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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
A QUEENS LACEs.

The Queen of Italy, like the Prin-
cess of Wales, is noted for her taste
in dress, though instead of the tailor
made serges and cheviots in which the
princess is wont to dress, the Italian
Queen essays sumptuous brocades and
velvets rich in color and texture, like
the robes of the stately ladies Titan
and Veronese painted i'll the old days.
The Queen has been patron of tho
lace-making industry of the Italian
people, encouraging the revival of the
old stitches and the designing of new
patterns. They tell story of how
one particular stitch, in guipure, was
almost lost to the world in the decay
of the art
1t was discovered at last that a bed
ridden old lace-maller of Ruram was
the only person alive who could do
the stitch, and by dint of good food
and wine she was fairly coaxed back
to life long enough to impart her
precious secret to the young lace
makers of the new Venetian school.
Queen Margherita is rather short in
stature, but so well does she carry
herself that she always conveys the
impression of tall woman. Her
neck and arms are beautiful in outline
and tint, her skin delicate and creamy,
the color coveted by Italian women.
She speaks French. German, Italian
and English, and her favor,te books
are those belonging to English litera-
ture. -lNew York Advertiser.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
THE NEW SILKS.

The thin summer silks, of which
very many are being made up, are, as
rule, left without stiffening or
stiffened only for few inches above
the bottom. The silk Is too soft TO
bear the interlining. Where it is used
the character of the goods is destroyed,
and the gown seems to be made Of
crackly paper. The best modistes
recognize the fact that crinolinc has
It's limitations, and wisely adapt them
selves TO the necessities of the fabric
they are handling.
The new chene silks are soft and take
gathers nicely. Many have the skirts
trimmed with only one flounce or mar
row rufiie of silk or lace, OF perhaps
with band of openwork lace over IL
lining of colored satin. No skirt,
however. ia prettier on the thin silks
than the akirtlsl; of fiounces is,
iounced from waist to foot in ruffies
Of six-inch width, or graduating from
six TO eight, ten, or twelve inches.
The fiounces are of silk, and are
prettiest when pinked top and bottom
and put on with . narrow ruflie head
ing, the heading on the top fiounce
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
FASHION NOTES.


Corkscrew bengalines are new and
stylish.
The law has been laid down: Short
skirts, and only short skirts. are to be
worn in the street.
A new navy-b'nc st-se has a single
thread-stripc of deep green, and is
pronounced very stylish.
Cream white, old pink and light
blue seem to be the colors selected for
young girls evening costumes.
New skirts for the street do not
touch the ground, but house-skirts arc
almost all made with short trains.
The handsome French challies are
''the thing" The putfed sleeve fall
ing over the elbow is good model.
Accordion-plaited skirts of surah or
India, with plated waists in sailor
fashion, are rather new and effective.
Wide-brimmed hats, with an
abundance of ostricl-plume trimming,
will be popular for early-summer
wear.
Bodice effects reached by means of
bands of ribbon are often seen, and
are especially affected in evening
gowns.
The pretty colored Henriettas are
we'll adapted for this purpose, and
with yokes of Irish lace are very
stylish.
Tho dotted or sprigged lawns are
trimmed with rutfies embroidered III
the dominating color and with knots
aud streaners of ribbon.
One of the new ideas is black
satin bodice and skirt of some dark,
rich cloth. Indeed, black satin as
waist material is quite to the fore.
The crisp, clean-looking French
ba,istes, the poetic fiower-strewn or
candies. tho neat-patterned linen
lawns and ginghams all make pretty
negliges for warm weather.
The white dotted swisscs. the plaided
nainsooks. and bishops lawns launder
well and are made up with plated or
gathered rufiles, torchon lace, and
ribbons of pale green, mauvc, or
blue.
Sensible and pretty house robes are
made of the fine French or Scotch
fianncls in stripes or figures; pale gray
and pink, marine-blue and ponceau,
Nil and heliotrope are among the new
blendings; these gowns are usually
made with yolks or in the loose prin-
cesse shape and trimmed with lace
and ribbon.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05

The great discovery of the day in
France, AYERS the American Agricui-
turist, is that the phylloxera avoids
sand and salt marshes. Vast tracts of
such land, previously useless, have
beon reclaimed for vineyards. Every
other means of extirpating the pest
has been tried, often at an expense of
$40 per acre. Prior 10 the appear
ance of the phylloxera, many vineyards
had not been manured for so years.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
THE WOMAN PREACHER.

There seems to be no objection
whatever 10 women taking control of
Sunday benevolent institu-
tions, church fairs, festivals and all
other means of caring for the flocks
and filling the ecclesiastical exchequer,
but when it comes to women in the
pulpit there is trouble at once. This
is only another of the relics of bar
barism.
In old times if the church could get
control Of the women and little chill
dren they felt pretty sure of their
ability to manage the rest of the human
family.
Half century ago woman doctor
was scarcely recognized in reputable
circles, and woman lecturer was a
monstrosity. Contrasting that date
with the present and taking note Of
the change in sentiment from one
decade TO another, it is scarcely too
much to expect that by another fifty
years we shall see most wonderful
revolution in matters of this sort 1t
is safe to predict that before the end
of the first decade of the next century
the woman preacher will be no more
of novelty than the woman doctor
now is. Woman is specially fitted for
such work, and even were she not so
it would be only the strictest kind of
justice to give her some of the honor
as well as most of the hard work of
the church. When once it dawns fully
upon the minds of the people of this
generation that there is no sex in
intellect or moral achievement, the
first and most difficult part of this
knotty problem will have been solved.
BY all means open the pulpit doors
to women as we'll as those of the Sum-
day-school room, the hospital and the
Executive Committee New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
only if the fiounces overlap, or ON all
If fhav q oro saf on eonarotalu

only if the fiounces overlap, or ON all
If they are set Gil separately.
A charming design for trimming
the silk skirts lie that of succession
of narrow ruffles to the knee, pinked
and caught up in the festoons by
knots of velvet the color of one shade
in the silk, the upper ruffle having a
heading of folds and butterfly knots.
Shirring on stiff cords is used on thin
silks and cottons. The cords are in
closc-set groups of six or more, max
ing perhaps an inch wide band, and
the goods is drawn upon them at the
waist, around the yoke at the wrists,
at the head of ruffies and so on.-TNew
York Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
THE NEW s.HoRRoR."

In reading of the new "horror," the
the gown faced to the knees with
crinoIine, bear in mind that the crino-
line alluded to is simply the thin,
slightly stiffened material long in use
for lining. panels, cuffs, collars, etc.
and not more than half so stiff as the
canvass with which most gowns have
been faced for long time. Hoop
skirts will hardly be worn this coming
summer; and though dark hints are
thrown out that autumn will see q
radical change in styles, the dire pre-
diction need not lcause alarm. i De-
morest.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Finest Tree Museum in the World.

Finest Tree Museum in the World.
We hear SO much about the Jardin
des Plantes, the Botanic Gardens at
Kew, and other we'll known collections
of plants in Europe, and SO little about
the Arnold Arboretum that it would
perhaps be safe to say that there are
not hundred people in the country
who are aware that Harvard Unlver-
sity owns the finest tree museum in
the world. Boston, itself, though the
Arboretum is part of its park sys-
tenn, has hardly walked up to the fact
of its Importance, and wonders vague
ly, what the name implies, and why
the scientific treasure is unique. What
is there about this place. where you
see just such things along the park
ways as you find beside the roads, and
just such tree as you find In the woods
outside, to make it peculiar and inter-
esting2
1t is thus that this extraordinary
outdoor museum strikes the careless
observer, unaware that he might find
here two thousand varieties of woody
plants, and walk for two miles and
half up and down the lines of labeled
shrubs without finding two alike.
The differences between trees of the
same species are hardly apparent to
the ordinary man. He may recognize
a blue spruce when he sees it, but it
would puzzle him to know in what
white spruce differs from black, or
Carolina hemlock from the New Eng
land variety. The subtle distinctions
in oaks and naples, the innumerable
subdivisions of birches, the fine lines
that separate families of familiar trees,
are all unseen by him. Hardly can he
discern hemlock in pine forest, or
black birch in a group of beaches.
How should he know the worth Of an
institution whose business it is to tell
him about these things? He has never
heard of dendrology, he has tho
vagucst views about forestry as being
somehow connected with the water
supply, and his isgreatest wonder is that
anybody should want to know about
trees except as furnishers of lumber,
or rs ornaments of place or road,
comfortable to sit under on hot
day.
That there should be hundred and
sixty acres given over by college TO
the cultivation of plants of woody
fibre, trees, shrubs and vines in all
their infinite variety, fills him with
astonishment and some dismay. This
Is not exactly park, he says. nor yet
garden, in spite of its flowers and
fruits. What, then, is an arboretum?
and what purpose does it serve? and
how does it differ from foreign botanic
coilections?-TCentury.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Little Brown Hands.

They drive home the cows from the pasture,
Up through the long shady lane,
Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat
field,
ALI yellow with the ripening grain.
They find, in the thick, waving grasses,
Where the scarlet-dipped strawberry
grows,
They gather the earliest snowdrops
And the first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss the hay in the meadow,
They gather the elder-bossoms white,
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft-tinted autumn light.
They know where the apples hang ripest
And are sweeter than Italy's wines;
They know where the fruit is thickest
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delicate seaweeds
And build tiny castles of sand;
They pick up the beautiful sea-shells-
Fairy barks that have drifted to land.
They wave from the tall, rocking tree-tops,
Where the orioles hammock-nest swings,
And at nighttime are folded in slumber
BY a song that fond mother sings.
Those who toll bravely are strongest;
The humble and poor become great,
And from these brown-handed children
Shall grow mighty rulers of state.
Tkc pen of the author and statesman,
The noble and wise of the land;
The sword and the chise and palette
Shall be held in the little brown hands.
-fPhiladelphia Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
HOW ONE PRINCESS LOOKS.

Princess Kaiulana, the young Ha-
waiian princess, who sailed for Eng
land on the Majestic, after message
of thanks to the American people, was
rather an interesting young woman.
Many persons seemed TO think that
the Princess Kaiulani, or Miss Cleg-
horn, was of the very dark order of
complexion. On the contrary, she
was no darker than many an Ameri-
can beauty of the brunette type.
Miss Cleghorn was dignified in bear
ing and suggested the Boston girl
known as bluestocking. -[New York
Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Wanted No Extremes.

Employment Agent-What was the
matter with your last place?
Domestic-Thc couple had only been
married a month, an l cudn't stand
th' love maxim.
Agent-Well. here's chance in q
house where tho couple have been
married ten years.
Domestic-That's too long. likes
peace an guiet.-TNcw York Weekly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05

The Paris Gaulois has long article
on the American influence which is
changing the typical French maiden
with downcast eyes and timid, hesi-
tating manner into girl of the modern
American and English type.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
SOPHIE'S LOVERS.
BY MAUD DE FRIETAs.

keep boarders is because Pm to poor
to keep anything else." Sophie
always answered people tersely.
B,arders were business with her, and
she ran the house on business plan.
"Tve known Sophie Hurd these
thirty years." one old crone said,
"and I've never known her to do a
foolish thing. No, sir, she never had
no lover to my knowledge, and she
never will"
These were the statements of the
villagers; verify them for yourself.
I'm looking at things from Sophie's
standpoint, and the years back didn't
look quite SO placid to me.
Sophie was worn out with the heat,
nd all the afternoon had tried to
leep, but that Robbins dog would
'ark, and the Brown baby was fret
'ul, SO she gave up in disgust, and
washed her hair instead. She was
awfully sorry she had, for no matter
how hard she brushed it the little curls
would bob up behind her ears. She
had dark room or the ground floor,
with the bureau right by the windo w.
How pretty the miniature Of her
mother looked with that splash of
yellow sunlight across it. That minia-
ture always had a prominent place on
the bureau, for she loved it SO. Her
mother had been dead 10 years when
l first knew her. and that's some time
ago.
"They say l look just like my
mother" she said, reflectively, with
the little chintz frame in her hands.
Then she looked from it to the glass.
"Ma always was dressier than
am" and she smiled at the recoilect-
ion. Suddenly an idea came into her
sually matter-of-fact head, ant, de-
berately propping the faded minia-
Ire up against the old pincushion,
he pulled all the hairpins out of her
nair. Five minutes later you would
have looked about for chintz frame
for Sophie, for the lovely curled hair
added the last touch to the marvellous
resemblance.
At this critical moment Jane bounced
in without even the ceremony of q
knock. "Mary wants to know if it's
beef or mutton you'll have tonight"
then coming little closer, "Becn
washin' yer hair--looks nice," and
she grinned approvingly.
Sophie told me afterward if it
hadn't been for Jane she would have
done her hair over in the old way, and
If she had done it over in the old way
you're not going to pump me.
"Jane, you shouldn't bounce into a
PERSONS room like that. l might have
been-saying my prayers" she con-
cludad lamely. "Tell Mary to let thai
beef alone; the mutton's enough. Pl'
be out presently" and she turned her
back on the grinnipg girl.
tMary," said Jane, minute later
in the kitchen, "mark my words, it's
man-she says tho mutton's good
enough"
In Sophie's room Sophie was smil-
ing to herself as she pinned few pink
roses at her neck in place of the pin
she always wore. 'If I'm going to
make fool of myself, 1t will be big
one," and she rubbed her cheeks with
the crash towel, for the cheeks of the
miniature were faint pink.
But once in that stuffy dining room
and all thoughts of her hair aud pink
roses vanished. There were five of us
in that house, four men and one wom-
IN, and it was something of job to
get q tea for us. Boarders always
have good appetite. We were nil
late that night. How we'll l remem-
ber every detail.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05

This is likely to be dull year for
the guides all over Europe, predicts
the New York Tribune. Tourists
from America will be as angel visits
few and far between. Many thou
sands of those who are able to travel
are going to the Worlds Fair to get
acquainted with their own country.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05

About 100000 worth Of pearls
have been taken from the waters of
Wisconsin streams during the last
few years. Some single pearls OBJ
tanned there have been estimated to
be worth $1,000.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05

Efforts are being made to open
market in France for Australian NUT
ton. The English market prefers the
fat cross-bred mutton of New Zealand,
but the French like small joints of
lean, juicy meat, which it is thought
the Australian merino carcass should
be able TO supply.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-05
Our hats cost us 800, 100000 less u
year than we pay for our shoes.

The increase of murders in the last
three years in this country from
little over 5000 almost 1000 is some-
thing frightful.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

/, IL am nm Cd woman, and Il does
not much matter what happens to me.
l shall stay quietly here, but you anu
| Magdalena may find q securer shelter"
She paused. And yet, perhaps, It IL
better for you to stay. See how 1ar
we are from the main streets. Inc
French will keep to them, for they Will
be worn out with cold and hunger and
fatigue. God can keep us as safely
here as anywhere else.
Franz shook his head.
I'VE must not stay here to be muir.
dered ON IL own hearth. No, no,
grandmother; if you will not let rae
i fight we must find some way Of escape,
Ii Lorenz Imhoff would let you stay
here I will not"
A door on one side of the fireplace
opened and a woma came into the
! deeply Swallowed corner. Her black
dress made her at first indistinct, but
as she advanced a fair young face
with golden hair like her brothers
showed plainly.
This was Franz's sister, Magdalena
! Herber. She looked. at the boys
flushed cheeks, and then she. saw that
her grandmother was unusually seri
GUS.
Something has been happening" she
said. Tell me what it is"
Franz broke in before Frau Herbel
could speak: =.
"Magdalena, if you knew some one
was coming here to rob the house
and perhaps murder you, what should
you dor
She laughed. ITO begin with, there
is nothing in the house worth steal
ing, and there has not been a murder
n Freitenberg since 1 can remember
What has excited you, Franz? Have
you been reading fairy tales7 Yo,
have not ever kissed me-"
Franz went up to her and kissed hel
forehead. -- .
OF late he had grown impatient O!
her playful raillery. When he was hel
Franz and felt IRE that he had NJ
rival in her affections, then Magdalen,
might do as she pleased, but for som,
: months this had been changed, ant
Franz felt secretly uneasy. Lorenz I'm
, hoff, the son of one of the wealthies
citizens of ~Freitenberg, often came II
the house, and Franz noticedthat Mag
dalena blushed when Lorenz came. BE
sides, his school fellows had jeered hin
and asked him when the Wedding wa
going to happen.
II am not more excited, as you cal
it, than Herr Walters is, or Heinrich
Tafel, or Louis Werner, or any goot
citizen of Freitenberg. All, well, laugl
away! Grandmother does not think /
2 laughing matter. You will not laugl
! when the the E lt soldiers Is are in I'll tn
the town council says we are to 81
still while the butchers rob and mur
der us"
MagdaleAa's pale face turned yer!
white, her eyes %distended, and she Wen
close te her grandmother and put he
arm around Her: Can this be tt4pe1
she said. r.
ITO Be Continued.)
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29

Elnnks out, she iS palnred WIlte un ~
wharf by chain cables, she has gang
il a perfect counterpart Of the battle
slim Indiana now approaching compile
tion. In Philadelphia. There in no rec
ord kent, but II IS probable that mo less
than 10000 people visit the ship daily.
Gunner Walsh, who has charge OF the
ordnance of the Tessel, which, BY the
way, Is about the only genuine thing
about her. SAYS that the stream OF peo-
ME who enter the after gangWay, 50
through the ship and depart by tine lot
| ward gang way Is incessant. IL Is OILY
now and then that anybody comes
along who has an intelligent concepuon
Of what q modern man-of-war IS. Ihey
know something about guns n Iortl-
| fcations, but the inside of o ship. tney
| have never seen. The majority OF peo-
| pie are impressed from the very Degln-
| ming; they come on board with a feel
ing of uncertain curiosity; they look
| about the spacious decks, into the COM
| Portable, not to say luxurious cabins,
| and then their IDEAS OF what q manor
war Is begin to expand. 1t IS nara 70
say with which special department.
they are most impressed. Rural VISIT
| ors to the ship care very little about
the gum or the armament. They IN
spect, however, closely the quarters
| Of the officers and the accommodations
Of the men. They look through the
| chartroom with great interest and
listen attentively to the explanations
| of how a great ship is handled ut e q
The lady visitors pay particular atten-
| ton to the ships galley and to the GU
linary department, and all good house
keepers common d the absolute clean
illness of the mess tables and the cook
ing utensils. The ~paymaster's depart
ment is also the object Of a great deal
Of interest, and particularly that
branch Of It known as small stores"
In the days of the old navy It used to
be q saying that q paymaster had ev-
erything for sale from a hairpin to q
kedge anchor, but II that were true Of
the old navy it is infinitely more true
to-day. In those days Jack had to live
on salt pork and salt beef. He eombed
his AaiF' with a COW brush and scrubbed
his CLOTHES with q curry comb, The
lAly vegetable he ever get ut sea was
O patent thing called deslcated vegeta-
bles. Every farmer knows what a
silo Is and how green food for stock Is
prepared by the silo for use. Desicated
vegetables were prepared in the old
days / precisely the same way. Jack
used to call them "desecrated vegeta-
bles," and the name was inapt, for q
viler compound was never PREPARED for
the human stomach.
All this is changed in these days.
The naval exhibit in the paymaster's
department of the battle ship shows
the presence of canned fruits, canned
vegetables Of all variety and prepared
meats in their countless forms. Not
all Of these enter inflto the daily rations,
pAt Jack can buy what he wants under
certain rules, which is something never
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-29
-@f .5,' p [E.s a
A PUzzLiNG QUESTION.
What Becomes Of the 9ne-Legged
Many RdA shoe.

r Pc H<-- F$& - a,"FsEf- aLF2 Pc a--r
What Becomes Of the Dne-Legged
lIRa'E gla Shoe.
Just what becomes Of the shoes
which SHOULD adoarnH the missing foot
of 2 onelegged man Is q matter ct
some interest, and should furnish food
for thought to minds Of q speculative
tendency. While the number q. men
who actually have but one leg Is not
large, there are many who from one
cause or another veal but M shoe,
or from some discrepancy IN their feet
have to have shoe OF m especial
pattern. There are also the men with
artificial legs, who, although they wear
a pair Of shoes, tread much more light
" on the artificial leg than OIL the
natural one, making shoe last
about three times as long MS the other.
There are some shoe stores which,
buying their goods directly from the
manufacturers, ARE willing to sell a
o~ne-legged nan q single shoe, sending
the other back to the factory to be
mated; but almost the universal Gus.
tom is to sell only whole pairs. The
question then arises, What becomes
OF the large number OF new shoes
which are bought in this way. and
which are entirely. useless to their own
ers? The solution OF the problem
seems to be at present yelled in Oh
security, and to be known only to the
~ane]egged shoe Wearer himself. None
pf the local shoe dealers who were
questioned could RiYe any information