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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
A GREEN SUMMER.
The Verdant Hue Is Worn by An
 the Summer Girls.
m Dozens and Scores of Tlnts and shad. ingS-At the National Academy, the Actors Fund Fair and the Horse
 Show Evening Gowns.
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T7imagine am going to talk about the summer girl, but it is little hard to tell what is coming when you begin, especially if it occurs to you to wonder at the very start if it is an evidence of incomplete development on the part of Summer girls or of all-the-year-round women that they seem, while so much alive to the beauties of color, so little alive to the beauties of form.
 1t is pure accident when we get a fashion that is adapted to the human figure, and no appreciable concern is manifested when it takes itself off again.. The simple skirts we have had for the past two or three seasons, with their graceful fall of long slow curves, have been, while often overdone in point of length for house wear and uni versally overdone for the street, in themselves almost ideally beautiful draperies.
 The double and triple skirts which this spring replace them, whimsical in proportions and in build, architectural ly unfit, blocking the figure out in un- meaning and inexcusable sections, are accepted with smiles as complacent as those which greet the yard-long ribbon streamers down the back, and the huge and hugely absurd-fower garden on the hats as if in knowledge of art and knowledge of propriety we had not progressed-as the filthy trains on walking dresses some time ago proclaimed that in regard for clean Illness and decency we had not pro- gressed-beyond the early and inartis- tic days of the beginning of the Victor ian era.
 There are plenty of women painters and almost no women sculptors; and there are thousands of women who d& light in tints and shades to one who has any true appreciation of line or form. This is why an astonishing de- velopment of the refnements of color pleasures the world from season to sea- son, side by side with atrocities and monstrosities in overslkirts, and under skirts, and shoes, and sleeves, and shoulders.
 These things being as they are let us properly rejoice in green. We cannot abolish the three skirts, unless, indeed, we accept in lieu thereof four. We can not abolish the ruff1es and hounces at the bottom, however much we preach that it is the beauty of 8 woman's draperies to end without emphasis, in-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
SISTER MARTHA.
By AUGUSTA HARMED.

Copyright, 1892, by American Press Associa
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 que was Just on Jne polnt ot locking the house door and putting out the lights, when Q mans step came down the gravel walk and mounted the porch. There was no knock or ring, but slight pause-a sound of fumbling about the threshold, then the steps went away and she heard the gravel crunch under the mans heel. With lamp in her hand she stepped out into the hall. A bit of something white protruded from under the door. She pulled at it, and as she stopped down the light fell on a torn envelope. Her face flushed angrily. "Well," said she half aloud, "If that ain't the impolitest thing I ever did hear off A regular slap in the face" ], It was the invitation she had sent to Captain Bligh returned without thanks. She stood there long time with black drop of bitterness diffusing itself through her thoughts. To be so scorned had tarnished the glory of her tea party. Bhe had been fool to think of having t. Anger, hatred, remorse by turns same upper1nost. When she went to bed there were hot, miserable tears in her eyes, and she was woman who sell dom wept.
 The next morning as soon as Ann opened the chamber door she saw that something strange had happened to Miss Mayhew. Her face looked almost trans parent with the shiny luster of mother of-pearl, and her eyes were wide open and glassy bright. She took hold of Ann's arm when she came fO sci down the tray, and said in a half whisper, "What made him come into the yard last night and up the steps2"
 "L Lord! Miss Mayhew, what do you meanp
 Captain Bligh came into the yard; heard him."
 Ann's face wore the set, hard look of perfect incredulity, but she laid her hand not urgently on the thin, pale one that rested on the bedspread.
 "There, there," said she, as if sooth- ing an unreasonable baby; "don't take On so. Of course he never did come a-near."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21

Es oure oeJecred ene ouor Of q burning teakettle. She stepped straight to the stove and deftly lifted it off the fire. The breakfast table, still uncleared, oc- cupied the middle of the large room. It was the captains practice to use all the dishes in the house successively and to stack them in what he called the locker, meaning the cupboard, to await the ar rival of his old woman helper who came over once a week to wash up and tidy the house. A pile of red and yellow squashes were penned up in one corner of the room, and other hooks were filled with 8 litter of books, magazines and news papers heaped on the floor.
 A melancholy old white parrot, much denuded of feathers about its scrawny neck, sat dozing on a perch. On the casing of one of the curtainless windows, letting in pitiless floods of daylight to revel over the damaged and dusty con- dition of Captain Bligh's belongings, was stuck 8 long row of immense nee- dies with black and white threads dan- gling, ready for immediate use in the sewing on of buttons and the drawing up of rents in the captains wardrobe. On the wall over his sea chest hung a chronometer and marine chart, and the demijohn of whisky rescued from the deep stood on the chimney piece cluttered with pipes and garden tools, currycombs and bootjaclss.
 Captain Blgh looked around rather ruefully, as if the presence of a well dressed woman had for the first time made him conscious of the clutter and confusion and discomfort of his abode. q know I ain't shipshape, Mrs. Whit cumb, but haven't much time to pipe clay inside"
 "It ain't right to live so," returned Sister Martha, taking in the scene with her housewifely glance. 'You're a woman hater, Cap'n Bligh, and guess you've found out you can't manage a house as you would three master"
 A strange look came into the captains face, something between satirical smile and 8 terrible, black frown. "1 don't suppose you have come here to talk me over," he said sharply, as he seated himself with his back to the light, but where the Widow Whitcumb, gently swaying back and forth her stout per son in the rocking chair, presented 8 fair target for his keen eyes.
 "Yes, have," she answered, plucking up courage, as she fused with the fringes of her mantle. "Tve come to talk about what you air, and what you might have been and ought to have been "a better and happier man."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
Do Married Folks Look Alike ?

Whether you remember it just now or not, lat some time, doubt not, you have read long articles or short items on the curious theory advanced by some psy- chologists that married couples finally come to resemble each other. Some argue that it is because they are ex- posed to the same conditions in life; others go further and say that the in- fuences of minds react upon each other, which, in the case of man and wife, brings about facial resemblance after years of close contact. The Photo graphic SoGiety of Geneva, Switzerland, with view of determining the truth or falsity of this psychological oddity, made, during 1891, photographs of sev- enty-eight couples. These were exam ined by experts in physiognomy, who decided that in twenty-four of the sev- enty-eight cases the facial resemblance of husband and wife was greater than that of brother and sister; in thirty cases it was equally as great, and in only twenty-four cases was there a total absence of resemblance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
STORY OF AN OLD SHOE
Once It Was Worn by Lady oa
 the White House.
The Quaint Foot-Gear which Must Haivs Tortured the TOes of Anna Harrisonyl the Great-GrAndmother of
 Baby Mckee.

Only a quaint htt1e1eather shoe,' worn smooth and shiny, and almost as hard and solid as wood from a century's keeping lain away with other precioua relies.
 It isso stiff and unyieding a. mother of to-day would shudder to squeeze Ittle,, rosy toes and dimp1ed foot into such a heavy, clumsy shoe.
 One fancies the horror of thebmotherl and nurse of ''Baby McKee," for in-i stance, at the mere thought of puttingI those little feet into close confinement in so solid and unornamental a speci.I men of foot-gear as this. Yet, writes Annie Reese Aldrich in the Ladies. Home Journal, it was no less a person than the great-grandmother of the darS ling of the white house, Anna Harri- son, the wife of the brave general, whose little feet took their first steps in these tiny sabots, one of which is pie tured here. They were evidently made to last. You can imagine half dozen generations of babies learning to walk in the same pair, and even then the thick soles and the uncompromisinR brown ''uppers' would hardly be the worse for wear. None of your dainty, modern knitted boots, orAsoft kid shoes, as pliable as a suede glove, lest 1t should, perchance, press'roughly on the tender flesh; no little socks of tinted silk, or heeciest lambs, wool for Ameri- can babies of a hundred years or more past. These sturdy children of a sturdier race than to-day, even among the rich and well to do, wore,, as a rule, such coarse, home-spun fabrics, such
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
A Settlement With Strikers.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, May 21.-It is re- ported that proposition has been made by the receivers of the Cape Ann Gran ite Company to the local branch of the granite cutters union, looking to 8 set clement of the strike. A committee of five from the union waited upon the representatives of the company and re- ceived the proposition, which was after wards submitted to the members at the morning meeting. The proposition was favorably received, and it was voted to go back to work provided that the Ma tional Union endorses such action.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21

full at the bottom, opened on the left side over panel of pale yellow. On the right side it was cut in tabs and lap ped with black green ribbons. The bodice was drawn from the shoulders to point at the waist and caught with dark green velvet bow. Under it's part ing folds was slipped yellow silk vest with gilt buttons. The dark green hat burned with crimson poppies, and the girl made you think of a pine tree with grass beyond it full of summer blooms.
 believe counted three girls in pale green and black and two more in dark green and bluish pink, but the most successful of all green combinations is remembered from costume worn by a well-known woman at the actors fund fair.
 A grayish green silk, somewhat paler than mignonettes, was figured daintily with peach blossoms. It had a round bodice, with collar and full sleeves of black lace run through with narrow green and pink ribbons. The sleeve puffs were met at the elbows by gaunt- lets of peach pink moire. The skirt has a peach pink founce at the bottom, yelled with black lace caught up by knots of pale green ribbon.
 Some noteworthy evening dresses are being prepared for early summer fes. tivities. One recently seen was of palt amethyst silk, the front of the skir' looped on the right side with rosettes of darker amethyst of pink ribbon. A pointed overskirt of white lace net, very short on the left hip, was carried around to the back on the right and blended with the silk draperies under long loops of amethyst and pink and white ribbon. The low bodice was con- structed entirely of the flmy net which came down in ribbon caught loops over the bare arms.
 Another and perhaps prettier example was of ivory taffeta with deep bordeH of embroidery at the foot worked in rose,. pink and green. The low bodice
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21

tones end tho harnonies and discordn at any gathering of many women, as at the horse show for example, are worth studying. I remember particularly novel color mixture worn bY fresh, rose-checked girl who admired every beast shown, the tallest ones most, the less long-legged steed graded in pro portion. It was an almost startling grass green, mixed with violet and copper pink, and the eyes returned to it again and third time to see what it meant, and had there not been mis- taken perception.
 Then there was woman in a sage green summer cloth frock that was probably more after the notions of the majority, with it's long princess coat and it's sixteenth century vest of pale yellowish cream color, stitched with gold.
 She was pale blonde who wore it, and you called her slim and shadowy and, yes, pretty until she came too near a warm-colored girl in dark Russian green figured with dark red, who, with her glowing tints, wiped out the weaker ones completely. Her straight skirt,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
His Case a Peculiar One.

F1TcHBURG, Mass, May 21.-The case of John Goodroad, who has been par doned out of the county jail here by the Governor, ia a peculiar one. Last Nov ember Goodroad was sentenced for ille- gal liquor selling, to pay a fine and to serve three months in jail. He served his term, but could not raise the $100, and so served three months more and then asked to be released as 8 ''poor debtor" On entering the prison, how ever, he had $5S in his possession, and so was not qualified to take the ''poor debtors oath.' It was found on exam ination that the only way to save him from remaining in prison all of his life was to secure 8 pardon from the Cover Dor
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21

DUG SCOTD.'
 Sister Martha, in spite of her sound constitution and great natural vigor, passed two very bad nights. The demon of insomnia sat by her pillow and goaded her to the point of desperation. The second night change had come over the temper of the weather, an autumnal change that set the wind moaning around the corner of the house, while dead leaves trailed off on the blast in long lines, and black scud sped over the face of the moon.
 Sister Martha did not close an eye until four o'clock in the morning. She tossed and turned, and creaked the bed stead-one of Mother Mayhew's high posters, rather rickety in the joints and every now and then raised herself on her elbows and missed out between her teeth in stage whisper, "Pve got to do it, or shall diep' thus witnessing to the stars that a burden lay on her con- science. Who could have believed that Mrs. Martha Whitcumb that stout and self confident dame, was ever subjected to punishment under the lash of Ne mesisp She, of all women, seemed the least open to such fagellation, though the black puffs under her eyes and the | yellowness of her skin had, to Ann's eye, indicated some alteration of health.
 At last, at daylight, she fell asleep and dreamed that she was trying to force her way into 8 shining company with only | one thin garment on and without stock | ings and shoes, while she suffered an agony of shame at her unclothed condi- tion. In spite of the creaking of Sister ! Martha's bedstead, Miss Mayhew slept more soundly than she had for many 8 long month. The cool change seemed to brace her and do her good. She was folded like 8 child and cradled in the long swing of the wind, as it bowed the tops of the trees and sent the dead leaves scurrying. She lay snug and warm, breathing easily, and dreamed that she was dressed in white, walking in a rose garden, and as she looked the roses blos- somed into the faces of little children she had known. Some of them were dead, but they were all smiling on her, turning their pretty heads to look as she passed.
 The sweetness of the dream seemed to finger with her some time after waking, with her vibrating nerves all pleasantly a-throb in every atom of her flesh. She was very sensitive to dreams and omens, what she called "intimations." Could it be that something good was going tc happenP How long it seemed since any. thing had happened in the strange mo notony of her life. At any rate she felt stronger and brighter that windy morn ing with its splendid broken gleams There was life and excitement in the air. It seemed to stir her languid pulses | She ranO for Ann Raskett to help hel dress, and would have on her blut wrapper and white shawl and pinl worsted slippers. She was going dowI to the sitting room to take her place bJ the window, and her face had ittl, anticipatory brightness in it as she gazeG out on the bronzing tree tops. On' bough of the big maple by the from gate was already deep crimson, col For that seemed to blow 3 trumpet bias as it sparkled in the sun. Sister Martins Hound her already down stairs whel Ann had lrndled wood fire on tn,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21

rough shoes and stockings as the little denizens of our city tenement houses now would look at with supreme scorn,i and would probably refuse as gift.
 There is nothing that appeals more effectually to tender, maternal fancy than 8 baby's worn shoes, the stubby toes, the heels run down, perhaps, at one side. The impression of the rest less, shell-pink little feet that have learned to take their first cautious steps in it, or have trotted about all day long, bearing a very small, plump body into such mischief as it can find to do. When those little shoes are kicked off at night and lie with the socks by the side of the crib where the little wearer cuddles, warm and flushed in the gracious sleep of babyhood, how many a mother picks them up lovingly, with a sudden swell ing of the heart and a warm impulse to wake the sleeper with kiss. And ah, If those little feet should be destined never to tread the long, weary journey of life, if they are to stop while the path is only travelled 8 short, short way, while the sun has only just risen, and the dew is yet on every flower, ah, then, not even the little cradle, or the tiny, half-worn froclxs, or the playthings that will never be used again, are such be- loved relics to the mothers broken heart as the shoes that keep SO well the very shape of the feet that they once held.
 But these dear, clumsy little shoes belonged, as you know, to feet that did have the long journey to travel, and from letters, yellowed with age, in the writer's possession, we may know that the wearer lived happy, simple life, rich in all womanly graces and virtues, conspicuous among which was the deep, wifely love and reverence they show for the brave, soldierly husband, who was, unhappily, scarcely to tread the floors of the white house as president ere death claimed him, and to whose grand son we now give the honor due to 8 chief magistrate of our country.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
To Help Our Own People Now.

WASHINGTON, May 21.-On account of the devastation that has been wrought by the floods in the Mississippi valley, the American National Red Cross Asso- citation have decided to receive no more funds for distribution in Russia. They recommend to the generous people who wish to give that they send relief direct to the destitute cities and towns in the flooded districts of the West and South of our own country.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
An OId Debt.

-he Marquis Hosokawa has been dunned for debt contracted by his an- cestor, Hosokawa Etchu-no-Kami, in the fifteenth year of Genrol1u, or 17O9.
 Hosolxawa Etchu-no-Kami borrowed 800 loban from his business agent, Oinuma Sanemori. The time for which the money was lent was not specified in the deed, but the Hosokawa family were held liable whenever payment might be demanded. The deed has been pre- served by six generations of the Oinuma family, and has at last been presented for payment. Japanese law, however, will let the present marquis off.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
Chicago Ticket scalpers Indicted.

CHICAGO, May 21.-At the instance of a number of railroad officials the grand jury indicted every ticket broker or ''scalper' in town. Warrants were is- sued and the brokers were brought in and furnished bonds in $550 each for trial The indictments are drawn under the statute of 1875, which forbids per sons other than those authorized by the railroads to sell over their lines. There will be legal fight Uo.a finish over the matter,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
Starved Herself to Death,

ST. Paul, Minn., May 21.-Mrs. Clara Palmer of Glenville, Minn., has died here from starvation. Several months ago her husband, she Rev. Frank Pal mer, resolved not to eat. and in due course of time died. She also took to flashing, and she survived for several weeks.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
FRED CEARTz.

Oven. Furnace and Chimney builder. Cbim- neys cleaned and repaired. PlasterinR, roof pointing etc. Boiler setting speciality.
 ais EAST MAIN ST
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
Take a Ride.

w. G. Austin having sold his Scovill street livery stable will now devote his on tire time to his Bank street stable. First class Livery aud Saddle Horses, good car riages. GIVE HIM A CALL.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
SubstItute for C7lass,

The latest substitute for glass is kind of dry flexible collodion. It re- sists the action of salts, all1alies and dilute acids, and is inodorous and trans parent. It's chief use is likely to be in photography.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21

was girdled with folded pink velvet and g rosette and long pink streamers were attached between the shoulders behind
 Powder blue and white is combina- tion see much of. and heliotrope and white is daily more and more used. Pearl gray and green is usually success ful, which is more than can be said of good many of the attempts at heliotrope md green. ELLEN OSBORN.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
NEW YORK < NEW ENGLAND.
Trains leave Waterbury for

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-21
1FERIDEN, WATERBURY & CONNECTICUT MI RIVER RAILROAD.

E-7 IN EEFECT JANUAHN U4 1C17g'7 " FROM WATERBURY TO CROMWELL. Leave Waterbury Dublin street, +t5:o0, i60Q. a. m.; 6:00 D. m. Leave Meriden, 10:40 a.m.; 5:45 ?. n.
 FROM CROMWELL TO WATERBURY. Leave Cromwell 6:S0 a. m.; 12:tS. ?. m. Leave Meriden, West Main street. 7;z5 p. m. 1851, $50 D u. \. nJ-@ | Z sFor Meriden and way stations only; arrive ak tDaiIy except Monday.
 CHARLES N. CRAWFoRDs sup'k