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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10
HOW WORTH MAKES FASHIONS.

He Assures un Interviewer Tint styles
Are Not Made Far in Advance.
Paris Edition New York Herald.1
"what can I do for you." asked Mr..
Worth when I called at the neat Office in
the well-known courtyard of the Rue de Ia
Paix.
Iexplained to Mr.. Worth that there was
a rumor afloat that the crinoline was about
to be revived and that fashions in the
autumn promised revival of the modes of
the Empire.
Mr.. Worth listened and then replied:
"The crinoline? No, neverl What the
autumn fashions will be myself do not yet
know, but it will not be the crinoline."
"Whati not know the autumn fashions
yet? 1 thought they were arranged for
nearly q year ahead"
''No; we shall not know the autumn FASH
ions Tor another month. Twice a year the
fashions for the coming seasons are arranged
in February and in August. Atthe pres
and other manufacturing cities are busy on
their looms on new designs. In about q
month or SO my father and my brother, who
are now at the seaside, will make tour
through the manufacturing districts, and
then they will have to use their judgment as
to what materials would make up well to-
gether, aud they will find new colors and
makes and combinations pretty enough to be
the fashions of the autumn"
"Then you only know the fashions that
will be a short time ahead"
\ "Yes, that is it We are Just like an
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LIKE swAYINa sERPENTs.
The UnduIntIng Walk Society Girls Are Ea.
denvorinE to Acquire.

The UnduIatIng Walk Society Girls Are Ea-
denvorinE to Acquire.
New York world.l
Society girls have taken up the study of
grace. which consists in being gently SER
pentine. To attain this undulating walk
the head must remain firm, the shoulders
droop and the movement come from the hips
In this way there will be no tossing or shak-
ing of the skirts, and the willowy, swaying
motion at the waist will emphasize the snake
effect sought. For the cultivation of this
indefnable charm, walking, next to dancing
is the best exercise, as it brings the muscles
into fairer uniform action.
The undulations made by the head, chest
and torso in a vertical plane are not only
productive of Hogarth's line of beauty but
tend to perfect physical health. Grace is
such an Undesirable thing that negatives
aid il the definition. 1t is not graceful to
walk on the heels, to take long strides, or
to raise the foot from the ground more than
two inches; 1t is not graceful to stump or to
Law the foot down with defiant or resound-
ing noise; it is not graceful to square the
shoulders soldier fashion or to set the ell
bows akimbo, as in driving; it is not grace
full to hurry, hustle or fuss, for speed is not
conducive 10 grace OF motion, save among
thoroughbreds. Another foe of grace is
self-consciousness. The really pleasing,
graceful. gracious woman rises above her
raiments, and once her toilet is complete
she gives no more thought to it.
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RATTLEsNAKE FARMING.

How the Reptiles Are Caught Farrened
and Made TO Yield Oil.
J. E. Childs has a monopoly of snake cul-
tivation and the production OF rattlesnake
oil in Arkansas, in which State is located
what is well known through that country as
the Childs Snake Farm. This peculiar and
unenvied enterprise is situated in the sub
urbs of Harrisburg, in the northeastern part
of the State, where snakes, especially rat
tiers, are found in abundance.
The manner in which the rattlesnakes are
caught and handled is enough to make cold
chills run over persons who are timid.
twenty-five cents TO 81 per pound for rattle
snakes, however, makes it an inducement
for the natives. Two men go together. One
OF them carries a long. forked pole or cane,
and when a snake is found this pole Is used
to hold the reptile to the ground. The other
snake hunter carries O strong cord, which is
looped over the head of the poisonous prey,
and Is then used for carrying the reptile to
market (Which, however, is done without
injury to the snake.
hen the snake catchers arrive at the
residence OF Mr.. Childs the latter, in care
less-like manner takes the matter in hand,
and II box of rattlers, for instance, is
brought to him, he removes the lid Of the
box and takes the snake (wild from the
woods) out just as one would reach in for
and take hold Of a rabit. The rattler, as
soon as the top OF his cage has been taken
off, sets up continuous rattle and Kisses
fearfully. Mr.. Childs. however, pays no
attention to this little racket, but simply
takes the snake to his farm, weighs it, pays
the catcher and is then ready for repe-
tition of the act. A good big rattlesnake
will weigh from six to ten pounds, and if
fat will be worth nearly or quite as many
dollars
The size Of the snake farm is about half
an acre, with a tightly closed pen in its
center, which is the abiding place of the
snakes. Here the ugly reptiles are kept and
fattened, and when they are ready to be
put under the process for the production of
oil the reptiles heads are neatly chopped
OF, and by means Of string are tied, head
upward, to the side of the pen where the sun
is brightest. The heat of the sun, it is said,
causes the oil of the snake to drip out, and
It is caught In receptacle and laid aside to
be subsequently sold at from 81 30 TO 81 an
ounce or from $40 to S32 pint.
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prevailing color was another woman
whose lines of grace had been, apparently,
long ago lost in an excessive accumulation
of flesh; her gown was of unrelieved scarlet
Material, red net, trimmed with redder vel
vet. large red hat heeped high with tips,
ribbons and birds all OF the same rudy hue.
FAT, RED AND SPARKLING.
When I tell you she was the heshiest
woman in the room you will at once know
she was the one with the largest display of
diamonds. 1t has been one OF my observa-
tlons that fat women have a weakness for
these gems, and that they, more than any
other, seem to have the wherewithal to in
dulge the weakness.
The next red subject is a pretty graceful
woman with slender, girlish figure and is
the vile of Mr.. George V. Hankins, owner
Of Terra Gotta and the Chicago stables
Mrs, Hankins is celebrated at this resort
for her charming manners and bewitehing
toilets. It Is said her diamonds would
stock q new mine in Goleonda. Upon this
occasion, however, they were sparingly dis
PLAYED, her gown having sufficiently attrae-
tive qualities. A perfect tangle of red net
red passementerie that glowed as il studded
with rubies and red ribbons, surplice waist,
halt length sleeves which were met by red
silk mits, red satin slippers and as natural
inference. in this day of the matching
mania, red hose, though they, of whatever
texture or colers were kept. contrary to GUS
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sUNBURN AND FRECKLEs.
They Differ Only In That the Former In So
Big it Covers You.

Big ft Covers You.
"Sunburn," says Philadelphia doctor
in the Press of that city. sis only uni
versal freckle. and if you know what freckles
are you know what sunburn is-as we'll as 1
do myself. Lentigo (our name for freckles)
is an excessive deposit of pigment in the
skin, appearing as small, round, or irregu-
larly shaped pins head or pea-sized yellow
ish, brownish or blackish spots. They are
seldom seen before the third year, and with
advancing years they may disappear per-
manently. Persons with fair skins, and
particularly those with red hair. are especi-
ally liable to their development; neverthe-
less they appear in brunettes and mulattoes.
A freckle is shown by microscopical exami-
nation to consist essentially of circum-
scribed collection OF normal pigment cells
in the rete mucosum. Chloasma Oliver spot)
differs from it simply in the size and shape
of the patches.
"But cannot describe sunburn as uni
versaI freckle without calling attention to
one important distinction. Freckles are
sometimes due to a morbid condition of the
system. I may add that one bronzes more
quickly from exposure to the sun during the
morning hours than in the afternoon, while
exercising than when at rest, and when the
atmosphere is surcharged with moisture
than when it is dry.
"And how about the ladies, doctor?"
"My dear sir, wells and gloves at the sea-
side for ladies who have plump arms and
necks. 1t is simply question of full dress
next winter. And yet I must say that 1
knew very original young lady who scored
positive triumph at fancy dress ball by
appearing with her bare arms delicately
bronzed on the upper side. 1t seemed to
make her skin look all the fairer; and doubt
less suggestion of healthy outdoor life is
the crowning charm Of beauty"
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AN ECONOMICAL CRACKER.

His Unique Reasons for Not Greaslns His
squeeky Old Ox.Cart.
New York sum-
had been looking over the battle fields
around Marietta, Ga. and was five miles
from the town when cracker came alon g
with an OK and cart and offered me lit.
After riding some distance, realized that
both wheels were sadly in need OF grease,
and asked him why he didn't lubricate.
"What fur?" he asked.
ITO make the cart draw more easily"
"Shol This yere OK doan' mind. he 'un
doan' know"
"But it would stop the saueaking."
'Yes, reckon, but the squeakin' doan'
hurt"
''It would save your Wheels" finally
said.
'Sho! This old cawt amt wuth savin'."
s'Didn't you ever grease ft?'' persisted.
"Once. A Yankee rode to town with me
and bought me box of stuff"
s'how did it work."
sMighty slick, but we dun spread It on
hoe cake and ate it all up IN week."
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ENTY OF FAILURES.


gloves of gray silk completed this charm
ingly elegant toilet
PLENTY OF FAILURES.
To enumerate all that is remembered OF
the prettiest toilets worn during my stay at
this fashionable sanitarium would overrun
an article like this, but to sketch by de-
scription the numerous failures in the art Of
dressing well witnessed even at Saratoga
would fill book. 1t seems as if money
were only misfortune where good taste is
lacking, and that gold can no more pur-
chase the eye of an artist or a sense of the
eternal fitness of things than it can seat
in heaven or bring an answer to prayer.
While there were women in almost count
less numbers who arrayed themselves in a
way that would have made Solomon, in his
historic glory, retire from the field, il they
had lived in his day; yet there were others
who looked as iftheir modiste had suddenly
gone crazy and executed her weird faneies
upon their silk aud all wool.
One ,Iore question. Why is it that SWELL
dom becomes pleasing, picturesque, at most,
eccentric, when arrayed in the extremes of
fashions, colors and shapes, but if the
middle or lower classes attempt the same dis
play, we at once apply such adjectives as
loud, vulgar, grotesque? MEG.
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TOLSToI AND BELLAMY.
Chance for Pistols and Coffee for Two
With the Eccentric Authors

Chance for Pistols and Coffee for Two
With the Eccentric Authors.
I offered to send the Count a copy of
Looking Backward" says q correspondent
Of the New York World in describing IN in
terview with Count Tolstoi at his Russian
home. He had already read it. He didn't
know whether the Government permitted
it 70 circulate in Russia, but he had re-
ceived copy through friend. The story
was very we'll told, he said, but that was all
he could say for it There was nothing new
in 1t, and all the ideas had been taken from
Carl MARKS "Kapital." Mr.. Bellamy had
simply clad in popular clothes a set of old
ideas belonging to other people. Henry
Georges Progress and Poverty" Is far
superior, he thought. He was astonished
at the popularity Of Looking Backward"
1T is not only a plagiarism" he said,
"but is incomplete as story and fallacious
throughout. To be Of value, the book should
have shown how the results which are por-
trayed were to be arrived at. Without that
Looking Backward is nothing but fairy
tale. Then, men should live life as happy
and perfect as that which Mr.. Bellamy de-
scribes, OF their own free will and spon-
taneous goodness, and not require Govern
ment regulation for all their actions"
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are more exacting than those Of her sister of
500 years ago, who only thought Of screens
when the heat of the mammoth hearth made
red her face; for then, as now, woman was
ever thoughtful Of her complexion. But of
late years screens have been diverted from
their old-time hearthstone utilitarian pur-
pose to occupy decorative field. To be
sure they have occasionally concealed the
clothes basket or shabby corner. but that's
all. Now they are certainly useful adj uncts
to any room.
Those newly evolved screens come in three
varieties for parlor, study and sewing room.
For parlor, one side is decorated, but the
other is all business-crossed and recrossed
with bands of silk, serving to hold an end
less number of photographs, visiting cards,
dance orders, the favors of the winter "ger-
MANS" or any other graceful and pretty
souvenirs. For the study, the same rib
boned or tapped rack holds correspondence,
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IN PATRIOTIC C0L0Rs.

A Plant From Tehnantepec That Might su it
for Our National Flower.
Pail Mall Budget.1
A wonderful flower has been disco yered
in the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec. Its chief
peeulisrity is the habit Of changing its
colors during the day. In the morning it is
white; when the sun is at its zenith 1t is red,
and at night it is blue. The red, white and
blue flower grows on a tree about the size of
guava tree, and only at noon does it give
out any perfume.
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The rattle and slam of screen doors or

chairs ON tiling can be stopped by the use Of
rubber-tipped tscks or buttons. Another
device which knowing ones buy is the sash
rod with rubber tips and spring center. The
rod is in two parts. one telescoping over the
other against coiled wire spring. You
have sash curtain to hang at your windows
and instead Of all the trouble and nuisance
OF mailing to fixtures, you simply get one Of
those extension spring rods as big around as
lead pencil, and about three inches longer
than the width of the easement and by press
ing 1t slightly you reduce it to the right
length and adjust it within the uprights.
The spring and the rubber tips hold it in
place.
Oxidized silver pole trimmings are COM
ing more and more into use every day. In
a shop uptown in New York they sell musi-
cal beds. The mere pressure Of the head
upon the pillow is sufficient to start out
"Annie Rooney" or Marguerite" Musi-
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cal furniture, in fact, Is becoming quite
prevalent among those who indulge iu the
expensive fads. They are frequently fur
nished with boxes which play dozen or
more tunes, with bell and flute attachments.
They are of French manufacture, and run
in prices all the way from $500 to So, 900
apiece. c. r. CLIFFORD.
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I tom, discreetly under cover Of skirt
draperies.
RED, BLACK AND GOLD.
Another woman, pretty as picture and
plump as a partridge. who, it was said, oc-
cupies a prominent place in the McAllister
set, wore a costume that would have set on
fire with envy the heart of circus rider. A
vivid scarlet satin, plain waist, over which
was worn a Turkish jacket of black velvet
heavily ornamented with gold; short,
straight skirt, foot-band of black velvet and
gold; red and black head covering which
had every appearance of having figured In
a nightmare and worn with all the evil
dences of the struggle left upon it.
This red, black and gold combination
calls up another not less striking, but more
pleasing. A material in which black velvet
and red satin stripes alternated formed
full-length princess redingote, which was
worn over black lace skirt; the collar, cuffs
and lapeIs were OF plain black velvet;
small vest piece OF gold, red and black ga
loon; girdle of black silk plated cord with
an admIxture of gold. The hat for this suit
was of black braid, faced with black velvet.
Scarlet tips and band of galoon formed the
trimmings. .
Hats go from nothing to immensity and
it is pity the latter should be placed
upon any but the heads OF the prettiest
women. 1t is 6ne of the disgusss of the
season that so many passe women should
try to appear young by the assistance OF
Charlie hat. This hat was evidently in
tended by designers for the younger and
prettier half of woman kind. Charming
and summery looking hats are those OF
tulle, bent, pinched and twisted as 1T ruin
was to be the result, but the picturesque in
effect is attained. These worn with the
pretty sprigged challies. India silks or all
white gowns of the season are q cooling and
refreshing vision to eyes tired and scorcbed
by the above described toilets.
MODELS OF GRACE.
A pretty gown OF challie in which the
prevailing red played part, was OF cream
colored ground stamped with scarlet flowers
and green leaves. This was made Empire
style, full straight skirt, full gathered waist,
low cut, with infant sleeves and worn over a
guimpe OF creamy silk muslin and long and
broad sash of scarlet silk; a ribbon of the
same shade about the throat and finishing
the mouslin sleeves constituted the trim
mings.
A costume of smoke-gray India silk
stamped with scarlet sprigs is remembered
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SISTER GERTRUDE IN TROUBLE.
An ANONYMOUS Letter Making IusInuationS
Agninst the Lrper Nurse.


Miss Amy c. Fowler, the young English
woman who, as Sister Rose Gertrude, has
become a leper nurse, has not, it seems, been
received very afectionately by certain per-
sons in Hawaii. The Monitor, Catholic
weekly of San Francisco, publishes an
anonymous letter from Waiatua in which
mean insinuAtions are made against Miss
Fowler.
The writer of the letter says that the gifts
received by the young woman for the lepers,
which amounted in value to 81, 200 approxi-
mately, have not yet been distributed among
the unfortunates. The writer also accuses
Miss Fowler Of seeking newspaper notori-
ETY.. The latter charge is known to be
false. as the reporters had great difficulty in
getting her story when she passed through
the United States. The charges probably
emanated from some Jealous person.
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Detroit 1ree FresS.I
The people of San Francisco have pre-
sented the war vessels of the United States,
named for that city. with silver service
costing 81, 500. Among the articles are two
punch bowls, small one, for use when the
officers of the vessel are in training, aud u
much larger one, to be placed in commission
when they are endeavoring to put their
guests from some British man-of-war under
the table. Peace has its victories rs well a.
war.
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Tint Wc.tInshou.e CortnGe.

Apropos of summer cottage" expenses,
it is being tattled about that the decOra-
tions and furnishings of one room alone Of
the modest summer home OF the Westing.
houses at Lenox have cost, in round num-
bers, $50, 900,
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artist who paints anything pretty that he
may see as be goes along. But could he
tell what be was going to paint three months
ahead? Not bit OF it. Nor can we"
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beauty, but little she knows. fancy, thatit
ever had bought the repose of soul.

saw bedroom the other day the walls
Of which illustrated my idea very nicely.
There were about dozen clever etchings 10x
6 in inches size surrounded by pearl-colored
mats and very wide fringes of natural un-
yarnished cedar of the peculiar purplish
red color. perfectly simple, and so shallow
and fiat that the glass almost came to the
surface The paper was a cream tint with
little detached rosebuds and knots of pink
and blue ribbons showing here and there
about yard apart. That wall was to my
mind gem Of good taste.
The rattle and slam of screen doors or
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Like the Earth.

Detroit Free Press.
The Argentine Republic is like the earth,
in that it requires but one day to complete
@ revolutieAs
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A RED BEADING.

COuluSlOu bildl u6-
hes an intelligi-
BILE description.
The throat was
freely exposed -
and such a throatl
it had no counter
part In the room.
A rolling collar
ofthe velvet made
an effective foil
for the white skin
and velvet cuffs
served the shape
ly wrists in the
same kindly way.
Miss Allen was
conspicuous tor
the absence OF
Jewels and ap-
parent attempt at
a striking toilet.
She had simply
with the eve of
an artist, selected
the color and
style most becom-
ing to her COM
plexion, stature
and proportions
and in cons Sc
Quence was q
al sym
phony.
Not SO fortu-
nate in her Sc
lection of the
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missible and ''good form, when the same
excess exhibited in paste would be vulgar?
Who can answer
Not having heard of the scarlet fever epi-
demic raging at this resort, 1 was wholly un-
prepared for it. The disease in its most
violent form seems to have confined itself
to our sex, but it is no rarity to see q
man wrestling with a light attack-sort
of scarlet variolOid-that betrays
its existence in the color Of neektie, hand,
kerchief, hatband and hose. Here is q
handsome patient who is omni present or else
has double" several times over A
white flannel suit-that is, pantaloous and
blazer-white silk shirt with scarlet stripes;
the same murderous color encircling the
throat tied four-ln-hand; white straw hat,
scarlet band; scarlet hose in silk DISPLAYED
above low-cut russet leather shoes. This
apparition at the races or elsewhere abroad
during the hot hours, parrIed sun thrusts
with an Americas Club umbrella. OF
course, he had the scarlet contagion pretty
nearly as bad as one of his sex could get
il, yet think you will agree the attack was
trifing compared with that which afflicted
the other sex.
A RED READING.
Here are few of many infamed toilets
noticed at one sitting, their startling eccen-
tricities being proven by their standing out
in a way to be remembered from among the
crush OF gay colors and queer gowns. 1t
was during a recital given at the hotel
where found home pro TEN, the reader
being Miss Charlotte Allen, of New York
City, a finished elocutionist of bewitching
personality and altogether the rarest vision
oI ioveliness at this place, noted ior its beau
tiful guests.
This affair might ftly have been called a
red reading, since the reader and the larger
half o, her audience, wore red. Miss Al
lens gown was OF clinging all-wool fabric,
flaming red, embroidered in black; made
straight skirt with deep foot band OF the
black embroidery in arabesque design; a
waist, position back, upon which the
embroidery, red net and black
velvet were piled in an artistic
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Al -S"SA1 "hASh
smictions, it is
presumable, came
about by a too
ardent and covet-
GUS gazing at the
glitter of jewels
and the glare of
red dry-goods.
Knowing what I
now know I
would not again
venture in that
region of fashion
a Bile inhamma-
tion with 1t
smoked glasses
and a green veil,
for-w ell. for
nothing short of
a few handfuls of
the superfuous
diamonds worn
there. Why will
women wear all
tn e d monds
they can, and on
account of their
money value con-
slider them ad-
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RED ROSES AT SARATOGA.

VeritnbIe Epidemic of Scarlet Fever
seems 10 Have Stricken Down swell.
dom at That Gay Resort-Diamonds
That Rivnl the suu--The Costumes.
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.1
have been to that hub of summer SWELL
dom, Saratoga, watching the merry-go-round
OF fashion until 1 am halt blind, wholly
bewildered and mentally infamed; which