The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-17

A grizzly bear rug brings from s.;
to 5000 each and black bear as higf
as $75 each. The cinnamon ano
brown bear are common and not 81
desirable and the best will not sci
for over $5O.-Kansas City Journal
Washington Struck by a New Fad
A new fad has struck Washing
ton hard. Mrs. Wanamaker has
taken it up enthusiastically, and
what she does sets the fashion here
at once, for the Postmaster-General'
wife has only Mrs. Levi P. Morton
as a rival for the social leadership
at the Capital under this Admins
tration. If you watched the dress
parade on Connecticut or Massa.
chusetts avenues any of these after
moons, you would very likely notice
that the swell girls have adopted q
fresh style of walking-their chests
thrown out as far as possible, with
out any throwing back of the shoul-
ders, however, and a certain indie
scribable spring in their gait. Upon
inquiring as to the meaning of this,
you would be informed that it rep
resents only a small part of the
new system of physical grace, in
troduced from abroad by lady who
is now giving lessons on the subject
to the daughters and wives of the
richest and most distinguished per-
sonages in Washington. A class
of young women meets at the Wan
amakers twice week to learn how
to walk, to 60 up and down stairs,
to stand to bow, to smile, to make
eyes and to dispose of the hands.
It need excite no surprise now to
see three or four pretty girls in the
dressing groom, upon their arrival at
a party, wringing their hands frant-
ically, as if in violent grief. All it
signifies is that they are making
those members unconscious, so that
they will be at ease in company.
This is portion of the new method.
If you don't know what to do with
your hands, you have only to let
them hang at your sides, and wiring
them vigorously for about five min
utes before making your appear
ance in the drawing-room; at the
end of that time they will be de-
prived of consciousness to such an
extent that you will have no trouble
with them for an hour or so any
way. Do this once or more every
day and you will find yourself be-
come more easy about your paws,
through the habit of the thing. The
effect is said to be really wonderful.
For, you see, it is simply that the
hands are so highly educated in
this mechanical age that they may
almost be said to have brains of
their own. It is difficult not to be
conscious of them, therefore, and
that implies awkwardness.
But woman's chosen weapon is
the eye, and an important feature
of this new system from abroad is
education in the use of that lovely
organ. Within a certain range, the
female of our species has an in
stinctive perception of the manner
in which her optical apparatus
should be employed upon her COM
Elementary creature in pantaloons !;
but science has reduced the subject
to exact terms. Charts have been
prepared Washington girls are
studying them-showing that the
eye has 729 distinct expressions,
conveying as many different shades
of meaning. The proper thing to
do is to procure one of these charts,
and reproduce with your own eyes
the 729 expressions before mirror.
When you have mastered them all,
try them on other people and see
how they work. 1t is popularly
imagined that the eyeball itself is
an expressive thing, but, as a mat
ter Of fact, the ball of the eye has
scarce any expression at all. That
all depends upon the lids and
brows. The upper lid does the in
tellectual; it's position is regulated
by the sort of thinking you are do
ing. The lower lid expresses, by
its drawing-up or otherwise, the
senses. The eyebrows are emotional,
and so on. All this, however, is only
the beginning. Certain it would ap-
pear that young ladies of the future,
trained to make eyes on exact prin-
ciples, will be much more seductive
creatures than hitherto. But you
must not be surprised or shocked
if you find Washington girl wink
ing at you; it is ten to one that she is
merely practising the novel science
of occular expression.-Washing-
ton Corr. Boston Transcript.
Too Big for Webster.
Even Daniel Webster, who saw