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The Washington times., 1894-05-20
THESE ARE APPROVED
BY MME. LA MODE.

Pulled sleeves banded with the trimming
are dressy.
For Summer wear nothing looks prettier
than a neat dimity dress.
Grass muslins elaborately embroidered will
be much worn later on, and are made up over
coored silks.
Black serge dresses are trimmed with wa
tered silk, edged with ecru lace, and black
hopsacking is adorned with jet and yellow
lace.
Toques are greater favorites with the Paris
iennes than ever, but they also are larger and
sit down more closely on the head. The pref
tiest are entirely covered with flowers.
Spotted wells are going out OF style. and
bit of Brussels net with narrow hand
worked border, is going to fill the place when
ladies will consent TO give up the becoming
dots.
Something new is the plain black Hindoo
cloth. which takes the place of plain black
lawn. Hindoo cloth much resembles black
lawn, is of perfectly fast color, and has
very soft finish.
A new material, which is destined to be-
come popular in place OF brown Holland and
linen, is mixture of silk and linen. which
has beautiful luster, and comes in all the
bright colors.
Vines. sprays. dots, flowers, stripes. and
geomctrieal figures are tho best selling de-
signs in white and tinted lawns. The natu-
raj linen shade, with neat coIored designs, is
also in great demand.
Satin ribbon, three inches wide, folded to
the width of the ordinary collar and fastened
at the side in a saucy butterfly bow, is n
change from the sliirred velvet collar that has
received the attention Of Nine. 10 Mode.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
LOOKS LIKE ZELLA NICOLAUS.
The Unfortunate Resemblance Which Has
Made Life Burden to Grace HadselI.

Inc Unfortunate RcSemblancc w hich Has
Made Life Burden to Grace Hadsell.
Miss Grace Hadsell, of Chicago, has wealth,
beauty, and friends, but she is not happy.
She rails at the fate, says the Rochester
Herald. that made her, in appearance. the
double of the notorious Zella Nicolaus. She
wishes her cheeks were not so rosy, her eyes
not so bright and dark, and her hair any
other color but golden brown. As it is, she
is stared at on trains, identified at hotels as
the woman who sued the Goulds. and de-
scribed in at least one newspaper as none
lively career in Chicago and in New York.
Miss Hadsell is n young woman OF high
standing. She is an orphan, has good edu-
cation, and owns property She is now the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. d. C. Gray, in Chi
cago. She divides her time between the home
of the Rev. W. N. Steel, in Normal, ILL.,, and
the home of her aunt.
She has just returned from California, and
while there reporter wrote her up as Zella.
In vain she pleaded that she was not. Her
life became so disagreeable in San Francisco
that she left.
Il was only beginning to get over the blues
on the train coming home" she said, land
was becoming acquainted with some agree
able w-passengers-you know it is n long
trip-when q conductor quietly asked me If
was going to Wabash. L told him no. that /
was going to Chicago. Then he said he knew
all about me and had seen me in Wabash. and
smiled in wicked way. l got angry and
told him to attend to his own affairs, and that
l never was in Wabash in my life. He told
me that had a dead ringer there, whatever
that means. What does it mean? On the re-
mainder of that trip home there was not a
soul in the car who would speak to me or Mrs.
Bell. and L was miserable. 1t is just awful to
look like that woman, and hate to so on the
street"
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
HOME ECONOMY:
HINTS AND FORMULAS.
Use old mating under carpets

Use old mating under carpets
Sprinkle the inside Of damp gloves with violet
powder.
For grease spots, equal parts Of ether and
chloroform.
Darn gloves in button-hols stitch; repeat till
the hole is hiled up
Keep n dish of water on the back Of Q tight
stove 10 purify the air.
A teaspoonful of ammonia to one cupful Of
water for cleaning iewelry-
Put strip of wood back of the door where the
knob hits the paper in opening.
Powdered pipeclay, mixed with water, will re-
moro oil stains from wall paper.
II Tou lay the child down with his ears bent
away from his head the result will be deform-
ity.
A small bottle of camphor or a little alum and
water will aid in drying up pirnples that have
been tampefed with
Don't wake the baby to exhibit the tints of his
eyes to admiring friends; sleep Is his most un-
questionable right
Save all your broken and crooked carpet tacks
and keep them in a box in the kitchen for clean
ing bottles They are better than shot, for the
sharp edges scrape of all the stains
To prevent the hair from falling out saturats
the scalp twice week with the following: One
ounce of borax, one-hnlf ounce of gum camphor,
one quart of rain water Boil all together and
bottle.
No matter how large the spot of oil, any car
pet or wooden stuff can be cleaned by applying
buckwheat plentifully, brushing it into dust
pan after short time, and putting fresh
until the oil has disappeared
When it is required to carbolic acid Q
disinfectant it should be mixed with boiling
water. This promptly overcomes the usual
tagcnism between the acid and the water, and
converts them into permanent solution which
will keep for weeks
To improve the complexion one should keep
the pores of the skin open Wash the face and
ears with very hot water and then put in sum.
cient cold water to make 1t tepid for the body.
The face should be washed In hot water at least
three times daily.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
May Cause a Smile.

she-'Mamma is opposed to you because
you never minded your mother and were
never considerate with your sisters" He
Perhaps you would rather marry some chap
who would want his mother and sisters to
come and live with you" She-"Horrors.
no! How foolish mamma is."-New York
Weekly.
First Newspaper Woman-I have been en-
couraging Miss - to write, she has such
clever way Of putting things
Second N. P. W.-You'd better not. Remem-
Der we have Miss Pollard to compete with
now.
First n. P. W.-Yes; I did not think of
that. I'll not be surprised any day to see
something from her pen in one of the maga-
zines, headed ''rules for beguiling Congress
men" -
Second N. P. W.-Yes; and 1t will be pub
lished in the same column with rules fol
cooking rice.
Equipped with basket, bait, and rod,
He to the trout brook hies,
You'll hear him little later on
kehearsing last years lies.
Boston Transcript
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
TIE FESTIVE BOARD.

Toll with pain, and you will eat with pleas
ure.
Better is oaten bread to-day than cake to-
morrow.-Scotch Proverb.
Dinner parties are mere formalities. but
you invite Il man to breakfast because you
want to see him.-Lord Macauley.
Wherever the dinner il iii got up there is
poverty or there is avarice, or there is stupid
ity-in short. the family is somehow grossly
wrong.-Dr. johnson.
The stomach is the handspring of our sys-
tenn, and it influences our actions The des-
tiny of nations has often depended upon the
more or less laborious digestion of prime
minister.-The Cooks Oracle.
The invention of new sauce was liberallv
rewarded by Elagabalus. but if it was not rel
ished the inventor was confined and forced to
eat of nothing else until he had discovered
another more agreeable TO the imperial
palate.
Pepys, who was secretary to the admiralty
in the reign OF Charles Ii. having company
for breakfast. wrote in his diary: Il had for
them barrel of oysters, a dish of meats
tongues. and a dish of anchovies, with wine
of all sorts and ale"
Alexis Soyer. the famous French cook, was
a worldwide celebrity. He offered his services
9ratutously TO the British government during
the Crimean war. In the Irish famine of 1S47
he opened Il kitchen in Dublin and fed 1000
to 5000 poor people every day.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20

LaboEcherc's Bright English Thoughts.
Semiattached husbands have semidetached
wives.
We all admit principle, but We submit to
interest.
Love in any shape is only variety Of sell
fshness.
A little woman goes long way. She even
occasionally goes too far.
1t is good to love when you are young, to
be loved when you are old.
The devil was never so deadly as he is now,
when we no longer believe in him.
Marriage is like cold bath. The longer
you look at it the worse you will like it.
Never offend little people. The great can
afford to forget. The small cannot even
affect to forgive.
Humanity is divided into pounds. shillings,
and pence. The pounds rule, the shillings
trade. and the pence labor. The unconsid-
cred trifles are the farthings.
You can overlook the good in men so long
as you know the evil. As the strength of
chain is the strength Of its weakest link, so
the strength of a mans character Is the
strength Of his weakest point.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
To Make a Rag Doll.

Begin with pair of old white stocking
legs. Lay these on tho table and draw the
outline Of doll, all in one. Then cut it out,
turn it on the wrong side and stitch on the
machine. leaving it open from tine shoulders
up. This allows for the stuffing OF hair or
batting. The former gives more body to the
doll. Stuff well, Pumping out the figure.
even to the toes. When the head is smoothly
filed. overland the edges with strong thread.
Then the hair either brown or yellow silk,
may be added, and the eyes, brows, nose and
mouth drawn with ink or pencil. 1t is better
not to place beads for eyes, as the child is
likely to pull them of and swallow them. Try
making a rag doll this way and see il it
dosen't hold a moro honored place in the
nursery realms than the eNcostliest bought toys.
-Philadelphia Inquirer
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
MINIATURES FROM BALZAC;
A FRENCHMAN'S EPIGRAMS.
should find all women in his wife.

A man should find all women In his wife.
Be a sophist in ideas, not sophist in action
Wherever form reigns sentiment disappears.
All durable love commences by dreamy med-
tationA
Time is the capital of men who have but their
intellect for fortune.
Flatter tho passions Of the moment, and you
become a hero everywhere
Intellect is tho lever which moves the world;
but the fulcrum Of intellect is money.
A girl who is stupid, ugly, poor, and good pos
sesses the four cardinal points Of misery
To be obeyed in her secret wishesl Where Is
the woman insensible to such happiness.
Too often vice and genius produce similar ef-
fects, and this deceiyes the common mind
Later we love the woman in a woman; but the
first woman We love is the whole OF womankind-
The world is full of respect for ability under
whatever form II shows itself; results make
laws.
Noble sentiments pushed TO an extreme pro-
duce results similar to those of the greatest
vices
We severely reproach virtue for It's defects,
but full of indulgence for the good quail
ties of vice.
The word fatality is usually employed to ex-
press that mass of motives which it is impossible
to describe.
The softest word to pronounce, the sweetest
sentiment TO express, expire when We think
they are ordered
Those who sound the vices and virtues of hu-
man nature the deepest have studied them in
good faith within themselves
man without passion-the Just man made
perfect-is "A monster, an angel without wings.
Angels in the Catholic mythology have only
heads.
Celibacy entails the capital vice Of concentrate
ing the qualities of man upon a single passion
egotism. passion which causes them to be
mischievous or useless
Young men have nearly always pair of COM
passes with which they measure the future
When their will accords with the audacity OF the
angle they open the world is theirs.
You will never have more than three or four
friends in the course Of your life; your entire
confidence is their right But TO give 1t to many
is not that TO betray your real friends?
The storms and sufferings of the higher spheres
of human existence are appreciated only by the
noble minds which inhabit them In all things
we can be properly judged only by our peers.
Fiattery never emanates from great souls 1t
is attribute of small minds, who thus still
further belittle themselves to enter into the
vital being OF the persons about whom they
crawl
Children are more influenced than one thinks by
the invisible effects of IDEAS they never laugh
person truly imposing; veritable grace touches
them and beauty attracts them because they
are beautiful, and there exist mysterious bonds
between things of the same nature.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
Care of the Ewes.


The eyeball should be a clear, blush white
color. If it has red streaks in it there is
trouble somewhere. If it is dull and yellow
in color that also is an indication of disease.
And in most cases the seat of the trouble is
not in the eye itself, nor the cure in eye
washes The stomach, which is accountable
for most things, is generally accountable for
the bright or lack-luster condition of the
eyes. To make dull eyes shine therefore,
the best thing is an anti-dyspeptic medicine.
One symptom of a sick headache, says the
New York World, is the dancing before the
eyes of innumerable specks. The proper treat
ment for this is a seidlitz powder and a dark
ened room. Darkness is the best possible
thing for eyes that have much work TO do.
and merely to close them for five minutes at
time produces Il rested feeling, which shows
itself in their renenewed brightness.
Bathing tired eyes in water as hot as can be
horne and then closing them for some time
Is an excellent daily practice. But absolutely
nothing but water should ever be allowed to
touch the eyes except by the direction of the
oculist,
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
Sings hatNWoundcd.

Not long before she died Lucy Stone said,
in an address to the young girls of Mount
Holyoke College, Il never can think now, al
though 1 am an old woman and that time is
long past, of the epIthets and abuse that were
once heaped upon my head, an by good and
kindly men, without growing red to the roots
of my hair" and as she spoke the scarlet
color famed up over her gentle face and
distressed, shamed expression came to her
eyes. Upon the same subject Susan B. An
thony remarks. not without pardonable Bit
terness: There is not Il jeer. nor a jibe, nor
an insulting joke which could be hurled at n
human being that has been spared me. l
have always been selected as the clown of the
womans rights movement and its laughing
stock ~
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
Facts and Figures:
A Melange of Verities

An ordinary piano contains mile of wire
string.
The British nation has f1o0, 900 900 invested
in American railways.
Mont Blanc 15, ISL feet is mostly within the
French boundary line,
In France tho forests occupy about one
seventh of the whole territory.
Ninety-seven out OF every hundred Arctic
explorers have returned alive.
The largest American city park Is Fair
mount, at Philadelphia, 2, 740 acres.
The greatest inland sea is the Caspian,
which is 700 miles long by go In width.
The greater portion of divorces takes place
between the fifth and tenth year of married
life
A certain sign OF death is when the temper
ature of the body in the arm-pit is IS de-
grees.
Stag from blast furnaces is pulverized and
used for fertillzing farming lands in Ger
many.
The huge gus OF modern navies can only
be fired about seventy-five times, when they
are worn out.
The gnat is provided with a regular set o
lancets and cupping glass, from which the
air can be withdrawn.
Belgium has mile of railway to every four
square miles Of territory. Persia has but
twenty miles OF railway.
The making OF lucifer matches Is state
monopoly in France, spain, Portugal, Italy,
Greece, Roumania, and Servia.
In Paris when local shopkeeper adver-
tises to sell ''at cost" he has to keep his
word or the government knows why.
The quotation. HE shall be called Naza-
rene" used by Matthew in the last verse of
his secoLd chapter is no. to be found in the
Old Testament.
scientist claims to have discovered that
the eye of man is luminous to the extent that
one can in total darkness see the movement
Of his arm by the light of his own eyes.
In India %, ,000, 900 acres are made fruitful
by irrigation. In Egypt there are about
6,000. 900 acres, and in Europe about 8, 200 900.
The United States has about 1000, 900 acres of
irrigated land.
The title and position of cardinal is the
highest dignity in the Romaa Catholic church
next to the Pope. Cardinals are divided into
three classes, six cardinal bishops, fifty cardi-
nal priests and fourteen cardinal deacons.
According to latest reports there are in the
world 1904 nautical miles of submarine
telegraph cable. OF this total the various
governments own 14,4s0 miles OF cable and
u $50 of wire. Tho balance is owned by pri-
vate companies.
geographical expert estimates the fertile
portion OF the eaith's surface at 0,260 200
square miles. The barren region is esti-
mated by the same authority as q, 500. 900
square miles, divided as follows: Steppe,
IL, 901 900; desert. 4,ls0, 900, and polar re-
gion, 4.Sss, 600 square miles.
1t is estimated that the richest of civilized
peoples is the English. with 81, ,266 per capita.
In France the average is said to be 81 .102, in
the United States, 81 ,029, while by the sale OF
their lands to the United States government
some of the Indian tribes are worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 per capita, man, woman.
and child
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
Curious Cullings.

Take the French word ''etats." spell 1t
backward. and you have its English meaning,
'state."
One of the old Greek laws provided that II
a man divorced his wife he could not marry.
a woman younger than the discarded partner.
To the Arabs bad smell is an invisible
demon, and when a true believer is met by
one it is his duty to pray for help against the
enemy.
The Algerian Arabs, and especially the
Kabyles, do not esteem women very much.
When child Is born in one Of the towns, II
1t is u boy the women folk shout two or three
times in the street with all their might, but If
it is girl they shout only once.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
A WOMAN'S WAY.

took my worshiped one TO see
Camille-the play that SO attracts
Intending, incidentally,
To breathe my love between the acts.
But, from the moment Armand stepped
Upon the stage, her earnest eyes
Their yearning gaze upon him kept
With furtive tears and stified sighs.
And each time that the drop-scene dropped
Until it rose again, her talk
Was all of him; she never stopped,
About his smile, his voice, his walk.
Camille, she thought, might prettier be,
But he was splendid, noble, great
"Oh, could love him.n This, to me
Who trembled for my own sad fate
Strange! that the mimic lover, tried
And tortured, thus should give her pain,
While the real lover, at her side,
Ignored and silent, chewed his cane.
MADELINE S BRIDGEA
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
A Swedish Wnmen.s Club.

There is in Philadelphia n Swedish Women's
Club, whose members make it a practice
shortly before Christmas to so TO the wharves
and sailors boarding houses. where they look
up all the Swedish sailors and invite them to
Il Christmas dinner. At this feast the two
dishes without which no Christmas dinner in
Sweden is complete are prepared for the
guests namely. risSreynsgrot (rice porridge)
and lett fisk (codiish), simple dishes. truly,
but doubtless arousing sweetest memories to
give zest to the meal. The idea of this kindly
deed was suggested to one OF the members of
the club by hearing OF ar English lady who
lived in Bergen, Norway, aud who was in the
habit of inviting the English sailors in that
port to a regular English dinner OF roast beef
and plum pudding.-New Century's Work
ing Woman Journal.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
Two Baby Trarnps.

Two baby tramps-little chaps. who. with
out a cent in their pockets. are going around
the world in search of adventu-e-struck Au-
gusta to-day, says an Augusta (Ga.) special
to the Constitution. They were at police head
quarters for a while, and, while not imperti-
nent. are self-assured. and show an ability TO
take care OF themselves. The baby tramps are
brothers. They talk frankly OF their trip. and
asked that their little escapade be not given in
the papers, because sit would disgrace pop if
he saw it." The tots are Noble Ratteree, aged
twelve, and Allen Ratteree, aged nine. Their
home is in theWatkin addition OF Little Rock.
Ark. Their father is J. II. Ratteree, drug
gist. Tho mother is also living.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
An Alleged Columbian stamp Corner,

Postmaster General Bissen said yesterday
that he did not propose to order another is
sue OF the dollar series Of Columbian stamps,
in order to break the alleged corner of the
series by stamp dealers. Every one OF the
dollar Columbian stamps, 1t is said, has been
bought for speculation by the dealers, and It
has been intimated that the only way to pre-
vent the corner was by another issue. Ths
Postmaster General, however, will not take
this action, as he believes that the public gem
orally who wanted the stamps should have
taken advantage of the opportunity OF getting
them while they were placed on sale by the
dpno
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
KoNRN ONLY.

The plant Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was
often annoyed by being requested to paint the
portraits of ugly women Of quality, was not
unreasonable. ''If paint them as they are. I"
he said, 'they will hate me; II don't paint
them as they are, shall hate myself"
prominent English physician Of long ex-
perience with drunkards says that he can
recall hundreds of recoveries among men,
but only five among women.
A NEWMAN professor, writing to one OF the
faculty at Bryn Mawr concerning one Of the
European Fellows at thar institution, says:
"There are no Greek scholars among our
college women such as you Americans send
over"
Mrs. Humphry Ward was 1t seems, born in
the antipodes, like Thackeray and Kipling,
the land of her y-Tasnania-being
more antipodeal even than Calcutta or Hin
dustan, where these other wielders OF strong
English pens. respectively, saw the light
Mary Arnold lived only five years in the South
Sea island Of her birth before being brought
to England, where she grew up in that
charmed circle OF English culture and thought
to which she had the right of entrance by
close kinship with DIR. Arnold OF Rugby and
Matthew Arnold of the universe. Mrs. Ward
is 43 years old, is happily married, and Is a
fond and devoted mother. Mr.. Ward Is the
art critic Of the London Times.
Lady Butler, the painter OF the famous
.'Roll-Call, is living at Aldershot with her
husband, Gen. Sir William Butler, and their
five children. Lady Butler is painting a
picture for the Royal Academy, the subject
being Waterloo" 1t would be rather inter-
esting to have her views on the woman
question:" for not even husband. five chill
dren, and immense success can keep Lady
Butler from her art, and any one of the three
is considered unfavorable tQ real progress.
Just as France has restricted the marriage
of her diplomatic sons to foreigners, 1t Is in
teresting to read that Turkey is growing more
and more lenient to the growing similar prac-
tice within ner borders. In Constantinople
now there are many Turks, some Of them
high personages, who have French. Italian,
German. Greek, and Armenian wives. The
children born of the Christian wives of these
marriages are brought up in the Mussulman
faith, but the mother is not required to change
her religion. Her husband never requires
her to abjure her faith.
The young fiancee. the Princess Alix, who
Is the destined cZarina OF Russia1is said to
have the same characteristics as her mother.
Princess Alice OF England, the same useful
ness and womanly sympathy, qualities she
will probably have much need of in nursing a
delicate husband.
Mrs. E. P. Terhune CMarion Harland) has
enriched her collections of rosaries and reli-
gious beads by many unique and beautiful
specimens gained through her recent months
of travel in Europe and the East.-Rochester
Herald.
The Washington times., 1894-05-20
Lockwood,s Former clerk the Man.

Yesterday young jameson found the man
from whom he purchased the order for the
books. He proved to be George c. Hale, aged
90 years, and former clerk of Representative
Lockwood He was arrested, but seemed
surprised at it, saying that he had a right to
sign MIR. Lockwood's name. Hale admitted
selling the order to Jameson. who is a docu-
ment broker. for $3.50. Hale was locked up
and his bail fixed at $500