds Of chewing gum are now man.
ufactured-faYored tolu, spruce gum, and
the small white sticks that were popular
with school children quarter of a century
ago. Spruce gum is the most expensive,
and the white gum the cheapest.
''There is really no such thing nowadays
in trade,"a druggist said yesterday, "as
pure spruce gum. You will have to go out
into the country and gather the gum your
self to get it pure. The manufactured
article sold in large cities is adulterated-a
mixture of glucose and 1icorice, with
precious little OF the original spruce gum.
The genuine article is too expensive, and
the supply wouldn't be equal to the demand.
The white gum is made OF paraffine as a
basis, with glucose and little bit of cheap
gum thrown in. ."
The gum that is in general use is made of
tolu or gum chicle or gum catechu, with
licorice and glucose and some fayoring ex-
tract. 1t is boiled and rolled out in great
heaps, and cut up into blocks by machin-
cry. Gum arabic was used formerly to give
it consistency, but little of it is now en-
ployed because it is too expensive. Gum of
turpentine is substituted The effort of the
manufacturers of gums is always. OF course,
to cut down to a minimum the cost of pro-
duction, and he secures substitutes for the
most costly ingredients wherever 1t can be
done 1t does not follow, by any means,
that these substitutes are harmful in their
effects, but they are not so good as the more
costly ingredients, and profit is quite enough
to 'entitle the public that cares for gum to
the very best in the market at cent block.
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,AUGHr BY HANDSOME CLERKS.

CAUGHT BY HANDSOME CLERKS.
1t is fact that it pays retailers in certain
lines OF business to employ handsome and
ornamental male clerks, just as much as it
is profitable for confectionery stores to pre-
sent the smiles OF a pretty girl with every
box of bon-bons. We may soar as high as
VIC Will in our philosophy, yet the vulgar
truth remains that in the hundreds of thou
sands of women shoppers in New York there
is large class that enjoys being waited
upon by sweet-looking man.
"Oh, really, Madge," said young Great
ure to her friend in Fifth avenue omnibus;
''you ought to go down there for your
gloves They have awfully good gloves,
and" (sinking her voice here), ''the clerk
is just lovely"
The speaker was a very fair type of the
unfedged society belle. She had been per-
mitted by her mamma to go shopping alone,
and at one place she had bought gloves un-
der the admiring eyes of duck of young
counter-jumper.
BEAUTY WOMEN ADMIRE.
A merchant who deals In various charm
ing and delicate articles intended for
feminine use was discussing this point re-
Gently.
"Yes," said he, 'I always employ good
however, to find out just what sort of good
looks required. When was first advised
to get some handsome men into my store
cast about to find fine lot of strong-featured
and athletic chaps-fellows that would be
conspicuous anywhere for their muscular
beauty and frmness Of eountenance; but
not only did find this most difficult task.
but the few examples 1 could secure seemed
to have no attraction for the ladies at all.
Finally, friend put me on to the fact that
must employ au entirely different order of
fellow. I must get lot of white-faced,
slim-waisted, perfumed and soft-voiced
chaps who could look unutterable things
on the slightest provocation at lady of any
appearances or age. 1 found such men as
these very abundant, and now have no less
than 20 of them who are everv one of them
more or less worshiped by the ladies that
come to my shop" CLARA BELLE.
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LONDON BELLIES sTIMULANTs.
A Medical Writer Says They Take Entirely
Too Much for Their Nerves.

A Medical Writer Says They Take Entirely
Too Much for Their Nerves.
AS for drinking with the fashionable wom-
an in England. writes London medical
woman, the result of the appalling and per-
petual strain and the continual late hours
cause her to waken unrefreshed in the morn
ing, and as she has no desire for breakfast,
hook and seltzer take the place of tea, and a
glass of port is frequently taken about IL
o'clock to strengthen her for her ride. There
is more wine at lunch, and at the fashiona-
bic teas rich cakes and sweets and hearty
sandwiches, with frequently glass of wine;
wine again at dinner, and again at the late
supper. and perhaps glass of whisky to go
to sleep on. So you see she consumes quite
enough of wine without any secret stores of
it in her apartments.
Eau de Cologne and sal volatile are con-
sumed in their peculiar way far too much,
because the tired woman feels constantly
in need of stimulants. 1t has been said
that English women are not nervous women,
but the doctor accuses them of being
whimsical and fanciful to the verge OF in
sanity, and having what our grandmothers
called 'vapours," but what we call
NERVES"
Coca wine is quite :ashlonable remedy
among English women, and probably cor
responds with the different sedatives en-
ployed here; but the use Of opium and NOR
phine is not, it would seem, so prevalent as
among American women. who do not, as
rule, drink so much wine or aIe Smoking is
notconfned to the lawlessnesso of Bohemia. but
exists in all ranks, and especially among
genuine society women. A lady patient
of good standing has written to know if six
or eight cigarettes are not too many for her
girl cousin.
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BRIDAL TOUR IN AFRICA.
Mrs. Rosa Holub's Adventures With Her
Husbands Exploring Party.

Mrs. Rosa Ho1ub's Adventures With Her
Husbands Exploring Party.
New York SUM-
Mrs. Rosa Holub is one of the celebrities
of the hour. She is the wife of Explorer
Emil Holub, and she pluckily accompanied
him in his recent march from the Zambesi
river to the country of the fierce Maschuku-
lumbes. She was quick-witted Vienna
girl, very fond of stories Of African explora-
ton. She also had a fine turn for science.
Her father was the head Of the great Vienna
Exposition. With his bride of 4 week,
S25, 900 outfit and five men DR.. Holub set
out on his African expedition. Being
medical man ne had great power over the
natives. He wrought hundreds OF cures,
and his skill caused him to seem to be
wizard.
This bridal tour lasted four years. The
bride wore serviceabIe dress of stout, dark
cloth. She wore a white felt hat with
wide brim, and generally carried sun
shade. Often tor miles at a tirHk her trusty
gun was slung over her shoulder, for Mrs.
Holub was good shot and killed many
animals. She prepared specimens and
helped along in hundred ways. She was
regarded as a very great curiosity, but
seemed to make far more of sensation
among the women than among the men.
Once the natives, under the pretense of
ferrying the explorers across the Luenge
river, set them on an island in the expecta-
ton that hunger would cause them to swim
the stream, which was at that point thick
with man eating crocodiles. As for King
Niambo, he gave them poisoned milk. They
fought many battles. Once their camp was
plundered, ana all their ammunition, save
800 cartridges, was stolen. Then they hur-
ried southwark toward civilization. Mrs.
Holub's feet were fearfully lacerated. Her
husband cut up his clothing to bind her
wounds. 1t was a hard march, but pluck
won, aud now the explorers bride is the
heroine of all the DaDubian region.
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0U1DA AND THE MILITARY.
A Weakness of the Author That Shines
Through Her Heroines

A Weakness of the Author That Shines
Through Her Heroines.
Ouida is very fond of describing her young
women who smoke cigarettes as adoring the
military,and apropos of that story is told of
her and vouched for as true. Yates, of the
London World, had asked her to write some
thing for him, and then after this he was
afraid that it was going to be little too
highly favored, so out he went to see her.
There she was, surrounded by her dogs
and smoking, as if 1t were the keenest pleas
ure in life. He said to her: 'My dear
Louise, L do wish you would write this story
SO that it would please the British matron,"
Very quickly the cigar was thrown away,
and, looking Yates straight in the iace, she
said: Edmund. do not write for the Brit
ish matrou, write for the British guards
manp' And Edmund retired crestfallen.
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esting, including opera hats. She had
studied the young man and his hat for nearly
the entire evening, neglecting the play at
times in order to deliberate over the strange
performance that she had seen him 60
through. Finally, when he had returned
from the street at the beginning of the last
act the fair young woman leaned over and
said to her father:
"Papa. dear, that can't be Professor
HeIlish, the magician, can 1t? He is too
young"
She indicated with her eyes the blonde
head of the youth in front The father
laughed, and asked his daughter what ever
put such notion into her head.
"Why, he does such tricks with his hat, !"
replied the girl. ''He has smashed it down
nertectly fiat three or four times and then
made it as smooth as ever again by merely
touching it. If he is not sleight-of-hand
man he is at any rate good copy of one.
There is no possibility of knowing just
whether the young lady was as simple as she
made herself out to be. She had spoken in
a voice that was audible to many persons
sitting near, and her words reached the ears
of the youth WHO performed so remarkably
with his hat He shifted about uncomfort-
ably in his chair, and it was observed that
when he got his hat into shape for his final
exit he did so with none of the ostentation
that had marked his methods in the early
part of the evening. Possibly the young
woman of the beautiful and innocent face
was critic OF splendidly sarcastic proper
tions.
BETWEEN TWO CHARMERS.
The funniest feminine thing that have
seen this week, however, was in an oyster
restaurant, an establishment where the ex-
cellence of the viands draws in pretentious
customers as well as economical ones. Two
girls sat with young man at table where
nptied dishes indicated that they had
eaten hearty repast together. The dam
sells seemed very fond Of the man, though
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TRUE ART IN DESIGNS.

How the Ladies Are Suffering From Reac-
ton After the Late Artistic Activity
Practical Points for Purchasers of
Fabrics-Fancies for Early Winter.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCHL
The feather borders for autumn will soon
be replaced by winter fur trimmings, which
will be worn 10 an extent seldom attempted.
The idea is not unwelcome to delicate peo-
pie: iur al wrists and throat adds comfort
able cosiress to the clothing and keeps off
the chilIs where they strike most danger
ouslv.
Fur cuffs hooked close about the wrists
keen the pulse warm, and borders in front
give the warmth that is most grateful over
the chest. Many woman, well clad, in
liberal house, gets her death by going about
chilly, with 4 slight coldness in the back
and front Of the chest-sign that the vitality
is low and needs care 10 keep the fires of
life from going lower. 1t is held in con-
tempt 10 coGdIe ones self, as vigorous
friends call it. and so she runs close risk
OF pneumonia rather than make herself
comfortable IN her own way. In velvet
and fur season one can hardly help being
warmly dressed.
A CHARMING COSTUME
The dress first illustrated this week is
also an ideal one-such as we can fancy
OuiCa's her0iDes OF sumptuous tastes wear
ing on terrace and in hall. A plain velvet
skirt. wiki cross over waist, open low on the
breast To show a guipure or point lace
ChemisetJe, is worn with broad girdie,
Oriental Jacket and front panel OF Bulgarian
embroidery In open work OF gold and silver
so cunningly toned they seem like shaded
silks.
The dress would be prettier with the belt,
chcmisette and small ruff only, leaving of
the jac6eI and frontal. However rich, the
embroidered sleeves rarely look well. They
have 4 harlequin effect Without This
Gipsy sort Of jacket the gown is of a style
that one would be content 10 see a woman
appear in every autumn OF her lie without
change.
Two comfortable looking outdoor toilets
are OF the dashing design dear to women
who study dress for itself rather than its fit
ness Tor the wearer The fur or velvet toque
VIII be everyday wear, and the hybrid vest
ment whica tries to be jacket and cape in
one viii be chosen by girls who need to
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FOR INSIDE wEAl

FOR INSIDE WEAR.
But the fancy counters-with their sets of
embroidered velvet sleeves ready to sew in
last years Sacouc, the pink, canary and
pale blue ostrich collars and Bulgarian
work Tor Christmas-are rot more interest
ing to most readers than the home com forts
IL hosiery and inside wear. Scarlet knit
vests ana drawers, soft as zephyr wool, are
elastic enough 20 draw over white bodywear
for snowy or muddy DAYS. Sensible women
are making kuIckerbockers of the fine
pretty striped farnels usually 1aade up for
morning gowns. In their way these are bet
Ter than most things made !or us of late
years-lIus as the expensive French fannels
IN very pretty narrow stripes, and being
mixed cotton and wool, neither shrink nor
fade.
One is CRATE al TO find such satisfactory
material ior gowns and pettieoats, children's
dresses and winter drawers at the moderate
price oi 81 cents, yard wide. The camel's
hair ser-es and chcyi0ts al 50 anu Sc yard
DO not offer nearly us good qualities Tor
their price. They are coarse, shazY, at
tractiye as so much bed blanketing, and the
worst Is they wear three or four years with
cut change. which is no recommendation.
FIGURED MATERIALS IN VOGUE.
Figured materials are in high fashion,
not only In the expensive silks, chinee and
printed, but in cayhmeres and French
twilied faunelS for street wear and delaines
CT alpacas for house. The tiresome wafer
aud hal-mo0n figures give way to the
beautiful, old-.ashioned bouquets in colors
more or less natural and floral stripes. Or
course nothing like pauiers or overdraperv
is To be thought Of, and the simple, gath
cred gowns with full f1UnCs on the skirt
are 50 pretty one wishes them lasting favor.
The SNOWY silks for evening in white or
cream grounds, with gorgeous pattern,
partly chinee and partly in velvet relief,
are not good choice even for the stage.
Such a dress seen once is never forgotten
and grows commonplace IN three times wear
iur The flower and bouquet designs must
ie no4est In size not u ne affective. Well
studied .~of Just that siz. which gives i'm
preston oi their beautiful color, without
Stamping it on the eye, a bouquet gown is a
pleasure forever.
POVERTY OF DRESS DESIGNS
1t is sin to make or print an inferior
pattern when good one is so long valued
With all the !ass over schools % design, the
ynrk scrt out iran the nest ones is doubt
fully Gcslr.Glr. 4 window Of br6cades IS a
sight 10 turn ones eyes from. Tie exhibi-
tion Of last year seems followed by reac-
ton If design which sinks into dreariness.
Those spring acanThus and priekly poppy
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THE RING IN HIS BOOT.
Unfortunate Loss of a Bridegroom Dis
covered at the Altar.

Unfortunate Loss of bridegroom Dis
covered at the Altar.
A good story reaches the London Womars
from the somewhat out-of-the- way region of
Petaluna. Early last week all was going
merrily at very interesting wedding in
the town until the bridegroom was called
upon to produce the wedding ring. In vain
he felt in his trousers pocket for the missing
trife. Nothing could be found except a
hole through which the ring had evidently
fallen into the high boot which is affected
by young men OF that county. What was
he to do?
"Take your boot off, said the parson.
The suspense and silence were painful. The
organist, at the priests bidding, struck up
voluntary"
The young man, sitting on the altar rails,
removed his boot, the ring,was iound-also
a hole In the stocking, which led the wor-
thy OWNED TO remark: "Young man, it is
time you were married.
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NEW STORAGE BATTERY.

A Horse Shows Magnetic Qualities After
Being Shocked by Live Wire.
New York SUM-
Veterinary Surgeon Sattler is reported as
having made an extraordinary discovery on
Saturday. A horse was shocked in Spring.
field avenue, and was taken to his stable for
treatment. Itlay twitching in the stall for
hours afterwara. DR.. Sattler is quoted as
saving that u compass held to the skin of
the stricken animal hours after the shock
vibrated violently, and the needle was de-
fected nearly go degrees. Here is new
storage battery
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Princesses in Penury.

Berlin rejoices in dancing saloon whose
great attraction is the presence of two real
princesses, one of whom arranges the dance
and the other devotes herself to the manage
ment of the band. They are the Princesses
Pignattelli and Dolgorouki, who are obliged
to take these places owing to reduced cir
cumstances in their respective families, :
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Ben Practices What He breaches.

Boston traveller.
The arrest of General Butler at Pueblo,
Col. on Wednesday last, in order to enforce
the payment of an old claim for S72 GA, re-
calls Buffers advice to a political friend at
Lowell over 40 years ago. "Keep your name
before the people, keep people talking about
you, said he; 'if you can't become promi-
nent in any other way get into the police
court"
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VERY time 1 go
into a telegraph Of
fee anywhere in the
feminine shopping
region 1 see or bear
something interest
ing. Two young
men entered, for in
stance, and discov-
cred there two lovely
girls. The young
men, who were OF
the lively and oD-
servant species, ex-
amined the young
ladies with some
care and exchanged
glances. The girls
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leaf patterns up and down rich SIX re-
mind one of horned frogs and dragon hns,
or stinging, ill-mannered and worse scented
coarse weeds, which possibly do for the
border of a Flemish tapestry, but are not
the ideas to associate with women's gowns.
1t is very plain law of taste that moth
ing disagreeable should ever be figured In
human surroundings. Such infiictions are
the accidents of rude growth, but it is our