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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-29
THE MAN OF FASHION.
How He Will Disport Himself
in New Bathing Garments.
SUITS SHORTER THIS YEAR.
Late Styles in Underwear-Shirts for
Riding, Bicycling, Etc.-The Pajama
supplanting the Night Robe.

NEW York, May 23.-[Special Core
spondence. bathing suits will be worn
shorter this year. This may appear start
ling to the fair sex, but as it is intended
solely for the man of fashion, with whom
/ believe myself on speaking terms" the
shock in the first sentence must be for
given, as it was altogether unintentional.
But in saying that bathing suits will be
worn shorter, have reference only to the
lower half. Last year they covered many
an ungainly knee. This year they can be
worn cut to just above the knee or just be-
low. and the shape of mans limbs will
have much to do with his choice. As a
man is never an excellent judge of his own
physique, it might be well to ask friend
for advice.
Bathing suits will be worn as tight as
ever. This is another bit of agreeable in
formation for the host of well-shaped men
who enjoy the two or three months in
the year during which they can dis
port themselves on the sands of Manhattan
beach, Long Branch, Newport, Atlantic
City. in garments SO close fitting that
every individual 'disport" makes multi
tude shut their eyes for fear of break
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covered a number OF interesting facts.
Shirts for morning wear have thin lines of
color across the front in black and dark
blue. as well as in biue-gray and other
light tints but the first tn for preference.
Still the liberty, equality and the fraternity
OF good plain linen is everywhere predom-
inant. \ new shirt for riding folk has
been brought out which. in place of the
usual flaps fore and aft, as a sailor would
say, buttons down the sides and from
point about half way down the knee is cut
much like pair of trousers. so as to Mt
close to the body. This IS an undoubted
advantage to those who are long in the
saddle. as it etfectually prevents the shirt
puckering up and CALLING the body
SQUare-cut cuffs are still the order of the
dav and for dress shirts the number of
stud holes remains unchanged, either one
or two, al pleasure, the single-stud fash
ion being mostly in favor.
Shirts for night wear are evidently giving
way TO paiamas. This night rainent is
strongly recommended By some of the
medical faculty. and the night shirt may
become as old fashioned IS stocks and
cravats, fob pockets or Wellington boots.
Some of the pajama suits are very at
tractive and expensive 10 match. In one
store on Broadway there are some of silk
which would have satisfied a sybarite
They were of spun silk In half-inch stripes
and well contrasted colorS, pink and white
light golden yellow and pink, full blue
and rich bronze, and 81 the knees and
waists were cords of white silk and tassels
The corduroy Is chiefly used for lawn
tennis shirts, which this season show an
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tionary times. He saw most of his service
In the latter part of the war"
being Connecticut man, doubtless
Private Durham was one of those who
saw and vainly strove to prevent the arson
ana the massacre done by Benedict Ar
mold when he revisited the coasts Of his
native state and burned New London in
the late autumn of 1TS0.
Both the children who were the nucleus
OF the numerous progeny of the pair are
alive. Almain Durham, the son, lives
with his mother, children and grandchild-
rem at Manchester. Mrs. E. Leigh, the
daughter, lives at West Creek. y. J.
Here is a Renaissance of the time when
CORVALLIS was ravaging the South and
General Greene went down to repair
Gates blunders
Mrs. Meridy Smith, of Newman, Ga,
remembers that her husband served under
this, the most reliable of Washington s
commanders, and that his service was
done IN North Carolina regiment.
In the dim minds of the other old ladies
Revolutionary memories stumble up
against "reminiscences of all sorts, from
Jefferson's embargo to Lincoln's emanci-
patton decree. They are too feeble to ex-
trIcate the one from the other.
The husband of Mrs. Lucy Morse, of
East Barnard, VT. was Abel Morse, of
the Connecticut troopers. Mrs. Patty
Richardson, who a $50 livesin Vermont, at
East Bethel, married in Godfrey Richard
son veteran of the sturdy New York yeo-
many who, under Schuyler and old Her
kimer and Arnold, beat off Burgoyne and
his Indian allies in their desperate effort
for the mastery of the Hudson
Mrs. Mary Snead. of Parksley, Va, mar
rled her husband, Captain Bowden Snead,
OF Virginia, when he was nearly old
enough TO great-grandfather her. Being
only rs now, she was not born until after
the war of 1872 had been concluded
namely, in the year 1916. She was not of
marriageable age till say 1882. when the
hero OF that war was obtaining his second
term in the presidency. AS her husband
was commissioned officer he must have
been more than youth when the Revolu-
tionary war ended, and of very advanced
age by the year say 1882, when his bride
had reached the saccharine period of 16
When Sarah Dabney's husband. John
@. Dabney, fought with the Virginia
troops, the site of the town of Bany, ILL.,,
where Sarah lives now, was somewhere on
the frontier of that same state of Virginia
1t was somewhere within the military
government of that chief of forgotten
heroes, Captain George Rogers Clark, who
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rather low, and a great Medici collar rolled
far out, even to the big shoulder puts,
which were of velveteen. From under the
ptffs fell the prettiest, ightest. oldest
sleeves you could imagine. Of course they
were of Indian muslin, and were caught
up on top so as to reveal good part of the
arm. Then they fell down very long, and
at the bottom were drawn together like a
cornucopia. Some very delicate gold pas
sementerie separated the puff from the
sleeve, and a wide passementerie strap fell
over each shoulder. The train was very
imposing. The gown was lined with silk
OF the same pale chocolate color shot
with rose.
1t was so magnificent that it sort of sub
dued me, and 1 was quite relieved as
glanced around to catch sight of some
thing very light and dainty, not bit like
the other, although it was tea gown also.
This was made of fine brocade of very
pale green shade, a fresh green, just like
the tender leaves of lettuce head. The
gown fell from each shoulder in double
box plat over a front of thin silk of still
paler tint This front was very elaborate
Il was plated at the neck under full
heading, and the plaits were banded at the
waist by white embroidered belt. Then
the front hung down in wider folds to the
feet, caught up diagonalIy half way down
by another strap of embroidery. A double
cape of fine lace fell over the shoulders
and back The sleeves were tight-fitting,
with full over-puff at the top, and were
cut far open at the cuff, filled in with lace
that would almost cover the hands. This
train was longer, if anything, than the
other.
Then the dressmaker sat down and
talked: Eyes. seem to be making great
many tea gowns, although those two are
the most artistic. | have one now under
way that is not nearly SO elaborate but
that is going to be awfuily pretty. 1t is
made of white cashmere and Is tight-fit-
ting, both back and front. Over this is
going to fall, both back and front, long
soft folds of white India silk plaited To
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OLD MEMS DARLINGS.
Nineteen Revolutionary Wild
Ows on the Pension Rolls.
TWO OF THEM 100 YEARS OLD.
We Will Be Paying Pensions TO Wash.
ington's Soldiers for . Quarter OF
Century Yet-Old Women.

Are you aware. many of you In whose
minds mayhap the events of the rebellion
are misty, that there are nineteen living
witnesses to the fact that the soldier of the
revolution kept Oh marrying as near up
to the day of his death as he could very
well manage, and quite usually beyond his
scriptural allotment of life.
They are the nineteen surviving widows
of the Continental warriors Only twenty.
two years ago there were TT of them. The
Oldest of them was not born until some
wears after the close of the war. AS the
spouse of each Of them must have been. to
call himself a soldier, at least n years old
by Evacuation day, itiwill be seen that the
warriors had at least thirty years start
upon their brides. Give the brides in oues-
ton an average Of twenty years apiece to
meet their fates in the wearers of the blue
and buff, and we find that the Youngest of
these swains must have reached the half
century mark before taking to his bosom
the helpmeet for whom the government
now finds little corner in the vast edi-
fee Of its pension system. Most of them
we're from twenty to thirty-tive years
older.
So these wizened old women whose
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silk and cotton a soft blend is an eccentric
idea. The weaving is loose and fine, and
the design is in sets of rings of three
stripes, which go round and round the
garment, giving to the body wasp-like
appearance, especially when the colors
chosen are those of that venomous insect
black or brown with yellow markings.
The black silk pajama suits have been
taken up gingerly. They are very hand
some, and the monogram or crest or badge
looks well worked large on the front. l
saw beautifully finished set of three GO
ing home to a Fifth avenue swell, who had
seen a friend in suit, and the monogram
under crown was worked in ruddy red
hair. A lock OF hair had been sent to the
outfitter to have the design worked in. 1t
was toll from the head of a well known
society girl, given as gage 'amitie-she
is too young yet for gage amour.
In the matter of dress shirts the situa-
ton is practically unchanged, although
some of the best outhtters are producing
some exquisitely embroidered fronts.
These are in various styles There is the
narrow design on each edge of the button
line, very light and closely worked. There
is the broken line of dots all over the front,
each dot most beautifully worked; there is
the single line of sprigs on one side only,
and there is. the most startling of all, the
horizontal lines in small Greek design.
to introduce more Ornamentation into
mems clothing all over, and the shirt will
have to follow suit. / remember long ago
when lace insertion was worn by the beau
of the day, and the frill was still in exist
ence. To elderly men the latter was very
becoming. but it became professional and
went out of the running. You got to
associate it with bland manner and a
tap of gold snuff box.
The bath robe, also, is a growing feature
in many houses. If every bedroom had a
bathroom opening from it there would be
no great need of bath robe, though even
then it would be very useful and comfort
able; but as such arrangements are Rther
scarce and people of all degrees Of
financial standing enjoy bath. the robe
is found to be almost a necessity. One can
undress in ones room. don the allen
veloping garment-with trousers and
slippers to match, if desired-and go UNI
terrified through halls and stairways to
and from the place Of ablution. After the
bath the gentle friction produced by the
Turkish stuff, of which the gowns are
chiefly made, is both wholesome and
agreeable. l saw a very neat dressing
gown in plain, dark green, rich buffalo,
with a reverse of clouded scarlet. The roll
collar and cuffs are in scarlet twill silk
quilted.
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vest of the coat-shaped bodice was also of
this bright tan color. She wore ties of the
same color, in suede. and her gloves and
stockings. which could see AZ she stepped
forward. Were of the shade of her gown. 1t
was splendid combination, and the girl
knew she looked well, too. II she hadn't
known il when she started the admiring
Glances of even the women that passed
her would have informed her.
Green has surely refgned supreme for a
long time. Even fawn bowed low before
it this past season. No particular shade
of the color. hut green in all ITS bewilder-
ing maze of light and dark, dull and brill
liant, soft and harsh. But green has a
rival, and its rival is its own sister, part of
its own flesh and blood, and is called blue.
And blue promises TO come out ahead.
The first hint of it came from the flowers.
They blossomed ont in hyacinths, i'll lilies
of the valley. in forget-me-nots, in narcis-
suses, in ever so many flowers that were
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A Soldiers PremOnition.

General Francis A. Walker. chatting with
some of his comrades in Washington City,
told singular story of his experience He
said that minor officer in his command, a
man who had been dear friend of his.
passed through battle after battle without
single scratch. The man was in the thick
ofevery fight. Many time he stood urging
on his company, and. while his men fell
around him. he seemed to have a charmed
life. Among the soldiers it was believed
that he was specially protected, but as
battle after battle passed and he received
not so much as skin wound, this officer
became depressed. He said to General
Walker once. Just before the Wilderness
campaign begun: Frank, I shall never
be wounded, and when am hit 1 shall
pass away so suddenly that l shall not
even know that have been dropped"
General Walker asked him why he felt
so, assuring him that it was a morbid
feeling.
mo, no." said the officer. "There will
come battle by and by and shall be hit
squarely in the temple. and you know what
that means"
They went through the Wilderness, and
this man was in the thick of the fight at
the Bloody Angle and was not hurt. Hun
dreds of men fell around him at Spotts-
sylyania. and he was not scratched. He
was in the first assault at Cold Harbor
when men were moved down, and he
rushed in at the second, the very incarna-
ton of a fighting soldier. Just as the men
were retreating he stopped for a moment
and turned his head to look back, and in
an instant he dropped as though he had
been smtten by lightning bolt from the
heavens. When they found him they saw
that a minnie ball had gone clean through
from one temple 10 the other and that he
must have been conscious for an instant.
for the fore finger of his right hand was in
the wound as though he was instinctively
probing for the bullet.
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endless variety in material and design.
The mixture OF silk and cotton is specially
happy, the silk doing all the talking, and
the cotton remaining in the background.
as interiors ought 10 do. The silk expresses
Itself in stripes, double checks, hair lines.
and sometimes in ombre, than which
nothing can be softer or more gracious.
Mat is a favorite make for these pas
time shirts which run the range in ath-
letics. The undressed Oxfords are at pres
ent in demand-merely a fad-as Oxtords
require dressing to set them of. Fair
striped cambrics, in blue, pink and hello
trope, will be in great demand. Judging
by the stock laid in for sporting men.
Heliotrope is certainly an effeminate color,
but it is becoming, and youth will con-
done much to attain that result. The
colors named are softened down by very
fine white diagonal line checking
In underc!Othing some very pronounced
designs have appeared this month. In
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The Dowager Duchess of Rochefoucauld.
New York Recorder.


/ am very curious to know how the
young American Duchess de la Roche
foucauld, who is the daughter of Senator
Mitchell, will get along with her estimable
mother-in-law. The latter is great char
acter in her way. and her antecedents
have been similar to those of the second
and discarded wife of the famous Italian
statesman, Crispi. OF her birth and origin
it is impossible to say much, inasmuch as
she was a. founding, and as soon as she
attained womanhood she became VIVIAN
diere or cantiniere of the regiment in
which her husband was serving as officer.
He married her while campaigning in Al
gera, and the mesalliance created an enor-
nous sensation at the time. Indeed for a
cantiniere to marry commissioned officer
was an absolutely unheard -of-occurrence.
For the highest rank IN which women of
her class had until then been accustom ed
to look for husband was that of corporai.
Possibly the dowager duchess, whose
maiden name was Bouvery, may still have
slowed away somewhere the uniform
which she wore while she belonged to the
regiment. and also the war medals which
she received for serving on the field of bat
tie. Although in times of peace the bust
ness of these vivandieres was restricte to
dispensing liquor at the canteen to the
men. yet in warfare their duties became of
a far more extensive nature, partaking
more of those of sisters of mercy or
ambulance nurses. They were SUBJ
jected to very severe discipline,
and, being on terms of camaraderie
with the men, their language was apt to
be as picturesquely. graphic and as highly
colored as that of the ordinary trooper
1t may, therefore, be readily imagined
how great was the shock when the head
of the ancient and noble house of La
Rochefaucauld attempted to introduce
into the Faubourg st. Germain the ex-
vivandiere whom he had made his duch-
ess. l need scarcely say that her reception
by the ancient aristocracy was not of an
exceedingly cordial nature. Both she and
her two sons have always been subjected
to q sort of Semi-ostracism on the part of
the other branches of the family, and
fear that this very fact may somew hat
interfere with the social success of SEN
ator Mitchell's daughter in the noble Eau
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creaking old rocking chairs are scattered
through the country which their husbands
helped to found. from Vermont, which
was in their husbands time little more
than bit of debatable ground between
New York and Massachusetts, to Wash
ington, which was then undiscovered OF
the white men--these helpless old bodies
we're once each and all of them rosy
young brides. old mems darlings, apples
Of aged military eyes.
Doubtless, according to the uncouth
custom still in vogue in the remotest rural
districts in signalling the nuptials of
January and May, many of these unions
we're celebrated by ''shivaree" from the
neighbors.
Here are the names from the United
States pension rolls:
Lovely ALDRIoH, 81, recently of Seattle, now OF
Portland. Or.
ELIZABETH BErz, 50, Harrisburg. Pa.
NARY BROWN, 81, Knoxville, Tenn.
NANCY CLOUD, 10, II. Paul, Va.
SARAH BARNEY, %, Barry, Ill.
ESTHER :. DAMON, rs, Plymouth Union, VT.
NANCY A. GREEN, a. Nap leon, Ind.
SALLY HEATH, 81, Burnside, Ky.
NANCY JONES, rs Jone, boro, Tenn.
REBEccA MAYO, 70, Newbern, Va.
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one who did the most to link himself with
ve.ary was William Cloud. When the
s, pan lay on his deathbed in the town OF
ta s- raui, IN the Old Dominion, in the win.
was Isl ,of., he then being 90 years old, it
N announced to him that his wife
fancy, had presented him with son
.o JaI MIN Washington" said the old
ssoiuler, and half an hour later he had gone
20 report this latest namesake of his old
ooTm h to the chief in person.
ana nde ooy, Washington. is still living.
anu an. put % years old and Confederate
veteran. So here are two lives of father
anu son that cover the history of this
sreat nation and leave good many years
hanging over at each end.
ms widow. Mrs. Nancy Cloud. is but y
teen. Her letter, written in her own
quiet, hrm hand, in answer to INQUIRIES. is
worth giving in full. 1t runs:
NY husband, William Cloud, was a Reyolu
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oLNE c. MORTON. 81, Elva, Mich.
LUCY MORSE, 81, East Barnard, VT
NANCY RAINS, 100, Carter Furnace, Tenn.
FATTY RICHARDSON, 81, East Bethel, VI.
MERIbY SMITH. s.. Newman, Ga.
NARY SSEAD, Is. Parksley, Va.
ASENATH TURNER. s.. Manchester, " y.
NANCY NEATHERMAN, So, l. ucback, Tenn
ANNA MARIA YOUNG. 100, Easton, Pa.
Strange it is 10 think of nation born
JUS years ago still paying for services rem
eered from six TO thirteen years before its
birth.
What if vision of this condition of
ahalrs had been dashed before the eyes of
.he congress as they sat in old Nassau
hat at Princeton, celebrating on means
oi satisfying the claims OF the unpaid
.ohtlnenta,s. whose clamors for their
arrears had driven them out of Philadel-
were any of these nineteen husbands
among those noisy creditors who forced
Lazy Washington for the general seems
y. 70 nave been with the congress during
WIS portion of the wear I7S3-out OF her
me mansion on High street TO lodge over
college?
And if the army which was reckoned by
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THE GIRL L NEVER MET.

Many maidens fair I've known,
Girls with soft and potent eyes
That would melt heart OF stone,
Every maid lovely prize
Ihave worshiped at their feet,
Yielded TO their charms, and yet
Is the best of them as sweet
AS the girl I've never met?
They have witehing little ways,
she enraptues when she smiles;
They enchant, arnuse, amaze,
She enslayes me with her wiles.
That they're charming, agree;
They are exquisite, and yet
None of them entices me
Like the girl I've never met.
She has all their winning grace,
All their wit and beauty rare,
Bright blue eyes, a perfect face,
Low, sweet forehead. golden hair.
Fancy makes her all my own,
can see her now, and yet,
Though full many maids I've known
she's the girl I've never met.
Shall meate Who can tell?
Life is short. the world is wide.
While wait. know II well,
She NAV be suOthers bride.
Fate has kept US Two apart.
We may never meet, and yet
Here's a toast; ! pledge my hesrt
To the girl I've never met
H e. S
Port Columbia, May %, 1872.
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ONE OF THE ANSWERS.

conquered the whole middle Northwest,
who held an imperial frontier for years
with two companies of men, who, when
presented in his paupeyized old age with
the empty honor of a sword by the state
of Virginia, broke the bauble with his
crutch and cried, II want bread, not a
toyn
Strange reading this in story which re-
lates how the federal government cares to-
day for. the old women whose rosy faces In
their girlhood days caught the doting eyes,
the senile fancies, of the old men whose
young lives had been risked in its defense.
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Perhaps the creates; difficulty that dentists
meet with is the Instching OF false teeth with
the natural teeth of their customers. The tooth
factories supply dentists with rings, upon
which a-c strung thin short metal bars. each
carrying tooth At lis extremity. There are
twenty -nve OF these sample teeth that run all
the way from nearly white 10 a shade that is
almos, olive. Some u the twenty i've usually
a,mos; matches the patients teeth. and, at any
rate. enables the dentist 10 match the teeth by
application at The factory.