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her dislike to the change of religion
being made a condition in royal mar
l-lages. This point is touched upon sew
er2l times in her letters, and it is only
natural that the daughter should have
felt Sensitively on this point Still it is
clear that the czaIina of holy Russia
cannot be anything but orthodox, and
the engagement had scarcely been an
nounced when two Greek priests were
sent to instruct the princess with a
view Of i1er joining her future hus-
bands faith. The princess lent herself
with fairly good grace to all that was
proposed, till she found that she would
be required to declare that her late re-
ligion was ''accursed." This she abso-
lutely refused to do. and as a conse-
quence. the marriage was at one time
almost broken off. After many pour
parlers," the primate of the Greek
church consented to alter the form of
2bjuration to the words 81 join the
Greek church in order to be of the
same religion as my future husband
and children and until this was clear
ly and publicly stated the princess
would not even consent to consider the
question of her change of faith. Prin-
cess AliX, since the death of her father,
has been the guest of her brother at
the grand ducal palace of Darmstadt
There she had and has her own suite
of rooms filled with protrafts of her
English relations and friends and lined
with books old and new, German and
English.
Her marriage was to have taken
place two months before the cars ia
tai illness, had it not been for religious
difficulties, and the fact that she her
self was in no hurry to begin her new
life. Unlike the czarewitch, who is
painfully nervous and to whom even
the noise of a settler bottle being open
ed produces a painful impression, the
princess has extra ordinary self-com-
mand and much of her grandmother's
sterling good sense and knowledge of
the world. Often it has been her part
to act as peacemal1er between her Sis
tiers and their husbands, and had it not
been for her, the Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess Serge would have been
separated long ago. 1t was the knowl-
edge of this fact that made the car
first consent to the thought of her
marriage with his eldest son. For in
Russia czarinas have always played an
important part in the affairs of the
state, and it is, therefore, virtually i'm
portant that the princess holding this
position should be thoroughly trust
worthy and reliable.
ADELE MARCO,
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authority of a <gentleman who is an

authority of a gentleman who is an
expert pistol shot
How to stand and how to hold the
weapon is of greatest Importance; the
body must be balanced equally on each
foot (even if your burglar escapes
meanwhile) slightly facing the target,
and the arm held perfectly straight
out. The arm should never. be bent.
The hand grasps the revolver high on
the butt with the thumb we'll around
to the inside and straight, and
the trigger finger entirely free. This
throws the work of holding the revol-
yer wholly on the outer fingers. The
object of this position of the hand is to
get the barrel in exact line with the
arm when extended, thus bringing the
target, the sights and eye in one line.
This position also niinimizes the effect
of trembling and rotating the arm. The
weapon being properly aimed it should
be held there, and the trigger very
gently and steadily pressed. The mind
should forget the possibility of an eX-
plosion, and the whole attention de-
voted to holding the sights of the re-
volver in exactly the proper position
on the target. Of you are not quite
steady, in attending to all these little
details, the burglar will doubtless
Above all things should the shooter
keep UP a steady pressure with the
trigger finger, and on no account yield
to the template ton to add just a little
more force suddenly. The technical
terms expressing these qualifications
are good holder" and good trigger
pull"
The revolver is peculiarly an Ameri-
can weapon. The Americans have
made scores, never approached by any
other nation. Not only are they first
but they occupy every position be-
tween that and twentieth. The weap-
ons in use are the quick firing or self
cooking and single action. What the
self-cocler gains in rapidity of action
is more than lost by lack of accuracy.
Still there are records where one has
been able to put five shots in a space
one foot square at a distance of thirty
six feet in four-ffths of one second.
Such work is exceptional.
There is a certain class of individuals
who cannot put three bricks in line on
a table Such of course can never
learn to shoot. Further the sight of a
pistol may send the cold shivers down
your back In this case also, you viii
have something TO overcome before
you can become an expert shot,
II always expect them to so off
they are loaded or not l
overhead a young girl say recently,
speaking of pistols. 81 am quite sure
they can go off without regard to
cartridges
DIANA CROSSWAYS.
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made up over pink silk slip of the
same shade, with gigot sleeves of pink
satin, and cape bertha of black
thread lace that gives an air of dis
tinction to the gown. The lines of the
figure are suggeted rather than out
lined by a sash Of pink silk.
For demi-house toilet for morning or
afternoon wear, Miss Russell has pro-
nounced liking for pretty fancy waists
worn with dark skirts. A distingue
toilet of this sort for one who has
smooth fair skin with light hair, con-
sists of a black skirt, and a waist of
cerise or clear cherry red silk yelled
with black. The skirt is of satin, made
full and f1aring, and perfectly plain
about the foot. The waist has square
yoke defined with a fine black thread
lace in diamond lattice designs. The
huge sleeves and entire lower part of
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The Most Fashionable Fur of the
Winter.

The Most Fashionable Fur of the
Winter.
Fur was once defined by witty
Frenchman as "une peau qui change
| de bite, "a skin that changes it's wear
err, and fashion has decreed that we
should all array ourselves this winter
at the expense of the little rats known
as chinchillas. The name is Spanish,
as the animals are natives of Chilli
and Peru. They are about the size of
small squirrel, but much less active
than our own frisking, frolicsome
flashes of fur, with very large round
ears, covered but slightly with down.
They use their fore-paws to convey
the food to their mouths, which are but
half as long as their hind legs. Being
of gentle nature, with no fighting in
stincts, their only chance of safety lies
in flight, so they burroW in the mount
ain sides long tunnels, whose depth and
extent enable them to elude their pur
suers. They are hunted by dogs. who
are trained to take them without injur-
ing the fur.
The ancient Peruvians used to weave
very beautiful materials of the plucked
hairs, which were used only by royal
ty. Probably one reason of the popu
larity of this fur at present is that in
1880 the French naturaliStS first gave
their attention to the chinchillas, being
enabled to verify the statements made
by Moline many years before, by OBJ
serving some of the little animals which
had been brought to the "Menagerie of
the Museum" in Paris, Public atten-
ton was drawn to them. The fur be-
came the fashion. AS we are now mas
querading in the costumes of that per-
iod. we too must wear chinchilla.
There are three grades of the fur.
The cheapest comes of a cross-breed
and is recognized by it's darker color
and shorter fur. The second in value
is the real chinchilla, but taken from
an old animal, While the very young
ones furnish the most beautiful and
valuable skins. OF these, the fur is
long, the color a light pearly gray and
in certain lights there is upon them
silken sheen that is much admired
by connoisseurs. The moths are more
appreciative of chinchilla than of any
other fur, and seem to have an instinc-
tive preference for the best Through
the summer the furriers wage inces-
SAINT war with these destroyers, never
allowing the made-up articles to be put
away in the dark, but they are kept
out in the open daylight and frequently
aired, while the skins themselves are
kept on ice.
MRS. BURTON KINGsLAND.
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A. sUMpTUoUs WARDROBE.
Miss Lillian RusselI's New Home
Toilets.

Somebody says ''only a beautiful wo-
man can wear a beautiful dress"
If this were quite true, there would
not be SO many beautiful gowns worn,
but now and then some radiant crea-
ture comes to the glorifcation of the
modiste's most recherche creations,
with a royal generosity of charms that
makes up for the discrepancies of
others.
Miss Lillian Russell, for example, has
some stunning toilets this season that
in combination with her beautiful face
and superb figure made her queen of
brilliants in more senses than that Of
the star of a comic opera by that name.
Her stage dresses in her latest role
are of a fanciful character, not suited
to the wardrobe of a woman in private
life, but her private wardrobe over
flows with elegant models for arrayiug
blonde beauty upon any and all occa-
sions.
LOUNGING ROBES.
Artistic house gowns with long flow
ing lines are a fad of Miss Russell who
appreciates, no doubt, their superla-
lively becoming quality for a figure
that has full bust and expansive hips
One of her tea gowns and negligee's s,
perhaps the prettiest dream of all, is a
pink silk crepe of the exquisite blush
tint of the pearly pink wild rose. 1t is
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London, Dec. /, 1S94.-Princess Alix
the future empress of the young car
ment and training than many of her
English cousins. From babyhood she
has been surrounded by nurses, at
pendants, and governesses selected at
Windsor and Balmoral, and since the
age of she has been mothered and
cared for almost exclusively by her
royal grand mother, Queen Victoria.
Princess Alix of Hesse is the young
est living child of the late Grand Duke
and Duchess Of Hesse Darmstadt, and
lner mother, Princess Alice, was the
most popular of the English royal fam
lily, and her love and devotion to her
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which is as heavy as a summer
blanket, large raised blots that might
almost be Hkened to tears. Another
quite as solid, is woven in dull grains,
and this is likewise for street wear.
The crinkled pattern is preferred for
house use, and is often as light and
fragile as yelling, and in this weight
affords most gracious possibilities for
draping.
Other woods that are always per-
mlssible for mourning, are the Priest
ly ihenriettas, serges, dlagonalss and
figures and fiowery novelties.
AVOIDING GLOSS.
After careful sponging very dull
calneps hair may be used and through
the same process-linited sponging is
no unimportant factor with most
heavy woods nowadays rich and
handsome effect can be gained from
a new highly glace material, that
seems to have no especial name.
In silk, besides the armure and dull
gros grain peau de sole is also adj
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in the presence of a friend. she VIII
find the test an exceedingly difficult
one. These emotions seem to confuse
each other frequently, or demand a
repetition.
Learning this at home is not a bad
idea, for it viii induce gracefulness i'm
action and choice of gesture which
French.
Some of the most important items to
bear in mind were dwelt upon by the
professor For instance ne said,
''never use the fingers for pointing,
use the hand, which should swing hex-
IDLY upon the wrist in the direction de-
sired Again, do not fancy that curves
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WALKING COSTUME

A chic street toilet that is another
trophy of Miss RusselPs latest trip
abroad is of dark blue cloth, made with
a fiaring gored skirt and tight-fitting
bodice. The front of the skirt is 1t
solid tablier of blue velvet, from which
revers of the cloth turn back upon the
skirt, the revers being elegantly en-
broidered with gold. The idea of an
under robe Of velvet is carried out in
the bodice, which has a gilet of velvet,
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EFFECTIVE GESTURES.
Training the Hands at schools Of
Acting.

Troinipp 4bo
""iS Ob
Entering school, of acting presents
immediate thought of voice culture
of training to sit and stand o-r,oef,,I,,,
and above all. the exnressjons Of e,l1S,
ton 1t is NOT univ-ers.l,v l+9o,,,r, 49,
many hours are devotelt Ia tb.s -,, 80
ments of the hand This il firy+ 49,.
other Things fol'ow Iist ia esi9,a, r.'s ~
each scholar and thav arc ef,,eSiaJ -
drilled until If is second ,atI1re To g.
press bv tbe hands any ori,-e,, s,,,r,4;,T,
It rn11sf he 60 trrl,-l,1,,
them as to become the ma t,,TsJ 1890,
emit of the spealSinr line winch :.
Young person fakes her first lsssor, =
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of the arm suggest grace. they affect
it's weakness. The elbow should be
held rigidly straight, the curves con-
fined to the wrist Other advice is that
to acquire hexibflity of the muscles,
the arms should be practiced in being
raised to their length above the head.
then quickly dropped. This acquires
as violent as the exercise seems.
And familiarity and repose are the
two great elements of success in grace
full gesturing."
ADELE McALLISTER
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REVOLVER SHOOTING ron WOMEN

There are some secrets or rather
points, in regard to shooting off re-
volver that are worth while consider
ing.
Possibly, however, the tiger in the
jungle and the bear in the mountain,
as targets do not allure you, but you
will have the misguided midnight burg
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lar to contemplate. It may be we'll
just here to remark, in parenthesis,
that the efficacy of pistols in the jung
les is open. to doubt, but the burglar is
always with us, and we ought to know
the very best and most fin de steele
way of shooting him.
The following hints are given on the
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MOURNING FASHIONS.
CORRECT APPAREL FOR THOSE
NEARING BLl.CK.
spun Silk Makes n Charming Veil,
Crepon "a Correct Gown, and Lynx
is to Wear With Mourning Garb.

Nowhere is the tale of fashion bet
ter told than by the well-dressed pass
er-by. and in this way it is now made
manifest-that the widows cap is par
TALLY taboed
Very young women no longer seem
to be wearing them. They are consid-
cred bad form, as calculated in fact to
direct attention to mere youth and
possible good looks alone. For the
same reason, the French collar and
bonnet strings of white nenlmed lawn,
aia also forbidden the youngiSh Wo-
man. With the older face, however,
they, as well as the cap. become en-
tiraiy matters of individual taste.
MOURNING Wells.
AS for the widows bonnet itself, it
is really a most irlconsequent affair,
for young and old alike, hardly more
than back ground for the draping of
the veil.
This, according to the taste. of the
wear'sr, is either of English crepe,
which, in spite of headaches, continues
to be worn, nuns Yelling or spun silk
new and effective material. Wells
of this spun silk are as light almost
to wear They have sometimes 3
woven creepy border, or again an added
one of English crepe topped oy mar
row fold of the same, and along with
them are occasionally really splendid
ones Of Brussels net, of q. very heavy
grade, arranged in a like fashion.
They are both decided improvements
over the burdensome crepes and nuns
veilings, but the first mourning veil
is generally preferred in the more
soml5re stuffs.
In length, the widows veil runs all
the way from two to three yards and
half. 1t. may even be longer if de-
sired, and though many are punched
slightly at the temples to give an eff
feet of width to the bonnet, again
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below the lace, ending in the arm
seams and caught together in the CEN
ire with jeweled brooch, as, for in
stance, an immense opal of wondrous
beauty set in many small diamonds
The sleeves are single puffs to the ell
bow, and over them fall deep epaul-
cite tightly strapped through the cen
tire to make two small capes, which
are bordered with the lace.
DINAEI STJTRGTS
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F. Auerbach & Bro. are receiving
daily wraps and cloaks in endless ya-i-
ETY. in styles and prices. The special
sale in this department is now on
Call and inspect goods and prices be-
fore buying elsewhere
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ADELE McALLIsTER-
The Ladies, I.iterarv C1ub

Are working faithfully for the Pioneer
Library benefit and will undoubtedly
be encouraged in their noble efforts by
a large audience Monday and Tues
day evenings.
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the revers corresponding to those on
the skirt, also embroidered with gold.
The girdle of the Felix gown is wide
and of gold embroidery. a black velvet
bow just in front being cunning in
tervention to make the waist look
slenderer. A sealskin cape, and big
picture hat of blue velvet are elegant
accessories of this dress.
A dainty conceit for an afternoon at
home, chat by its very simplicity makes
the beautiful wearer the fairer, is of
silvery gray crepe made over silk of
the same tint. The skirt has two mod
est little folds of the goods about the
foot, and at intervals rabbits ear bows
of glistening silver tinted satin ribbon
seem to hold the folds in place. There
is surplice arrangement of folds
across the 'front.' a smart girdle and
sash ends of the satin ribbon, and CO.
quettish cuffs and fichu of sheer
white null to set off the bodice
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the bodice are covered with fine ac-
cordeon plating of sheer chiffon in
black, put on so that the plalts run
round the body instead of vertically.
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the skirt, was without any sign of
stiffening.
An effective and sensible street gown
Of English serge, trimmed with mar
row mohair braid. had "a habit basque,
and over its moderately fared and
stiffened lower skirt, a double skirt
effect that, lifted slightly at the left
side.
MOURNING FURS.
With furs. Persian, astrakhan, lynx
and the cousinly little monkey skins,
though all worn with color, are the
only ones accounted strictly mourning
Black bear, Hudson bay otter and
seal. however, are frequently accom-
paniments to deepest crepe, and in
deed. to judge by the people ono sees
in the streets, in an emergency, any
sedate weli-dyed skins can be used.
NINA FITCH.
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they may be raised back of a fiat
crepe bow in front to create look of
height.
But it is only in the first weeks of
mourning that the veil Isl now worn
over the face.
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nitEed as lnourning. A very beautiful
and appropriate house dress for deep
mourning. lately seen, had a slightly
trained skirt of 5peau de sole. and a
chiffon round bodice, that, like
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FOR EVENING WEAR.

A dashing dinner gown is of black
velvet with a demi-trained skirt and
decollete bodice with sleeve puffs that
are very large. The neck and the foot
of the skirt are bordered with a fluffy
mass of gray marabout feathers that
CLINT from pearl to dove gray in shade.
The front of the dress is ornamented
with pendants and connected loops of
gold shaded into harmony with the
gown by an admixture Of pearl and
black cords.
An exquisite ball gown is of superb
white satin brocaded with silver. The
deni-trained skirt has two panels, one
on each side of the front breadth, of
Honiton lace. The bodice. instead of
ending at the waist band, is continued
in short basques that give it the effect
Of melting into the skirt. About the
upper part of the skirt, falling from
under the basque of the bodice, is
flounce of the lace corresponding to the
side panel bands. This is put on full
enough to hang easily but not full
enough to hide the pattern, which is
one of the charms of elegant lace
The decollete neck is outlined with a
narrow band of lace, the points turned
downward, and there is a full plated
fold of the satin across the bust just
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done. care must be taken not to scorch
them, nor add them to the cake while
warm. MRS. f. f.
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THE CORRECT
THING

To those inexperienced in this sad
line of shopping, the buying of first
mourning gowns should call for seri-
Gus thinking or else be left entirely in
skilled hands. 1t is so easy to overdo
thing that is new, to be Indifferent
to a bow or buckle too much. And to-
day, as always, the ethics of good
taste demand that no superfluous
ornament shall wear the melancholy
dignity of sorrows external express
sion.
OF course there are always trim
mings in plenty for those who will
have them. There are dull jets, and
huge crepe sleeves and rustling
arnlure silks, but plainness, easy flow
ing lines, and soft retiring textures
are the points that now distinguish
the most correct black.
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RUSSIA'S CZARINA.
BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS WHO WILL
REIGN WITH NICHOLAS III.

AIix Led a Lively Childhood, But is
Now ~ SeIf-ReIinnt Hardy Girl
Who Refused to Declare Her Re-
1iGion Accurst.
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SITTTABLE MATERIAT,s

In wool for street as we'll as house
wear, crepon, grained or crinkley, is a
favorite and dressy material.
One very rich design in it-and ex-
pensive one-has over it's frosty weave,
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MOuRNING WELLS.

AS for the widows bonnet itself, it
is really a most irlconsequent affair,
for young and old alike, hardly more
than back ground for the draping of
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CHINCHILLA.

DIANA CROSSWAYS.