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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-08-03
MaNTELs AND FIREPLAcEs.


Country Houses.
The new mantels for country houses
are quite generally to be found in
colonial effects, or in a modification of
the empire style in white enamel. In
the colonial dining rooms the mantel-
piece is rather high. finished in grace
full. classic designs of gold on surface
of white enamel. The mantel is usual
~ surmounted by facing of mirrors.
This season these mirrors are usually
oval. large oval glass in the center
sometimes being fianked on either side
by smaller glasses in the same shape.
The cabinet overmantel. with its man.
shelves and recesses for the display of
bric-a-brac, is quite thing of the past
in fashionable country houses.
The andirons are now usually made
of bright. polished brass. The eceen-
tricities displayed a few years ago
in "old brass" and oxydized brass
(which was given the tint of age
by the use of acids) were intro
duced chiefly for the sparing of the
securing cloth. Happily for the artistic
effect of the fireplace. the bright-pol-
ished GRASS has returned to favor in all
its brilliancy. In elaborate parlors,
where the fireplace is intended solely
as an Offering TO the lares and penates,
and is altogether too Ella borate for prac-
teal use. the fender, andirons and metal
fittings of the CRATE are often gilded;
but this gilt will not bear the fire like
the honest shining brass which pre-
tends to be nothing but what it is. IL
-. j.
century we should be setting up mock
fireplaces. but il is in keeping with
that most atrocious and unwholesome
of all shams. the gas-log fire.
The tendency of the new andirons is
to gigantic height and a size which is
out of keeping with anything but houses
of baronial dimensions. The shortest
andirons are those in rocco shape, a
mass of eccentric curves. not espe-
eially attractive. The simple brass
andirons of early colonial times
are the ones most used in brass
in country houses. with basket CRATE,
if coal burned. Black iron and-irons
and tenders are used with colonial
mantels in the dining-rooms. libraries
and country halls. The facing of the
fireplace may be chosen in enameled
tiles in shaded blue. cream white or
pine white. or in any tint of color pre-
ferred. The figured tile is seldom used,
and the pretty Minton tile. which VAS
used for fire-facings several years ago,
is super>cde d bv the American tile with
its smooth, highly-glazed surface. A
mantel facing of marble is often put in
handsome maltelpieces. While colonial
mantelpieces with facings of pale pink,
Numidian marble or of notified yellow
Sienna marble, are effectively set in
bright fittings of polished brass. A
few mahogany mantelpieces have re-
Gently been made in large dimensions
in genuine empire style, being direct
copies of man.elpieces put up in the
period of Napoleon.-RoStonH Herald
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LIMERICK LACE MAKERS.

in the Plaisance. This village recalls,
to use the words of John G. Eastman,
in an article in the Chautauquan, the
stories of Stanley, Livingstone, and
Paul du Chaillu. 1t is inclosed by
fence made OF bark with platform
running along the top and the entire
distance Of the Midway front. There
are also ST. nal towers near the entrance
and into these matched boxes black
and savage se-i:inels are to be seen
every day dancing madly when they
are not singing and shaking long loops
of goats hoofs. There is no doubt that
the Dahomeyans are more closely allied
with the cruel and superstitious prac-
tees OF savagery than any other coun-
try represented in Midway. The wom
en- are as fierce if not fercer than the
men and all of them have to be watched
day and night for fear they may use
their spears for other purposes than
barbaric establishment of their dances.
The bodies of the villagers. practically
naked were ii not for the skirts
of seaweeds and grasses and the
scores of fetiches jingling from their
arms and legs, are frightfully Scared.
Much of the mutiiation was done in
war, but the voluntary missions made
in the cheeks are believed TO enhance
their beauty. The dance of the Da-
homeyans would be wholly uninterest-
ing were it not for the savage toggery
of the performers and the fact that the
women whose heads are closely shaver
carried arms for their king against the
French. II consists of a series of wild
gyrations with the legs and peculiar
crouching of the bodies as the dancers
advance to the din of dozen tom-toms.
The violent exercise Is continued until
the ebony skins of the performers are
dripping with perspiration and often
until they stagger from exhaustion
One of the characters of the village is a
former guard of Gen. Dodds. who re-
Gently crushed the cruel king of
Dahomey. The native is nearly fifty
years old and his body bears the
wounds of several rifle balls.
These make mp a great part of the
list of attractions of Midway Plaisance.
without which the worlds fair would
be incomplete. inasmuch as they afford
the people of the western world an OPP
portunity of studying the lives and
habits of those far-off races with which
they have been acquainted through re-
port only.
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soft rugs upon which the worshipers
may kneel, bow and PROSTATE them
selves at their prayers
There is low black fender about
the threshold at the entrance, where
all who go in remove their shoes. An
usher, or rather custodian, stands here,
not to seat strangers. but to keep them
out. by force. if. nece ssary; for this is
not church hospita ole to the Sunday
hummer. Christians, indeed, are not
permitted to enter the mosque at ali
until they turn Mohammedans.
The novelty of Moslem worship at
tracts a considerable crowd, which
fingers about the black fender, peeping
curiously in; and the opinion held by
the Moslems of these inquisitive Wis
itors is eloquently expressed by the
studious assiduity with which they
hide their shoes after removing them.
Further along are the villages of the
Indians and Dahomeyans, the latter be-
ing among the most attractive features
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Muslin Red Spreads.

Very pretty, and at the same time
simple and inexpensive daisy bed
spreads. are made of Swiss muslin COW
cred with large polka dots the size of
daisy centers. Cut the muslin the
length of the bed. allowing for hem
Three brcadths viii probably be re-
quired. but il is better not to sew these
together till the embroidery is done.
as the single breadths are easier TO
handle. Then, with heavy white EN-
broidery silk outline with long stitches
petals around the dots, which should
re worked in "Solomon's knots; in pa
yellow or green. Or the ox-eyed daisies
may be represented by yellow petals
and brown centers. The daisies should
not be wrought on every spot or with
any regularity. but scattered here and
there, and should vary slightly in size
and outline. with an occasional petal
folded or broken, as in nature. When
the spread is otherwise finished scatter
a few daisies over the seams AID edge
with lace. or finish with broad hem
stitched hem.-N. Y. World.
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II. Was Onto Her Game.

A few evenings ago a gentleman
stepped from a train at one of the Lon
don stations. when a young lady
skipped up TO him. threw her arms
rapturOusly about his neck and kissed
him many times. saying:
oh. papa, I'm 80 glad you have
come,~
The old gentleman threw both arms
around her and held her firmly to his
breast. Soon she looked up into his
face. and horror stood in her eve.
''0h. my. you're not my papa she
said. trying To free herself from his EN-
brace.
Yes. I am. insisted the old gentle
man, holding her tightly: you are my
ioug-lost daughter. and am going 70
keep you in my arms till get police
man.
When the officer came he found the
old gentleman's diamond pin in tho
girls hand Once Week.
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TRIMMINGS FOR SKIRTS.
sessonable Suggestions for the Hons
nraa

Seasonabie suggestions for the Home
Dressmaker.
All of the full skirts have round eff
fects in the trimmings. though many
of the gored designs made for short or
stout figures are trimmed lengthwise
by covering each seam with narrow
gimp, or piping with tiny double bias
fold, or cord each seam of the front
and sides. The full skirts extended
from the knees are as unbecoming to
tall figure, If stout. as to a short one.
The 1880 idea of placing the trimming
at the lower edge, knees and midway
between, became a favorite as soon
as it was introduced. Other rows
of garniture are put from two
to four inches apart, and some OF the
extreme toilets of the summer show
ruffies To the belt or fat rows of rib
bon or Hercules braid in graduated or
even rows G ntirely covering the skirt.
Unless blessed with an extensive ward
robe | would not recommend either of
these styles, as they are too striking
not to be well remembered Bias ruff
fles are rather scantily gathered. using
once and fourth more than the space
to be covered, with rolled hem blind
stitched top and bottom. and gathered
two thirds of an inch below the top on
a small cord. Others are headed by a
roll as large as the little finger of the
contrasting material used on the
dress. or narrow galloon. A
drapery ruffie consists of bias piece
slightly pulled around the lower edge
by rosette every twelve inches placed
to catch it down. Large rolls, as large
as a mans thumb, of velvet are used at
the very edge of skirts. and many
dresses of rich-looking fabric are
left untrimmed when the skirt is amply
full. A velvet drapery ruffie, held here
and there by two rabbits ears and a
knot of the same material, is very
dressy. These ear bows are pointed
like long rabbits ears. doubled and
wired to- keep them stiffy upright.
with small knot at the lower end
where they are sewcd togethcr-La-
dies Home journal.
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they told her She was the one person
who cnald reform him-savc him from
a druuSard's grave. YOU know. and
all that rot. Well. I'm blamed IL they
didn't hornswoggle the girl into say
ing she would marry him. lie had
grace enough 10 take it with good
deal Of shame-facedn -. and She
well. She looked a. IL she hadn't n
friend left on earth. But they had
dinued her 80 much about her duty
and what a man she could make of
Lee that she didn't have nerve enough
20 come out fiat-footed and say no.
.'One evening George came 70 me.
Observation-Disclosures as could he. and
wanted should take dinner with him
down town. I knew how he was feel
ing and thought I might chirk him mp
a bit. possibly. - we had dinner to-
gether. Long before we'd finished /
could see he'd some new purpose in his
head. amt finally ont he came with it
lie says:
Uncle. how drunk may gentle
man gete'
We'll. told him a gentleman was
all right 80 long as he could apologize
for his condition
Then he wanted to know Il cham
payne was a good way of reaching the
limit ! hadn't quite got him vet; but
warned him against champagne, of
cours,.-told him L was too liable TO
carry him past the station-and that
straight WHISKY was the only trust
worthy beverage where a man started
soberly ont TO get drunk
..He laughed little and said he be-
iieved he'd been missing soma fun
II met George again that night. about
one O'Clock IL was, and he was drunk
Well yOu can imagine how the thing
shocked me. because when fellow Of
his quiet nature take, too much You
know il means something. ! saw then
why he had questioned me as he
did The strain upon him. his dlsap-
pointment at losing the girl. had made
him reckless. and ned taken this way
u throw it of. tried 10 get him home
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WHEN MOTHER GETS HOME.

EAen mother gets home. oh. listen to the
or the lispiag little ones that gather all about
With chubby feet and dimpicd arms kept busy
climbing after
The blessings and caressings that mothers
love deals out
coOins-
This is
woOing
Kisses
From she endlezs treasure
OF those velvet lips Of hers. sweet As honey
Baby
Lingers.
May he
Fingers
All the matches measure
Other wealth Of trcsses, when mother gets
home.
When mother gets home. al the house is
strangely quiet
In the shadox q the silence sits the dear old
vacant ehalr-
Above it, on TIE parlor wall, picture hangs
while nigh e.
are poor dumb lips. that faIter al the thresh-
old Of . prayer
Children
Faces
Drilled in
Graccs.
Look 80 woru and WEAR
Look 80 van and weird-like in she awful
Rather
Lonely.
Father
Only
says. while our hearts arc dreary
The angels VIII Be happier, when mother gets
home
Alfred Ellison. in Chicago News.
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HE TRUSTS STRANGERS.
They Come Back. He Says. and Square u
Almost Every Time.

Almost Every Time.
'-IIere's my meal check, but have no
money to-day"
Very well. sir some other day
will do"
You will hear these words repeated
thirty times a day in certain down.
town eating house here, and they mean
that a total stranger has had hearty
meal. can't pay for the same, and the
proprietor is willing to accept his
promise to settle the bill some future
time. In any other place the man
would be looked upon as dead beat
and either kicked out or turned over to
the police. Here he is treated like a
gentleman and put on his honor A re-
porter went in. ate fifty cents worth of
well cooked food. took his check to the
cashier and said:
I'm dead broke to-day"
what name, please?'' he asked.
John smith.
Very well; come in any time; glad
to see Won. Good day
lie recorded name. date and amoant
and the reporter departed. Three days
later he called To pay. He did not
look at ali surprised as he hunted out
the slip and made change. Indeed, il
was Just what he expected, for ten
years experience had taught him that
niucty-five per cent. of dead brol1es'
return and square up. If all the vaga-
bonds of New York could get credit at
an eating house business would go to
the wall in fortnight, but that class
are not admitted. There is a man at
the door who spots" them and warns
them oil when they appear. A decent
looking man will pass muster every
time. however. and. though now and
then one fails To square up. the loss is
a mere trifie. The proprietor of the
place said he had more trouble with
dishonest walters in his employ than
with the thousands who feed at his
place every wear. lie loses a dollar
through a waiter for eve cry dime lost by
trusting an entire stranger.-N. Y. Re
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-@&S complexion; IN
short. just such MAJ - YOU would
address. in>tinctively. as Major"
We pulled tentatively at the cigars
until satisfied Of their excellence
Chen ! asked the major what had be-
come of his two nephcws, Of whom he
used 10 tell me so much lie INDUCED
IN come reminiscent chuckles. and said:
well, well, 30 l never To a YOU
how they settled down? Quite fam
lily affair it was. Let me scum
when you last heard of the boys. Lee,
tie elder was drinking very hard.
Where the fellow ever got his ap-
petite for liquor no one knows. but he
had il, and it was appalling. and there
did not seem 20 be any way of spelling
ii for him lie was one Of the bright
est boys | ever knew, one of these
plausible, ingratiating scamps that
you can't help hut like, and wish YOU
could. George was Just the opposite. a
quiet. stuGiOus sort of a chap, who kept
10 himself. mostly. somehow, ne never
SERVED to get along with people the
way Lee he didn't have that
bright sort Of tact that snakes young
men agreeable and taking. lie didn't
care any more for society than society
cared for him. the two weren't suited t.
each other: all he wanted was to he let
alone. The hoy was all right at bot
tom. as hes shown since: but the per
son 10 draw him out hadn't come along
yet.
We'll. four years ago this fall, there
came TO the house one day a hundred
4 a r Il
eyed meelness as YOU ever saw. II was
the daughter of sort of second cousin
of brother Eds and mine. Her parents
Were dead. and Ed was her guardian.
50 she came here to live. She was one
of this little. eanary-bird sort Of girls.
AT the time she arrived. Lee was
Just a little this side of deIirnm ire
mems. and I really believe she STAYED
'em OFF. Julie was her name. She
hadn't been in the house two weeks
before everybody was in love with her.
including both of the boys. II WAS the
most astonishing thing in the world.
the way she drew that fellow GEORGE
out. From being moody and self-cOn-
tanned, he just expanded into as jovial
and agreeable a young man as you'd
wish TO meet Julie and he seemed to
take to each other from the start.
can tell you. old oy, to see them to-
gether. with 50 much confidence and
good VIII between 'em, and 80 much Of
something else that seemed too big To
express swell. sometimes il made me
feel that possibly ! d missed something
in life 10y knocking around single.
But. however-welI. Lee didn't get
along - well with Julie. When he
was sober. and devoted himself tn her.
he seemed 20 sort Of awe her. don't YOU
know-she wasn't free and happy a.
she was with George. but always re-
strained. and half afraid of him But
they were both dead in love with her.
and each was determined To have her.
Now. You would have thought that
Ed and his wife would have put their
influence ON Georges side. wouldn't
YOU Not bit Of II. They wanted
her to marry lee, and why2 Because
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A Logical Charge.

He-I see the man who saturated his
wife's mother with kerosene. then set
her afire. and called in the neighbors
to look on has been convicted of muir
der.
She-The plea of Insanity didn't work
then?
He-No. the judge charged the jury
that nobody but man of sound mind
would do such a thing. - Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
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''oh, | think it's lovely to be mar
ried.' said a young woman to the lady
on whom she was calling. Especially
when you have a husband who is not
afraid to compliment you"
what does your husband say?"
''He said yesterday that | was get
ting to be a perfect Nantippe.@
"A Nantippe. DO you know who she
was?-
''Oh. yes; I asked Charley afterward.
and he told me she was the GOODIES of
youth and beauty. Texas Siftings.
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handicapped.
Il fear ] shall never get

Quilpin-I fear ] shall never get
in literature.
Friend-Cheer up: You will get some
thing accepted be 'ore. long.
Quilpin-oh. Won don't know how
am handicapped, The editors feel for
me, but they are powerless.
Friend-Nhat is the trouble?
Quilpin-Alas, / have no middle
uame.-Puck.
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BINDING TwINE.
Trying to Reach an Agreement to Raise
the Price,

New YoRK. July 9O.-John Good state:
that he has agreed on behalf of the John
Good Cordage Manufacturing Company
with the National COrdage, on a basis Of
prices for binding Irvine, ssal and manila
rope. which are very much higher than those
which are now ruling. Other independent
interests have not yet agreed 10 The new
prices. Mr.. Good believes there Will be nc
difficulty in obtaining their assent. The
new prices will not become operative until
the cordage reorganization is complete.
In connection with above telegram the I.
NJ Roberts Supply House have large lot Of
binding Irvine. upon which they quote the
following low figures, CASH WITH ORDER:
No. Z jute binding Irvine. &c.
No. A. sZal binding Irvine, 81 &C.
No -, Standard binding Irvine. S9&c.
The chances are for an advance in twIne,
and il would be better to stock mp now.
Prompt delivery and honorable treatment
are characteristic OF the T. NJ. Roberts Sup
ply House, 50s-l0 Nic0llOt av.. Minneapolis.
Send Is cents and this firm will send you,
express paid. their575 page catalogue, which
contains lowest prices ever offered on
Hardware, Cutlery, Bicycles, stoves,
Tinware Lumber, Win dOws. Doors,
Sporting Goods, BABY Carriages,
Musical Instruments. Pianos and Organs,
Sewing Machines, Rubber Goods,
TOYS. Paints, Oils, Fencing,
Buggies, Wagons, StationeryLamps,
Books, Bibles, Queensware,
Clocks, Watches, Silverware.
Drugs, Tents, Carpets, clothing.
Flags. Furniture, Hats, Caps, etc ,
Farm implements. Stack & Wagon Covers,
Harness and Dry Goods. Address;
I. III. ROBERTS SUPPLT House, Minneapolis.
CROSSING THE CANPUs-Miss Pretty
.Oh, wish could have gone TO collegeP
Sophomore Cousin blowing againl-
"Whyl" Miss Pretty-"It must be nice to
know so many men ~ Puck
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Assaults Upon Health

Are frequently committed by people who
dose themselves with violent purgatlves
Nothing nut ultimate injury can be reason
ably expected from such medicines, and yet
upon the smallest occasion, many unwise
people use them repeatedly. II the bowels
are costiVe, the most efficaciOus laxative Is
Hostetter Stomach Bitters, which never
convulses and gripes the intestines, while II
thoroughly regulates them and insures
healthfui action of the liver, stomach and
kidneys. Use it in rheumatism and malaria.
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HERE LIES BURIED
SOMEBODY < CHILD.

And before he slept he had the head
board in place. and as we drove away
next morning he fingered for half an
hour Ia bring more water and perhaps
10 utter prayer for the repose of the
dead. Detroit Free Press.
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England proper has population of
q. .1o4, less than half that of the
United States. Wales has population
of l,5ls9l4; Scotland. 4,025.647; Ire
land. 4.704 $50; Isle of Man, 55.59s. and
the channel islands, with an area of
but seventy five square miles, 92.272.
markings total population of the United
Kingdom, 37,s79,2SS
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WORLDS FAIR SIDE SHOWS
The Wonderful villages of the Mid
way Plaisanoe.
Miniature cities OF strange Races-A Fea-
ture That Affords Much Pleasure
to yisitors-odd Sights
and sounds.
Isnecln chIcago Corresnondenes

OTHING seems
TO afford the
average sight
seer at the fair
more genuine
pleasure than a
I r Up through
that widely fa-
nous thorough
fare, the Mid
way Plaisance.
One can hardly
stir abroad in
these pipin g
times Of pleas
II re in o u r
W o r Id fair
city, be it afoot
or by convey.
ance, without
h 9 arin & on
z Y q I Y hand
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Tommy is book about blind
shoemaker.
Johnny-lIuh' What could blind
shoemaker do. I'd like to know?
Tommy guess he could make in
visible patches all right enough, couldn't
he9-Chicago Tribune
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Pure and Wholesome Quality

Commends to public approval the California
liquid laxative remedy Syrup of Figs. II
is pleasant TO the taste and by acting gently
on the kidneys liver and bowels to cleanse
the system effectualy, it promotes the
health and comfort of all who use It, aud
with millions it is the best and only remedy.
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A Hard Place.

First Store Boy-Iiow do you like
your new place?
second Store Boy-Don't like it. If
I don't do things right. they'll keep me
dom 'em.-Good News