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persons knew that the engine IN the base
ment was being manned BY woman, for
the employes had been sworn to secrecy
and Miss De Bar did not talk about her
work, Tor she is modest creature and op-
posed 10 notoriety.
Two years ago Miss De Barr took hold OF
the big 24-horse- power engine in the
Bee Hive Laundry at Lincoln avenue and
Wells street. The machine never had a
better master. Day after day it huns and
Kisses as the pretty engineer. in her bright
print dress, rakes the fire in the furnace and
fills the oil cups. Miss De Barr takes care
of all the machinery attached to the engine.
She mends the belts, climbs around the
shaftiug like girl in a cherry tree in cherry
time and polishes the mountings until they
shine like her own pretty eyes. Most peo-
ple would believe that a woman in skirts
and the like would get grimy and hard
listed at this kind Of work, but Miss De
Barr does not. She Is as neat aud tidy
when she leaves her work as the petted
maidens she passes on the way to her home.
She runs that o4-horse-power engine like
a sewing machine.
Miss De Barr was born in st. Louis of
Ere neh father and German mother. Her
father is dead, and with her earnings she
su D ports her widowed mother in ST. Louis.
Tn ere is only one more thing Miss De Barr
wi III have to do in order to be a recognized
engineer. A complaint was made to the
Board of Examining Engineers-probably
by some envlous rival-that she is working
without certificate. Miss De Barr didn't
know this was required, but her employer
is sure she will pass the examination.
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tainly the most cleanly, and q Japanese girl
has more cleanliness in her little finger than
the prudish woman of Holland has in her
whole BODY. The Dutch are always scrub.
bing their floors and their pans. They tie
up the tails of their cows at night in order
that they may not get dirty while resting on
the dusty floor where they sleep. and they
are sticklers for clean linen and wood.
scRUPuLoUsLY NEAT.
The Japanese girl makes no fuss about
being clean. She takes bath couple of
times day in boiling hot water, and her
floors shine so that you can see your face in
anv part of them. She will not allow you
to come into her house with your shoes on
and she covers the floors with the whitest
and sotest of mats, pleasanter to the bare
feet than the finest of carpets. Even the
poorest of the people have something of
this kind, and there is no woman in Japan
too poor to be clean. It is different in
China.
The Chinese have horror of cold water,
and they are the greasiest and dirtiest Of
mortals. Many of them wear their clothes
until the grease and dirt has changed their
hue, and have seen gorgeous yellow silk
wide made by the cue resting against the
back. When you call upon q Cbinaman
and take dinner with him. instead of dry
napkin you will be handed d towel dipped
in warm water to run over your face, and
after you are through it will be dropped
back in the water and handed to the next
guest. Dogs and cats are the broom. The
Siamese woman has a hole in her floor
through which she sweeps the dust of her
floating house into the river.
BEpRooMs OF THE ORIENT.
The bedrooms Of the Orient are far differ
ent from those of Christendom. Fully half
the women of the world sleep upon the floor
or the ground, and even the richest of the
ladies of Asia have never known the luxury
of hair mattresses and spring beds. The
richest woman in China. whose husband
died worth S50, 900, 600. has bed fully six feet
square. 1t is made OF teak wood, and it is
covered with ropes instead of q mattress.
The old lady lies on canvas sheet stretched
tightly over this. The Japanese have thick
comfortabies which they spread on the floor
at night and which they pack away in cup
boards in the daytime, and these constitute
the bed. There is not a washstand in any
Asiatic bedroom.
There are many things, however, that the
Asiatic girl is free from. The Burmese
woman never has to wash dishes. There is
one common dish for the whole family, and
at the end of the meal each member takes
his own bowl up to the water bucket and
washss it out and lays it aside for the next
meal. A Siamese woman has no trouble in
making baby clothes. She lets her boys 60
naked until they are 10, and the little girls
are clothed in a string and a piece of copper
about as big as the palm Of your hand. The
little babies of the poor of India are also
naked, and the average young Korean who
is young enough to ride free in an American
street car, If we could transport him to this
country, wears nothing but little shift
that comes half way down to his waist.
Miss GRUNDY, JR.
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GOSSIP FOR THE FAIR.

Trr tho banjo strinps snap girls: you must
n,,v tho harm or notbinc now.
IT, .uos. or,na 10 The wvon,no which II
sNr - % - "
large ana rea' II coses ~ cehts u pouhu'
A LIFE OF Jenny Lind (Madame otto doio'
schmldt), IS ABOUT TO De PuDisnso Ny ner son.
MRS. MACKAY aud her sister are said to be
the originals of Mrs, Scott" and "Bettina" in
Halevv,s charming novel. "I;Abbe Constan.
fin
We are getting around to the customs of the
6ftaanth centurv. instead of having douple
beds, two single beds are now made up side by
side
A., .., ..o.;u., % o,o
Mho. JET hheoN "a sie n"s Ieso,.eu SI'o.o,
.,,a ~. .".. " 49,, =. ~. h,,sta,,d 100000
bv friends for her benefit
In w,sb;nc snonrinr o- bathing child wet
~ s - -. .
the head nrst. ohe Datn oay Is enough ior .
sturdy little one, one every week is all that
Snouiu Do i"Ai''0o upon" ieeDe
II fancy ho" ior 'ne iauies '" wear oou
pins In ooo places Inc PIN uesigns are unique
puI geneIahS III ene aorn, od iross, nuSs on ai,l-
mais, anu arc "oin efeiy"Aofe apous tne coI-
sage.
THE average man wants to COCK his feet up
II you SAID to the piazza group, make your.
selves unreservedly comfortaDie," they'd an
Ei. LII sneir ons D"eA anu no4'' 'neii iee' W 'ne
fahinB-
NOT particle OF starch should ever be al
lowed in baby'S dress. They are more chafed
and worried with trimmings than we can guess,
unless you remember how a muslin frill can
sa" your thfoa' W ieuhess anu ra"ness.
THERE'S got TO be revolution In easy
chairs. When man comes along who will
take as a model the shape tina. a bow makes
when he settles and wiggies himself into
lounging pose in a snow bank he will make
fortune.
MISS AMY BELL, Newnham student is the
only woman stock broker in London. She has
been in bosiness two years. is fairly successful.
does no speculative business has women
Clients chiefly. and has encountered noither
prejudice nor opposition,
SALL1E joy WHITE. the vsIl.knovn writer
of all that pertains to housekeepipo saws. If
anyone were to ask me the secret of rood cook.
;ng should saw. "SeascninT frst sseasonino
Iast and Seasoning ali the tln,e - and many an
otber will echo the sentiment.
.,-.-,S-
THk newest tning IN q ian Is made OF gauze,
with flower petals arranged on one half and
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II Milady Is Too Fat.

An exchangetells how one young lady -
dueed her weight from $50 pounds to 14o in
80 days. Every morning she rose at and
Immediately after dressing started on q
three-mile walk, lasting till 8 o'clock. This
morning walk, on account OF the repute Of
the town in which she lived, she took on
the front piazza She found how many
Journeys back and forth were needed for q
mile, and then walked it at a smart, steady
pace, rain or shine. At 8 sne took her
breakfast of generous cup of coffee with
milk aud very little sugar, and piece Of
dry bread. The hours till 2 In the after
noon were filled with her usual occupations,
and at that hour she ate a spoonful Of any
vegetable she liked and another slice of dry
bread. At 4:30 she was off for another three
nile walk, this time on the public highway.
Her supper consisted OF dry cracker and a
cup of tea. She is now in perfect health
and has secured herself against return Of
the obnoxious flesh.
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goods are as stiff and heavy as the blankets
they so closely initiate is an erroneous one,
for in truth they are light in weight, sup
pie, clinging, and agreeably soft to the
touch. Many of them have woven borders
in silk and a selvedge fringe representing
the plaid colors. Fancy French plaids with
rough bourette threads are in the stylish
violet and dahlia crossed with gray and
black, or in moss green with dull red, brown
with blue, or green with gray.
Fashions DecrceS.
There are some statements sanctioned by
Madam Fashion that may be depended
upon until the good dame sees fit to change
her mind.
Velvet is the popular combination for
plaids that do not carry their own line of
trimmings as in the case of bordered goods.
Both buttons and buckles are to be used
lsvishly upon suits the present season.
Skirts OF walking dresses are slightly
shorter than they have been, all rumors
from abroad to the contrary.
Bonnets are a trife higher, and hats con-
siderablv smaller. Plaid trimmings pre-
vail lor both.
Yokes and sleeves of plain velvet appear
upon dresses and wraps made of the new
plaids.
Sleeves are higher and fuller being now
held out and up by means OF a wier contriv-
ance. This registers another triumph for
the woman. Well, ''he laughs best who
laughs last" Our turn next MEG.
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SHE RUNS A BIG ENGINE.

A Pretty Woman Who Controls a Twenty.
Four HorseP-ower Mnchiue.
Chicago Herald.1
There are few petticoat engineers in the
country. Miss Annie De Barr, OF Chicago,
is probably the only one. She is tall,
slender woman with light eyes and delicate
hands, but she can run stationary engine
for keeps. Four years ago she began her
rare occupation in the White Swan Laundry
on Clark street. She was then 21 years old.
Here she shoveled coal into the furnace and
blew the squawking whistle with all the
gusto OF man in a greasy jumper. Few
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FANCIES AND FADS.
Ellen ferry's Costumes in the First
Night Of Ravenswood.
MARRIED WOMEN In TIE SCHOOLS.
A Statesman Who Played Havoc With hrs.
horton's Fine Doiliss.
BEAUTIFUL COMPILATIONS AND FORMS

The costumes worn by Miss Ellen Terry
at the opening night of the Lyceum Thestsr,
London, when she and Mr.. Irving produced
Merivale's play "Ravenswood, were tri-
umphs of art, and, what, is more, perfectly
accurate from an archaeological standpoint,
with the long-waisted corsets of the Queen
Anne period. very stiff and uncomfortable,
and all the rest to suit.
In the first act she wore riding habit of
peculiar thick, soft velvet, of the loveliess
prawn color, in heavy full folds, and a large
hat trimmed with plumes to match. Her
second gown was of pink and white brocade,
the front opening over a green and white
stripped silk petticoat, the broeade being
fastened back with jeweled clasps and
aigrettes. The third-act dress was a pale
blue simply made gown. which in front
shows lace petticoat slightly raised over It.
The bodice is Of blue, showing an under one
Of lace. and is caught across the bust with
jewels.
The last dress was of magnificent heavy
white satin made on really beautiful design;
the skirt was looped with jewels, which were
also used to decorate the bodice and hair. 1t
is easy to imagine how charming Miss Terry
looked in these garments, so admirably
suited to her style.
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There is a very pretty girl in the city who
has one of the loveliest compilations, one
like snow and roses. Not only is her COM
plexion e1quisitely fair and delicate, but
her mothers is just as beautiful. They use
only the lightest kind of powder, baby pow
der, in fact. She told me, says a writer in
the st. Louis Republic, the secret of their
superb skins: "Since my mother was a
young lady and since became one we have
used a preparation, a very simple one,
which is simply unsurpassed for the soften
ing and beautifying of the skin. 1t is an
equal mixture OF rose water and glycerins
and in this is put five drops of carbolic
acid. We apply this every day and just be-
fore we put on any powder. Everybody
speaks OF the whiteness and softness of our
compilations, and it Is due simply to this
preparation, which is worth a ton OF face
cosmetics. You know, 1 do not believe that
any cosmetic is harmless. 1t stands to rea-
son that il cannot be-" And the girl with
the pretty skin shook her dark head sagely.
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the great bridge you must cross it on foot by
moonlight. The wonder of its mighty cables,
the strength and symmetry of its proper
tions, its airy height, all strike the beholder
with a weird sense of something mightier
and grander than human skill and eyery-
day commerce.
Then, as the pedestrian passes on through
mingled light and shadow, enjoying the
soft influence of time and place, he meets,
not the hurryiug, scurrying throng of few
hours ago eager to get home to dinner. or
away from home to some place Of amuse-
ment, but leisurely promenading groups.
He notices that the groups are sell
dom more than two in number, that
they wear an absorbed air, and that no one
group seems at all conscious of the other
groups. On the benches, too, especially
those in the shadows, he sees more absorbed,
softly-whispering persons. Then, at last,
he catches the meaning OF the whole-the
witching influence of the hour and place.
The vast bridge is doing the service of a
quiet country lane or whispering grove, and
is loves own trysting place. The harvest
moon, like Barkis, is perfectly "willin'"
that the public thoroughfare should be thus
transformed and smiles on the young folk,
while the hazy atmosphere, the serene stars.
the echoes from two cities, the swish and
sweep of something passing far below, glide
into that scene of unwritten poetry, music
in the air and that sort of thing which
makes up the symptoms of lunacy for which
there is but one remedy. The bridge knows
what that is and leads on to it as surely rs
it leads to either side of East river. Doesn't
the bridge unite two big cities? Well,
doesn't uniting mean matrimopy? That is
the way the harvest moon and the young
folks understand it.
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Belat1's Novel Ide !.

The "bsauty spot" veil has reached St.
Louis, and it's a much more piquante affair
than has been announced even. The veil
proper is an illusion, black, Of course, and
the "spots" are star shaped and placed at
such correct and discreet distances apart
that they serve as veritable beauty patches,
one of them resting just beneath the left
eve and the other just near the dimple place
on the right cheek, not far from the mouth.
This style OF veil is at once an addition and
a foil to pretty face.
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Queen Viotoria's love for babies By No
means diminishes with her ever-increasing
number of grandchildren. Indeed, the latest
addition to the royal family always demands
her special interest, and at the present
moment it Is the new baby Of the Duke and
Duchess of Sparta. her Majesty's latest
greatgrandson, for whom she exhibits the
greatest solicitude. A magnificent cradle
has just been dispatched by his royal great
grandmother to the infant.
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ASHlONABL peo-
pie do not use the
Brooklyn Bridge as
an evening PRONE
made, yet whoever
vie VS. Brooklyn
Bridge by daylight
only, or considers it
merely as q marvel Of
engineering skill and
a highway for incom-
putable traffic, has
seen it in neither its
greatest beauty nor its
birhoct ucar IT. bpo-
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PLAIDS ARE SUPREME.

The Manufacturers and Dealers are
Forcing Them on the Ladies' Whether
They Like ir or Not-How the Effect
Can be ReIieved-Fashion's DEGREES.
rwRIrTEN FOR THE DIsPAToB.l
Plaids "by a large majority" Plaids
big, plaids little, plaids Gordon, Fife, Nc
Dougal, Pesth, Stewart, Mcdonald and
every other clan; plaids Dormal and plaids
abnormal; plaids quiet and plaids so loud
you can't hear their name and plaids monde
script. From this assortment we are to
make selection, and at all hazard we are to
wear plaid if we would keep up with the
fashionable procession.
OF course every acquaintance Will recog-
nize us as soon as we turn a corner and 1t
will not at all seem like new gown for we
are all so tired of plaids; not that they have
been so generally worn for the trial last
season proved they were harder to take than
q vaccination, notwithstanding unfortunate
clerks thrust forward their plaided wares,
from parasols 10 hosiery, with persistency,
no doubt creditable to their calling, though
annoying to US. Well did we know death
10 our good looks lurked behind every gaily
colored bar. We were either too old, too
ugly, too short or too fat to have anything
10 do with plaids. But now it looks as If
been considered; have been ''laid on the
table" and are to be lett there; while dealers
and designers, having US in their power,
concluded to administer little discipline
for our bsving refused to adopt their check
cred ideas in the beginning and have come
back at us with an array of plaids un-
precedented.
Triumph of the Tall.
Verify this is to be the winter of our dis
content. More than ever will the tall thin
woman triumph over the short thick
woman. How provokinglY saucy she will
appear as she sails by in her plaid attire,
with q patronizing you-can an't-wear-it-can-
you expression. Right well she knows
that, in full suit of plaid you or would
furnish a tangible idea of ga cross-cut
section of chaos" or life-like resemblance
to a map OF the world. Counting those who
could and did waGr plaids through the
spring and summer, and who in consequence
now experience at the sight of these goods
nausea amounting to sea sickness; and the
great army of us who could not then and
cannot now change our shape or increase
our stature to accommodate the style the
wonder grows who is to wear these things
with salts faction.
In the present seasons designs we find
consolation in the notice OF the color combi-
nations which certainly are more harmoni-
Gus and will prove more universally becom-
ing than did the bizarre effects OF the tartan
proper, only beautiful in the eyes of the
class they served to distinguish. Thanks to
Ps-isian color syndicate we now have
them in such beautiful meIanges that manv
of us will no doubt be tempted to adopt them
who never before elected for their wear
To further tempt US and the more certainly
win US, we now find displayed with the new
plaids halmonizing plain colored material
to be used as an antidote to lessen or DESTROY
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Tax.nx Her Admirers.

Think of 4 girl collecting engagement
rings Tor a diamond necklace. To be sure,
1t is not the thing to return them, but I
know OF q girl. says q Boston Traveller
writer, who has been engaged 13 times, and
now has necklace with 13 diamonds
plueked from those rings. She wore 10 a.
possibly our aboriginal forefathers wore
scalps suspended FROM their belts.
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FOB LAZY PEOPLE.

The German Clock That Lights n Candle
In tie Mornings.
One of the most unique labor-saving de-
vices is candle-lighting clock recently
invented by a German. AS the accom-.
panying cut shows, the candle is placed
close to an arm which is attached
to the clock. There is o sort of fuse
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A LADY MEDICAL MISSIONARY.
The Daughter of a Scotch Lord Provost 20
Practice In India.

Frhctlce In Indias
Lady doctors are on the increase, says the
Newcastle, England, Chronicle. Among
the latest additions to the number is Miss
Henderson, Aberdeen. daughter of the Lord
Provost of that city. She has qualified as a
medical practitioner, and intends to leave
the Granite City in the autumn to under
take work as medical missionary in India.
Miss Henderson is a granddaughter of Mr..
George Thompson, the well-known mer-
chant and shipowner. who many years ago
represented Aberdeen in the House of Com
mons. On her mothers side she is also
great-granddaughter of the late DR.. Kidd,
Professor of Hebrew in the University, and
who, half a century ago, was one OF the
men of Eight and leading" in the North Of
Scotland
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attachment which connects with the wick Of
the candle. At the given hour for which
the mechanism is set the arm comes down
upon a match; this lights the fuse, which
carries the fame to the wick. IT one r'ust
rise in the night it is a nice thing to have
light already when one gets up.
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A Chicago nyersation.

New York world.l
Mr. Laker-I saw the leaning tower Of
Elsa while was in Europe.
Mr. Livewayte-Just wait till We get our
Worlds Fair tower up. There'll bs big
ger lien on 1t than any Europe can show,
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CUPID ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE,

Cllrn Belle Draws a Pre;ty Moonlight scene
the Great strucrure-Bnd sense of
the Lovers How Mrs. Leslie Carter
Strikes Stranger.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIspArcB.1
NEW YORK, September q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-28

The men and women teachers of Brooklyn
are discussing the decision of the Board Of
Education in Cincinnati, which recently de-
creed that married women should not here.
after be employed as teachers in that city.
This, says the Brooklyn Eagle. has made
quite sensation in educational circles every-
where, adjoining cities wondering how far
the debate OF the question will affect other
places. The vote was close one, there
being just one vote too many agains. the
married women. Said a gentleman here,
formerly member of the board, 81 should
never ask whether a woman were married or
single, provided l knew her for good
teacher. As long as the husband doesn't
object do not see why anybody else should"
One of the chief arguments on the other
side is the fact that there are so many single
women who need the positions. They claim
that, while there has been no ironclad rhle,
yet it is generally expected that q teacher
will resign at her marriage.
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His Idea of DoIlies.

Mrs. Levi P. Morton had a melancholy
experience recently, says the Washington
Star. A guest dining at her house, though
q man oil no little political distinction, was
unacquainted with the uses of the modern
doilIes, which is thing intended purely
for decorative purposes and not for utility.
Mrs. Morton had just had imported from
Paris set of these lu1uries of table orna-
meut, most costly for the reason that each
one was hsndpaintsd in water colors by
skilled and proportionatelY high-priced
artist, On the occasion referred to the
doilies in question were displayed for the
first time at dessert under the finger bowls.
Imagine the hostess horror at seeing her
guest SO famous as legislator and yet 80
ignorant OF social conventions, coolly dip
his fingers deep IN water and wipe them
with the greatest nouchalance upon one Of
her precious new works of art on filmy bolt
ing cloth. The Vice Presidents wife was
not equal in this emergency to the philoso-
ply OF Mrs. Whitney, who, when guest Of
hers smashed most precious tea cup,
calmly picked up another and fractured it,
saying, 'Aren't they sbsurdly brIttle?"
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A bundle of letters, responsive to my
paragraph Of last week on the question,
"Why women don't marry" eompels me to
recur to the subject. Is ii true that women
don't marry? Ny opinion. drawn from OBJ