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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
ART AND COMFORT.

An Elegant Costume for Ladies' Who Do
Not Fancy tho Decoiete.
For the woman who does not want to
appear in q low-cut gown. no more be-
witching style than the following class
ical conceit could be substituted, nor
one upon which the changes can ho
rung more often. The present season is
SO prolific in stiff forms of old brocades
and in such variety of color combina-
tions that suitable selection can easi-
ly be made. Let us imagine. first. .
white and gold combination. The full
shirred front. folded wais.band. and un-
derslceves of white crepe: the dress
proper of cloth Of gold. the embroidery
being a graceful serpentine design Of
tulips, their stalks and leaves: the edges
of the high collar are eccentrically cut
away front, finished with heavy gold
cord, as are also the slashed top-sleeve.
Or, would not the gown be equally
charming in pink and silver? The
front delicate pink. showing CLINT nf
silver in its sheen: trimming, silver
passementerie in lieu of the cord.
Again, one of the rich shades Of purple,
Wltn 4TOnI " pdlcSt tome. SdIHc ccioE
and crown-jewel passementerie, in
which all shades Of this royal color
were represented. Or could not the
popular feather band garniture be eff
fectively introduced upon this gown?
Only classical arrangement of hair
should be worn with such dress. bands
of silver or gold on the hair would be in
keeping with the general intention
Chicago Globe.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
MOTIFS AND COMMENTS.

MEs GENERAL GRANT Is making lit
tie progress with her book. Her eyes
are weak. lut not failing Ger, as report
goes. Whenever she has time, she
writes page or two, bat progress is
very slow.
THERE is a National Woman's Press
Association and an International Wom-
ans Press Association. ind IA woman
presides over both in the office of pres
ident, Mrs. Nicholson. editor of the New
Orleans Picayune. She is said to be very
clever in conversation, and a thorough
and successful business woman.
The Garden of Eden prototype" Of
womanhood can no longer he used eff
feetually as a scarecrow to warn wom-
en- away from knowledge. Like the
awe-inspiring Mumbo-Ju nbo once used
by savages to terrify too inquisitive
wives into submissive ignorance, that
prototype has long out-lived its USE
fulness in that direction.
A SOCIETY has been formed by the
women of Ashevillc, \. C.. which pro-
poses to take action Old The serrant-Slrl
question, and promises TO abatc some Of
the nuisances connected with that pro-
life branch Of industry. A housekeep-
ers' union was formed which will un-
dertake to secure good servants, none
other being recommended by them, and
to fix uniform schedule Of wages. The
idea will bear importation.
The Queen of Italy wore costume
of extraordinary magniticence at the re-
cent opening of the Italian Parliament,
which was also most becoming to her
style of beauty. The dress was of violet
satin, exquisitely embroidered, over
which was thrown Il short violet velvet
mantle of slightly darker shade. The
bonnet was of forget-me-not blue velvet
covered with blue lace and adorned
with plume of pale blue feathers'fast-
, ened with an immense pearl diamond
clasp. The Queen also wore earrings
of pearls. diamonds, and such ropes OF
pearls in three rows as would have en-
chauted Lothair.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In a fire which broke out in a carpen-
ter's shop at Nancy, France, woman
and her three children were burned to
death.
In Greece fifteen men engaged n re-
opening communication with snow
blocked villages between Dimitzana
and Tripolitza were frozen to death.
AT Tralee, Ireland, Bartholomew
Sullivan, farmer, was hanged for
completely in the murder of Patrick
Flahive.
DAIRY schools are to be established
throughout Canada.
In Paris Michael Eyraud, the mur-
derer of Notary Gouffe, was guillotined.
PIRATES attacked two war junks by
mistake near Ningpo, China. and six
were captured and beheaded.
THE Canadian Governor General has
dissolved the House of Commons. The
new Parliament will assemble March 5
next
In Vienna 10000 shoe.nalzcrs went on
strike for an increase in wages.
NEAR Schriebcr, Ont, slccping-car
was thrown from the track and fell a
distance of sixty feet, severely ir;;uring
the nine passengers inside the car.
DURING January 1,aa5 Italian emf
grants left Trieste for America.
AT ire in Moscow (Russia) orphan
asylum nine children were burned to
death and several fatally injured
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
ADVICE FOR SHOPPERS.

buy Things That Will Wear and Not
Those Which Only Look Pretty.
In one of Miss Edgeworth's moral
tales, there is story of little girl
who one day went shopping with her
mother, and whose fancy was SO COM
pletely captivated by q purple vase that
she was willing to go without pair OF
shoes that she might purchase it. When
she goes home, she pours out OF the
vase dark liquid that it contained, ind
it is no longer purple vase.
Over and over again do shoppers have
to learn from bitter experience Miss
Edgeworth's very apparent moral-that
we should buy things that will wear.
] well remember my first shopping
experience. | thought only Of beauty,
and nothing Of utility, as purchased
gauzy material for gown, which was
pale lavender IN tint. When the gown
was made wore it to visit a friend who
lived by the seaside; the return necesr
stated long walk along the shore
after sundown, with damp wind blow
ing from the sea. When | reached
home, great was my grief to see that
my fine new gown of cotton and wool
had so shrunk in the damp sal. air as to
be nearly up to my knees. Dampening
and ironing. and letting down. partly
restored it to usefulness. but the deli
cate color faded in streaks, and | re-
allied that in buying the gown had
bought purple vase. The lesson sank
deep, but forgot it when few weeks
ago wanted material to curtain a little
nook in a room in my home. bought
some China silk: it was very pretty.
having a shrimp-pink ground, with
white arum lilies, and green leaves
spreading all over it, and when sns-
pended from brass rod for decorative
effect was good; but the morning sun
rests warm and strong on that spot. and
already the beautiful pink IS flying
out" as the painters say. My pretty
curtains are. you see, a purple vase.
The woman who buys a parasol for the
handle, or gay-printed muslin that
will not wash, or cheap kid gloves, or
any thing simply because it takes her
eye, will find that she has bought pur-
pie vase.-Ella i. Carter, in Ladies'
Home Journal
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
Movements Of the Nebulae.

The most important discovery that
has been made with the immense tele.
scope in the Lick Observatory at San
Francisco. in regard to the stars, is the
demonstration of the motion of the
nebula. As every thing in the uni
verse is in motion, and nothing ever
stands still. it was to be presumed that
the cluster of stars known as the
nebulw constituted no exception to the
rule. 1t was left for the Lick Observa-
tory to demonstrate the fact. DIR.
Keller has likewise measured the rate
of progress at which some Of the stars
are moving. lie finds, for instance,
that Arcturus is approaching the earth
ut the rate Of forty miles per second, or
at the rate Of 3,5oO,OoO miles per day.
H. does not appear. however. that tho
prospect of collision is imminent
enough to justify alarm. Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
WEST AND SOUTH.

"A CYCLONE swept the western part Of
Clay County, Miss, and several lives
were lost and thousands of dollars
worth of property destroyed.
DR. HENRY SEMpsELL, OF Bloomville,
O., informed his wife on the Sd that he
was going to die in the afternoon, and
after making all preparations he
passed away quietly about o'clock p.
IN.
THE Legislature of Arkansas refused
to make an appropriation for the
worlds fair owing to the large de-
ficiency i'll the State treasury caused Ey
the peculations of the State Treasurer.
HENRY BEcHToLD murdered his sister
in-law ut Smithton, ILL.,, and then COM
mitted suicide.
MAYOR WORD, of Palestine, Tex,
attacked Sam Jones, the evangelist,
with a cane. Jones wrested the cane
from the mayor and gave him beat
ing.
BUSINESS has been resumed by the
Huron Is. d. National Bank, which
suspended payment month ago.
AFIREMAS was killed and a brakeman
and two tramps were fatally hurt in 9
railway collision at Beach City, o.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
WOMAN AND INVENTIONS.
How They Have Tended to Better Her
Condition In the Past Fifty Years.

How They Have Tended to Better Her
Condition In the Past Fifty Years.
The most conspicuous, as well as the
most beneficent, of the sociological
changes which this century has wit
messed has been steady and great i'm
provement in the condition of woman as
result ofinventive progress. Within
the memory Of persons who are not
very old, the average woman's life was
one Of cheerless drudgery. Sixty or
seventy years ago there were compara-
lively few American families whose
women folks" did not do all the house
work without the aid Of servants. It
was hard work-brutally hard we
should call it in these days-for it was
unrelieved by any Of the varied appli-
anceS that have since been devised to
facilitate or obviate it. And this tedious
toll, including spinning, weaving ard
churning, was performed in houses
whose inmates had never heard or
dreamed of the thousands Of elegancies,
luxuries and comforts that are now
within the easy reach of common peo-
ple" Then there were but one kind Of
occupation open to our young women
housework and school teaching, and the
latter was accessible to but limited
number and at small compensation.
When invention began to open up man
ufacturing industries the area Of wom-
ans work grew immensely. Then came
the sewing -machine--as great bless
ing as if it had been handed down from
the great white throne. Meantime. the
progress of civilization brought about
q better appreciation Of womans value
as teachers, and they began to super
sede men in that great calling. Manu-
featuring industries in which women
had place multiplied rapidly between
1870 and 1860. Since that date the tele-
phone, the typewriter. increased de-
mands for stenographic clerks, and
constant advancement of correct mo-
tions of woman's place in the world
have opened avenues in which vast
numbers of women and girls are usually
and happily employed. There are few
occupations now to which women are
strangers, and the condition of society
is immeasurably improved by this mul-
tiplication Of the employmentso of wom-
an. Greater than the influence of the
schoolmaster or the preacher has been
that of the inventor in bringing about
the emancipation and elevation Of the
..better-half' of the human family
Inventive Age.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Stanley refused his autograph to the
ausograph-collccting pages OF the
United States Senate.
-Sardou is an advocate Of cremation.
He says: burned. Burned! 1t will af-
ford me great pleasure to be burned"
Scott received 9219 IS. as his share
Of profits of the Lay" and then he
sold the copyright for $500. AS many
as $4,000 copies were disposed of before
1890, when the edition OF his works
with biographical Introduction was pre-
pared.
The late General Terry was one Of
the few civilian commanders who won
the respect and admiration of the West
Pointers. That is to say, his soldierly
qualities were 50 pronounced and effect
i've that his lack of military education
was never spoken Of to his disparage-
msnt.
Fit is said that once certain person
asked Robert Browning as TO the mean
ing Of one Of his poems. The poet
started to explain and said its meaning
was SO and 50. Then he stopped ex-
planning and said: Il am not certain
what meant. Ask the Browning So
ciety. It knows"
To-day Stanley looks like a fine,
dashing English General, white-haired
and with the warmth of tropical climes
in his face-a General still in middle
life-and good for a dozen more cam
paigns. His manners are grave-dis-
tinguished. and he has the air of COM
mand. which is not astonishing, for he
is q born commander.
The Home Reading Union has more
than 5000 members scattered about the
world, some of them in Turkey. Th,y
take certificates, not of knowledge ac-
quired, but of books read, and the
courses of reading which the union ar
ranges seem to be very pleasurable ex-
ercises as well as productive Of an ac-
qnaintance with the best things in En-
glish literature.
Miss Lillian Baird. aged nine years,
is becoming famous as the youngest
problem composer in the world. She
has fine instinct for chess, which has
been cultivated by much practice and
an hereditary talent for problem COM
posing. Her first problem, composed
before she was eight, has been printed
in about twenty chess columns in En-
gland, Germany and America!
Great care has to be taken now
about Queen Victoria's movements.
Not only are stairs ascended backward
and very slowly with :h. ebony stick
in constant demand, bat even in her
own apartments Her Majesty moves
about as little as possible. An alert
devoted Scotchman is her personal at
tendant and is never on. Of the hearing
of the little table-gong v hich the Queen
strikes whenever she requires his serv-
ices. Her Majesty does not walk sim
gle yard unnecessarily.
--Rudyard kipling is not yet Ave and
twenty. In appearance he is short,
stout. pale-faced, brown mustached, In
dian-born man, with keen blue eyes
and rcsolutc face, on which time and
incident have prematurely traced many
trll-sasr marks. n. lgh i boyi isl. smile
At times breaks through his almost
melancholy expression. He wears q
pair of spectacles with divided lens,
which, together with scarlet fez give
him somewhat cynical look, and calls
himself 1.-The man who came from no.
where" In manner he il somewhat
! shy
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
Curious Fences.

Freaks in fence building are not un-
common in New England. Not many
miles from New Bedford, for instance,
is solid fence with curiously-curved
upper line and here and there number
painted upon it in white On examine
ton it proves to be built of the pew
doors from dispantled church. And
a man attached to the life-saving sta
ton ut Small Point. Bath, Me-, has
amassed enough swords of the sword
fish to build picket fence forty feet in
Length. and Forest.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
TEE so-called slang phrase ''too thin,

TEE so-called slang phrase ''too thin, :"
which, like many others which date
back beyond Colonial days isvery often
cited as a Yankeeism by the Britishers,
is English from ''way back" In Smol-
let's "Peregrine Pickle" the hero in
ferns Emilia that he is going abroad.
This brings tears to her eyes, but she
says that they are caused by the hot
tea which she is pouring. Which
leads the author to remark that
the excuse is ''too thin to i'm
pose on her lover. The phrase is
also found in Shakespeare's Henry
VIII.," Act ", Scene 2, with the same
meaning.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
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SILVER MEN DEFEATED.

The Hon g Refuses to Adopt n Free 1oA0>
age Amendment to the Sundry ApprO.
priatiun lii.
WASHINGTON, Feb. THE House Of
Representatives at Fridays session,
by vote Of l34 to l27, sustained the
chairman of the committee of the
whole in his decision that the amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill, providing for the free coinage Of
silver, was not germane to the bill.
This vote indicates the strength of the
free silver men in the House.
The following Democrats voted in the
affirmative: Andrew. Mutchler, Vaux,
Spinola, Dunphy, Wiley and Clancy.
The following Republicans voted in the
negative: Carter, Townsend (Col. J,
Lind, Bartine, Turner (kan), Kelly.
Law, Connell, Hermann, Sweet and
Clark. The vote was SO close that it
was not evident until the last moment
which side would be victorious.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12

THE Census Office has issued bul.
letin on tho srea of States and coun.
ties in the United States and Terri.
tories The largest county in the coun-
try is Yavapai, in Arizona, which en-
braces 1926 square miles, and is
larger than Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Massachusetts and New Jersey COM
bined. The second largest county is
San Bernardino, Cal. with 2l, 900 square
miles. The smallest county is Alex
andria, in Virginia, thirty-two square
miles There are twenty-one counties
each of which is larger than Massa-
chusetts, while there are 3l4 counties
larger than Rhode Island.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12

A GRAND total of 200 railroads IN the
United States, 1853 Of which make re-
turns for the full year and the rest for
eleven months, shows aggregate gross
earnings for 1890 of S92a. 7Ss, ,2s2 on 14O,-
400 miles. This is gain of more than
per cent. over the gross earnings of 1889.
The favorable character of the business
is pretty general, only II out of the 1853
and OF the A. exhibiting decrease
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12

Mrs. KATE REYNOLDS, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, went skatinga a few days ago with
her husband. accompanied also by an
old lover. The husband could not keep
up with the wife and her old lover. and
they skated away from him out of sight
and into the dim somewhere. They have
not yet returned. 1t is one of the very
saddest ice stories on record Absolute
ly nothing is known of the pair save
the certainty that they skated into q
moral air-hole.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
HUMOROUS.

The biggest sponges in the world
are found at the free lunch counters
Texas Siftings.
---Friend-'.I was sorry to hear that
Hithard gave you such a beating"
Humorist-"Oh l didn't mind. 1t sug-
gested several jokes to Yankee
Blade.
-.Thither.let me lithcn to yo' wing"
"Listen to my ring. Ethel? What do
you mean?' .'Cauthe. Mamma, she
thaid it tellth the thtory. y."-Jcwelers
Weekly.
A man who for large sums was Dr.
To a girl proposed marriage by lr.
But she, nothing rash,
Replied without cash
lie ne'er could be hopeful to gr.
Washington Pest.
Mrs. Oldfidget is much worried
about her daughter. The other night
she kissed her and the young lady MUIR
INJURED in her sleep: ''Oh, Charlie. you've
shaved off your Bingham
ton Republican.
-Frightful Scandal.-"Dreadfuis scan
dial about Dr. Puix." 'sSo?" ..He claims
to be bachelor, but l heard yesterday
he'd b,.sied nineteen wives" '.Horri-
ble." .Yes. isn't it? Other mems wives,
l mean. of course. IN. Y. Herald.
An Interruption.-Tomm Bingo-
..Sister had beau last night, and l
was peeping through the keyhole look
ing at them when ma came along and
stopped me-" Willie Slimson-"What
did she do?" Tommy Bingo-"She
took look IN. Y. Sun.
One of the most dreadful forms Of
White Caps is said to be that which ap-
pears to a man at the top Of the stairs
with light in its hand about a m,
just as he has succeeded in lassooing
the keyhole in its wild flight and got
the door opcn.-Philadelphia Times.
A boy of the period, who understood
his own value and knew what was ex-
pected of him, when asked what was
his duty to his father and mother, an
swered smartly: ITO take them out
for walk on Sundays, and not let them
know how much more know than they
ao."-Chambers' journal.
The Rising Observation-Disclosures
johnny, you have been very rude to
papa. go at once and beg his pardon. "
Iohnny-"That would be against my
principles. have my own rights, and
| think am the best judge of what a
mans dignity will permit him to do
Demorest's Monthly.
WHO is going to edit the paper
while you are away" inquired the fore
man of the Weekly Tomahawk printing
Office. MY wife," replied the editor.
"Will she-will she stay here at the
office and look after things as you do?''
asked the foreman, with blanched
cheeks and trembling voice. mo. She
will stay ut tho house and send her copy
down here by one Of the boys" The
shadow of great dread was lifted from
the heart of the foreman, and he went
about his work with his accustomed
cheerfulness. He had feared it would
be necessary to have the Office towel
washed-Chicago Tribune.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12

Ir is the inevitable outcome Of any
scientific discovery that numerous imi-
tations and dclusions, besides actual
counterfeits and humbugs, follow in its
train. These must be sifted carefully,
and the physician who does not thor
oughly and frankly state all the details
of his remedy can not complain if the
public fails to have confidence in it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12

JUDGE THAYER at St Louis dis
missed suit against Selwyn Edgar
for violating the alien-contract labor
law Oh the ground that there was no
contract, as Edgar in a letter asking
two men in England to come over to
work for him and inclosing tickets to
st Louis had said he could give them
steady work, not that he would.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
Base Ingratitude.

Widower-Doctor, your bill is some
thirg fearful. After you have doctored
my wife to death you expect me to pay
you an enormous bill.
Doctor-Thats just what expected
you to say. Such y thing as gratitude
no longer exists in this woyld-Tsxas
SiftingA
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-12
IT seems that two hundred ana eighty.

IT seems that two hundred ana eighty
nine German school children committed
suicide in the six years ended 1883. The
suicides have been much more numer-
Gus in the elementary than in the
high schools. The most prolific
cause of suicide in the elementary
schools was the fear Of punishment, to
which the deaths CT forty-five boys and
twenty-three girls are attributed. In
the high schools disappointment at the
results of examinations claimed the
greatest number Of victims.