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UNUSALLY SIMPLE.

and laces, a mushroom industry in their manu-
facture has sprung up during a single mood Of
fashion, and, with the true American faculty of
producing in our own land something almost as
good as that which made another country
famous, we have brand-new laces, marvelously
cheap, in delicate, airy patterns, cunningly
tinted to the yellow and copper shades Of
fragile old Irish point.
Therefore dare to use it iavishly on our
best gowns. knowing that the ensemble will be
richness and elegance rather than tawdry imita-
ton of them.
One very dainty springtime gown is of lilac
bengaline. The finely sored skirt fits smoothly
to the sides. where it flares into the new fam
shaped, close-laid plaits.
Seven rows of narrow point de Gene headed
by milliner's twists of bengaline are laid on the
skirt.
The round, seamless bodice is tied about with
sash Of gray shot with lIlacs. scant puff Of the
same material fills queer cut of the bengsline
across the bust, which suggests a yoke and
pointed bodice effect.
Shoulder caps of very broad point de Gene
stand out almost straight from the arm seam.
Sleeves are huge dropping puffs, finished with
wide lace ruffie. Another crepa!ine gown is
trimmed with four lace jabots from waist to
skirt hem. A third has an entire bodice Of
gathered lace in Puritan style, worn with q
large figured cheviot skirt
Truly there is no end of ventures in combi-
nations calculated to as.ound."
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MODERATE EXAMPLES.

bet OF surah and the yoke is trimmed with a
ruft,e of narrow lace, while ruffie of very wide
lace forms the epanlette on the shoulder. The
standing collar is also covered with white lace.
The back of the blouse is the same as the front.
Il closes in front with invisible hooks and eyes.
Even though Won do not intend to adopt
crinoline you should have your skirts little
wider. They need not be stifened or wired,
nor, indeed. be great deal wider. Almost any
last years skirt will do il the fuilness at the
back be distributed all round for greater
width. Two entirely moderate and correct
examples are sketched- They are both Of the
silks with narrow stripes of color brightly con-
trastins with the ground. which are so much
worn. as indeed they were last season.
Such a dress having had the skirt
remodelsd as suggested may be further modern
lied i ting down the bodice and putting in
yoAe .om match one of the stripes. The stuff
cut out can go to making rever or soft drapery
to outline the yoke and add elaborateness to
the front A wide bodice belt could be added
to match the yoke and the bodice should be
worn under the skirt to give the round effect Of
this season. II the puffs OF the sleeves incline
too much TO perpendiculsr fuliness that il obvi-
ated BY taking them out Of the Armholes and
distributing the fullness with most Of it at the
sides OF the arm.
AL sorts Of materials may be used in combi-
nation this season. One dress showed the skirt
Of India silk with q lartice-work pattern. Tho
wide bodice belt is OF hrocade with yet another
pattern, and the bodice showing above the wide
belt is again OF India silk, but not the pattern
Of the skirt 1t looks all right, but dress-
makers do things with an air that Is convino-
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impression it makes upon the masculine, to say
nothing Of the feminine, mind. 1t is more
bent upon making itself useful. convenient and
a friend to be welcomed with fire light and the
teacups.
1t is aggressively empire in its commorest
phase; indeed, SO much so is it that it falls from
the bertha or ridicuiously short jacket. whose
points just reach the bust line. in unconined
fulness to the feet Its idiosyncrases are IN
restrained man encountering one Of these
gowns said of it:
The thing was tied around her neck and then
i. made plumb line with the point OF her shoe.
1t looked like a Mother Hubbard. by Jove. and
It wasn't as sweet under another name, either"
Man is a barbarian. but his speech has the
candor OF densest ignorance. 4 house gown
not emancipated to this state of being is of
light beige taffeta. 1t is cut square across the
neck and over the decolletage is drawn a heav-
lily embroidered jacket OF purple and gold. A
wide ruche OF purple satin stands high around
the neck and extends to the bottom of the
jacket. The fullness of the ;affeta is box plated
IN front aud fitted to a light two-boned lining
sufficiently to give slight curve to the waist at
the sides and back.
Another one is redeemed by a crusted belt Of
gold. which encircled the hips like q Cleopatra
girdle.
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bottom of the skirts edged with double ruffle
In the front there is a jabot arrangement Of
pleated material and around the neck is a
pieated ruche. The straight velvet sleeves are
very wide and finished with cuffs of the pleated
crepe, over whleh fall flounces of the same.
The second Illustration shows dainty prin-
cess costume of bengaline in q delicate gray
tint and velvet, somewhat darker. In making
ii the under dress of bengaline must be fitted
perfectly or the velvet will show creases The
front is cut from one piece the bengaline being
taken cross sTise and the side front seams are so
curved as TO do away with darts. The sides are
joined to the front and are slightly gored while
the back has one seam in the center. which is
very bias, TO form the bell skirt. The sleeves
are tight as far as the elbow and then form a
puff. The upper dress of velvet is perfectly
tight-fttiDg, and like the under dress, closes in
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Spring..


IT'S now the callow poet gins to sing Of gentle
spring,
OF bursting buds and running brooks and all that
sort vi thing;
When comes blizzard from the north with whis-
kerss on 1t throat.
And freezes up his MARBLE in the middle Of o note.
IT'S now the maid of high degree assumes a Lenten
frOwn, -
Yet sometimes lets her thoughts to stray toward
Easter gown;
She tries to keep her mind upon things holier and
higher,
Yet for hoopsklrts she admits she mas . sort Of
mild desire.
IT'S now the genial gentleman who's often known
as "Pat"
Is sending home for shamrock to be worn upon hi.
hat,
The hat his noble father wore through mony q dar.
lin fray
And mony blessed ruction on the good st. Pat
rck's day.
IT'S now the gureless Abraham, or Isaac, Eisen
stein
Is putting forth announcements of . new ant
nobby line
OF nns spring goods Is smooth Is silk and dursbl,
as leather,
That viii not wrinkle. shrink nor fade In any hind
of weather.
Indianapolis Journal
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When . man eloped with Biggs' wife he ex-
claimed "Well, can't blame him, poor fellow!
Twas awfully infatuated with her myself once. :"
Boston Transcript.
The idea Of employing pretty women for bill
collectors looks feasible, but it would not work.
The delinquent debtors would all want them 10
call again. ---SomerciUe Journal
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folds, the front breadth being IA: ard forming
IN inclined plane from the waist to the edge.
Then there Is q fold that sets out straight to
the sides with no tendency to draw toward
tie back. The side breadths then in
cline outward TO the ground. About
three folds. 10 eacn side of the
back and one straight out at the back consti-
tutss the fullness. A skirt of this kind is ex-
trene and lacks all grace. Others set smoothly
out, without folds fullness. all around to
where the back slant comes. Then the mate
rial lies III a series of folds or flutes. arranged
with much regularity and stifIened to keep
their places This skirt is rather pretty. At
least il seems 70 have some motive aud the gen
ersl tendency of the fuilness to the back gives
some grace. Occasional examples of these are
Already seen out doors and they do look
..foppy," but they will improve in appearance
Is the number of them increases.
The white crepe de chine robe OF the initial
has hand-painted front which is finished at
the top with yellow velvet ribbons The sleeve
are of yellow velvet. Ii il made over an ordi-
nary princess dress. The back OF the over
dress has no seam and is sewed to the lining on
one side and fastens invisibly with small hooks
on the shoulder and underneath the band The
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POST-LENTEN FABRICS.

Like Buttercup's Song Of Ribbons and Lsces
for Pretty Faces.
Crepalines, crepons, dotted Swisses, organ
dies, illuminated silks, embroidered bengalines
and the new half linen, half silk wash goods
will be worn for the high function, the post
Lenten ball, and the promenade Of the first
warm spring day. Wool and shadow crepon
viii be favorite combination, while satin, lace
and one Of these fabrics will be the choice par
excellence.
As to the machine-made parpitures paiioon
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the back. It is also lined with silk and forms a
kind of peasant bodice at the Top 1t is desira-
bic TO cut the upper dress from one piece and
then fit it over the hips and in the waist The
standing collar is Of bengaiine and second,
cape-like, of pleated bengaiine. The cuffs col
lar and the hem Of the silk dress, well as the
top and bottom Of the velvet overdress are
trimmed with narrow bands of fur.
The surplice is pretty, and the kerchief our
grandmotners used to wear looxs pretty in the
pictures. but somehow it won't stay in place
wnea it is worn by today's granddaughter.
Make IL a permanent part OF a dress and your
difficulties disappear. Arrange i. in the folds
you like and then sew in all down around the
armhole, but nowhere else. The point 10 free
in the back. or, il you like. there is only the
effect for the front. The ends you leave free to
cross over the breast and around to the back to
be tied. The enect IS demure and pretty. and
may be carried out on a wash dress with wash
able stuff, or over a plain velvet or silk bodice
in cashmere of lighter shade. 1t is a good
way to fresneu up the looks of a bodice that
has become sonewha: worn.
Another novel and pretty shoulder ornamen-
tation IL used on the dress of nv third picture.
In this case II Consists OF epaulet-like reyers
which are a continuation of the material of the
sleeve puts. At the elbow there ia a cuff formed
by turning back the edge o: the same piece of
material which makes the revers. The reyers
and cuffs are ornaInented with two rows of braid
about an inch and a half apart. the space be-
tween being filed with a lattice work of narrow
white cord. In this dress the material OF the
dress was dark blue cloth with braid of the
same shade. bu. the costume would look equally
well in almost any shade of blue or brown.
pretty and becoming blouse can be made
at home by almost any one, of any light COL
ored silk or surah, and will be very nice to
wear with dark skirt The material used in
the example pictured is old rose surah,
trimmed with fine white lace. 1t has a slightly
pointed yoke OF the silk with three insertions
OF lace. The front and back are cut rather
full. BAT the side forms and back are tight
fitting. The sleeve is tight cuff as far as the
elbow and from there forms a large wide
puff. The waist ia finished with q
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RAILWAY MECHANICS.
How Some Well-Known Roads Are
Designated by Trainmen.
HU MOROUS AND UNIQUE.

How Legal Titles Of Railroads Arc Abbre-
waited and Twisted-some Short Cut Names
Are the Result Of Singular Incidents of the
Country Through which They Pass, or Ac-
cident.
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FoRr CUSTER, MoSr., March 8, 1898.

~ANh ". Acsbs
AIRING THE EXPE-
rience Of such unfor-
Inmates as the banished
wretches in Siberian
minss. and, perhaps, Of
Napoleon's on st. Hell
ena's rock, every spe-
cies Of exile has, per-
haps, some alterations
to its unhappiness.
Many army officers,
condemned to what are
still western wilds-
ha -,@borf Tho
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THE HOUSE GOWN.

1t 10 . Most Determined Neglige and
ScOrns All Bonds.
The happy day when the house gown could
be worn upon the street and the street gown
was not out Of place behind the tea table has
vanished for this, and. probably, more seasons
to come. The house gown of the present is
long, dragging, appa-en-v Indifferent to the
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RESS DISPATCHES

RESS DISPATCHES
frequently come from
the west telling Of rail-
road accidents on the
800" or big -Four"
roads and the reader
that is not well posted
on railroad nomencla-
ture is at . loss to
locate the scene of
the catastrophe. Re-
Gently an order has
been issued to the effect
that unless an accident
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CRlN0LlNE is HERE
Will Fashions DEGREES Garry Its Use
to Extremes?
1T SPREADS AT THE BOTTOM.

The Skirt of the season-Some Moderate Ex-
amples-CoStumes That VIII Be in Style
Skirts Must BE Wider Anyhow-Bodices
and Jackets-yarious Materials.
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likely 10 be given up before they become mon
strous. This fact is developing a class that
viii make few radical changes in their wear, no
matter how fashions rise and fall.
This is going to bring about a state of things
where there are no extremists, but that blessed
time Ia not vet. and our cheeks blsrch and our
hearts begin to quake with fear when see SO
many signs OF approaching general use of these
dreadful things.
All the examples shown in the spring gowns
snow skirts with distinct spread at the bot
TOM Some of them stand out from the waist
smooth and stiff like an inverted funnel.
Others spread from the waist in q series Of
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In THE SH0SH0NES.
Where the Finest Sport in America
is Found.
POACHENG ARMY OFFICERS

Relation OF an Amusing Experience-How .
Game Constable Was Induced to Become
the Guide Of Hunting Party-Game
Laws That Were Suspended for the Time.
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E NAY MAKE AS
much OF a face as we
choose, but they are
here. The crinolines
have come, and the
question is. viii they
they get worse and
worse or will they stay
stay where they are
now-in the fashiora-
bic windows and mo-
distes' parlors? Expe-
rience warns us that a
fashion never stays
where it starts, but it
goes on and on till its
exasgerasion brin gs
about its dismissal. But
fashions are now mere
promptly set aside than
they formerly were.
and. therefore, are now
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outside material. as is shown In the picture, Is
gathered into the folds in the front, which ex-
tend 10 the back, where they laid in one large
hollow pleat, hanging loose from the dress. Inc
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with Jamestown, 10 known all through the rail-
road world % The Jimtown' road.
''To come closer homo the Chesapeake and
Ohio 10 called the F. r. w. taken, no doubt,
from the name given its fastest train.
The Baltimore and Potomac the b. and P, the
Baltimore and Ohio the b and o. and the Rich
mond Terminal the IL. T. These are all
authorizations, but what the trainmen know
these roads by would not look very well in
print and il made public might perhaps rufie
the courteous demeanor Of the managers of
these roads, who are certainly the princes of
Of good fellows,
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BRANDY AND SODA.

"Two humorous nicknames are the ones
given to the Buffalo and Southwestern and the
Buffalo and jamestown railroads. The former
was first called the B. and 8. w. but Of late
goes under the name Of Brandy and Soda
The latter road, on account OF its connection
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Written for The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, MARCH II. 1898.
= MAY MAKE AZ
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Ireland has the least proportion Of crimi-
nails to the million of population, $50.
Black walnut sawdust, caramel and
roasted and Drowned horse liver are used
as coffee.
There are fortv-eight distinct diseases of
the eye. No other organ of the human
body has so many.
The Oldest newspaper in the United States
is the Hartford Courant, which celebrated
its 10th anniversary last week.
10 two Eastern carpets are precisely
alike in all respects. With machine weaV-
ing. OF course. the opposite is the case.
Massachusetts has more incorporated
cities of more than ten thousand inhabi-
tants than any other State in the Union.
New Jersey was named for Sir George
Carteret. who was at that time Governor
OF the island OF Jersey in the British chan
mel.
From the American aloe tree threads,
needles. ropes. cables. paper, clothing. soap,
sugar and brandy are some OF the articles
made.
Every church and chapel In every village
and town in Wales has its choir. often
numbering sixty, seventy or one hundred
voices.
The San Francisco Call saws: The whale
is destined 10 disappear from the North
Pacific much more speedily than he was
driven from the eastern approaches 10 the
Arctic. The whale fleet sailing out OF the
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THE BARGAIN FAD.
When 1T Strikes n WOman True Econ
Omy Goes to the Wall.

omy Goes to the Wall.
Chicago Post.
That is the way with a woman. She will
go without rubberS and econOIaiZe on flan-
nels. She will save on her downtown lunch
cons and walk holes in her shoCc rather
than waste money on car fares. She Will
launder her handkerchiefS in her own room,
ing them on the mirror 10 dry. They will
be soapy and smelly and horrid, but she
will use them heroically, borne Up by the
knowledge that she has saved half a dollar
out of the weekly laundry bill.
She will deny herself the pleasure of hav-
ing that dress which she really needs,
though she has the cloth all ready and wait
ing, simply because the dreSsmaker charges
so much. She viii ~reDounce correspondence
because stationery and stamps, you know,
really run away with q good deal of money.
She will make a martyr of herself. and talk
man who knows her and who isn't old
enough to understand will think what a
heroic little thing she is TO battle with
the odds of poverty. And then, brave ana
demure in her threadbare. cloth gown, she
happens across a bargain counter, and
impossible gauzeS; things that won't wash
nor wear, nor keep one warm; things that
must be made over stiff and crinkling
silk and trimmed with velvet or ribbons or
lace, and then are only fit for q festal garb.
And the young woman knows that she can
not afford either the trimmings or the
making and she really does not know
what she would do with the frocks if she
could afford them. So she lays the fragile,
useless, shining gauZeS away in orriS pow
der at the bottom of a trunk and talks
some more about her poverty. And her
conscience doesn't trouble her at all. Why?
Oh, because the things that she bought
were cheap!
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of the ~sitter'S ears. The head is too busy
in the dining room to need much support.
If the chair backs reach up to the shoulder
blades they are quite high enough. If they
go further than that they tempt diners to
slumber at the table, which is bad man.
ners. Another objection to the high
backed chair is that walters or wait
resses OF ordinary stature find them a seri-
Gus hindrance to the prompt distribution Of
food. A short waitress cannot take a short
cut over a chair back four or five feet high.
She must steer her dishes around the cor
ners of such chairs, and that is more of an
inconvenience and detriment TO good wait
ing than most diners realize. One day this
summer at a hotel where high-backed,
twin-spire chairs prevailed. a waiting damsel
made a pathetic complaint OF the extreme
WEAKNESS she had in her arms because of
the constant lifting of dishes over the high
backs of the dining room chairs.
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4 Slight misunderstanding.

HarperS BaZar.
Count Spaghetti-Miss Bonds, I have come
to ask you q question; one which-ah-
which,
Miss Bonds-Yes, I understand, Count; but
it may not be. l am already engaged to be
married.
Count Spaghetti-You mistake me, madam.
] was not about to ask your hand, but-ah-
1 wished to know If you could lend me SO
for a week.
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A College Journalist.
New York Weekly.

Friend-How's that? Lost your position
already? 1 thought you were the highest
honor graduate in the Great American Col
lege OF Journalism?
Young Journalist-That's what's the mat
ter. ALI the professors kept dinging into my
head the great journalistic motto, Boil 1t
Down."
'VVel?'
well, the first work l was given was ed
iting the special cable dispatches. 1 boiled
'en down TO about three inches, and this
morning the proprietor kicked me out"
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In the Wrong Office.
Good News.

GOOu -NGWo.
Actress-You are a divorce lawyer, I I'M
derStand?
Lawyer-Yes, madame; / secure divorces
without publicity. .
Actress-Um-Pm in the wrong Office.
Good day, sir.
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High-Back Chairs.
Harper's Week.

n contemporary Photographer speaks in
commentator OF the current disposition 10
furnish dining rooms with high-back
chairs. Dining-room chairs ought to be
thoroughly comfortable, but nothing is
gained by making them high enough TO sup
port the head, or in running little steeples
up along each side Of them in the vicinity
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His
New York Weekly.

Tramp-All my troubles come from card
playin', mum. I lost me self-reSpect, an
then ! didn't care what became OF me.
Housekeeper Observation-Disclosures man!
/ should think you would have lost your
se~lf-reSpect.
Tramp-Yes, mum. a man can have no
self-respect wen he always loses.
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4 Fortunate Boy.
Good News.

Papa-Don't you think you might get a
prize this term if you should try hard?
Small Son-No use. Sammy Smart takes
ali the prizes in our school.
WHY is that?'
Il don't know for sure, but / guess mebby
he's got a papa wot knows enough about
arithmetic to help him in his MS"
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He Knew the Pills.
New York Weekly.

Farmer Hoefast-There's Just as many
miracles now as there ever was. There's
whole columns about miracles every week
in the Bungtown Bugle.
Mrs. Hoefast-If you'd read tn paper.
stead Of JUS skimmin' over it, you'd see
them articles is all about people gittin'
cured by DR.. Dosem's Bilious Pills-the
same you tried.
Farmer Hoefast-Eh, Did those pills ever
do anybody any good? Well, that's a mira
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Silenced.
Puck.

Little Boy with toy camera)-Call that a
cow you are drawing? 1t doesn't look like
a cow.
Little Girl from Boston)-This isn't pho
Biography. It's art.
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HumOring His Customer

New York Weekly.
Professor Won Note-You hat a vine col.
lection off classic music here.
Music Dealer-That's for young ladies to
look over previous to asking for a copy OF
After the Ball.
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Women and the Sunday Paper.

Marriages first, then births and deaths,
Their feminine thoughts engage;
And they always read the dry-goods ads,
And never 1.-The Woman's Page"
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A Very Material Difference.
N
PIIcE

Stapleton-What is the difference between
a cafe and a saloon, any way?
Caldecott-About 80 per cent. in the price
Of the LIQUOR, / should say.