Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20

Iuo UGH lS Tuug dSalu duu edcu couUcstaut takes the quotation slip from the player at her right, retaining her own author slip. When the four slips at each table have been examined by each of the four play CTS and the lists corrected, the players change tables, those at Mo-. 5 going to No. 4, those at to 3, 3 to 3, 3 to 1, and 1 to 5. The game then proceeds as before and is not ended until all the quotation slips have been filled out and examined.
 The evenings study concluded, the hostess takes the author slips and sn- nounces the name of the prize winners. The prizes are, most appropriately, books, "Mother Goose's Melodies" or Reading Without Tears" being excellent selections for the booby prize.
 IN FASHION AGAIN.
 Tatting,a species of fancy work in vogue twenty-five years ago or more, and at that time a revival of an industry of by-gone days, again comes to the fore as a new and fashionable employment for unoccupied minutes. The thread is wound upon a shuttle, an end of it is looped around the fingers, and the shuttle plying back and forth weaves the thread into loops and the loops into points, ''clover leaves" and
 
 uninitiated. As "catch-up work" not taxing to the eyes unless very fine thread is wrought into elaborate patterns, tatting is very convenient, while for displaying shapely hands in graceful motion and flashing rings it is unsurpassed by any form of feminine handiwork.
 Very neat and serviceable trimmings for undergsrments are made of it, with little labor, while the expert may fashion the most delicate, airy-looking faces. Yoke. shaped pieces for dresses are in vogue, and even capes which fall little below the shoulder are considered very smart for evening wear, and are really picturesque and becoming.
 Smooth and plainly finished shuttles of rubber and ivory are most desirable, but for those who wish to make 0 pretty pre- tence of work the Parisian shops furnish very beautiful little shuttles made of beat en gold and studded with jewels. These will afford new source of profit to the designer and jeweler, but are of doubtful practical value as working tools.
 Let us not with the work itself revive a very objectionable word occasionally used in connection with it, and not always in "the rural deestricts." In some way the queer verb "to tat" was derived from the substantive tatting, and such funny phrase as 'tDo you tat2" or ''Do you like to tati" were enough to give purist the earache. Let us have the tatting without the tat this time.
 SPIDERS, WOMEN AND MEN.
 The modes of courtship among spiders, as described by Professor Peckham, are very varied and very curious. "The males engage in fantastic dances and posturings, exhibiting their peculiarities of coloring or form in the most elaborate ways, and sometimes many hours or even days are consumed in these performances. The females seem attentive observers of these antics, and it is hardly possible to under stand them excepting as efforts to excite a personal interest through some impression upon the sense of sight, which would ap- pear to involve an appreciation in some sort of color and form. These efforts are not always successful. In many species the female is much larger and more power full than the male, and sometimes while he is absorbed in his efforts to please she will adroitly bounce upon him, and then gent ly dismember and devour him."
 There is here sharp note of warning which young men will do well to hear and heed. Physical culture is more than a mere fad of womankind. Already the i'm provement in the physique of women is very noticeable. This is the era of the athletic girl, broad d-shouldered and deep chested, erect and bright-eyed. She walks, and rows, and swims, and fences; she lives regular and healthful life, and has as much of mental vivacity as of physical energy and strength. There is also as much improvement in the matter of person al beauty as in the arts of living. Good looks are becoming general, as any one who keeps his eyes open may see for himself. Now the same age that has developed the beautiful, vigorous, intelligent girl, has brought forth also the male weakling and the dude. It is said that "no city in the world can show such fine, healthy, beauti- ful, well-dressed women as New York. It is the New York man and not the woman who is pale or sallow-faced, has big rings under his eyes, and that tired feeling that makes youth delusion." The same difference between men and women, if not so marked in degree, may be observed in other cities.
 The question is this How is the dude and the weakling who wishes to arouse a personal interest in the minds of these larger, more powerful, very superior creatures, going to realize the desire! Will his only means of attracting the admired one's attention be peculiarities of attire, antic posturings, and fantastic tarantellasl And when absorbed in his efforts to please, in the ecstasy, the frenzy of the giddy whirl, will the superb female adroitly bounce upon and dismember him, Or will she transfx him with hat pin and, thus spitted, add him to her collection of "specimensa" Or will they lack the energy to attempt this | method of attraction, and lead single, self centered lives, content to adorn their little persons and to starve their little brains, then fortunately to "die and leave the world no copy"
 Young men, be warned in time! Seek the gymnasium, the field, the lake, take to the wheel, or saddle, or oari Shun the | cigarette and the beer glass, lest the stately | fin de siecle girl, in her strength and inde- pendence, shall ignore you altogether! HILARY.