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soon find out the wonderful refinement of
the Postmaster Generals wife, and in no
way is it shown more than in her taste for
dress.
Every bit of her lingerie is white. She
has never been touched by the crazes that
have swept over the country for black or
pale yellow or scarlet undergarments The
use of anything but white is almost repel-
lent to her, and for years she has purchased
the same filmy silk or cambric goods from
the same house in Europe. Next to color,
machine stitching is unpardonsble in her
eyes, and everything she wears is made by
hand.
Any number of women adopt the fad Of
hand-sewed underclothes now that they
know French women of refinement do ii, but
Mrs. Wanamaker has always done it, and
she has the first lien on the underclothing
fad. Every dainty bit she wears is finished
by inch-wide Valenciennes lace made by
nuns of Carmelite convent in Southern
France. Very little of it is used on each
garment, as she dislikes over trimming, and
the only other fnishings are clusters OF
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with delight by all classes, except the cler-
gymen; and within the hospitable walls Of
the typical tavern, say about the year 1860,
the natural character of the new generation,
those native born, began to develop itself
It is not to be wondered at that the tavern
became the most popular of the resorts. 1t
was the shelter for the wayfarer, the COM
mon center Of the villagers where the gossip
Of the times was picked up, news exchanged;
here political questions were discussed and
IL an opinion Of any sort, even one against
the Church, was uttered, it found voice and
Endorsement In the reliant tavern. The
cheer which 1t dispensed elevated the hearts
of the religion ridden people and saved
them from chronic, routine mode of exist
ence. On Sundays, remote villagers dis
mounted at the old horse-block, walked to
the Westinghouse and two hours after took
q snug corner in the tavern, where they
would dine from the contents Of well-flled
saddle bags, drink hot cider and beer. Here
they denounced the odious Stamp Act and
Parliament taxes; politicians and lawyers
watched the glowing embers, where the log
gerheads we're heating mugs OF flip and ale;
punch flowed to enliven the wits OF the jolly
registers; merry dances were held in the
great hall and the music of the fiddle made
the vicinity vibrate with joy unbounded.
CHOCOLATE THE TEMPERANCE DRINK.
There was no tea drinking in the early
days, chocolate being their temperance bev-
erage; they ate their food with their fingers
from a napkin, knives, forks and even
chairs being rare luxury. The tavern
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WOMAK's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
rwRrrrEx FOR rHz p1srAroH.I


MEN 20 to buriaIs and women to weddings.
THE wisest man know says that what
women most need is pecuniAry independence.
ELIZABETH THOMPSON BUTLER, the En-
glish battle painter, is making studies of evic-
vions in ireland with view to future pictures.
JENNY JUNE wants a peoples church, "
church that shall be open all the year round,
With service every day in the week, "a morn
ing service of praise. a midday song of rejoic-
ing, a vesper hymn of thanktulness." 1t should
be church where the tired woman with her
market basket might drop in any moment to
listen to the music and dream of heaven,
where the young woman might pray away her
perplexities where even the business man
might find brief surcease from struggle and
temptation.
KNITTED bead trimming for collars and cuffs
of gowns is pretty and durable. 1t is made as
follows: Take some purse silk and cast on five
stitches, having previously threaded the silk
with a good supply Of jet, gold, garnet jet.
moonlight gray, blue steel, or white chalk
beads. Knit the five stitches in plain knitting,
with fine steel needless and at the beginning Of
every alternate row slip up ten beads before
knitting the first stitch. which forms a loop at
the top, and, coming one upon another, makes
a sort of thick ruche of beads.
MRS. MARGARET G. BIsLAND, of New Or
leans is both writer and musical composer.
She is the mother of the three Bisland sisters
who have, at an early age, achieved SO enviable
q reputation in journalism. Elizabeth Bisland
completed the voyage around the world in
n DAYS. With her in New York is Margaret.
who works on various papers in that city. The
third sister of this remarkable trio is In New
Orleans with her mother and is on the staff of
the Times Democrat Southern girls and WOm-
en- are achieving a success IN literature and
journalism that is a credit to their pluck and
talent.
MORE than Is years ago a dark-eyed, en-
thusiastic young Southern woman, Miss Viz
ginia Penny became interested in the indus
trial progress of her sex. She investigated
not only the trades at which women usually
work, but also those generally classed as be-
longing to men, at which women occasionally
engage. She made a modest competency in
her investigation. From city to city she trav-
eIed, visiting shops, factories and workrooms,
sometimes getting herself most ungallantly and
numerically. snubbed, but never becoming
discouraged. 1t was before the days Of eleva-
tors, and Miss Penny truoged up and down
miles of staircases. At last the work was done.
A handsome book was made from the results
of the ladys labors. It was called Five Hun
dred Occupations for Women" and was widely
read. 1t opened the eyes of the American pub
lie to the possibilities in the direction of
women's work. and did unlimited good. But
The year 1890 finds her who wrote 70 such good
purpose Of the occupations Of other women
with no occupation of her own whereby she can
get bread, and no roof over her head. Miss
Penny's address is los Sixth avenue. New
York. ELIZABETH ARoHARD CONNER.
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NINE. CARNOTS CHARITY.
After Bach Reception she Makes the Poor
Happy With Remnants.

After Bach Reception she Makes the Poor
Happy With Remnants.
New York WorId.l
Nine. Carnot, wife of the President of the
French Republic. has method of enter
tainment which, if initiated with the same
assiduity that her fancies in dinner favors
and visiting toilets are copied, would make
the world Of fashion better and the world of
misery brighter than it is Her receptions
are numerous, and after each the same
number of poor people are invited the fol-
lowing day and entertained with what
Nine. la Presidente calls remnants of Aow-
ers, food and music.
The following reference to her New Years
party is taken from Paris journal: 'The
400 were there, her guests being children
chosen from the poorest of the poor. They
arrived in omnibuses, their school teachers
accompanying them. In the new festival
hall Punch and Judy show was given,
followed by other performances and a dis
tribution of toys, after which the beautiful
lady made the children kind, little speech,
in which she said that it was pleasant to be-
gin early to extend to others our enjoyments
$50 pleasant that when once we get in the
habit of doing so we cannot leave off,
''This good social lesson was emphasized
by an array of 400 small baskets, containing
each an orange wrapped up in silver paper,
chocolate, cake and toy bonbons to be taken
home to the absent brothers and sisters.
Every child present received an outer gar
ment among its gifts
President Carnot was too i'll to be pres
ent, but sent to each little visitor q savings
bank book, tied up with tricolored ribbon
and containing a certificate of deposit of 10
francs"
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keeper or landlord was power in the
land, he was in with the magistrates, and
helped to make the laws to suit himself.
The story of Goodwife Cofyn, landlsy of
note, proves that the tavern keeper had
friends in court. It seems that she was
prosecuted for selling ale at 8 pence the
quart The law she was supposed to have vio-
lated, required that every licensed Ordi-
nary "shall provide good, wholesome beer,
four bushels of malt to the hogshead, to be
sold at2 pence the ale quart" The madame
was carried to court in great state and with
an air Of confidence stood up to answer the
charges. She easily proved by witnesses
that she put six bushels of malt into her
hogshead, and reckoned ''as four is to two,
50 is six to three, I'll have better beer than
my neighbOrs, and be paid for it, fig for
the law"
When the town was oyerrun with hogs,
fences were ordered to be erected not less
than four feet high, but the tavern keeper
may keep ''double stint of hogs and could
build any kind of fence" We can easily
understand why these favors were extended
to ye landlord, when we note an item in the
archives to the effect that the town fathers
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year are delightful, though private bath
Is to be preferred to public one By per-
son Of the least refinement People ought
to be q great deal more fastidious about
baths and conYeniences for washing than
they are. A woman of spurious refinement
will make furious fuss If some dirty water
happens to fall into her bathtuh, while she
contentedly permits her family and guests
to batbe after catarrhal subjects and those
afflicted with inhammations internal and ex-
ternal, in a dark, roughened zinc tub which
never shows whether it is clean or not,
and which can hardly be cleaned thor
oughly, as particles of mucous secretions
and minute particles of liberation are held
by the roughness Of the metal. Only
brightly polished tin tub or porcelain one
can ever be said to be clean. The English
man is safe in carrying his own bathtub,
much as he is caricatured for It. The acme
of bathing is porcelain tiled room with
white ware enamel tub where the aroma OF
violet essence floats on the vapor Of a warm
bath. Every sense yields to the subtle re-
Taxation, the sweat flows softly, the very
hair takes silkier and more plant texture,
the delicate perfume soothes the nerves and
steals into the brain like an opiate.
THE EFFECT OF THE BATH.
Beds of flowers are not to be compared to
it, and if one can step from the drying sheet
to warm, airy chamber and lie down in
warm linen and light blankets for an hour
she has had rest which goes far to the Gre
ating of beauty. The skin has lost its up
per layer Of dust and waste particles, soft
ened by steam and washed away by the soapy
bath, the blood flows through every deli
cate branch, depositing new elastic tissue,
the skin glows transparent, pearly with the
vapor it has absorbed. The eye is dark and
liquid with the blood fed to the optic nerve,
the muscles, warmed and nourished, are
supple, the stomach at rest, its frequent in
hammation allayed for the time. A rest and
some light food should follow, cup Of
coffee, or glass Of sherbet, when, if ever, q
woman will be at her best mentally and ply
sically. She should step on the stage. social
or professional, fresh, brilliant and seduc-
tive, her brain full of device and spirit, her
body 1.-THE, Swaying, bending itself to .
thousand graceful suggestions, and ex-
pressions of which the ordinary woman
knows no more than she does of the lost
arts. SHIRLEY DARE.
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HOW TWO GIRLS SAVED MONEY.
At the End Of Nineteen Years They Have
sixteen Thousand Dollars.

At the End Of Nineteen Years They Have
sixteen Thousand Dollars.
New York World.1
Mary Anne and Ellen Frances Dough
erty, two Irish girls in the employ of Bar
bour Bros, thread manufacturers of Pater-
son, have deposited with that firm Sic, 900.
every penny of which has been saved from
their earnings. The girls came to this
country 10 years ago and found work in the
mill, where they have been ever since. The
conditions under which this money has
been accumulated are remarkable, since
they show the hardships imposed by labor
and endured by women laborers. Few
American girls could have stood the ordeal.
Employed in the wet spinning-room, where
the moisture underfoot and the steam heat
overhead made il necessary, for comfort and
convenience, to dispense with all superau-
Gus clothing, they worked without shoes or
stockings, wearing low-necked and sleeve
less dress from one years end to the other.
In this unsightly garb the expense of cloth
ing was reduced to minimum, half of the
"A hours being spent in the mill, and, as
their living expenses were covered by So,
the rest of their earnings remained with the
mill-owners, who, as an encouragement to
thrift and industry, paid them 6 per cent
interest,
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THE HOME OF THE TRAVELLER.


frothy streams into the great pewter mug, is
still with rs. His ever ready hands and
words eheered the belated traveller, soothed
the distressed condition of the suffering
stranger, and with knowing wink performed
the extra duty for the simple ''tip." His
like is not known to-day; there is no servant
Of to-day who exercises the same functions,
his place cannot be filed.
The modern hotel cannot compare with
the ancient 'hostelrie'' for right down hos
pitality. In olden times the landlord knew
his guests BY name and long associations,
his every want was attended to without the
asking or bidding, be was the dispenser of
charity, the physician, the provident culti-
vator Of an herb garden, the subscriber to
all of the English newspapers, the intimate
of foreign commissioners, and the advisor
of investors. Day and night were as one
with him, his habits were more like those
of a philanthropist; but he, too, like his
tapkeeper. has gone the way Of all the
world, and his place cannot be filed.
T. T. r.
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DEPEW AT YAssAR.
The Lady Who Introduced Him Said Some.
thing That Amused Him.
New York Sun.1

thing That Amused Him.
New York Sun.1
Popular male speakers declare that the
hardest audience in the United States to
face is the 400 or 500 girls who are
attending Vsssar College. There isn't q
woman's face upturned toward the lonely
masculine person addressing them but ex-
presses l0, 900 shafts of wit upon his bear
ing, gesture, voice, and upon what he
says. Yet our own Chauncey, few days
ago, went up to Poughkeepsie and daringly
and unfinchingly endured this ordeal.
Mr.. Depew was introduced TO the Vassar
girls by one of their number, Miss
Sanders, very pretty and bright wo-
man. As she was escorting Mr.. Depew
up the aisle of the college hall she was
observed to speak to the orator quiet
ly, whereupon he almost laughed loudly,
and, with his face overspread with merri-
ment, replied to what she had said. There
was q good deal of curiosity felt as to this
chat, and finally one Vassar girl said to
Miss Sanders: "What did you say to Mr..
Depew when you were walking up the aisle
with him?"
81 was wearing my first train" said Miss
Sanders, "and Mr.. Depew went too fast for
me, and so 1 said to him, Whoa, whoa,
you'll break my train
"You didn't dare to say whoa, whoa, to
such man as Mr.. Depew?"
ST did-why not? And he said he would
slow up at once. Being a railway man,
he knew what breaking trains meant"
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The potent influence of the tavern was
felt by the ministers. They knew full well
that the scheme Of consciences was an affair
of Church, while the exercise Of the natural
instincts, even to the use Of jolly adjectives,
was blow 10 their spiritual endeavors;
and so it came about that they performed
quiet missionary work among the frequent
ers OF the tavern, and as quietly used the
functions of the rendezvous to further
their cause. An illustration of this condi-
tion OF things is well set forth in the
instance Of the lusty young men who would
celebrate Christmas in their own way, which
was to gather at the hotel or Ye Friendly
Hostelrie, partake Of the "liker and larder"
and then 60 out OF doors into the snow and
play at pitching bars, % "stoolball'' or like
sport. This merry group were not acting in
accord with the laws, and they knew u; but
in an innocent way bubbling over with good
nature and throwing of the restraints of the
"godlie ministry" they took to "gaming
and reveling in ye streets" When the Gov
ernor saw these fellows at play. having been
notified of the fact by the Elders. heordered
them to work; he being Puritan, and not
recognizing the Christmas holiday. They
gave up their outdoor fun unquestionably,
but later on drank disgust TO the law" ate
mince pie and sang merry carol.
THE DELUsIoN OF wITcHCRAFT.
Again the witchcraft delusion opened an
opportunity for the Rev. Samuel Paris.
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A LADY OF LETTERS.
How Miss BraddOn Writes and Her Hus-
band CrIticises Her.

How Miss BrnddOn Writes and Her Hus-
band Criricises Her.
New York World.l
Miss Braddon is one of the few literary
women who has not allowed herself to be
spoiled by success, and who has no hesi-
fancy fabout admitting her age. On the
contrary she is rather proud Of her 30 years
and So novels, although she is reluctant to
talk about her books. Diminishing inquiries
with the assertion that she "can't tell how
they are written"
-Four days ofthe week she writes steadily,
forbidding even the postman to disturb her,
and the rest of the time is spent in the sad
die, where her thinking is done. She
studies Dickens for style, weaves her plots
from suggestions of old newspaper clip
pings, which she has been collecting for the
last 30 years, and edits her copy as she
writes it.
Her husband publishes her books and is
pronounced her seVerest critic. Their &C
quaIntance began, 1t is said, in wrangle
over the first manuscript she submitted, and
the able defense that won his admiration
afterwards captured his affection. Not
withstanding the half hundred books that
have passed through mis- hands, this hus-
band-publisher finds new and startling
faults in each succeeding volume to criti-
else. Miss Braddon is fair and rosy in face,
with bright auburn hair, blue eyes, angular
in build and of very nervous temperament.
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the Concord school, which DR.. William 7.
Harris transplanted from the East. Her
study of metaphysics has given her the
keenest wit of any woman at the capital
Mrs. Attorney General Miller confesseg
that above all things, when she is tired out,
she likes a deep chair, and yes, fairy light
novel. Nothing sensational, but just the
kind that soothes the brain as sleep would
do. Her pet talent, however, is for pastel
painting, and she does some dainty work.
MRS. FULLER AN EARLY RISER.
Strangest of all fads in this lazy day is
Mrs. Chief Justice Fuller's. Listen to it,
indolent people, for it is early rising.
''It Is belief with me, =" said she, "that a
household cannot go wrong where breakfast
Is served at 8 o'clock"
When she came to Washington last win
ter people warned her that winters gayety
would play havoc with her pet theory, but
she tells me that she has never once swerved,
Here comes the indulgence of it. Although
she rises early, she sometimes allows her
daughters to do the prescribed thing for So
ciety girls and sleep till noon.
Her daughter, Meme, when home from
Germany, tried to instill German laxity in
the matter in her mothers mind, but no
amount of reasoning could introduce into
the Fuller family the German custom of
drinking coffee in bed.
After breakfast Mrs. Fuller goes to mar
ket, arranges with her cook for the days
menu, sees the four Youngest children off to
school, and at IL o'clock things are going so
smoothly that she can easily take the time
to drive her husband TO the Capitol.
Another Supreme Court lady has similar
views. That is the bride, Mrs. Justice
Gray. She is one of the best housewives at
the Capital, and gives a personal super
vision to every detail of what were once the
bachelor quarters of Justice Gray.
MRS. wANAMAKER's DRESS FAD.
Mrs. WsnRmaker's fad is her undereloth-
ing. She probably has the finest under
wear Of any woman at the Capital, People
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HILL SIGNED THE BILL.
It Had Many Useless AdjectiYes In It, but
They We're Harmless.

It Had Muuy Useless AdjeetiYss In IL, but
They We're Harmless.
New York sun.1
Governor Hill is impatient when q Wordy
speech is being fred at him, or when he per-
ceives that legislative enactment is full Of
useless legal expressions. Lately be found
much fault with bill which was presented to
him by delegation OF countrymen, because
it contained about three adjectiVes to every
noun. "What's the use of that, and that?"
he growled, in good-natured way, as he
put his finger here and there upon the un-
lucky bill. The chairman of the delegation,
a long bearded countryman, meekly replied
each time: sit may not be necessary, Gov
ernor, but it won't do any harm"
The Governor at last found host Of the
adjectives gathered about one oppressed
noun, and, looking up at the Chairman,
said: 81 suppose you'll put the Ten Com
mandments in the bill next" Did this sug-
gestion disturb the equanimity and lovely
meekness of that Chairman? Not in the
least Without the quiYer of an eyelid he
answered: ''They might not be necessary,
Governor, but they wouldn't do any harm"
The Governor looked for one instant at the
speakers un nrufied face as he made this re-
ply, and then laughed heartily and affixed
his signature to the bill.
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POLICEMEN ARE FRAUDS.
So Says Used-Up Citizen Out Of the Fall.
ness of His Experience.

So Says 4 Used-Ub Citizen Out Of the FuII-
ness of His Experience.
New York Herald.I
Mr.. Sorehead-If live thousand years
I shall never have any more to do with po-
licemen; they are frauds.
Mr.. Bighead-What's the matter noW7
Mr.. Sorehead-Last night heard bur-
glars at the back door. I went to the front
window, and after yelling for Eve minutes
two policemen came. They wanted at first to
lock me up as a lunatic. By the time they
got into the back yard the burglar had gone.
They said I had fooled them, and they
wanted to lock me up on charge of dlsor-
derry conduct. refused to 60, when they
changed the charge 10 resisting an officer,
and dubbed me numerically. This morn
ing the police justice fined me $40, and while
I was paying made worse break yet. The
policemen were drunk the night before, and
/ told the judge 81 didn't know they were
loaded" Everybody laughed except the
Judge, and he made it SO more for contempt
Of court. And there you are. Have no deal
ings with policemen, for the law is all on
their side.
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and the chief prosecutor Cotton MatheF. to
gain point on the tavernites, investigating
as they did certain movements, within the
gay walls Of the hostelries, which resulted
in making the friendly inn q place which
the poor gopher toothed old woman care
fully avoided for should she happen to pass
the noisy precincts she would be sure Of
arrest or ct least scathing ridicule and
anathemas.
The historic writer who is familiar with
the tavern days Of our ancestors, be he ever
so biased, cannot but sympathize with the
taverners, even though they took hand in