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by parents anxious. to have their sons well educated, owing to a fear that the championship feature of the institu- tionS' athletics might lower the tone of the intellectual training, so have many of the smaller colleges suffered because their athletic curriculum has been inequalities will vanish. Here will be one of the most important of the asso- ciation's tasks.
 The papers read by the delegates will be germane to the scope of all these objects. President Hervey, of the Teachers college; Superintendent Seaver, of the Boston public schools; Prof. Fitz, of Harvard university; Prof. Richards, of Yale; Dr. Watson L. Saw age, of New York; Schuyler B. Moon, of the McDonough school, in Maryland; Battle Creek, Mich; Dr. E. H. Arnold, of the New Haven Turn Verein, and Dr. Boice, of the Normal school, at Trenton, N. J., are but several of many noted educators who will handle sub jects before the conference
 The general trend of thought at the meeting will be toward school gym nastics and the relation between physic- al and mental training. The meetings themselves will be held mornings and afternoons and evenings, Dr. J. W. Seaver presiding; but on Saturday there will be only morning session, lasting until 1 o'clock.
 One of the projects to be mooted be- fore these noted educators is the estab- lishment of library in one of the edu- cational centers, in which shall be col lected an adequate bibliography on the subject of physical education. Connect ed with this library is to be an estab- 1 lishment of the systematic collection of statistics bearing upon the effects of physical education in different parts of the. country. It is beginning to be un- derstood by experts in physical train ing that curriculum in that depart ment adapted to a university in 1 northern latitude like that of Michigan might be very prejudicial to the stu dents in an institution as far south as Texas. The matter will be dealt with in papers by several experts.
 Such gathering of men prominent in this branch of training is not likely to occur again in this country for sev- eral years
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buffet and the coloring of the plain but

buffet and the coloring of the plain but attractive room.
 The bedrooms shown to the visitor who wishes to hire them are very plain and not particularly attractive, but the individual arrangement of the occr- pants has made them especially home- like and artistic. One large spacious room with a low ceiling had wooden floor covered with artistic rugs. In one corner was an organ. The two couches of the room, so comfortable and pretty to the sight, were the beds, and these were adorned with handsome coverings. A center table with lamp and books gave perfect touch, and the feature of much interest was 8 cabinet filled with pretty pieces of Bohemian glass and all the curios so dear to the heart of student in Paris. An old dresser with its brass finishings was placed be- tween the windows, and the walls were covered with sketches, some bearing the names of masters in the world of art. At one side of the wall was hung 8 rare Persian tent cover. 1t was warm bit of coloring in the chamber and with all the other clever touches an effective salon was made out of bare unprepos- sessing room.
 A room at the Girls club costs five dollars to fourteen dollars month, and the restaurant prices are on an average as follows: Potage, four cents; poisson, la sauce blanche, nine cents; fillets la sauce Madere garni, thirteen cents; epaule on mouton praise, nine
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fashion parade. The most sensible one is the plea of economy. Ordinarily, es- pecially in northern countries, Easter comes too early to demand spring clothes. One's fur tippet is not uncom- fortable in the temperature which the season furnishes at the last of March or first of April, and the cloth dress of winter would serve much longer than these early days of spring. Another very reasonable explanation for not joining the procession is the fact that ones swellest gown, which otherwise might make sensation, is lost in the crowds of brilliantly -arrayed worship CTS, and receives only a passing glance from admirers whose eye hurries on to see what the next feature of the parade will be-
 Nevertheless, though the very poor and the very rich may not come out in their dnery on the 14th of April they at least the latter-wil1 be compelled to do so very soon after, for in the natural course of events the seasons are bound to roll round and spring must take it's turn.
 Among the things which the fck1e maiden brings with her, it is hard to pick out her prettiest attractions. Per haps the flower boas that come esout in new species every day are the most brilliant of her collection. The latest one is made of geraniums in two shades of red, tied with ribbons to match the lighter shade and having cream lace ends in front, over which the ribbons are draped. Others are made of pecul- far flowers that look like oleanders, and yet others are gladioH. The violet boa threatens to become common. It was only the other day that saw Q dusky belle adorned profusely with the modest flower. She had violets in her tiny bonnet and violets at her belt, and the aforesaid violet boa around her
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neck. A pretty one for a brunette is made out of daffodils.
 The finer flowers are very expensive, and this would make one's millinery bill very large, were it not for the fact that the straws are so cheap. One can purchase pretty coarse straw hat for one dollar and half, and with a little observation and little ingenuity in trimming, a hat can be made very pre- sentable without great expense. There are not many black straws shown this spring. The black hats are black lace or net. The straws are nearly all in colors. A favorite combination is a ieaf-green straw trimmed with deep snade of blue. It sounds hideous, but 'ne colors seem to harmonize very we'll
 II one clings to the idea of an Easter oonnet, it is not difficult to make one nose small affairs with bunch of -.e"ers and couple of loops standing
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How He Stopped Poaching.

A Scotch gentleman, plagued by poachers, procured cork leg dressed in stocking and shoe, and sent it through the neighboring village by the town crier, who proclaimed that it had been found in man trap on the pre- yious night in Mir. Boss grounds. who desired to return it to the owner
 There was no more poaching after that
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ing out or most VeXlng Su uD1ecG The assembly's official title is the "Ameri- can Association for the Advance ment of Physical Education" It will be in session for three days at the Teach CTS college, New York city. The ses- sions open on the morning of April 25 next. The attendance will include men whose names are part of the history of higher education in the United States, and their deliberations will have deep influence upon the conflict now raging in the universities over this question of athletics On the one side is President Eliot, of Harvard, whose pronuncia- mento against football has been con- strued into violent opposition to all forms of rude sport, while, on the other, Provost Pepper, of the university of Pennsylvania, has always favored in- ter-collegiate contests as melting to 8 proper pride in alma mater.
 At any rate, the educators in atten- dance at these coming sessions will be greater in reputation as well as in num- Der than have ever yet been chosen to a conference of the kind. After this gathering, too, it is not likely that such another will convene for three or more years to come. It is proposed to make radical changes in the relationship of the association to the institutions of learning scattered over the land. This relationship is now very close. The president of the organization is Dr. J. w. Seavers, one of the most widely known of the professors at Yale. He will call the body to order. The treas urer, whose report shows the associa- tion to be in a very encouraging finan- cial condition, is Dr. c, E. Edinger, o1
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THE GIRLS ART CLUE.
How American Women Live end
 Study in Paris.
Their "Homey'' 0uarters-Plcnty of Tut and Plenty of Hard Work for Scores Of Bright Yankee
 Girls Abroad.
[CoPYRIGHT. 1895. I

ARIS is viewing the work of the
 American Girls Art club, which
 is holding 1t s spring exhibi- tion. The clu b house is situ- ated in the Lat
 in quarter on
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ionable must lead, by the way! Just as they get comfortably settled to enjoy ing custom the great unwashed' take it up and then they must discard
 it because it is vulgar" There are several other explanations that might be offered for giving up this annual
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WOMAN OF FASHION.
New Clothes on Eastor Sunday Is
 Out of S6ylo.
At Least so Far as New York's Ultra Fashionable Set Is Concerned-New Styles for the Spring and
 Summer.
IooPYRIGHT, ls95.l

l IS no lcnBer considered good
 form in the ul- tra fashionable set to come out newly arrayed from h e a d to foot in spring clothes on Eas- ter s u n d a y.
 W h a t an un- comfortable life the ultra fash
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BOYS MADE SHADOWS.
A National Conference of Univer-
 sity Officials.
TO Discuss Athletics-A Meeting Which Will Have q Direct Influence Upon the Conflict Now Raging Over
 Sports iL Colleges.
[coPyRlGHT, 1885 l

9 EVENT in the re c'e nt history of college ath- l e t i c s h a 8 aroused more interest t h q n
 the call for a national confer ence of univer- sity officials to deal with t h e Drob1ena UrOw-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10

arv BY the Romans, the pastors OF the
early church tried to make church
festival OF it, and chose st. Valentines
death day for celebrating the new feast,
and for the women's names substituted
those OF saints.
1t seems it was impossible to extirpate
the old heather meaning OF the feast
day, and, accordingly, the general ldea
of the ancient ceremonies was preserved
but modified to a great degree. The
proper significance OF St. Valentines
Day is the drawing by lottery the per-
son who is to be your valentine during
the rest Of the year. The old Scotch
and English custom was 10 take num-
Der OF slips Of paper, with the names OF
an equal mum Der Of men and women;
these were shufiled and drawn, so that
each young man drew valentine IN the
person OF a young maiden, and each
maiden drew a young man, whom she
called hers. BY this quaint method
each was supplied with two valentines,
but the man chung faster to the girl
whom he had drawn than the one to
whom he had fallen. The valentines
gave each other gifts, and often this lit
tie sport ended in love and marriage.
All this has changed with the years,
and now the day is celebrated by the
exchange OF beautiful gifts between
men and maidens; the gifts are sent
without any name. and the od-time
lottery is only recognizable by the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10

Ia u blow the horn aud get the boys up
-uU see what they say"
We were an called in and the case
Ste1i and vote was taken as 30
,1osher we should knock of work 20
oollge the elder.
1ue motion was carried bY nine ma
s1l'ly' and the judge returned 10 the
shanty 70 say:
Elder, 10 gives ne unalloYed pleas
ore 70 inform yeu shat you are 10 be
-uns tnls afternoon 40 Two O'Clock"
4nenSs," replied the elder. "Our
ooyS ars little slow. Git EN- around
On time u you kia.
an DO ny partiest, elder, and now
you better preDar' for your journey.
Aonrs going over the divide, and you'll
never return
AZ exactly two o'clock the elder was
ssaGoing GA the head OF pork barrel
uheef q tree while g rope was being
Naee FAST % a limb above his head.
Elder, said ths Judge, after seeing
every shing 10 order, "the boys are eX-
psetng a speech from you 90 this au-
spictous OCCASION
i've got nothin' TO say" be replied.
"Doggone ny buttons, but I'm glad
I'm goin'!n
Don't be in no rush. elder; lots OF
time 90 turn around In. III you want 10
talk we'll give you an hour or two. 10
breaks the afternoon for US anyhow,
you know"
''I'm 90 talker Go ahead with your
hangin'i"
Wall, elder, it's only material you'd
% little outer sorts under the sarcum-
etAnces, and we won't keep you any
LONGER. GoOdby 70 you"
There was a rope fast 20 the barrel
a dozen men pulled on IL, aud the elder
was swung of.
lie died easy, and that evening, after
the burial, Judge Bebes observed:
II don't want 20 seem caps5us and
over partickior, but 10 does appear TO
me that after the way we humorsd that
elder be ortar hev spread hIsseli on a
speech. It's the last time I'l put my
sell out 80 hang q man two days ahead
OK time."-Star Sayings.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10

suites of rooms In various parts OF the
fashionable section. Small fortunes
have been expended.i in fitting up three
and four rooms, but the owner feels
amply repaid when tea day comes
around and his numerous feminine
friends appear and tell him that he mas
''just the lovelest place in town.
George Vanderbilt, on the second moor
of the big brownstone palace on tlIth
avenue, between Fifty First and Fifty
second streets, has suite or -FOUR
rooms. They form an ideal bachelor
apartment. What they contain cost the
humble sum of $4,000, or something
over S25, 600 per room.
The principal apartment In the suite
Is the music room. George Vanderbilt
has considerable musical talent, being a
skilled performer on the plano, organ
aud violin. The room contains great
variety OF musical instruments, and
each one OF them is the finest OF Its
kind. Many OF young MIR. VanderbiltS
friends are skilled players on different
instruments, and when they meet In the
room there is usually enough talent TO
constitute a fair.siZed orchestra.
The piano in Georges room cost some
thing more than $1,000, and while 1t Is
not as gorgeous as the $4,000 affair OF
his brother Cornelius or the $4,000 in
strument owned by Henry S. Marquand,
it is more than an ordinarily fine piano.
George Vanderbilt can hardly De
classed as "pink tea swell" as he does
not furnish tea to his guests and does
not invite women friends to his bachelor
apartments. His friends Of the sterner
sex are not regaled with tea, either, but
with connections of more strength.
A peculiar feature which has just
been Introduced by Mr.. Vanderbilt and
few others 10 their entertaining OF
friends is that instead of passing cigars
around after lunch has been served,
pipes and a deiicately favored light
tobacco are proirered each guest.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10

Pipe-smoking has grown TO DE such
fad among the fashionables that instead
of the fragrant after-dinner cigar
well-seasoned pipe is indulged in.
The introduction of the pipe has not
been made for any economical reasons,
as it is far more expensive than the
giving of the best cigars, for the reason
that each guest is supposed 10 take the
pipe he has smoked home with him as
memento Of the occasion.
1t would never do to offer INFERIOR
pipes to men at a gathering OF this
kind. The style usually given Is OF
meerschaum, with a large amber mouth
piece, or French brar ornamenIad
with bits Of silver.
John w. Mackay, Jr., son OF the
great Western mine owner, has sump-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10
VALENTINES BOOM.
IT COSTS MONEY 10 CELEBRATE TIE SAINT
NOW.
Dresden China Dainiss-Than There are Jewoled
lhimblss Which Cost 500 Each-Iae Old
Papsr-Laca Affairs are No More.

IT'S St. Valentines Dsy, and, OH do not
say nay
To the question mean to proposes;
For love you. my dear, and to you I'm
sincere,
So l send you beautiful rose.
81. Valentine is one OF the Oldest
saints 10 the calendar, and during his
rather checkered career he little dream
ed that his name would ever go down
TO posterity associated with such jolly
day. The saint himself, who was a priest
OF Rome and suffered martyrdon in the
third century, seems 10 have had little
to do with the day beyond the accident
of his death day being used for the
purpose. It was the practice in an
Gent Rome during great part OF the
month of February to celebrate the
Superealis, which were feasts In
honor OF Pan and Juno. On
this occasion the names OF young wo-
men were put into box, from which
they were drawn as chance directed.
AS the feast OF the Supercalia had been
celebrated during the middle OF teoru-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10
PLATT'S BUSY DAY.
EIGHTEEN HOURS OF HARD WORK Br
VITALITY is IMMENSE.
Politics and Business and Then Rg,i,., -.
Poli'ics-A0w tas Republican Leader Iva.
lCopyrgU, 1851


It's 1870 o'clock every morBl,, -,
"Tom" PIatt, chrIstened Thomas . a
Her. the Republican king Of the Enr..,
State, turns over in bad and gets m, -
begin the day OF directing the saa',. !. !,
a big express company, OF MANAGE,
Southern coal and iron compap, "a
last, but not least. OF grr.
ing The G.. o. p. snip OF state in sb7S
rsction he may think best.
Mr.. Platts regular home 10 Va.
York is at the Fifth Avenue Hote. y
is also the home Of any up-countrv p.
publican statesman who wanders Ia b,
metropolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Plat have z fDe sr,.
OF apartments on the TOP foar Of ~,
hotel, and they are more hOmel.ke,t,.
the average family abode in q ".
York hosiery. Although located +,
the midst Of a yeritable hotbed OF r,i--
tics, the five rooms which Nr. p,
calls home are free of all political !, =.
vasion.
Mr.. Plat jumps into the bushes, d,
the day the minute be gets h.s i,,t ~,
OF bed. A tribute TO the mans yerss,1.
genius has always been tie pe-Dsf-.'
wonder of his friends how be na.s,.,
to maintain his powerful. leadels.i- n,
his party and at the same tine c5s1-.,
gigantic commercial and fssrc.l ~
prises. any Of which demands az mr-,
attention and energy as TWO or1Ia,-v
men are capable OF eIpeldiug.
Tom" Plat succeeds in sccomBIi,s.
ing this by la0orlg seventies,
eighteen and nineteen hours d,y
Just what be does 10 an ayeraos
eighteen-honr day this Story will tell.
THE PAPERS THAT HE EsADS
Mr.. Platt is no dude. j, take, him
less than twenty minutes 20 dress. and
as his breakfast hour is O'Clock ne bss
something like ten minutes 90 spend VA
reading the morning papers. Mr P.a,e
takes every newspaper puD.slotia tue
city.
The few papers that favor him srt
his policy be seldom reads. he SHOWS
they are all right. But he is always 90
the alert TO know what the enemy IS
.abent.
: He goes through paper after paper
with the speed Of race horse, reli.l.
Washington, Albany and pOiitlca. asr'
of all kinds, or the utterances oil, any
men OF note in the political field, P...
ticularly he reads everything published
about himself-the man whom tla gl-
pers sueeringly call "The Tioga States.
man, or, The Man from Owego, o.,
"Me, Too, OF Penn Yam
Mr.. Platrs birthplace may haye ba'a
rural; but there all rusucily ia hi
makeup ends.
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heart, that the girls in their homely,
house wifely work are ten times as
sweet to look upon as in the most gor
geous bail gown, and more love matches
have begun al the sewing classes than
all Of the rest OF the social functions
put together.
Two or three young men. with more
sentiment and romance than one would
believe possible in these matter-oi-fact
days, have ordered thimbles, which
they will send for valentines. Not the
regulation thim0le, but wonders tit for
fairy queens, II the airy sprites needed
such things. Each thmble is set round
with a wreath of flashing diamonds and
there is tiny little diamond studded
monogram on one side. They range In
price from fifty dollars to just as high
as one wishes to go, depending, or
course, upon the size of the diamonds.
One which was very beautiful cost one
hundred dollars. | noticed the mono
gram, which was "a. Y. S., so l ar
gued that James A. Buredn, Jr., had
ordered it FOR his fancee. Miss Adele
Vanderbilt Sloane, to be sent as val
entine on the good saints day.
The fashionable confectioners have
been busv since the Christmas time pre-
pairing for the l4th OF February. Dres-
den china is the favored receptacle for
bonbons this year, aud there are NAM
moth rose jars, quaintly-shaped bowls
and big, fat vases, all decorated with
cupids, and blue ribbons, and pink roses,
and forget.me-uots. These are filed
with all sorts Of delicious corrections,
with a generous sprinkling Of candied
violets and rose leaves. A dainty little
bit, which will afterward serve as a
powder box for my lady's dressing table,
filled with goodies can be bought for
the modest sum OF five dollars, while
the larger pieces go up close TO fifty.
One little gem, which was afterward
to serve as tea caddy for Miss Amy
Bends afternoon tea table, was a curl
GUS green porcelain jar the color OF
Jade. 1t fitted into an Opsn-vOTk case
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10

of solid gold, and the tiny tea scoop
was of gold enamelled In green. This
little caddy was filled for Valentines
Day With delicate green pistache; and
the bill, which was going to very
generous young society man in ex-
change for this valentine, was one hun
bred dollars, for / saw it with my own
eyes.
1.-THE clover blossoms kiss her feet,
she is so sweet" cannot by any possible
chance accompany any OF the Hover
valentines the Broadway florists are al
ready arranging for. Nothing so SIM
ple as field flowers. But punches OF
fragrant, delicious violets, tied with
broad violet satin ribbon, and costing
fifty dollars; a great, crimson basket
filed with American Beauty roses, for
the beauty whom your heart delights TO
honor; white lilacs aud orchids for the
exouisitely fair young debutante-these
are the flowers which all properly
minded Young men will choose and pay
for in checks ranging from twenty-five
dollars up 10 one hundred.
But the postman will groan under his
load. and the dear, old-fashioned yalen-
tines OF silk and lace and ribbon, with
the pretty verses and the loving words
and wishes, will come and 20 all over
the land AID into nearly every home.
The rosy young schooI6oy will ring the
doorbell Of the house bis pretty
sweetheart lives In, and rush around
the corner, hoping In his heart that she
will know the sender and DO glad Of the
l. -
brings, aud which he could never have
found courage TO tell her. And the
maidens send them TO the ones they
love the best, and the day is the great
love-making time In every land and
under every sky where the dear old
saints name IL ever whispered.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-10

It seems a rather curious diversion
for the young manhood OF swaggerdom,
but the fad is growing, and to-day there
are few young men in the city with
claims on society in its high walks who
DO not have their days at home and dis
pense periumed tea in dainty bits Of
china.
1t might shock the rugged foreiathers
Of these young men could they see thei5
descendants getting enjoyment out or
an amusement that seems TO be 80 pc
culiarly feminine.
But fashion is all powerful, and II 1t
should decree that men should under
take ell kinds of hazardous pursuits
these same young fellows would follow
it as blindly as they do the afternoon
tea craze.