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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

SATURDAYS MARKET.-The market
area this morning was packed with a
dense thropg Of purchasers who surged
to and fro from 6 until nearly IL
o'clock. There were fine displays OF
everything. Fruit of many varieties
bedecked the benches of both MARKET
ers and country people, and while some
was small and stunted, most of 1t had
reached perfection. Watermelons were
to be seen everywhere, and they were
selling at all prices. Some OF the finest
specimens ever seen hereabOuts were
on exhibition this morning, in instance
having attained the dimensions of beer
kegs. Cantaloupes were also in album
dance, and they were bringing all pri-
ces, according to size and condition; A
cantaloupe is an uncertain thing to BUY.
Many people reend to be judges, but
about one out OF every three purchased
is sweet and palatabie. The heaviest
are generally found to be most satisfac
tory. Fine garden grapes were selling
at &c per box and fox grapes 2oc per
peck. A few wild cherries were being
offered at 25c per peck. Fine plums,
ABOUT luo SlLo VI hdIhuoS3 wa 80
at iOc per box, and peaches at 25c per
quarter peck. Bananas were very plen-
tiful at 1c piece. Some, very, fine, were
bringing l5c a dozen. A few knotty
apples. suitable only for culinary pur-
poses, were being held at &c per quarter
peck, while some which were being
posed as edible were held at sc. Snail
pears were &c quarter peck. Chick
ems sold from 25c up. Vegetables were
in great abundance and cheap. Cab
bages ranged from 1c up, green peas &c
per quarter peck, snap beans &c, onions
Toe, tomatoes &c, potatoes &c. sweet po-
tatoes 10c, green corn l0c dozen, Gym
blings and cucumbers lc a piece, egg
plants 2a5c, carrots Sc a bunch, green
peppers Sc dozen, Lima beans lOc
nuart. Butter holds at 25s30c per
wound, and eggs at 20c dozen: There
was poor supply of fsh-only some
sailcrs and fresh mackerel representing
ahe salt water varieties. which were
selling at lOc pound. Some small cat
fish we're being held for zoe bunch;
There was fine display of fresh, sailed
aud smoked meats. Prices were I'M
changed. The floral exhibit was below
that Of the average Saturdays market.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25
SLIPPERS AND OXFORDS

AT REDUCED PRICES.
Women's Suede Oxfords and One-strap
Slippers, tan and gray. Reduced from $500
and So 90 q pair to S1.0O.
Women's Beaded Suede Slippers, opera toes,
black tan, and gray. Reduced from $3.50 a
pair to $3.50.
Wei Kid Common Sense" O1fords. Re-
duced from So. 80 4 pair to $3.50.
Red Strap Slippers. Reduced from $500 a
pair to $1.OO.
Second foor.... ..........."..hrst annex.)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

The last week in August, always hot,
is no exception this year. ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25
LOST.

r CST.-A bunch of four KEYS was lost q
~ day or so ago. The finder will leave
them at this office. 1t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25
DRY GOODS.
DRY GOODS.
v oodVard & .LOthrop.
10th, 18th and F sts., N. ".
@rUntil September we close at 8; Sat-
urdsys at 1.

Every sort of summary thing
awaits you here and at a re-
duced price.
Clothing and other things
for personal use, as we'll as
various contrivances that help
make the home life pleasanter
and the work easier, are mark
ed at quick-selling prices.
PAPER BOOKS.
Choice summer reading.
Some of the best authors.
Hundreds of titles to select
from.
SC each-6 for CSC. Were
10, IS, and CSC.
Paper Books-3c each-1o
for CSC.
(Basement.................. ..11th-st. building.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25
f. Will PAY YOU TO ATTEND
OUR
CLOSING SALE OF CARPETS.

We have made large inroads into the stock
during the present month, and we wish to
close out the balance by making, in many
instances, still further reduction in price
A lot of $l.25 body Brussels, in quantities
from IL to- rs yards, prices from IS to 9Oc
A lot of $1OO Tapestries, best goods, guam
titles from Is to 20 yards, at 60c.
Several patterns in 75c Tapestries quaint
ties from 20 to 40 yards at soc.
A lot of Best Atwood Ingrains from 10
to Is yards, former price IS, now soc.
Smaller Remnants of Carpets at half value.
All our Rugs and Art Squares at dis
count of 80 per cent. from marked prices.
h@ONE PRCE@@
IlCKEI'I. & MARSHALL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

WEATHER PRoBABIL1TrEs.-For this
section threat ming weather but probably
without rain southwesterly winds becomiL z
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

Girls Clothing Department.
Special closing out prices on Lawn Waists,
Bingham and Challis Dresses, &c.
Lawn Waists. Reduced from 81 so and
$500 each to 48c.
Bingham, Percale, and Lawn Wash Dresses.
The average price was $500 Many were
sold higher. Closing-out price, each $1.5O.
Third foor......... .......:.:.11th ST. building)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

Sun rises tomorrow at 5:24 and sers
6 SO High water 3:o4 a. m. and
3:35 p. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

CHURCH SERVICES, &C, TOMORROW
Christ Church.-Services at II a. m.
by Rev. Dr. Walker
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-25

N. Y Neurological Society, Meeting Apr
18th 1893.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Typical American Girls.

American types of girlhood are many
and varied. There is the slender, pink
checked New England girl. as upright
and unbending in her moral nature as
she is in her spinal column. She is a
trife angular perhaps. both physically
and mentally but she has in her cOmpo-
sition more than a dash of the stuff that
martyrs are made of. Lydia Blood, the
Lady Of the Aroostook," is her prototype
and she was as sweet and genuine as a
girl could possibly be. The western girl
is louder in tone, breezier in manner and
far less hemmed in by conservatism, for
unlike her New England sister, she has
never been one of a large colony of SUI
perfiuous women, but has, on the con-
trary, associated all her life with men
who have imbued her with their larger
masculine way of looking a things. The
western girl is often cruelty misunder-
stood and misrepreSented by her de-
tractors, who mistake her frank COM
radeship with men for holiness and vul-
garity Of nature.
The southern girl is tradtionally beauti-
full and fascinating, but incapable and
filled with the languors of her sunny
climate This last in view of the recent
achievements Of young southern women
in art and literature needs no denial
But certainly in no part of our country
is such chivalry and Difference shown to
girlhood as in the South. A southern
girl receives the Difference of her father
and brothers as a matter of course, and
like a young princess graciOuSly accept
ing the loyal service of her subjects
Perhaps the simple habit of expecting to
get what she wants without fear of fail
ure helps her to success when her wishes
involve the eXertiOn of her own talent
or ability.-Philadelphi Press.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Innrt.Stic Drnping.

Have you throw or 'drape" in
your boudoir or parlor? Are you sure
that it is an artistic and not homogeneous
bit of decoration? Edmund Russell de-
nOunces the throw" as decorative art
in the throes of death agony" and thus
traces its evolution:
In the beginning some artist in foreign
travel picked up a bit of oriental drapery
"a section of altar hanging-beautiful
in design and color. Searching in his
studio harmonious setting for his much
priced fabric, he cast it lightly across one
corner of an oriental screen, and, behold!
a felicitous iuXtapOsition-an exquisite
scale in color.
Into the artists den came a wealthy
patron, alert for hints on novel deco
ration. The oriental study caught her
eye, and forthwith in her own DRAWN e
room, across a red plush screen, en-
broidered in peacOcks, she wreathed a
Roman scarf in green and yellow. At
her afternoon tea a struggling society
girl, a scale lower in Importance, marked
the daring flight in decoration and said to
her mamma, Il see they are using scarfs
to drape things with" So mamma and
daughter ironed the creases from an
ancient purple sash and festooned it
grotesQuely about the brass plaque Of
George Washington.
Yet another day, and visitor to the
third arrangement in throws" went
home to wind a passe blue berege veil
around a plaster cast of Moses. The
dealers caught the edge of this hapless
wave from the orient and the world Of
art. and the windows and shop doors
blazed with glittering gaudiues inscribed,
"Choice for % cents; marked down from
a."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Reading for Girls.

Is it generous or just to excite natural
curiosity over widely circulated books
and then issue a dictum that our daugh-
ters must not read them while we our
selves are absorbed in their contents
Surely age and experience owe more than
unreasoning tyranny to youth and eager
ness. Could not any budding maiden I'M
derstand fully the situation if she was
told Of certain books afloat in the literary
world? "They are studies in certain
phases in life which are interesting To
men and women and which you, too, may
care to examine by and by, but now they
are of no use to you-of no possible bene-
fit-therefore it is best that you should
leave them unread for time"
Youth is the season for beauty, for
poetry, for passion and hopes, not for
philosophy, analysis and dissection, and
If we stimulate a desire for strong food
at too early a stage by holding it near
at hand and arbitrarily denying it at
spasmodic intervals it is our own fault
II the freshness and joyOuSness of mental
youth soon give place to a blase view of
life in general which is more hopeless
than the most profound ignorance What
shall we do, then, that the young woman
of the future shall have as pure and
fresh brain as the body we are striving
to perfect shall be?
The answer Immediately suggests is
self. See to it that her intellectual life
has the same training as her physical
one. Begin at the very beginning and
surround her baby brain as you do her
tiny body with soft wrappings and deli
cate perfumes, give her opening child
hood plenty of free, fresh exercise in the
best possible atmosphere (there never
was better chance for healthy reading for
children than there is at hand today,
watch her closely as she nears her early
womanhood. and see to it that the beauti-
full, the poetic and the good are about
her all the time; by and by. as she de-
velops into long dresses, give her some
philosophy and thought, and then, If you
have helped her so far on her way, you
may send her whereso er you will, and
she cannot fail to do you honOr.-St.
Louis PoSt-Dispatch.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Sewing on Buttons.

An adept in sewing on buttons says
it is a good plan to tie together both
ends of the thread firmly after sewing
on each button. Leave the thread, say
an inch or more long in first passing the
needle through the button. After at
taching the latter, pass the thread hold
ing the needle over the short piece left
at the beginning, crossing the ends; then
pass the short piece over the long one,
thus making firm knot. In some cases
a third tie is desirable. Supposing the
thread is strong enough for the purpose,
and that it is sewed through the button
a sufficient number of times, this plan
will hold as long as any, but it is diff
ficult matter to procure good sewing
cotton. The strong silk called button
hole twist may be relied upon for sew
ing buttons onto cloth garments, and a
moderately fine CROCHET cotton for stout
undergarments. With fine linen, how
ever, or cambria 1t will be necessary to
fasten off, sewing the buttons with few
buttonhole stitches. which are also a
kind of knot.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Potatoes for seven Days.

On Sunday have them mashed-not
pountied into a sodden mass, but whisk-
ed into a creamy substance. To attain
this they should be peeled. steamed.
broken with potato whip. moistened
with milk and butter, seasoned with salt
and pepper and beaten like a batter I'M
til they are very light
On Monday bake them in their skins.
They should be washed clean, baked in
a good oven and served at once.
For Tuesday they may be peeled and
baked with a roast. When the meat is
within half an hour or so of being ready,
lay them in the gravy under it and bake
until they are covered with crisp
brown skin.
On Wednesday serve them In Ken
lucky style. These are sliced thin as for
frying soaked in cold water for half an
hour, put I'm a pudding dish, with salt,
pepper and milk, and baked for an hour.
on Thursday serve them fried whole.
Peel and boil them. Roll in beaten egg,
then in cracker crumbs and fry In but
ter
on Friday have potatoes a Ia Pari-
sienne Wash and rub them with a
csorse cloth until they are skinned, drop
into boiling water and boil until done.
Have ready in a saucepan some hot
cream and butter, little green parsley,
pepper and salt. Pour the water off
the boiled potatoes, cover with this and
let ii stand.
on Saturday boil the potatoes in their
skins and serve with butter.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27

with private coaching. but she has found
time also TO draw a considerable number
Of diagrams for lectures on scientific
subjects, especially anatomy.
Finding that there is a good and in
creasing demand for diagrams, Miss
Manchester has been encouraged TO give
more of her attention to this branch Of
drawing and 10 make it her chief con-
Germ. Diagrams for exhibition before a
small number of students she paints and
finishes in a most careful manner, but
she executes her work on a much larger
and striking scale for the use of popular
audiences. Miss Manchester has not IN
oertaken the making of a diagram for
scientific books, but as she has a knOwl-
edge of microscopic work she might
turn her attention in this direction
should occasion arise. But so long as
the lecture continues to be the general
vehicle Of instruction it Is likely that
Miss Manchester, or any other lady pur-
suing the career, will find that lecturers
furnish the majority of her patrons
London Queen.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
WANTED AIR.
A COryphce Does Thrilling skirt
Dance "a Roof.

Miss Mueller, a charming coryphee Of
the Dewolf Hopper opera company. did
a sort of skirt dance on the roof Of
Cobb's hotel, Tenth and E-sts, about
o'clock yesterday morning. There were
no calcium light effects, but the moon
peeped out from behind the clouds and
shed its lambur rays over the fairy
form. The audience consisted Of two
policemen and bel2ted department clerk.
Miss Mueller was on the gabled roof
of one of the four-stOry buildings an
nexed to the hotel. and. she walked
from one end Of the high peak to the
other, she seemed to be doing an act
on the high wire. Her arms were ex-
tended, and TO the policemen down be-
low she seemed TO be balancing her
self. Closer investigation, however
showed that she was holding with either
hand To the telephone wires which run
over the roof 1t had been raining and
the roof was lippery. There was danger
that the wires. heavily surcharged with
electricity, might give the midnight per-
former a shock, and cause her TO tumble
headfrst to the pavement Her gown
the two officers are undecided as to
whether ii was night robe or a wrapper
-fiuttered wildly in the breeze, and her
hair blew about her face after the man
ner of the Lorelei.
The beiated department clerk thought
Rhine, and was for scaling the building.
The policemen were more practical, how
ever and declared that it was a somnam-
bulist.
Here, you" they called, come off the
roof"
Go away" came back in the soft Ger
man accented tones of Miss Mueller;
cant a lady get a little fresh air with
out attracting the attention of everyone
in the neighborhood -
You'll get killed"
ooh, no: I won't"
After some further parley Miss Muel-
Ter was induced to retire to her room.
Yesterday she had her regular place in
the "Panjandrum' chorus, and did skirt
dances on the stage as graceful as ever.
After the matinee a Post reporter saw
Miss Mueller at Cobb's hotel She was
quite vexed to know that the little roof
affair had attracted attention.
This is a dreadful town." she said.
why, in New York everybody goes on
the roofs. People eat, sleep and walk
around on them. Friday night it was
so very warm in my room, and | was
suffering from a headache, so L went
out on the roof and the police wanted to
arrest me. Why, / was only getting
some fresh air.
But Miss Mueller. il has been sug-
gested that your costume was hardly
the thing for so prominent a promenade -
"Oh, yes, it was quite right. Now
don't say anything about it in the paper.
/ don't want to talk about it. and Won
mustn't print a thing about it,
Miss Mueller is tall and rather dark.
with prominent eyes and a good voice.
Washington Post
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
To Button Boots.

I'm buttoning shoes there is no need
to rip off buttons and split out button
holes so often. Half the women don't
know how to handle a buttonhook. and
that is the trouble" said girl who was
on her knees trying on pair Of shoes
for customer. Most women take the
buttonhook, and after catching the but
ton in it turn the hook straight over
backward to force the button through
the hole. That is all wrong See how
quick the buttons will fly off at way"
and she illustra ted and sent TOUR but
tons flying into the air as a result" Now
do this way. Put the hook through the
buttOnhole and take hold Of the button
with It, Then keep the buttonhook fiat
and swing ii around in a half circle, al
ways keeping the hook level where it
holds the button. This saves the wear
and tear on the buttonhole stitching.
and the buttons will stay sewed on four
times as long.''-ShOe and Leather Facts.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
WOMAN AND HER HOME.
SOMETHING ABOUT CHILDREN, WITH
HINTS FROM JAPAN.
Reading for GirIs-POtatoes for Seven
Dnys-Drawing Diagrams as Bust
ness-Some Typical American Girls
Inartistfc DrapinE.

Mrs. st. John Bramhall. writing of
Wee Ones in Japan undertakes to
give some reasons why japanese children
are so very good The little Jap never
seems to do any mischief; indeed the doc
trine of original sin seems absolutely
confuted by his admirable behavior. One
reason of her own is that the child is
guided by love. not chastisement: that
the boy is taught TO be manly and the
girl to be womanly Another borrowed
reason is that there is nothing in the
Japanese home for him to break or dam
age; that owing to the simple furnish
ings he is not being constantly told he
mustn't do this or he mustn't do that.
he mustn't touch this or he mustn't
touch that hence he is good almost in
spite of himself. The critic wonders If
Americans may not profit by some Of
the suggestions and learn ito Japan our
nurseries and public places with the
varnish of rest and comparative COM
fort"
If only every home with children had
a nursery or q room devoted to them, but
in the city house this is often practically
impossible. Instead there are generally
two classes. those where the children
are allowed to usurp with their noise
and games every portion of the abode
and those where every part is too good
for the children. A happy mean here as
elsewhere seems impossible. Often the
mother who blandly tells you she be-
lieves in letting children have a good
time is teaching them TO be destructive
and selfish little tyrants. regardless Of
other peoples rights, wishes and nerves.
ON the other hand WhO 6nos not nitV
the children in the house furnished so
finely that they must not enjoy them
selves anywhere in il? The Importance
of simplicity in the home is yet TO be
appreciated in its influence on children's
lives and tempers. In America there is
a great tendency to ignore the best pur-
pose and uses of the home. Comfort is
too often sacrificed TO fashions, and
articles of furniture are selected more
for show than stability. Children are
tormented into being naughty by their
surroundings and then unfairly pun
ished for breaking some costly piece of
bric-a-brac. This is spoken of as a child
ridden country. and yet. after all. the
American child may have a grievance
which the good little jap has not
Kate Douglas Wiggin, in a paper on
"Children's Rights" says: 81 have a
good deal of sympathy for the little peo-
pie during their first eight or ten years.
when they are just beginning TO learn
LIES lessons, and when the laws which
govern them must often seem so strange
ard unjust" Mr.. Wiggin claims that a
child has a right to a place of its own.
to things of its own and to surroundings
which have some relations 10 its size.
its desires and its capabilities. She
speaks also Of the cry Mustn't touch"
for disObeying which the child is
spanked, with no method of revenge save
to spank back on the inoffensive dolly
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Mrs. Comxns Carr.

Mrs. COmyns Carr the wife of the
popular and successful manager of the
London comedy theater. has contributed
by her active and intelligent co-opera-
ton in a large degree to the brilliancy Of
her husbands career. To considera BILE
literary skill Mrs. Carr adds a complete
knowledge of the laws of decoration. In
matters OF stage costume she has ac-
quired almost unique skill and authority.
The dresses of several of Mr. Irving's
plays and reviVals have been designed
by her, and her assistance to Miss Terry
in this regard has been frequently ac-
wledged.-London Tit-Bits.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Raising UsefuIInsec,s

Here is an interesting colony of in
sects." said an entomologist who was
showing a writer over his country place
in the suburbs of Washington.
You see" he explained, "a little bunch
of eggs has been deposited on this stone
wall. Nearly all of them are Matched al
ready. The young insects that are newly
out are yellow, while those a little older
are red and black Yes they do look
somewhat like small spiders, but they are
not such.
They are wheel bugs They grow to
be large predatory insects as big as the
end of your thumbs. Caterpillers and
various other garden pests are their
chosen food. So, you observe encourage
this colony. Any one of my neighbo
would promptly destroy it, but / know
better. People around here wonder how
my trees and plants are always in such
perfect condition. Here you have one of
the reasons. The wheel bug is so called
because Of a mark on the thorax which
looks like a Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Sleeping Rooms.

You could keep your sleeping rooms
much sweeter If you would be in less
haste to get your beds made in the
morning before you leave the room. The
emanations from the pores of the skin
at night have no egress except into the
bedclothing, and consequently it is fe-
verish and foul smelling by morning.
This does not apply to uncleanly per-
sons any more than to those who are
excessively neat, and an extremely nerv-
Gus person will give off more odors than
one who is more phlegmatic. When you
rise, throw the bedclothes back over the
foot Of the bed and let them air for an
hour anyway. If possible. draw the bed
to the window and let the sun pour in
on it till you get ready to make it up.
Pull the windows down and up, so that
there will be good draft of air.-Wash-
inPtOn Star.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
Lady lIoncIxfou.

Lady Monckton of London is not only
a brilliant society woman, but a success
full shOpkeeper and an actress. For a
good many years she was only an
amateur, but after her children were
grown she made her debut as a profess
sional and achieved great success. When
shopkeeping became fashionable Lady
Monckton and Miss Firth opened a small
emporium of linens and embroideries at
THE Sign Of the Spinning Wheel
Boston Woman's Journal