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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17

DRAPERIES ROOM.
Today we'll sell FIVE
hundred opaque Window
Shades, dadoed border,
mounted on good quality
spring rollers, full size
curtains all ready to
hang at 25c each, great
bargain.
SILKS COUNTER.
All the remnants, ends
and short lengths Of
Florentine Silks to be
sold at 75c a yard. Reg
ular price pI.oo.
NEEDLEWORK COUNTER.
Three dozen hemstitch-
ed linen Teacloths, / ia
yards square, to be sold at
$I.75, marked down from
400 and 800, stamped
ready for embroidery.
LEATHER GOODS COUNTER.
Ten dozen assorted
black and colored grain
leather and morocco
Purses at two for 25c to-
day.
JEWELRY COUNTER.
Today's we'll sell a
hundred more Nickeled
Clocks at 88c, regular
price $I.35.
STATIONERY COUNTER.
Two hundred gross Of
Eagle Lead Pencils with
rubber tips, at SC a
dozen.
In same section all that
are left of the Books Of
Views Of the Worlds
Fair" to go at nc each,
regular price CSC.
YARNS COUNTER.
Today we'll sell Morse,
Kaley's best white Knit
ting Cotton at SC a ball.
RIBBONS COUNTER.
Fifty pieces Of number
Io black Satin Ribbon
with crown edge, at SC a
yard, marked down from
zoe and csc.
HANDKERCHIEFs COUNTER.
One lot of Women's
hemstitched and revered
Handkerchief with hand.
wrought initials, to go at
two for csc.
LINENS COUNTER.
Today we'll sell a lot
of extra large size fine
Damask Napkins, hand
some patterns at 4.5o,
marked down from 5.81,
Good bargain.
hrEc Cn1rNnrp
Twenty pieces assorted
white Oriental Lace
Edgings, all widths, at
I2 I-2c, marked down
from roc and 25c.
EMBROIDERIES COUNTER.
One lot of Hamburg
Edging, medium widths,
cut scallops. to be sold at
nc, marked down from
24c and 28c.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17

The New Horsford's Baking Powder
is Economical,
because two spoonfuls will do better
work thai three teaspoonfuls of any other
kind. Its superior strength accomplishes
wonderful results.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17

The New
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17
The aCedther today
is likely to be
Fair.

Fair.
PORTLAND, Sept. II. 1894
x UR column of Mon
~ day bargains is a
bit fuller of in
terest this week than
usual. Every depart
ment is represented in
the offerings enumerated
below, each department
presents an attraction in
which you who come are
sure to find a benefit.
ROOM.
Today we'll sell five
hundred Opaque Window
Shades, dadoed border,
mounted on good quality
spring rollers, full size
curtains all ready to
hang at 25c each, great
bargain.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17

Joseph Urismer is one of the best lead
ing actors on the American stage. He
possesses not only a fine stage presence
but magnetism and finish that has
made him exceedingly popular. Miss
Phoebe Davis is an actress of charming
personnel, and well adapted to this emo
tional drama. These favorite couple
will be seen at Portland Theatre next
Thursday and Friday in their new
play that has been most favorahly COM
m ented on, "The New South"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-17

Next Friday and Saturday the New
Bostonians will be seen at City Hall
in DeKoven's Robin Hood" and "The
Knickerbockers, and there was large
advance sale Saturday at Stock BRIDGES.
The Knickerbockers is DeKoven and
Smiths companion piece to Robin Hood,
having been written with the especial
purpose in view of giving. their earlier
success mate. 1t deals with the early
Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam and
their little wars with the New England
The herald., 1894-06-03

any charms for any but the stately
and queenly matron OF at least
middle age. Then it was fabric OF 30
rich pattern and so great brilliance as
to seemingly unfit it for youth. Now II
has become a thing of the daintiest
shades, and in the many new varieties
put forth since it use became go general
there are found the most delicate de.
signs. Beauteous blossoms are scattered
over its changeable ground, shot effects
abound, it is dotted with satin, and
lowered and striped sorts are without
end. Its colorings are even more varied,
and it has been go transformed that II
is now as suitable for the young as the
old. Silk and wooden fabrics are very
styishly combined. and gowns so made
are more acceptable than solely OF silk,
unless the silk be OF the very best. a
particularly rich combination is dress
OF crocodile crepon, made up with
watered silk sleeves, waistcoat and revers
and supplied with MORE ribbon sash.
In the theater toilet of the last illustra.
ton the black watered silk is used
with rose pink cloth. Besides the
sleeves there is deep yoke OF the silk,
to which the suiting is gathered with
a small head. Over the shoulders are
straps OF gold and pink embroidery,
and a pointed belt finishes the bottom
The skirt is gored. the side gore being
laid over the front breadth to initiate
panel, and is untrimmed.
Copyright, 1894.
The herald., 1894-06-03
A Travelling Costume.

Homespun, showing a diagonal line
of white and dark gray, resulting in a
light gray effect, is much fancied for
travelling gowns. The skirt made to es-
cape the ground, flares well at the bot
tom, but fits the figure easily at the top.
Its finish about the lower edge is a
heavy cording of gray velvet, a fashion
much approved of by French dressmak-
ers. The bodice worn with this skirt is
a changeable silk, one of blue and gray.
1t is made with a yoke OVERLAND with
gray passementerie, and it is confined at
the waist by belt of grosgrain ribbon.
The sleeves fall below the long shoulder
seams in puff of the silk and are then
shaped into deep cuffs fitted to the lower
parts of the arms. and also OVERLAND with
passementerie. The hat worn with this
is an alpine one of soft gray felt, with
band of gray ribbon about it and hay
ing two small dark blue quilts stuck
in at one side. To throw over one on
leaving the train, or if one should hap
pen to be chilly, is full, deep cape OF
the homespun, having hood and turn
over collar. The entire cape and the
hood are lined with changeable silk like
that which forms the blouse. Ladies
Homo ToDrnal
The herald., 1894-06-03
A Shrewd Scheme.

"The scheme of the women suffrag1sts
this year is now looked upon as very
shrewd one" said a woman who is
against suffrage. "For many years lit
tie band of women in this city, who
have persistently and faithfully agitated
the subject of the right of women to
vote. found their closest adherents
among the working women and those
whose higher education and liberal read
ire led them naturally to desire fuller
and freer powers. Hence the band OF
woman suffragists was we'll equipped
with brains and industry and formed
picturesque element of society. The pa
pers did not pay much attention to 1t,
the meetings were not crowded, and the
world at large did not show an acute IN
terest in their doings.
''But early last fall the old leaders
selected a list of the most influential
and fashionable women in New YORK
and went about the work OF conversion
with firmness and industry. Nothing
checked them nothing put them Oft.
The only qualification they looked for
in n candidate at that time was social
position.
"For time their efforts were fruit.
less but finally one prominent woman
of fashion after another became inter-
ested in the movement. Sherry's fash
ionable quarters were secured, and the
first half dozen meetings were made SO
exclusive that innumerable heartburn
ings and jealousies arose. But the man
ayers did not lose sight of tho fact that
the women who had failed through In
ferior social position to secure an en-
trance in their counsels on one occasion
would be all the more anxious to come
a second time.
''The result Of this artful and origina
style of campaigning was that the WON
an suffragists' movement was made dis
tinctly fashionable in this city for thu
first time in its history. Women follow
the fashions without any discussion
hence the enormous following OF thu
woman suffragists at the present time. >
| New York Letter.
The herald., 1894-06-03
Eastward the Star of sunsage.

The franchise is comingl 1t started
hitherward from the west, and now an
other thunderous portent has arisen i'll
New York, so near our city of sacred
calm that We can no longer deaden our
ears to the sound When such otherwise
respectable persons as Bishop Potter,
Rev. DR.. Arthur Brooks, brother of
Phillips Brooks, Rev. DR.. Hunting
ton, Dr. jacob, Frederic II. Coudert
and others commit themselves in pub
lie meeting to ask that the word
male" be struck from the constitu-
ton, and when they are abetted by
Judge Rowland, Walter Damrosch, Mr.
and Mrs. John Rockefeller, William D.
Howells, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Sage,
Rev. Charles e. Eaton, Rabbi Gottheil,
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. R. S. Macarthur,
Mary Mapes Dodge, Rev. DIR. and
Mrs. W. S. Rainsford, Mrs. Arthur
Brooks Joseph H. Choate and host OF
others to whom we have been accus-
toned to go for properly stamped opin-
ions, when these begin to fail us, where
shall we go? Ward McAllister is left
us, but we understand that the virus is
extending even into his protected pre-
cinct. Itreally does seem as if we should
have to vote. -Philadelphia Working
WOman's Journal
The herald., 1894-06-03

necessary volume at the same time.
This device is applicable to sleeves
which are somewhat out of date.
AS has been indicated there has been
little announcement for designers of
novelties in sleeve SLOPES, but one which
has lust been put forward is sketched in
the initial picture. These sleeves are OF
the full width, though their size is some
what concealed by their being draped at
the top to attain an epsulette effect, and
by their being again caught in the center
q little below the epaulette. That re-
suits in dropping sleeve beneath which
there is tight sleeve to little above
the elbow which is finished at the wrist
with q band of embroidery. Striped
mode colored cloth 10 combined in this
toilet with black silk. The underskirt
is of plain silk and panels of pleated silk
are let in at both sides. The drapery is
piped with black and opens to show the
panels. The bodice is draped over a
fitted lining and is alike both back and
front. 1t should be apparent that this
model is only suitable for an extremely
slender figure.
Last season saw few dresses OF
striped duck. While women were in
clined to dislike the looks OF these
gowns, they must have on the whole
made a favorable impression, for this
summer finds them plentiful, and even
plaids are attempted. The writer heard
two young women comparing the latter
sorts, and they decided to select a large
plaid, $50 that it would not look like
the jumper of our ash cart man" The
The herald., 1894-06-03
difficulty whatever in handling rne.
very successfully
Children of Reformers.

1t used to be said that the children OF
reformers would not ally themselves
with the cause for which they had seen
so many sacrifices made, but that is cor
tainly not true in the suffrage move
ment. Miss Miller is always stanch ad-
vocate of woman S freedom as we'll as of
the education of the negro, and her moth.
er, Elizabeth Smith Miller, is pillar
of strength to the movement in her
county. To add only two more instances
in New York Miss Curtis, daughter
of George William Curtis, is holding
aloft the banner of equal rights in Staten
Island, and Harriet Stanton Blatch, one
of the leaders of the woman suffrage
movement in England, made suffrage
speech in New York city on the very day
of her landing in New York recently on
brief Eisit to her mother, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton. Miss Anthony in Wom-
ans Tribune.
The herald., 1894-06-03
A Democratic Princess.

The Radicals need not worry il Lord
Rosebery marries Princess Maud. She
has always been the most democratic OF
princesses. A good many people have
heard the story of her serene announce
ment that if it were not for her grand
mother she should herself propose to
young Bostonian who used to visit at
Marlborough House. And children in
England always delighted in the story
of her running away from her sisters
and their governess in Hyde park when
she was a child for the avowed purpose
of buying oranges and eating them sit
ting on park chair "like other girls. !"
AS Lady Rosebery and wife of the pre-
mier of England, Princess Maud would
doubtless be sufficiently dignified for her
position. The Britons who will say they
"can't understand what Wales is think
ing of, letting his girl marry the Scotch
man." will at least confess that there Is
a good deal of independence of foreign
ers among his children. Like their aunt,
the Princess Louise Of Lorne, Prince
George and Princesses Louise and Maud
appear to think that noble Briton is
better mate than any royal continental,
for whom none of them cares. New
York Advertiser.
The herald., 1894-06-03
A Good pusiness For women.

A shrewd business woman in England
herself conducts a fruit and flower
store. She manages her business in a
unique and beautiful way. Her clerks
are girls dressed in a neat and striking
uniform. Her trade is in both fresh and
preserved fruits. The glass jars and pots
of preserves are arranged in pyramids
and attractive figures, making them look
so tempting that customers just must
take them away and eat them. The ar
tistic element enters into all the details
of her enterprise, as well it might in
trade so pretty and poetic as fruit and
flower selling. She has all her sex's
talent for detail, and this accounts for
the exquisite neatness and artistic finish
of every part of the work. Even the
window shades are varied to suit the
weather, it is said. The fruits and flow
ers sold are delivered in spick and span
clean, bright wagons, with uniformed
drivers. A page stands at the entrance,
and he wears bright brown uniform,
with brass buttons. In this business
there is scope for the realization of an
artists dream. Is not this an improve
ment on a greasy Italian, smoking his
vile pipe over the choicest grapes and
apricots? Why do not some American
women go into business like that con-
Quoted by the English woman?-Com-
monwealth.
The herald., 1894-06-03
Mrs. Cleveland.

A young woman has written to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer an account Of
visit to the White House made by a
party of women from Cleveland. She
says:
1--WE passed through the main vesti-
bule and grand corridor, and thence
through the red room to the blue room,
where our hostess smilingly awaited us.
A great many Of us were very much
surprised when we caught the first
glimpse of her, as we did not expect to
see such a majestic looking woman.
Her hair is dark, and she wears it away
from her forehead coiled simply at the
back. Her eyes are blue, shaded by dark
lashes, and her complexion pale, but
not with the paleness of i'll health. She
also has true woman's sweet smile
With what feelings we approached can
better be imagined than described. Here
we were trying to realize that the smil-
ing woman before us was the highest
lady in the land. As we drew near her
our names were announced by our chap
eron, and our hostess greeted us with
a warm handshake, and l say warm
handshake in the true sense of the word,
t sfsfr rs she lew, wore very tight faG three
quarter coat finished with a broad brown
velvet collar, which was edged with
lace"
The herald., 1894-06-03

cifulness shown when elaboration is at
tempted. Isn't the thought of gown
covered with quilted ribbon from foot
to waist enough to thrill woman's
heart? Some of the imported street
dresses are Just that and for fear that
some economic minded dame may &C.
complish such gown when ribbon is
cheap, the gown must not be made of
ribbon but of material that has all
these little quilted frills in the weave.
This is a good gown to select for descrip-
ton to the man of family. He will be
glad the describer is such q sensible lit
tie thing and never spends her
money 30 foolishly. Then, possibly he
can be brought to consent to rainbow
chiffon garden cloak. This consists OF
long round cloak that reaches in Red
Riding Hood shape we'll below the waist,
and is made of delicate China silk. A
series of frille cover it all over and they
are all of different shades of chiffon.
Besides this there are lot OF little bows
and ends, OF different colore, bit OF hood
that ia lovely crumple of color and frills,
and that, for all it seems 30 small,
comes down about the face when the
hood is drawn. This hood gives q
shade for every pet point OF your lips,
CDe6KH, nHlT anu oycS, dHu Anhco youI
face look like the queen rose of bou-
quet. If ever rain should come up
bat if you are going to indulge in rain
bow chiffon cloak you want to be above
thinking of rain.
OF fanciful device is the young
woman's toilet next presented. Made Of
figured cutting. its draped skirt is Topped
up by large bow, from over plain
cloth underskirt. The bodice is made OF
silk and the lining hooks in the middle,
while the odd plastron laps over and is
apparently fastened to the small lace
yoke by two fancy buttons. Over the
bodice is worn tiny jacket Of dark silk
which has large revers and turn down
collar. The sleeves are made of the
same material as the bodice and have
lace epaulettes. They are trimmed
with fall watered ribbon bows at the ell.
bows.
The time was not long ago when
MORE was not stuff that had
The herald., 1894-06-03

Here is a story which F. Marion
Crawford has been telling in Washing
ton. Like every other man of proml-
nence whose name is familiar to the
reading public, Mr.. Crawford is fire.
ouently asked for his autograph. With
these requests he invariably complies.
Last autumn, when his new story had
been carefully thought out and the work
was fairly under way, he received a let
ter from two girl students at Welles-
ley college containing a request for
his signature. One of the letters was
signed Katherine Lauderdale. To this
and the accompanying letter prompt
reply was given. But the name haunted
him. Katherine Lauderdale!' 1t sug-
gested refinement, cultivation, good
looks, romance. 1t was just the name
for the novel which he was writing. He
sent miss Lauderdale' another letter.
Would she permit him to call his story
Katherine Lauderdale? BY return
mail came an impersonal reply. The
young lady had no objection, and the
book was sc. christened. Boston Herald.
The herald., 1894-06-03
Her Picture of English Women.

A Minneapolis girl who has journeyed
abroad writes TO The Journal OF that
place as follows: "The English women
who walked the deck or lounged IN
steamer chairs ON the passage over the
channel did not look to me as though
they required much chivalrous atten-
ton. They were too splendidly healthy
and big to be coddled. The general same
ness among them made it possible to at
once sum up the type of British woman
hood. Tall, flat breasted. large feet and
hands, strong, intellectual faces, fresh
compilations, a striding gait, which ls
net exactly graceful, and very musical
voices-these are the general attributes.
On the whole, like the type, but they
could stand little toning down in
places and touching up in points. They
have the oldest style of dress for the
moment. 1t is the fashion to pile the
hair in great wad on the back of the
neck and to plaster the fringe in a
The herald., 1894-06-03
A French portia pleads Her own Case.

Considerable stir has been excited in
the legal circles of Paris over the fact
that woman lawyer was recently al
lowed to stand up and conduct her own
case against formidable opponent Of
the opposite sex. The woman was Nine.
Herbelot, better known as writer over
the signature Jeanne Sebatier ~ The
fact that she was allowed to conduct
her own case, while it seems simple JUS
tice from an American point of view, is
regarded by Frenchmen as an instance
of remarkable liberality on the part of
the judge. A number of women who
have lately taken their degrees in Paris
begin to feel as if they have not lived
in vain. Paris Correspondent
The herald., 1894-06-03

pale green like the foliage in the figure,
and the third row for the stems. Chiffon
covered parssols that have been kept
over from season to season, may be
stripped of the messy chiffon and beauti-
fed by fresh frills OF wash blond edged
with ribbon or with little ribbon frills.
OF course, the duck suits are mostly
tailormade, and the unusual variety OF
the material is accounted for by the
prevalence OF the tailomade girl. Be.
tween the severity of the tailor cut and
the great elaboration OF the many over
skirt styles there is vast difference,
and it sometimes happens that each
fashion makes so strong an appeal to
young woman that che will endeavor to
combine the two. In ordinary hands
this process will not result in anything
at all attractive, but in this third pic
ture is shown costume furnished with
the popular pointed apron overskirt,
and at the same time fitted with a
Jacket bodice and adouble-breasted vest.
The whole is 80 nearly half way between
the two widely different modes that it
is difficult to say OF which it partakes
the most. If, however, the carriage OF
the maid herself is taken into consider
alton, there can be no denying that
there is in the squared shoulders and in
the way that the head is held strong
likeness to the genuine tailor
girl. The costume is made OF a
moss green suiting combined with
mode colored cloth and trimmed
with green passementerie. The gored
skirt is of the green suiting and the
overskirt is trimmed with the passe-
menterie. The vest is of the mode cloth
as are the sleeves. Two huge buttons
ornament each front of the jacket and
the lace jabot is put at the throat.
AS an offset to so much that is entirely
plain there is often high degree OF fan
The herald., 1894-06-03

Miss Jeanette Oliver of Buffalo re-
Gently registered as competent dentist.
She graduated several years ago from
the trained nurses department OF the
Buffalo General hospital, and after that
was the matron of the Fitch creche.
Later she was recalled to the hospital
and was there for over year as super
intendent. Then she entered the Phlla-
delphia College of Dental Surgery,
where she graduated in 1898. There
were about Is women in her class, among
them several German women, who came
here to study because they were not adj
niitted to the German universities. Miss
Oliver expects to open an operating room
in Buffalo next fall. A young woman
from Ohio is studying dentistry at tho
Buffalo University Of Medicine. She is
the only woman who has applied for adj
mission to the dental course at this uni
versity, and she is one of the best stu
dents in he. class. Buffalo Letter.
The herald., 1894-06-03
Women Switch Tenders.

In The Railroad Gazette for April Is
an extract from letter from the super
intendent of the western division OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad showing
how successful West Virginia women
have been as operators in towns where
switches have to be thrown. He says:
''There are three places in the Greenbrier
district of this road where lady opera
tors attend to the switches. At Rock
land one lever moves both switches OF
the crossover, and it is operated with
out any effort At Wolf Creek one lever
throws two switches, two detector bars
and two locks. This lever is rather stiff
on account of not being used very fire.
auently, but the operator has no trouble
in manipulating it. At Lowell the le-
yers are not loaded at all heavily, and
they work very easily. When these ma
chimes are put in properly and kept
cleaned and well oiled. ladies have nc
The herald., 1894-06-03

than ever before is the tact that tney
do not droop over the elbow, but are
ten of stiffened to stick out from 1t:
Height, of course, is not permissible and
the more the fullness can be made to
spread out from the arm, the more fash
ionable they appear. To attain this re-
suit lining fabrics are used, which will
stiffen them sufficiently to keep them
distended, but care must be taken that
no appearance of blockiness results.
With 30 much attention given to the one
consideration of size, there have been
few new sorts OF sleeves offered. A styl-
ish sleeve is in Queen Anne shape,
and bow of six long loops OF MORE
ribbon is put upon the shoulder,
the loops being arranged in groups OF
three, separated by a email ribbon strap
run through a fancy buckle. These
loops fall over the sleeve and lead the
desired shoulder slope and the equally