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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-02
Summer Corsets.


Gage Downs celebrated Summer
Corsets, long WASTED and has high
back, comfortable, worth 75c, clos
ing sale price 29c.
Summer Vests.
Ladies' gauze knit Vests, were
pc. sale price lc.
Ladies' gauzo knit Vests, were
Zoe. sale price SC.
Ladies' gauze knit Vests, were
15c. sale price &c.
Ladies gauZe knit Vests, were
25c, sale price 12c.
Ladies' Lisie thread Vests, were
5Oc, sale price CSC.
Mems Summer Shirts and
Drawers.
To clean them out for this sea-
son we put them at Il price that
will move them quickly.
Our Mems Balbriggan shirts and
Drawers, worth 35e each, closing
sale price 19c.
Our Balbriggan Shirts and
Drawers, worth soc, closing sale
p!icc 29c.
Our 81 quality Shirts and Draw
ers, closing sale price 69c.
Blankets.
HOT WEATHER SAIL OF BLANKETS.
Having bought something over
1000 Blankets last June, since
which time the price has advanced
at least 25 per cent, we will throw
them out to the bargain seekers
for this hot weather sale at less
than they a be replaced for to-
day.
Afull 1O-i Cotton Blanket. would
cost us today to buy 55c; IL sale
price is 4Sc.
A heavier 10-4 Cotton Blanket,
white or gray. worth 9Oc; sale
price Csc.
The trade winner worth $l.25;
our sale price 92c.
Wool Blankets S1.9S, S2.4S, 1915,
$3.50 and up to 80 per pair.
We have hove prettiest baby
blankets you eve saw.
YOUnQ C
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-02

Gage Downs celebrated Summer
Corsets, long wasted and has high
back, comfortable, worth 75c, clos
ing sale price 29c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
9tnr Glle 3inrnr.
now TO DRESS WELL FOR LITTLE
MONEY.

When there is little money to be
spent on clothes it should be spent
judiciously and carefully, and it is
quite a vexed question as to whether
il pays to make over old gowns
The necessary trimming to make
them look fresh and smart is ser.
ious item, and more time is often re-
quired to make over gown than to
have a new one made.
Two entirely new gowns in the
winter and four in the summer, well
fitted and well hung, and above all,
well sewed, will, with old ones re-
modelled in the house, give woman
wardrobe sufficient for ordinary
use, There are plenty of cheap dress.
makers in New York who can fit very
well, and who have quite knack al
hanging skirts. From ten to fifteen
dollars is their charge for making
gown, and some even make one for
eight. These dressmakers do not live
in convenient localities, as may read
lily be imagined, for il they did they
could never afford to make gowns at
such reasonable rates. Five dollars
for Innings goes long way towards
getting all that is necessary, but this
part must not be intrusted to the
dressmaker, who certainly cannot
afford to have her apprentices take
the time and car fare necessary to
buy these things without adding
some small commission to the origi-
nal price Of the goods.
A smart jacket and hat, both for
summer and winter, are absolutely
necessary in every woman's outfit.
Coats and jackets are beyond the
skill of dressmakers; they had better
be bought in any of the shops where
twice year there are also sales, at
very much reduced prices, of extreme.
Iy wel-cut garments. For eight and
ten dollars jackets of very stylish cut
can be found, but these must be alter.
ed TO fit. If a woman has any taste
at millinery she can trim her own
hats for far less money than she can
buy them ready-made, but is very
good investment to pay eight or ten
dollars, spring and fall, for one stun
ming hat, which must be becoming;
and in this connection it is as we'll to
remember that hat which is becom-
ing to the full face is often terribly try
ing to the profile, and just as much care
must be taken for the side as the front
view Picturesque effects are much
20 be avoided by the woman who has
only small allowance for dress. 1t
is the women who spend thousands
year who can best afford to 90 in for
big hats, outre garments, indeed
ANYTHING conspicuous. The fashions
Of picturesque hats and clothes are
generally very heeting, and nothing
IS more depressing than to put all
ones money into some article of raj
ment so conspicuous that one is
known by it for the months one is
doomed to wear it, [Harper's Ba-
Llar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
WASHING FLANNELS.

"All shrunk up and absolutely good
for nothing" said the mother OF a
family as she looked over the stock
of summer fannels bought with the
utmost care and at great expense,
"And the worst of it all is that, say
what | will, | cannot get my fannes
washed carefully. One of my laun-
dresses is an enthusiast on cold water; ;
another has always regulated her
work by the thermometer, and the
third declares it makes no difference
whether the wateris hot or cold, they
will shrink anyhow, and | do not
think that there is any wonder that
they do, considering the way that
they handle them"
These women, good, careful souls,
every one of them, put the fannels
on to the board and literally maui
them and grind them in their
efforts to make them clean, all of
which is as unnecessary as il is ruin
Gus. Sometimes in despair do them
myself and the consequences are that
they do not shrink. use suds,
pretty strong, and with little sal
soda in it, and just as hot as | by any
possibility, can handle the hannels in
it. If it is nearly boiling, so much
the better. | put the hannels in the
tub, pour on the suds, cover them up
and let them stand for fifteen min
utes, then take them up by the belts
or collars as gingerly as possible with
my very fnger-tips, let the water
drain from them, dip again and re-
peat the draining process"
IF there are any particular dirty
spots, | have soap dissolved in water
to pasty consistency and put bit
OF it on the spots and leave them
few minutes longer. | donot rub the
soap in, neither do | rub the flannels.
l simply rinse them up and down in
the water, and this not more than is
necessary to clean them. When |
think they will do, | lay them where
they will drain until the water is
nearly out, then prepare fresh hot
suds and put them through in the
same way. Under no circumstances
would | wiring them or press them
any more than is absolutely neces.
sary. They are hung out dripping,
and, if it is cold weather, they may
freeze all they choose. | have had
my fine French fiannels broughtin so
stiff that they would stand up
against the wall, and l have some of
them now that are worn to rags that
are as soft and pllable as the day
they were made up. Before the gar
ments are fully dry they may be
ironed. Never use partly cool irons
and rub them again and again, for
this is worse than the squeezing pro-
cess, but take an iron as hot as may
be without any danger of scorching,
and manage so carefully that once
passing over the fabric will smooth
it. In this way hannels will last to
Il good old age and preserve their
original quality intact."-[N. Y.
L edger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
PRETTY BOOKMARKS.

Convenient and pretty little book
marks are made in this fashion: Cut
off the four corners of square envel-
ope of nice Irish linen paper and you
will have material for four. These
little caps fit on the corner of page
and mark ones place as we'll as more
costly devices. They are made pref
ty by painting on them little designs
done in water color, such as a bow
knot, conventional heur-de-lys, a
testoon of roses, or cupid. The pa
per for these marks is sometimes
tinted a pale blue, green, orrose color,
and the edges touched with an irreg-
ular line of gold or silver paint.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
A GIRLS COOKING SCHOOL WITH
OUT A FIRE.

OF course it is simple enough
There are half dozen electric lights
in each room in the house, and this
ingenious teacher has attached wires
TO the electric main which furnishes
the electric lights. Each set of wires
thus attached is fastened to one of
the cooking utensils or to the little
stand upon which it rests, and the
pan or griller or stand is thus heated
Just as the tiny platinum wire loop
inside the electric light burner is.
Only, as the griler is much larger
than the platinum wire, and iron or
copper is harder to heat than plati-
num, the griller does not get white
hot, or even red-hot, but Just hot
enough to raise blister on your fin.
yer.
Up out of the floor come the wires
from the electric main, and then each
little cooking apparatus has its own
particular set of wires and there are
siX little knobs for connecting and
breaking the circuit for each set.
placed under the top of the table.
The cleanliness, the simplicity, and
The convenience OF the whole thing
are remarkable, and if you really
should happen to belong to some
iQQking-school here in America and
90 to London and see this school,
YOU would be thunder. struck, and
made quite unfit to come back to the
bot range and the draughts and the
coal and wood and the lighting of
Tres.
The two burglar proof safes that
were the only things seen in THEFT
would hardly do to call it kitchen"
--cooking-room turn out to be moth
ing more than electric ovens. They
are so constructed that the half-dozen
shelves inside them which are attach
ed to wires, just as the utensils on
he table are, can be heated to any
iegree of heat without altering the
temperature of the safe or even the
oven itself. Here you can set plates
OF bread or roaSts, or anything that
IAN be cooked or warmed in an oven.
Then closing the door you turn on a
certain amount of electric current
through the wires that are attached
20 shelf No. l, and the plates are
warmed. To shelf No. 2 the wires
larry more heat, and something is
7oasted in no time, and so on down
through the half-dozen shelves-all
lone by the turning of little knobs,
instead of carrying coal, and putting
paper and wood underneath it, and
hghting matches, burning your fin.
gers, and blowing half your lungs
away Harpers Young People.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
CHILDRENS GAMES.

Thought and motion in children
go together, and if you check the one
you check the other, says we'll
known student of child life and
study. An interesting experiment
founded on this truth, tried not long
ago at one of the summer schools,
was to teach everything taught in the
grammar-school by means of games.
There were arithmetic games, geog-
raphy games, and many other games
$50 to 200 of them. "We have COM
posed programme of all the school
studies taught only by plays and
games" says DR.. Stanley Hall. 81
won't say that it is altogether prac-
teal. | simply say it can be done"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12

wreath OF primroses surrounds the
fishes. The head of Aries is framed
by circle Of March violets. April is
announced by Taurus looking from
wreath of daisies. A bower Of haw.
thorne arches over Mays twins,
Gemini, June's honeysuckle surrounds
Cancer, Leo of July is seen on shield
bordered by water lilies. August is
represented by a shell clasped in pop
pies, on which Virgo reposes, Libra
is crowned with September's morn
ing glories, while Scorpio is sur
rounded by the hops of October.
Sagittarius bends his bow in bed of
November chrysanthemums and Cap.
ricornus is seen reaching after
wreath of Christmas holly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12

a house furnished in perfect taste sets
before her family and guests food.
combinations that are inartistic and
repulsive to a cultivated palate.
Food fried in butter is much more
indigestible than that fried in lard or
olive oil, which is the best and most
economical medium for frying foods
in deep fat.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
FOOD COMBINATIONS.

Never serve tea or chocolate with
fried foods, says an authority on gas
tronomy. Serve coffee with fried
lobster, oysters, and all kinds of fish,
also with cheese. Aside from being
an unpalatable and inartistic combin-
alton, tea also renders such foods in
Manga woman who has
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
BIRTH STONES AND MONTH PINS.

Birth stones have had their dav
md now to tell the story of your ma
tal day birth month pin introduc.
ng the signs of the zodiac is quite a
a mode. January is represented by
Aquarius watering with his urn a
wreath of snowdrops. Februarv's
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-04-12
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All druggists sell it at 81, 8 bottles for s., or
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-03-28

Their little game was blocked. 1t does
not matter whether it was jealousy OF
those not provided for, or nobler mo.
tive. 1t is enough to know and be
thankf that there will be no Congress.
s;onal junkets in 1895.
Judge Springer. who has just donned
the ermine an q reward-the silver men
say-for having contrary to his own
opinion championed the administration
financial bills in the last Congress. has
been making some political predictions
He says the democrats will be frightened
into making declaration in favor OF
free silver in their national platform,
next year, and that he thinks that will
cause the republicans to nominate ALI
son on an antagoniatic platform; that
the republicans will carry the eastern
States and the democrats the South, to
a certainty, leaving the real battle to be
fought in the West. He predicts fur
Their that tins tariff will be kept in the
background by both parties, and that
silver will be the only real question at
Issue. Few of the many political pre-
dictions made by Mr.. Springer during
bis long Congressional career were ever
verified. That prevents this one attract.
ing the attention it might otherwise have
received.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-03-28
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-03-28
THz CA7oc7'S CLARION.
CHAS. E. CASSELL.
Editor and Publisher.
Thursday, March %, 1895.
Nevspaper Law Decisions.

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sponsible for the payment.
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nav continue to send it until payment Is made ano
coec, the whole amount whether the paper is taken
from the Office or not.
No paper will be discontinued until paid up.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-11
ENGLAND WARNS JAPAN.
Must Not Ascend the YanE-Tse-kiang
River.

Must Not Ascend the Yang-Tse-Kiang
River.
A dispatch from Shanghai says the Brit
ish government has wired instructions to
Admiral Fremantle. commanding the Brit
ish fleet in Chinese waters, to prevent, by
force, If necessary, the Japanese squadron
from ascending the Yang-Tse-KiaEg river,
at the mouth Of which Is Shanghai.
The dispatch further states that the
Americans Wilde and HOWE, who were ar
rested at Kobe on the steamer Sydney In
November last in consequence of the dis
covery Of a plot entered into with the
Chinese government to destroy the Japa-
were subsequently released on parole, have
arrived at Wei-Hai-Wei and are engaged
in the work of preparing explosives for
use in the carrying out Of their scheme.
The Chinese peace ENJOYS will go to Hiro-
shima on a passenger steamer. japan OBJ
jecting to special vessel. The Japanese
foreign minister Mutsu has been dele
gated to negotiate with them.