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J--is not used to having his luggage
carried by women aud he looked COMIC
ally uncomfortable. ''Come," said our
host, who for some years did business in
New York and speaks most excellent
English, "comc, she will fetch every
thing"
She did; she ploddcd behind us, her
little, wiry, brown arms showing between
the clasps of her wide, stiilly starched
white sleeves. She wore black stuff
bodice of peasant pattern, laced over Il
starched white blouse; she had white
cap on her head, and she was more in
teresting than the wild swans on the lake,
than the old water tower beside the
clear, emerald-green waters of the River
Rcuss, or than the one-franc shops with
their bargains in carved lions and salad
spoons.
When she had put the big bag on the
floor and the little bag on the table of
our room she took the pitcher to 20 for
fresh water, for she was our hosts very
efficient housemaid. She asked me this
morning if the polish on my boots was
to my satisfaction. But it is the out
coor work of Swiss women that is best
worth talking about, not what they do
in houses. The condemnation OF the
Continental system of the outdoor en-
ployment of women is universal in
America, where the woman who stands
over range fire in n flat kitchen iron
ing in the heat of n July day shudders Mt
the hard lot of woman who has dog
to help her pull light cart holding Il
milkcan. l do not think that out of the
scores and fifties OF columns printed an-
nually upon the subject ever saw line
in English defending the Swiss or Ger.
man practice, and yet there is some
thing wonderfully interesting and sug-
gestivc in the fact that the physique of
the women of the working classes of
whole nations is such rs to make possible
the scene am now looking out upon.
A heavily laden freight barge is COM
ing down Lake Lucerne. 1t is piled
high with bales and boxes and the
trunks of travellers. 1t is propelled by
dozen or fifteen oarsmen, about eight of
whom are women. All stand erect IN
double line and push, each upon n long,
heavy oar. A man is '.stroke" on one
side, woman on the other. The brown
figures in their dark cotton dresses, with
kerchiefs about their head and bare mus
cular brown wrists have nothing about
them uegestive OF feminine grace, but
their sturdy vitality, though it be of
somewhat slow, clumsy order, is far less
saddening than the colorless skin, the
narrow chest, the stopped shoulder and
the thin. arms of the woman shut up
all day in kitchen or shop OF factory.
This morning watched for some time
woman in small, clumsy boat with
load of vegetables. Her brown dress
was turned away ut the throat for the
sake of GOODNESS, aud as she stood to her
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
SLEEVES PRETTY THIS YEAR.

Sleeves are so pretty this year. All
the full, high effects ut the shoulder are
passe, and we can speed their going, for
the majority of women look like turtles
with their heads pokcd up out of their
shells. Now they are cut with an equal
amount of fullness. In fact, some arc
enormous, but it all droops in soft folds
down over the arm, the pattern in real
lty being an exaggerated mutton leg.
Sleeves of very thin materials are cut
half as large again as the lining, or if
they are unlined, are wrinkled on the
arm like mousquetaire glove, and come
far down over the hand, finishing some.
times in soft full Iuffle, in which case.
when it falls as far as the knucklcs, no
glove should be worn. The newest
sleeve of braided or embroidered gowns
is tight sleeve, reaching half way above
the elbow and finishing ut the top with
a very full puff of the material, which
must be wide enough to fall almost to
the elbow. This is good style for India
silks trimmed with lace CHICAGO
Htrt.d.
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oars in the picturesque but awkward
Lucerne fashion, thought had never
seen human being with such firm,
round throat and such magnificent arms.
Her face was stolid, without expression
1 have never noticed a Swiss woman
who had eyea With any languagc-but
from the power in every line of her body
one might have imagined her, if auch
imagination were easy in poor, bcgoar.
ridden Switzerland, of the heroic line of
William Tell.
Last week j. and 1 walked from
Visp to Zernatt right into the heart of
the Alps, with the peak of the superb
Breithorn and afterward the great Mat.
terhorn for our days companions, and
quite rs exacting as the mountains in the
demand upon our attention we found the
spectacle of the Swiss women moving.
We had seen them the week before at
the foot of the Rigi, aud both there ard
In the Zermatt Valley they appeared to
be quite rs efficient workmen as the men.
swinging the straight-handled scythe
that made them bend over cruelty with n
slow regularity, without much ambition
In it, but with steadiness of stroke that
hardly admitted of their lifting their
eyes as we stared our curiosity frankly
in passing. A man and woman, Of
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MARIE ANrorSErrE's SLIPPER.


In an old French household in New
York the most carefully cherished heir.
loom is slipper which was worn by
Marie An1oinette in the last DAYS before
the French Revolution. 1t was one of
the precious relics in the baggage of n
court lady who fled with her husband to
Louisiana when the storm broke. She
left the tiny, blue, faded slipper to her
daughter, with the injunction that it
should go down in the family, to the
eldest daughter, if she never allowed
herself to have corns. 1t is pretty
slipper, and has been carefully kept in
the jewel case of one Frenchwomen
after another, SO that it is perfectly pre-
served. 1t is short, very narrow and
very high hecled, and is n brocaded
blue, lined with soft white silk. The
sole is of coarse grained leather, and
three satin straps over the instep fastened
with paste buckle. The pointed toe is
embroidered with silver threads, and
the edges are bound with silver braid.
The condition regarding its inheritance
has always been strictly regarded. The
women of the house have taken great
care of their feet that they might right
fully claim the unhappy Queens slipper,
and for hundred years there has not
been pinching shoe worn in the family.
-Ne,o York Press.
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ter of heredity, for wood bringing IS
woman's work, and man would think
it beneath his dignity.
This is the point where the thorn in
the women's sides really pricks, the diff
ference in rank ascribcd to outdoor
tasks, which appear to the stranger ex-
actly upon an equality, but between
which great gulf lies, marking them
out to men and women. Cutting grapes
in the grape harvest would demean n
man rs much rs washing dishes, while
carrying the grape baskets down the
long alleys between the rows of vines is
eninently dignifid aud masculine.
A man will not attempt the things
which belong to womaus outdoor Ia
bors, looking down upon them no more
and no less than does the average man of
the Western Continent upon kitchen and
dining-room duties. Yet in many things
man and woman work side by side, and,
leaving wholly out OF account the rea.
sons why women do field work or the po-
sition they occupy while dong it, it is a
little hard to believe that the work itself
is not more wholesome and moro pleas
ant than bending over factory loom or
q sewing machine.
The harvest picnics, when the babies
lie in the shade under the trees, and men,
women and girls gather about them for
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ROW no woMEN SUSSEX

A German physician answers the above
query as follows: 1.-THE fact is women
require larger amount of sleep than
men. The. nervous cxcitability of the
female constitution is generally greater
than is the casc.with the stronger sex and
u woman's sleep is consequently lighter.
Her dreams are more vivid and leave q
more lasting impression on the memory.
Women addicted to dreaming usually
sleep an hour longer than those who do
not dream, for dreams induce WEAKNESS.
Any one who sleeps without dreaming
rises on the morrow refreshed from his
couch, which is otherwise not the case"
-Ne,o York Mercury.
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whom carry in my thoughts picture,
were at WORK IN the same little mountain
side field. They made no effort to keen
stroke with each other; they never
sspokc; but the olive.skinned, white
oloused woman was like n machino in tho
strong, rhythmical swing OF her arms.
In some of tho tiny cultivable patches
tue grass had been cut aud the hay was
being stored in tho chalets. No horses
or wagons are available, aud so the
women were bringing it, often for con.
siderable distances, down tho mountain
side in baskets, Of the shape every travel,
or knows, big at the top aad taperinr at
the bottom, strapped unou their shout.
ders. Tho loads some of them carried
were astonishing, but when they ap.
preached chalet on the up side and
slipped off their baskets upon its roof
for it is through the roof that q noun
tain chalet is iillcd-they showed no
signs Of exhaustion.
Not all of them were carving hay. A
good share of the baskets were heaped
high with fertilizer for the better growth
OF the second crops upon the zealously
cultivated little fields. Evca the little
girls of eight aud ten had their own
small back basket.
1t is u curious fact, aud one tho ex.
PLANTATION of which mast leave to Other
people, that delicacy of hand is SO little
affected by work on the mountain farms;
for at the lunch hour-and in the day Of
the Swiss peasant woman, which begins
by four in the morning aud does not end
until eight in the evening, there arc sew
cral lunch seasons-the lace bobbins
would como out and the most intricate
patterns make progress toward that ond
and aim of all Swiss lace making-salo
to tourists.
The hardest work in Switzerland is
that of the porter, who carries his cud
of tho chair or litter in which the bulky
British matron goes up the mountains. L
am, perhaps, destroying my own reputa-
ton If l say 1t does not revolt mo to see
this done by women. On the side of the
Corner Graf tho other day we formed
curious procession. There were some
young Britons masculine with alpen-
stocks, some young Britons feminine on
led mules, n middle aged Briton feminine
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the noon meal, have Human look, and
when 1t comes to carrying mortar and
working on the roads, which, however,
one has to step out of Switzerland and
into Germany to see, it is not to BIO sup.
posed these are idyllic tasks for either
men or women, but there's not so much
to choose between washing floors or
blankets and either, and the women who
do the outdoor work have this advau-
sage. They are splendidly, If clumsily,
strong; aud would it not be fine thing
II in kindlier civilization women did
not, in gaining many privileges, give up
The most valuable bodies as good, every
whit. as their brothcrs2
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COMBINING coLoRs IN pnrss.

The st. Louis Globe Democrats New
York letter says: A we'll known designer
OF womens gowns says: "It requires an
artist to render womcn's clothing deco
ratlye, and male artist at that. Few
women know how to apply colors in
dress, and have seen cultured danes
right here in New York society wear the
most ridiculous combination of colors.
There isn't one woman in hundred who
knows how to harmonic pronounced
colors with effect. They always treat
colors as distinct features of dress, and
the ruling passion is not SO much to make
harmonious blending as it is to secure
pronounced evidence of the presence in
gown OF fashionable color 4 man looks
at color in landscape. He doesn't try
to introduce color that renders wo-
men carlcatlire rs women the .nselycs
dc. For instance, {. man in designing a
gown consults the peculiarities af wo.
mans face and figure, the color of her
hair and eyes, her complexion, her social
status, etc. A gown with pronounced
red features doesn't look we'll on woman
whose eyes and hair are brown, and
whose face is traced with red veins. The
reason why men have been great successes
as modistes and designers is because they
tell a woman what suits her. The or
binary woman dressmaker never does.
She takes any material brought her, and
the aborbing question is to style, not
adaptability. The shape of woman's
nose has just as much to do with the
style of dress best suited to her as has
the length of her waist. If the nose is
strongly characteristic the dress may be
the same, buta woman with pug nose
commits crime when she wears any
thing but black or white. There ought,
also, to be.a law against a woman with
brown hair wearing green dress, OF, in
fact, anything green about her person.
Gold colors, and by that term l mean
decided hues, green, yellow, red and
pink, go with strong Municipalities of
face and figure. The most ludicrous
spectacle in the world is to see a poor lit
tie weazened woman of forty try to wear
pink on The street. The pink age ends
at twenty-scven, the blue at thirty-two,
the red at thirty-tive yellow lin the
evening" at forty-one, combinations in
Guiding any of these colors at forty three,
and black and white with death. A wo.
man under twenty seven can wear auy
color combination she wants, and she
usually does.
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woman who cannot have dainty, pretty
dresses this seasonln exclaimed q Young
woman, who was just putting the last
stitches into delicate organdy.
.'Just think oft, here Is this dress: it
took fourteen yards of goods and l have
spent two days tine on it, and it is
pretty enough to wear anywhere. Ihavo
just finished black organdy, and it is a
beauty. The skirt is made with five
straight widths and deep hem. Above
the hem is a ruffle sixteen inches deep
with u hem three -fourths of nn inch wide
and q shirred standing heading. The
waist is made with tucks in form of n
yoke, and the lower part of the waist
gathered into the round belt. Tho sleeves
are very full at the shoulders, and as
close to the lower arm as is comfortable.
The collar and the front are trimmed
with finger-wide plating of the goods,
set on in jabot fashion. 1 wear, with
this dress, very long sash, made of a
full width of black India silk, tied in a
very long loose bow at the back. don't
like stumpy bows; they give one hump
backed effect.
AASAO utS iONSig uCW luOTlCS III COT
ton, the most delicate see-through' mus
Inns; and there is charming material
something like the old-fashioned barcge,
made up with rufiies bound with silk or
ribbon. Such dresses are exceedingly
pretty, and are useful for home or water.
ing-place wear, for morning, or informal
days.
''India silk dresses are made with
demi-train, trimmed with lace ruffies,
either set on plain, or draped in festoons,
or following scallopcd or pointed pat
tern.
ga number OF pretty costumes have
been made with princess bodies, with the
sides draped in panicr fashion. One
model has narrow fronts, draped over
the side sections, and with the ends left
loug enough to tie in very large sash
bow, with ends falling almost to the hem
of the skirt. Sash-ends with lace or
fringe are pretty, and one slender figure
has very long, wide-sash drapery, with
one edge deliberately trimmed with lace.
This sash is drawn around the waist, the
lace trimmed edge falling over the skirt
of the dress. The ends are tied in
loose knot, and cover large portion of
the back of the dress. A shoulder drapery
in similar fashion is knottci at the front,
the ends falling below the waist-lire. -
The Ledger.
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. August
Flow .

Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca,
Mo-, during the past two years has
beer affected with Neuralgia of the
Head, Stomach and Womb, and
writes: MY food did not seem to
strengthen me at all and my appe-
tite was very variable. My face
was yellow, my head dull, and 1 had
such pains i'll my left side. In the
morning when I got up 1 would
have flow of mucus in the mouth,
and bad, bitter taste. Sometimes
my breath became short, and / had
such queer, tumbling, palpitating
sensations around the heart. I ached
all day under the shoulder blades,
in the left side, and down the back
of my limbs. 1t seemed to be worse
in the wet, cold weather of Winter
and Spring; and whenever the spells
came on, my feet and hands would
turn cold, and I coG1d get no sleep
at all. 1 tried everywhere, and got
no relief before using August Flower
Then the change came. 1t has done
me wonderful deal of good during
the time / have taken it and is work
ing complete cure" @
&C. GREEN, Sole Man'fr, Woodbury., NJ.
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TIE MOUNTAIN MOWER.

carried in u chnisc porteur by three men
aud woman, and J. and fetching
up the rear.
The young Britons masculine were full
Of energy, continually outstrippng their
party; the young Britons feminine were
full OF thirst, and were restrained almost
by force by their brothers from drinking
the delightful Swiss spring water, which
every Briton born confuscs with glacier
water, aud regards as deadly poison; the
middle aged Briton feminine was full of
qunlms aud trcmors, aud we who bota-
nizcd leisurcly behind them were full Of
interest in the broa siouldered woman
with the brown immoyablc fncc, from
whose head the Precipitation drlppcd, but
who never dreamed of making the fuss
about the moutain path that was made by
her animate burden.
(Which would you prefer" asked,
''to have your maid novel rcad you to
sleep every night until you couldn't use
your feet for flesh, or be vital aud Wig
orous enough to be able to carry your fat
sister2"
And then we looked again at the two
women.
The fagot- carrying is one of the
things that is always most surprising to
people who don't know that women arc
not necessarily, AID under all circum-
stances, the weaker vessels. A woman
VIII bring down from the forests upon
her head load under which man
could not stagger two rods. Their ca.
pacity in this direction is perhaps mat.
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SWISS WOMEN.
IN MANY CASES THEY no MEMS
HEAVIEST WORK.
Some OF Them Now and Carry Heavy
Fagots--Iiuggage Carried by
Women-Lake Lucerno
Boatwomcn.

In letter from Lucernc, Switzerland,
to the New York Recorder, Elizabeth
Dustin says: When the boat from Flue-
len stopped at the quay last night, the
Swiss gentleman whose guest we were to
be Tor few days was waiting to conduct
us to his home. AS j. stepped upon
the pier, carrying our two travel-worn
satchels, our host motioned to small,
brown-faced woman who stood behind
him and at respectable distance, and
who Immediately came forward and took
both bags from is hands.
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THE FAyoRITE STONE.

Turquoises are the most fashionable
stones of the day. For hnir ornaments
they are intermixed with diamonds, and
half dozen little pins go with each hair
ornament. The ornament and the six
little pins which are intended to be fast
ened in tho neck trimmings are called
"set, and the entire lot, laid in case
OF white velvet, make as pretty prcsen.
as one may wish to give.-Ne,o York
World.
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EOery one suffers
from Catnrrh in the Head. Those
who don't have it suffer from those
who do. It's n disease you can't
keep to yourself.
Hero are some of tho symptoms:
Headache, obstruction of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid,
Mt others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody, putrid, and often
sivc; eyes weak, ringing in cara,
deafness; offensive breath; smell
and taste impaired, and general de-
bility. But only few of these
likely to be present at once.
Tho cure for it for Catarrh IT,
self, and all the troubles that come
from it-a perfect and permanent
cure, is DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The worst cases yield to its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties. A record of 25 years
has proved that to it's proprietors
and they're willing to provo it
to you.
They do it in this way: If they
can't cure yonr Catarrh, no matter
how bad your case, or of kow long
standing, they'll pay you $500 in
cash. Can you have better proof of
tho healing power of n medicine?
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1 recommend your Floraploxion as nm inynl.
uaolS remedy to all persons afflicted with that
f"fnneriW Is the speedy nnd ucr,nnnont
Suie i3r Siok Headache, indignation Dyspop.
e .iEa, Dilio9sness, Liver Complaint, Nervous Do
e cur Tor these complaints Ask your druggist
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a mule win follow 1t load OF hay NIL day, but
ne Mates 10 bo driven to pasture. There IL n
good deal OF mule IN som" people and they are
Usually troubled with II, stubborn liver and In
nmigesyion nhd need q reliable remedy, such M
indigestion, hiliuusncss and liver and kidney
troubles, pnriilcs the blood and brings back
tho vgOr OF youth.
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, There is said to DO spring in Men
oocina county, CAL, from which rises
suoh noxious gas that one Whit of it
will extinguish life.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
-pLEAsANT LITERATURE FoK
FEMININE READERS.
MopEs M nArrpnEssrSo

There have been many changes in the
methods of coiffures. The hairdrcssers
have taken an excursion trip back to the
Seventeenth century, and arc showing
favor to the high puffs and ornaments
ton by use of flowers, velvet bands and
knots of ribbons.-Ne,o York Recorder.
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Halls Catarrh Cure Ia n LIQUID and ia takon
n rn.Ternnliy, nnd acts directly upon tho blood
nna mucous surfaces of the systcm. Send for
'esutnonials, free. Sold by Druggists, Zoe.
F.J. CuENEY y Co, Proprs., NToiCio. o.
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One million wooden freight cars now inthe
service call Tor more than 50,GO0,000 dollars
annually for repairs
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ONE ENIOX@

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Both the method and results when.
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aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is The
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duced, pleasing to the taste and ne.
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it's action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the most
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Its many excellent qualities com.
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Syrup of Figs is for sale in 300
and 81 bottles by nil leading drug.
gists. Amy reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure 1t promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FiG syrup ca.
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E. A. Howard, OF Belfast, Me-, has a
clock still keeping time that was
wedding present to his grandfather in
the fall of 1865.
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FITS stopped froe by Oh. KLrsr's Omar
NERVE REsT0ugit. No tits after lrst days use.
Marvclous cures. rroat!so AMI 81 trial bottio
freo DIR. Kline, @i Arch ST., phii.l, Pa
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wARM-wEArnEn DRESSES.
cit is, indeed, stupid and indolent
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