Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
The Tea Jacket,

The Tea Jacket.
The independent waist, in its almost
limitless variety, is constantly gaining
in popular favor. One of the prettiest
coHfections of this sort is the tea or
matinee jacket. To great extent
fancy bodices of this sort are taking the
place of the tea gown. Not altogether,
for that becoming garment, with its
long, un broken, graceful lines, has a
perennial persistence and never alto
gether ceases out of the land. The tea
jacket is the most convenient of gar
ments, particularly for ordinary occa-
sions But substituting it for the dress
bodice street costume is quickly trans
formed into pretty and becoming at
home neglige. These jackets are of all
sorts of dainty materials and in a great
variety of fancy forms. BY and by, the
ombination of gray and red will be pop
ular and also very effective. The col
lars and cuffs are in red velvet. The
fronts open over a full ivory white
chemisette of soft surah silk. The
upper and lower part of this chemi-
settle is ornamented with a deep frill of
lace.-Chicago Post.
Some of the fashionable women of
Berlin have formed themselves into a
society ''for the prevention of crime
against common sense" in the matter
of dress. In particular do they inveigh
against the discomforts of the corset,
which, in Germany, is made longer and
sitter, and altogether more abominable
than anywhere else. Men are admitted
to membership, and are urged to miti-
gate, by precept and example, various
stipulated enormities of their own at
tire. One clause in the circular reads:
male members are respectfully re-
quested to teach their brethren that
trouser patterns are unfit for morning
coats, waistcoatS and Inverness over
coats"
Under the caves of the Schroeder
building there is a bird box which is
mia bited by sparrows, says the Lock
Haven CPa.) Democrat, who one morn
ing coolly and deliberately hanged one
of their number for some offense. sus-
pending it by the neck until death en-
sued The birds then tried to cut their
dead companion down, and picked it's
neck in their efforts to do so until it
was much mutilated. They failed to
accomplish their object, however, and
the body was removed by one of the
spectators. The birds had a thread
around the culprit's neck and he was
executed in tirst-class style, hanging
down several inches below the bird box.
The assessed valuation of New York
city per capita is five and half times
that of Chicago, while the assessed val
uation of Boston per capita is eight and
half times that of Chicago. If the
assessed valuation of Chicago were as
great per capita as that of New York,
the assessed valuation would be over
81, 200, 900, 900; or if the assessed -alua-
ton of Chicago We're as great per capita
as that of Boston, the assessed valu-
alton would be 1900 900, 900, or larger
than that of New York. In spite of
the very low assessed valuat ton of prop
erty in Chicago, the total de bit of Chi
cago per capita is less than a fifth of
the debt per capita of either New York
or INSTRUMENTATION Investment
The Laramie Republican tells of
man who recently visited the North
National park. When near the Noun
tain Home ranch, about thirty-four
miles from Laramie, he saw four bull
elk, ten deer and herd of antelope SO
numerous that he could not count them,
grazing all together in a little park
close by the roadside. He did not dis
turb them, and they paid no attention
to his presence, so he took GOO look.
1t reminded him of a visit to the oolog-
zeal gardens in some eastern city to see
such a number and variety of animals
congregated together in SO small a
space.
The finest sables in the world are
owned by the czarina of Russia and the
duchess of Edinburgh, who Inherited
those belonging to her mother, the
mother of the car. The favorite bridal
gift of the Russian empress is one of
furs, and fortunate indeed are the re-
cipients of the splendid specimens she
bestows When the princess Alexandra
of Greece welded the Grand Duke Paul