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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
FASHIONABLE SOCIETY.

The trying ordeals which fashionable soci-
ETY. imposes on its devotees are enough 70
severely test the physical strength and en-
durance Of the most robust. Irregular and
late hours, over-rich and indigestible food,
late suppers, the fatigue Of the ballroom,
the bad air Of the illy-ventilated, over
crowded theatre, are each, in themselves,
sufficient 20 upset the system and ruin the
health of the delicate and sensitive. Com
bined, they can hardly fail, if persisted in,
10 seriously impair the health Of the hardi-
est. Ladies generally possess less powers Of
endurance than their male consOrts, and 50
the sooner succumb 10 these deleterious in
f~luences. They become pale, haggard and
d~ebiitated, and constantly experience a
sense Of lassitude that tired feeling as
50 many express il. The least e~xertion
fatigues them. Various neuralgia and other
pains harrass and distress the sufferer.
Headache, backache, "bearing-downn sen
sations, and female weaknesses" follow
and sorely afflict the sufferer.
As an invigorating, restorative tonic,
soothing cordial and bracing n~ervine, for
debilitated and feeble women generally,
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has no
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
To Fasten the Bodice.

All sorts OF innovations and novelties
are o being introduced, not merely
In the decoration and arrangement Of
material, bat in the cut and fashionihg
Of the waist. Seams are shortened and
changed in shape, those Of the shoulder
especially being curtailed until the
sleeve is half way up from the curve OF
the shoulder to the throat. Side-seams
are brought so far forward that they
almost displace the darts, and the latter
are frequently dispensed with altogether
by leaving the extra fullness plated In
the waist. When the dress fabric Grapes
scarfwise over the shoulder there is no
shoulder seam at all In the material, and
the most complicated and puzzling ar
rangements for fastening characterizes
all new gowns. Some bodices fasten at
the back. some at the side, and others
in a mysterious way by q multitude Of
concealed hooks and loops in front.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
The STYLES I'm silk Stockings.

SILK stockings are the most extrava-
CANT things in a woman's outfit. The
softer the silk and the finer the web the
sooner the holes and shapelessness;
and when onco the foot is worn the re-
naming lengthy and perfectly good leg
OF the silken hose is useless-exept,
perhaps, as a powder rag. Black holds
Its own still, either of the solid color OF
with pink or yellow toes. Those in
drawn work of exquisitely delicate pat
terms arc very expensive. All the shades
Of bronze, heliotrope and rose in fin
ished, lustrous silk are limp and sleek
as snakes, and fall into bright folds
with the crunch peculiar to pure silk.
They cost amazingly. A New York
Herald man says: ! saw a pair Of deli
cate salmon pink, with a black pointed
pattern to show above the shoe top, fol
b.. 10; a yellow pair, the iustep covered
with tiny black and white stars, for So.
And one in silvery gray, the threads
drawn in alternate broad and narrow
stripes, for the same price. All Of these
were of extraordinary length.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The Wind of Cannon Ball.

Sir Robert Rawlinson, X. c. b.. sends
rs the following striking narrative:
ION the morning of the 10th of June,
1855, l was riding in company with
some military officers on their way to
the trenches before Sebastopol, and
entering the rayine known as The
Valley Of the Shadow of Death when
ia the act of turning round to go back
was swept down with my horse by a
42-pound Russian steel shot. The shot
passed in front of me. from left to
right, cutting the reius out of my left
hSpd and passing through the thin
jacket under my right arm. | had in
my right hand trousers pocket a small
leather purse with a steel rim to it and
a little silver in it. This purse bruised
the strong cloth of the pocket and my
flannel shirt, as also the crest of the
pelvis. My own impression was that
the shot had struck me full in the
abdomen, aud that | was cut In two.
] tainted and my wound bled copious-
". and / was taken to the neares. tenn
porary hospital. Now, as to the wind
of this shot. 1t could have had nothing
to do with my wound. As explained,
the shot traversed across the abdomen
and met with nothing solid but the
purse and money in my pocket, and the
contact was sufficient to break the
strong cloth of the pocket under the
purse-xot above 1.-THE flannel shirt,
and the Sesh and bone of the pelvis.
And remember, so slight must have
been the touch of the shot on my
clothes that they were no abraded or
marked; the thin summer Goa being
perforated. but the outer edge not
broken. How could the wind perform
this freakP The full front force of this
shot, IL only 200 feet per second would
have a striking power Of about 10000
pounds; but, c%annoning on me in
front, the force or blow might be
only equal to q severe blow by a
man striking below the belt. II THU
shot had passed over any more solit
portion of the body, ~ the head or the
back, sudden death would have been tn,
result; but as It barely touched the
clothes upon the abdomen the effect
lessened. At all events. j was severely
Wounded by q forty-two-pound round
shot, and most certainly not by the
VIM OF IL, ana Dy reason OF the gTauu
surgery Of the late Sir James Fergus
SOL / am now alive to tell the tale"
A medical correspondent quotes Prof.
Sir I. Lonemore upon the matter thus:
The true explanation OF the appear
ances presented in those cases which
were formerly called '.wind .contu-
sious" appears to rest In the peculiar
direction or degree Of obliquity with
which the missile has happened to inn
pipge against the yielding and elastic
skin together with the position of the
internal organs injured between this
missile and other hard substances in
their neighborhood. The surface itself
Is not directly torn or cut into. because
the impact of the ~projectile has not
been sufficiently direct 10 effect an
opening; but the parts beneath are
crushed by the pressure to which they
have been subjected between the COM
bined influence of the weight and mo-
mentum Of the shot on n side and OF
some hard resisting substance on the
other.-PaH Mall Gazette.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
New Ideas i'm Lingerie.

In the line OF lingerie there are bodice
sets consisting Of a bertha and sleeves
TO wear with a low necked waist that
must do service as n dinner bodice.
They are made OF China Grape, soft In
dia silk, tissues with satin discs and
stripes, crepons, nall muslins, dotted
net, lace, fine embroidery and pufings
OF Transparent materials combined with
ribbon loops and insertions.
Russian embroideries, says the World,
are seen on night robes for as
we'll as men. The fashion OF fastening
a night dress at the side is also Russian,
and worthy of mention, for ii prevents
exposure of the chest TO any draft that
might give the sleeper a cold, and the
ornamentation on the plastron or front
gore is not SO readily displaced as usual.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Lost Onnortunity.

Detroit Free Press.
~ can sympathize with those passen-
gers who are snowbound on the western
railroads. =" he said, as he laid down his
paper. II have been right there my
self"
Give us the particulars" remarked
his audience.
at was the second year Of the Union
Pacific road, and we were caught in the
Rocky mountains. u was a sudden
storm, and no one was prepared for it.
We were SIX days In the drift"
How did you keep warm?"
Burned all the wood and then the
baggage car"
Glow were you of for provisions
Had nothing after the second day.
and we had TO cut up our bootlegs and
chew EN-, On the fifth day we were
! going TO kill and eat a boy, but his
mother made such a fuss that we decided
TO wait one day more. / have always
been sorry
"What-for w~aiting?"
"Yes. My stomach has never been
right since. and 1t wasn't two weeks
later when the boy fell out Of a window
in San Francisco and was killed. lie
would have made a good square meal
for twenty-five Of us and been Of real
benefit 70 his fellowmen. Bet don't
make no simpleton of myself again
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

equal In fact, II is the only medicine for
the peculiar weaknesses and ailments Incl
dent 20 females, sold by druggists, under a
positive guarantee from It's manufactur-
ers, that II will, In every case, give satisfoc-
ton OF It's price tt1.no) will be promptly
refunded. 1t improves digestion, invigorates
the system, enriches the blood, dispels aches
and pains, produces refreshing sleep, dispeE
melancholy md nervousness, and builds up
both tho flesh and strength Of those re
duced below a healthy standard. It is a
legitimate medicine not a beverage. Con-
tains no alcohol 10 inebriate no syrup or
sugar 20 sour or fermeut in the stomach and
cause distress. II is as peculiar in its com
position as il is marvellous in It's remedial
results. Therefore, don't be put off With
some worthless compound easily, but dis
honestly, recommended to be " just aSgood,
that the dealer may make more profit ia
vorite Prescription" is Incompatible. The
manufacturers unprecedented offer TO guar
dntee satisfaction in every case, or money
refunded, ought TO convince every invalid
Of this fact. A Book, on Woman's Ailments,
and their Self-cure 160 pages, e under
seal, in plain envelope, for ten cents in
stamps. Address, WORLDS DIsPESsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 63 Main Street,
Buffalo, y. Y.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
TO SHOOT,
Some of the Many Ludicrous Mistake
Which the Young Idea Makes.

Some of the Many Ludicrous Mistakes
Which the Young Idea Makes
1.-THE young idea takes some very odd
shapes when one tries to force it, said
Miss Sadie Graham, a teacher in public
primary schools, TO a San Francisco
Examiner reporter. For an expert
ment she made out a list of words last
week that were unfamiliar to her little
pupils and asked them for definitions.
The answers were startling in the ex-
IRENE. Here are some of them:
STANDARDIZATION somebody lets you
suck his candy.
Niggardly--Like a bad niger.
Etfete-Bad feet, like corns.
Repast-Passed by.
Supine-A kind of something in the
soup.
Turmoil-A kind OF oil.
Exile-Another kind of oil.
Byword-A word hat has gone BY.
Ratchet-A trap 10 catch rats.
lconoclast--A word TO say when you
feel sad.
Soporifc-When your mother puts an
awful lot of soapon your face TO wash it,
Waterways-Pulling off your shoes
and stockings and going in wading.
OF the conglomeration of letters Ram
shamjumpiwag each one expressed 8
curious idea; among their definitions
were u ghost; an ogre; something awful
an animal that eats people; q kind o
turtle; something that amt good TO eat
q fish with two heads and no tail, and
funny kind of bird.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Railroad Human Nature.

new YORK cun.
Now and then one finds a person who
understands railroad human nature, as
exhibited by the gatemen in the depots.
Their orders are to pass no one in with
out a ticket. and 1t is the easiest thing
In the world for them TO wave back old
age, youth, beauty and anybody else
who wants TO pass in to meet a friend
expected on that train. One of the sur
lest officials | ever saw has a gate in
the Louisville and Nashville depot In
Cincinnati, and | have seen him turn
stifiy away from desperate men, weep
ing women and bowling children. To
every protestation he had but one
answer.
Cant pass 'thout a ticket
The other day while l was watching
him a little blue-eyed woman came
gliding into the throng waiting at the
gate. OF the two tenders she selected
this one to operate on, although anyone
could have seen that the other had the
biggest heart. After several people had
been turned away she slid forward in a
graceful way and inquired:
beg pardon, sir, but am ] speaking
to the president OF the road?"
"N-o, ma'am." he stammered, thrown
on his beam ends by the query,
"Ah! you look so much like him. Are
you the superintendent"
mo, ma'm-not exactly"
Then you must be the manager?'
Hardly, ms'am."
Dear me! but how could the people
be so mistaken, - she went on. "Hali
a dozen of them said you were ono OF
the high officials, and / am so disap.
pointed to find YOU are not. Perhaps,
though, you have the general manager
powers when he Is not here2'
What is it, ma'am?'
"My sister will be in on the $40, and
] sc want te go inside the gates and
help her with the children. As yol
must have the authority of the manage
in his absence, j make bold To-"
Certainly, ma'am; walk right in.
he interrupted.
"You are SO kind"
Don't mention it,"
"But all leading railroad men are
ever courteous, she said as a parting
bit Of taffy, and then she made a be-
line down the depot.
We turned TO look at the gateman
and the change was surprising. III
had braced up until his height was in
creased by four inches, his chest wa.
thrown out, and ne was standing as stiff
as a crowbar while a man pounded hin
on the back and offered TO lick tn,
stufIin' out of him if he would come OF
the perch. The little woman Of all ha,
found his weak spot.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
wider Liberty of Dressing.

Young married ladieshav everything
10 choose from for the material and
fashion of their evening gowns, There
are no other women in the whole range
OF society who may use ,uch unlimited
,liberty in the selection VI their toilets.
One feature that distinguishes their
gowns from those Of young girls Is the
greater solidity Of the fabric used.
Their gauze dresses are made in COM
bination with satin instead OF silk, and
the flowers they select are not usually
SO fine and small as those used by the
debutantes. The ball dresses Of young
married ladies are made with slight
trains, but the girls gowns only just
touch the floor. Bands of feathers are
sometimes used instead of flowers, and
gold and silver figure largely in this
years ball dresses.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The very newest jackets have the
fronts turned back TO show a vest fast
ened down the front. Both vest and
fronts are braided or embroidered to
match each other. The effect Is very
coed, especially on tall figures.
Have the little Puritan bonnets for
children reached your sylvan solitude as
yet? They are very quaint and pretty,
ftnag quito closely round the head, and
are edged with beads Of silk cord. Worn
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Walking Costumes for spripg.

Stripes, polka dots, checks and cross
barred goods will be much worn for
walking costumes this spring, particu-
lsrly In navy blue and white, and more
particularly when severely tailor-made,
with long, scant drapery and natty,
mannish waistcoat opening owe a daz.
cling chemisette. Although by no
means new, this will be a relief after
the beribboned, puckered and pulled
gowns of last season. The more like a
riding habit the walking gown the more
distinpue
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

The New York board Of health
furnishes the following prescription
for the Russian influenza: Spray the
affected membrane with q l0-per-cent
solution Of qniuine freely aud frequent.
", and take four pr live times a day a
pill made as follows Quinine. three
grains. camphor, one-half grain; ex-
tract Of bslladonna. ~one-feurth grain.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Graceful Girl.

New York World: Miss Vanderbilt,
a slight, graceful growing girl, has
nothing in her dress to attract atten-
tion or ever suggests the wealth of the
family to which she belongs. Her lit
tie homespun dresses reach to her shoe
tops, and are absolutely destitute OF
trimming. Not q button or a strip OF
braid ornaments the suit. She wears a
short cloth jacket with collar and cap
of Persian lamb, and a dozen or more
oxidized buttons are the only approach
TO ornamentation. She hasn't any
bracelets or earrings, her hair Is not
secured with jeweled pins, and the lit
tie wing In her cap could be duplicated
for 60 cents.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
New STUFF for Evening Wear.

A wholesome novelty for evening
toilets, which have rung the changes
for SO long on tulle, gauze and crepe, is
the Russian net, which has a coarse
open mesh, with holes large enough to
run baby ribbons through them for
decoration, but Is not so harsh as It's
sister material, fish net, and adds TO its
general de~sirableness the additional
merit of not being easily crushed. II
comes In all colors and is not extor-
tionate in price.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Two Pretty Pins.

Cattails entwined with grasses Of a
variegated gold constitute a lace pin
that shows the result of artistic design
and skilled workmanship.
An exceedingly pretty scarf pin rep
resents a bright gold windmill with a
platinum band around the roof and with
sails studded alternately with diamonds
and rubies.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
FOR THE LADIES
interesting Matter Complied Ex-
pressly for the Fair Sex.
what TO Wear and How TO Wear IT.
Young Married Ladies' Lib
critics = silk Stockings
Are Expensive.
At the Ball.

Che stands tonight as fair as any dream,
All in her sheen OF snowy satin drest
The thousand lamps upon her beauty
CLEAN
And on che fragrant lilies at her breast.
Ny Miesl-tbat | brought her hours ago
And begged that she should wear for my
sake,
And all my being burned with Joyous glow
To see her fairy hands my blossoms take.
The throng Of SWANS abjcctly crowd
around
And sue for her regard with eager gaze :
And yet not one of them, / trow, has
found
\ The blessed prize for which he fopdly
prays.
On speeds the dance; and IL stand apart
And watch my queen whose love my
rivals crave;
And as I feel tits ] who have her heart,
glost upon the lilies that | gave.
The dancers pause l start, in mad sur
prise,
A flush illumes her rounded cheek aud
throat
She's pinning there, before my very eyes,
One of my lilies on her partners coat!
a curse upon the maid who thus can
strike
This blow IN this, my happiest Of hours,
And curse the day | s~quandered, gully
like,
Ten dollars on that wretched bunch OF
Aow'rsl
-Cbicaco Times,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Progress.

II is very important in this aga OF vast
material progress that a remedy be pleasing
10 the taste and to the eye, easily taken, sc-
ceptable 30 the stomach and healthy IN its
nature and efeots. Possessing these quail.
files. Syrup Of FIGS is the ons perfect laxa'
tive and most gentle diuretlc known.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Equal Rights in Courtship.

Detroit Free Press: On the Isthmus
Of Darien 1t is said the burden Of the
counting is equally divided. The young
woman as we'll as the young man has a
right to do the counting, II Is done
under certain regulations which may be
necessary to protect the rights and
wishes OF the individual. The result Is
eminently satisfactory. Nearly every
young man and every young woman on
the isthmus in due season are married
Why is not that the proper way?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
The Professors Business.

II never did see such a forgetful man
as Professor Jingle" exclaimed Mrs.
Small to one Of her boarders. IL
believe he'd forget his head il it wasn't
fastened on. I wonder what he does
for a liying?"
why, he teaches his celebrated
system Of ~cultivating the memory
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

niru Q Iorms a considerable Item
In the export trade Of some ef the
Moorish ports. Thus from Laraicae
last year In a total export valued at
ESQ, 79l the bird seed exported was
valued at IS. $40. and the quantity was
b,457 quarters. In 1857 the quantity
-x%.0l8werters. and the value Is. 4li
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Roses ON All Sorts or Hats,

Following the English fashion We are
using roses Unfortunately on all sorts
OF hats, below the brim, on the crown,
everywhere. Velvet hats trimmed with
soft, crushed roses, seem to set wintef
at defiance. Wearing dark straw hats,
even when the snow is on the ground,
is another peculiarly English fad. Ono
damp day during Mrs. Rendal's engage.
ment In Brooklyn, she was seer on
Broadway wearing a high-crswned, mar
row-rimmed sailor OF black straw trim
med only with upright loops and ends
OF cardinal ribbon.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
Lovely Irish PopIins Coming,

Irish poplin in the loveliest, softest
tints will be a feature Of the spring
season. Besides pearl and silver grays,
black and dull, pale heliotrope for
street wear, they will come In more
delicate tints for evening and carriage
wear--in pale pink, bebe blue and
silvery white, either in solid colors or
with small feathery leaf patterns.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
when . zouave Looks Wen.

Zouave jackets are very popular for
dinner or theater wear when o decollete
dress is not demanded. A white satin
or velvet zouave edged with swansdown
Is very attractive over q plain white or
family tinted gown, and is as cozy as
1t is be~witching. A small jacket of
this kind In emerald green completes
the wonderful painted gown seen at the
Paris exposition, with Its life-size roses
painted on white satin In such q way as
TO convert it into the semblance of
velvet.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

You don't have to take our word for the
good quality of Dobbins' Electric SOAP.
Just get one bar Of your grocer, and let II
tell you its own story ne ~ Monday, and be
governed by that, good or bad. Remem-
Der Dobl las Electric.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

with coats made Puritan fashion, with
plain skirt and shoulder cape, they iook
particularly we'll.
Evening dress Is remarkably pretty
this season, the mixttfe 81 Empire style
with the modern being extremely be-
coming when we'll managed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

Letters published in the Peruvian pa
pers declare that the juice Of the "maguey'
plant is a certain cure for ~hydrophobia,
and that 1t has always been used Ia the de.
paEtment Of Anachs to cure all sufferings
from bites.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
New panpPs

We have in stock, packed ready TO ship,
a half dozen small newspaper outfits suita
BILE for publication of papers in small
towns or in the Sioux reservation country
They are bargains. Address
THE SIOUX CITY PRINTING Co,
Sioux City, Iowa.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

A Madison, Mich, widow kills three
birds with one stone by inserting in the
same issue Of the Adrian Times her has
bands obituary notice, a card Of thanks,
and a notice that she will auction Oft her
late partners personal effects.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

Don'tl-If a dealer offers you a bottle of
Salvation Oil without wrapper or labels,
or in a mutilated condition, don't touch IL
don't buy it at any price, there is some
thing wrong-it may be a dangerous or
worthless counterfeit. Insist upon getting
q perfect, u~nbroken, genuine package.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22

I'VE have met the enemy and they are
ours said Commodore Perry, thus telling
the story of the battle of Lake Erie. And
Il is also a fact that DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup Is no sooner used than the cold is
conquered and the cough disappears.