The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-14

h,ad delicately-reared women have en-
tered the profession on account OF the hign
salary. and when woman does lose ner
means of support there is hardly more
lucrative way Of making living. ihese
nurses are as particular in choosing thcir
places of service as patients are in choosing
them.
SHOPPING by EXPRESS.
A novelty in the express business has been
started bv one of the largest companies IN the
CITY. II Is shopping by express. ms com.
many has added q purchasing department.
which is conducted just like the shipping de-
partment of a large dry-goods store. lhere
are two large showcases that are niied WIN
every conceivable kind of an article. includ,,
ing groceries, fruits. oysters. fish. game, ana
delicacies for the sick watches ana
iewelry, furniture. machinery, agricultural
implements. seeds, flowers. funeral emOIeihs'
firearms. fishing tackle, BOOKS stationery;
4hinos suitable for bridal presents or any klnd
of a present, flags. fireworks, wines. liquors,
medicines. surgical instruments-in fact. every
thing anybody could possibly want: Inc
company sells on commission and gives tne
expressage free. The merchants denver the
goods tree of charge, and the COM
mission helps to defray any expense
In the trucking at the other end. Both men
and women are employed in this department,
and they are persons of taste and intelligence
us well as experience. and besides taxing or
ders, they must also keep q Lookout for par,
gains For this purpose the daily papers and
a great number of the weeklies are on flle.
semi-weekly tour through the principal stores
is part of their duty as also the preparation OF
circular which keeps the patrons informed
of all the bargains that may DO 10 their ad-
vantage.
AUTHORS SUMMER PLANS.
The summer plans of our best known
authors.include visits of number TO Virginia.
Robert Burn Wilson, the Southern poet, will
divide his time between the mountains of Viz
giDia and the lakes of Wisconsin. Bill Nye
thinks his vacation all too short 10 spend IN
Skyland. n G.. Mrs. Burton N. Harrison Is
still in England. but she Will come back IN
time for the LenOx season. When Mrs.
Amelie Rives-Chanler arrives from Paris
Miss Julia Magruder will go with her to the
North Carolina mountains. Margaret }.
Preston will not leave her home in Lexington.
Va; Mrs. Annie l.. Wister has chosen the
Warm Springs of Virginia for her retreat.
Rev. Howard McQueary will spend his sum
mer vacation in the mountains Of Virginia.
Rawley Springs will be his principal stopping
place.
WESTERN PLAY.
A young newspaper man in this city who
writes. plays and has them acted sometimes
wrote one to the order Of woolly Westerner
who pays him $50 a week Tor It. The West
erner was haZy as 10 what he wanted but he
said he was handy with revolver and rifle and
he must have q chance 10 do lots OF killing.
His principal support he said, was a man
who had no voice and could not remember
his lines. but he was a crack shot and he
wanted q chance for him 10 discharge fire
arms at things during the performance. Then
there was his wife. he added She could act
frst-rate. but was nothing on the talk. Her
part wanted 10 be Yes" and No" with
plenty of shooting between times. for she
was clever with the rife and needed a chance
TO prove it. The play was written in two
days, and with some variety episode scattered
through it was entirely satisfactory TO the
purchaser.
NTw YoBKs BIG PREACHERS.
The amount of money received annually by
New York's big preachers is a subject in
which MANY people are interested and about
which there are many erroneous ideas The
following list of salaries, which include sew
eral Brooklyn clergymen, is nearly correct:
DIR. Holdretn gets Si0. 900. while DR.. Talmage
receives $4,000 from his congregation and
makes as much more by other work. Rev.
Robert Cuyler's church pays ( goo, and Rev
Lyman Abbott Mr. Beecher's successor, gets
$4,000 DR.. Paxton draws $12. 500. while DR..
John Hall receives 800 The Episcopal
bishop is paid Sl5.O09 and the Methodist
bishop gets coo. while the best Methodist
ministers get 80 600 and have parsonage rent
free. A dozen on more Episcopal clergymen
get from ~, 900 TO IS 900. while such men as
Or. Rainsford. Of st. Georges, get 80 600: Or.
Greer. ot st. Bartholomew, $40, coo. Dr. Nor
gan Dix, Of Trinity, $4,000 DIR. Huntington,
OF Grace church. Sl5 600 DR.. TAYLOR, $4,000
and DR.. Brown, of St Thomas, $40, 900.
FASHION NOTES.
Many drcssmakers are adding the iounced
dress imprOyer' of grass cloth or mOreen 10
the back of their fan-pieated dress skirts,
and are finding them very successful The all
round reed finds but little favor
The elegant Louis QuatOrZe coats of satin
brocade in gray and gold, teseda and lilac,
silver and heliotrope, etc. are finished with
vests of embroidered crepe de chine. They
fit like a deep bodice in the back and they
have full. moderately high sleeves. finished at
the neck and wrists with a rich garniture of
jewelled galloon
A typical dress for the season. somewhat
masculine IN style, has the regulation shirt
waist with sarched front collar and cuffs, to
be worn with very Enghsh-iooking gown of
summer tweed In mixed coiOrs OF gray and
brown. There is also a small figured foulard
shirt waist. Very stylish travelling suits are
made oflight-weight gray English cloth The
skirt Is but little draped: the Jacket opens
over shirt waist of gray foulard dotted with
red. with Louis coat en- suite. This is a prac-
teal and serviceable model. and has that
special elegance which a travelling dress with
out these features never really attains
IOmpduOuf NlcAlenueS OF delicate quality
and gay cOlorings are shown in hOwered
stripes for making entire costumes with
shapely coat basques or cut in princesse form
with Marie Antoinette paniers ruches,' rose
pleatngs. festooned laces or in great double
ehoux or cabbage rose pleatngs of the same
fabric. These Sciliennes have stripes on
cream ground. strewn with trailing vines and
flowers in their natural hues alternating with
plain stripes of Dresden china blue, Dubarry
rose, mauve or the soft, creamy yellow of
French porcelains.
Cornfower blue is favored by fashion but
II is not pretty, and it is as trying as silver
gray or sea green. II is undeniably crude and
'uncomplimentary" to most people. though
attempts are made 10 soften its admitted
ssperity by the introduction of soft creams,
lawn, biscuit etc But il is useless 10 try TO
overcome the pronounced antagonism of corn
nower blue. and the woman who adopts il
must content herself with being fashionable
at the expense of her looks. Every day. how
ever, We see women who have elected on the
SIDE OF fashion. Nearly all intense colors try
the complexion. Even in extreme youth. with
eood health the complexion will not always
Dear the test OF striking color unrelieyed.
~ Is almost too much to expect the fashion,
hoiy-dressed woman this summer 10 be good
natured. With high Medici collars shutting
OUT the ar with waists unusually long and
garments that fit like coats of mail with
dresses dragging in tina dust ord nooto 90,