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entire -deux Usually it follows in tone
some note in the gown itself. but the dim
art-green is like black, shade that com
bines harInoniously with almost anything
and is especially, beautiful with pale
brown. Linen canvas is not used for chH-
dren under seven !iFfocks for girls from
eight TO ten have soinetimes pudding bag
vests and undersleeves of white null or
tucked nainsook.
FOR BOYS AStWELL AS GIRLS.
Pique, white and tinted, is a good sum-
mer morning material for little maids
from three to five, and is now being made
up into plain skirts and double breasted
REFER coats, with taFn back cuffs and broad
sailor collars. Hamburg embroidery edges
collar and cuffs, and the skirt is buttoned
on to a loose comfortable underbody OF
unstarched null. A design OF this COM
Portable little model is shown here and is
OF pale pink with white trimming.
With the substitution of Killed skirt
for the plain, it is used for small urcllins
as well as girls, though the boys suits are
generally white.
Another good and simple model for
baby boys is a Killed Skirt and sailor
blouse, which, for the hottest months, will
be made of brown linen and white and
''sUn- burnt" duck AS TO boys in trousers
and all their cool summer toggery. They
ale TO wear linen and pique sailor suits,
blouse and long or short trousers, and
MILDLY" suits, which have short Jackets
of blue serge trimmed with brass buttons
and with lappels of white pique TO match
the trousers, which may be knee or full
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hand in politics. Rather leg, for the
story hangs around a man named Riley
and wonderful pair of checked trousers,
and is as follows:
Riley was a shiftIess plumber with a gift
Of eloquent speech, and during the last po-
litieaI contest spent his days and nights
giving tongue to burning politics. One
morning he woke up to find himself famous;
but there was one bitter drop in his cup OF
JOY. He had been elected as a candidate to
Republican convention bat had no trousers
to wear TO the meeting
Drinks all round cost q great deal of
money when a man has not been working
at all, and Rley's days had gone in hold
ing up lamp-posts and saloon counters He
had not a red cent TO his name, and his old
blue pants were a disgrace; so one night,
when ouIy the angels ard a stray cat were
watching him he went to the Good Shepherd
basement with 40 centshe had borrowed and
came out with triumph and a bundle.
whether the checked trousers Riley
bought a our clothing bureau had anything
TO do with the settlement OF the political
question, is something / can't say" said
one OF the sisters yesterday with a hu-
morous twinkle of her eye. 1--WE only know
that Tammany has been downed. And
Riley has turned over a new leaf and takes
good care of his family now"
The red tape OF the Nineteenth street old
clothes shop is limited TO this: Each buyer
must come recommended, though an old
customer, or even the policeman on the
corner, may do the recommending Also
tickets are issued which limit holders to
buying only on one of the afternoons, as
otherwise the crowd would he so large that
nobody would deserved.
The only trouble about the place is that
the demand for clothing is much greater
than the supply. HOPE DUNBAR.
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green satin ribbons, and its base fitted into
block OF wood, which was concealed with
moss, banked with primroses, white and
pink.
AT the top We're two tiny flags, pennon
shaped, aud foot below was a wreath OF
flowers.
TAis wreath surrounded the outer edge of
wire wheel, the spokes of " hiCh We're COW
cred with fine foliage. From each spoke
hung a rope of flowers, which, sagging a
little before falling over the edge OF the
table, did not intercept ones view OF ones
ueighbors.
Ropes of flowers sounds affluent, but
they were composed or such blossoms as
Were most plentiful and least costly, white
stock giliy-flowers, spirea aud dentyia, with
their own pretty foliage, were wound with
stout thread about a cotton rope.
They were kept in water until within a
few moments of serving the luncheon,
when they were attached in place At
each cover was a tiny May basket filled
with the single or wood vioIets and for
a more permanent souvenir OF the occasion
a small twig, upon which paper cherry and
peach blossomed bloomed most naturally
procured at the Japanese stores These
were tied with pale green ribbons, upon
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ceeds OF sales 90 toward the support Of
the upstairs school, which is further
helped by small sums paid by friends OF
relatives OF the children One little bed,
however, is kept up entirely by an en-
dOwment fund, and every cent OF this fund
las been raised through the sale Of broken
toys alonei
As the old woman In the rhyme-book truly
said, every little makes a mickle, aud uOth-
ing ia so dilapidated butthat the good fairies
OF this curious old clothes shop can trans
mute II into z reenbacks.
There is no set scale OF prices. The
value OF an article depends wholly upon the
buyers needs and length OF purse For
instance, the woman who comes for decent
frock TO get situation in, never pays as
much as she who demands ball gown or
any other garment accounted merely q
luxury.
Bail froeks and very dress up ones for Sun
DAY, are q feature Of the clothing bureau,
the sisters holding wisely that after hard
days work little entertainment and finery
are good things.
A Saturday afternoon at the Good Shep-
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Veil Folds Full
Of G0QU8trios
FACE NETS ARE NOT HYGIENIC,
BUT THEY'RE FASCINATING.
One Fad Draws the Gauze
Tight and Smooth and
Perfumes 1t Family.

The strongest defense woman has, be she
distinctly pretty or fascinatiugly plain, is
herven. Everst1ce the world began she has
been wearing some sort of a tissue face
covering, thick or thin, large or small: in
this day and generation refined down to a
mere gauze face mask, yet likely to re-
main the dearest and most important pos
session IN her wardrobe till the millen-
mum arrives.
II is a barrier between herself and pryiug
eyes, through which very little can be read
by an uninitiated gaze, but nothing can es-
cape her keen glance.
OF course, vAiIs are not hygienic: any
woman will admit that, but they are neces-
sary, and If you want to know how youth
full a woman believes she looks notice what
sort OF a net she uses.
FOR PEACHY FACES.
In the language of wells ouly fresh-faced
girls can afford to wear the plain fiImy uu-
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p S0Gr0t Charity
in CAST OFF GlOth8S
NEW YORK'S CLOTHING BUREAU
AND WHAT 1T DOES.
An Asylum for Little Ones Is
Supported by the Receipts
from the Establishment.

New York, May Ain the basement of a
dim old New York house occupied 10y an
Episcopal sisterhood, tie Sislerhood OF the
Good Shepherd, an interesting and useful
business is carried on. The house itself is
an asylum-School where twenty little girls
are being cared for and educated: but the
basement, which is known to the neigh
Dorhood as a clothing bureau is, on two
afternoons of the week, turned into sort
OF Aladdin shop for poor folks. Wednes-
days and Saturdays are the days of sale at
the clothing bureau, and, if no richer, a
buyer has only 10 rub tie greasy side of a
dingy penny to have real enchantment
occur.
The business carried on in the Good Shep-
herd basement is not altogether what the
name given TO the place would imply.
The people who go there are OF all nation
alitics and faiths, and the stock OF the
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An Inpentous swind1e.

Enormous business has been done lately
at French fairs by man who pIofessed
TO sell rat powder that was perfectly harm
less and that struck rats dead on the spot
In order TO convince the skeptical the man
first of all powdered a slice of bread with
the stuff and ate piece of il himself.
Then he put the remainder under a glass
case, in which rat was kept in captivity.
The rat went TO eat the bread and instantly
fell dead. AT 10 cents a box the powder
went off like hot cakes, and the lucky
proprietor OF the specific was in a fair
way to make fortune. But the police,
who in France are very active in pro-
tecting the people from fraud, look
into the matter and found that the powder
was nothing but ordinary sugar. They
also discovered that the case was connected
with powerful electric battery, aud that
the moment the rat touched the dread the
current was turned on, and it was thus
that his death was brought tabout-western
Electrician.
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herd basement is an Interesting experience.
At O'Clock the place opens. visitors hurry
ing in Immediately, and by o, the hour Tor
closing, most OF that weeks stock has been
sold out. The buyers are, in the main, from
the poorest quarters of town, yet are not
always the wholly wretched.
A MIXED LOT OF CUSTOMERS.
Trimservant maids and factory girls wear
ing their poor finery with an air, rub
elbows with Irish washerwomen and dingy
Italian fruit sellers. Sometimesa workman
in overaIls and with tools in hand will
straggle in for coat or pair OF shoes; for
the Nineteenth street old clo' shop is not
alone for the weaker sex. Sometimes,
again, a woman who plainly has known
better days will be seen, her face yelled,
her hands decorously gloved. And of all
the types that go to the clothing bureau this
last is the saddest.
A sister in a close white linen cap pre-
sides as sales woman. Her eyes may be
Injured TO sad sights and her ears TO dole
ful tales, bat she is ever ready with O
word of sympathy or advice. The way she
drops prices to suit the convenience of
customers is something to make a real
shopwoman weep with anguish.
These prices are an entertainment In
eiSuieStfes- Il va an eAdtHpftt, an olu woman,
wra has been sick all winter, pays SO
cents for n decent jacket, nice bon
net and pair of shoes without q break.
A scrub girl who supports a whole family
an Ireland on tter earnings gets a Sunday
gown in pale blue cloth for 10 cents.
Cleaned kid gloves, put up in neat piles,
Sell for cents a pair; others less good,
but wearable, may be picked out of the
penny bundle basket for l cent. A hair
mattress in good condition is 40 cents.
White gowns, for which there is great
demand, in nuns yelling, satin and silk,
all trimmed, and some of them really very
charming, are put aside for wedding frocks,
and sell at from 30 cents 10 So.
ITS INFLUENCE IN POLITICS.
The clothing bureau has even had q
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Boarding-Houses to Blame.

The rise IN the price Of beef has been so
great and rapid that people are puzzled to
accountfor it. The theory that the scarcity
Of beef is due to the policy OF the boarding.
houses has much to support it, The aver
age boarder will not need to refresh his
memory in order to recall Che fact that he
consumes beef ,095 times in ordinary and
1,09S times in leap years Some specially
favored boarders, at houses where extra
lunches, or four meals day are served,
may have succeeded in making a record of
/ 500 times year. Upon this point we
do not care, however, to iusist-I 100 times
per anuuIn in round numbers, will answer
our p urpose well enough. The drift of
population is steadily into the cities. In
many cities Dearly every ether dwelling
house takes boarders. At the boar,Iing-
houses beef is alw wsys the piece de Resistance.
Very often it offers considerable resistance,
but boarders generally have good teeth
aud are able 10 overcome the resistance.
In this way they have iuvoIuntariIy con-
tributed TO put up the price OF beef by ere
ating an abnormal demand and gleatiy
lessening the supply.-LeuisviIle Courier
Journal.
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which the names of the guests were written
in white paint.
Upon the reverse side of the ribbon,
UtheSe words
''Hoi the merrie first of MAZE
Bryngs the daunce and blossoms gale
To make of lyfe holidayV'
The "menu" was as spring-like in char
acter as the decorations. The first course,
Strawberries, served in tiny flower pots, of
ordinary red clay, lined with the natural
leaves. The strawberry leaves were also
piled in profusion around them on the
serving tray, suggesting their having been
gathered in some supposition garden, Just
outside.
Clam bouillop followed, and the brook
trout, sweet-breads, with fresh peas, aspar-
agus, boiled chicken, with a salad OF lettuce
and raw tomatoes, aud fresh strawDer
ice cream in flower moids.
After the pretty "debutante" had been
crowned queen of the May" the guests
separated, with the pleasant reflection that
they had been but enjoying a foretaste OF
what, before long, nature would spread
before Their eyes in extravagant profusion.
MRS. BURTON KINGsLAND.
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an inch wide is most effective on these,
and besides rosettes and nyaway bows,
belts, collars, and Wristbands are often
of inserting, showing the ribbon through
On the figured lawns and dainty linens that
are always so large and important part
for the little girl g summser wardrobe, black
daisy ribbon is much used; it is run in and
out of Hamburg beading and forms loose
rosettes, whose long scattered loops give
them the air of black chrysanthemums.
Linen canvas in solid tones, sage brown,
cardinal, and art-green is another and
newer trimming for little girls gingham
frocks.
1t is made into reyers and deep collars
of all shapes, and is very decorative when
edged with white embroidery or yellow
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blue, literally peppered with wee dots, be-
hind which the most dOubtfully pretty face
takes on sort Of nj ySteTious charm
ALLURING TO BUYERS.
But outside this given list there are wells
that particularly become certain faces as
the miIliners have discovered who drop a
blue check-wOven gauze over the face OF
a blue-eyed retrousse Dosed little person.
who is trembling on the verge OF induI-
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SIAY-DAy LUNCHEoNs.
Floral Feast Given. in Honor of a Spring
Time Debutnnte

Floral Feast Given. in Honor of a Spring
Time Debutnnte.
lone may be a bride as often as man
proposes, but a 'dehuiaute' only once i'll a
lifetmei" was the astute remaTk of one
of these favored mortals who was making
her courtesy 10 society. Her first season"
is an epoch marked in gnI's calendar
by pleasures in Iapid succession, enjoyed
with unfaded appetite, ard in 1un conf
deuce that life is TO te a perpetual holt
day.
Special features are sought for by the
parents and friends degraded for the nonce
to the rank OF mere satellites1 to grace the
entert rtainments given in honor OF these
stars, newly risen upon the social horizon
A unique luncheon was the result of one
effort in that direction. Invitations were
issued for the 1st of May, which brought
its own suggestions and none OF the lovely
and many traditions OF the day were for
gotten. As the ceTemonies OF May-Ciay in
the England of our ancestors were a sur
vival of those held iu honor of the Goddess
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Flora, it was Fitting that the rooms shouId

Flora, 1T was fitting that the rooms should
be lavishly decorated with flowers.
To this end. friends out of town were
commissioned to send, fortnight before
the guests were expected, all the twigs
and branches of apple, cherry, peach, and
pear trees that could be had for .IoYe or
lucre."
The great bundles of dry-1ookfng sticks
that arrived in response to the request,
looked most unpro missing. These were
kept for a fortnight in sunny window,
and the result was miracle of beauty!
In few days every stick had burst into
bloom and was thickly covered with flow
ers, like Tannhauser's tabled staff. AS a
witty Frenchman once said of some CASTRO
uomical triumph, 1.-The idea should be can
oniZed.''
Our Northern spring is usually coy, but
she has been caught and compelled to do
ones bidding.
The room selected for the feast was Ike
a bower, and the effect was produced at
nominal COST
In the center of the round table a May
pole was erected lin private life it was
mop handle), wound with white and pale
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dotted tulle that for comfort is the one to
be preferred, yet on any but a tender peachy
young face it seems to cuTiously fetch
shadows that look terribly like wrinkles,
consequently when a woman sees in her
haDd-gIass that her ephemeral girIishness
or complexion is slipping from her she be-
gins to buy dotted nets. At first the tuIIe
isvery fine andthe dots are farapart. That's
the sort of veil a woman affects on the
day swhen she looks her best, discreetly re-
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WHEN PLAYING IN TIE SAND

rosettes on the todice, which is the usual
low -necked baby model; the footing edges
the wide founce around the neck and at
the bottom of the short puffed sleeves.
Dresses of this sort are always worn
with camps and long undersleeves, which
may be silk or the material of the costume.
Black is now an emphasizing note for
little folks as well as big ones. Com mbined
with white embroidery or thick lace, silk
gingham and shambray frocks are much
improved with touch of it. Satin ribbon
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Pr0ffu Wash StuffS
For Lad and Lassi8
NEW IDEAS IN SUMNER FROCKS
FOR LITTLE ONES.
General Items AS to What
Small Folk Must Wear
During Hot Weather.

New wash gowns for small maids are
just as charming as those for big oues.
The same exquisite flower and fruit
tints distinguish them, and with but few
exceptions the materials are Identical.
Naturally, too, in many points OF design,
froeks for larger girls show the Influence
OF grown-up fashions, but cotton gowns
for baby girls are as adorably baby-Iike
as ever.
For dress-up moments, summer after
noon drives, and mad caperings on hotel
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sorting to very closely speckIed affair on
other days when her cheeks lack their accus-
toned color or there are pIaintive blue shad-
owS under her eyes. To and from the den
lists she is like to adopt veil with deep
lace edge, that hides the poor suffering
mouth and makes the eyes all the brighter
for the lower face thrown in soft eclipse.
Besides these is the sunburn aud IreckIe
veil OF silk tissue, white and brown or dark
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Musn,t Shake Hands Now.

Are we to lose all our forms of saluta-
tion? Kissing is frowned upon by the
founding in Russia of society for the sup
preston of haDdshaking, Its instigator
Is a physician, and the reason for his ac-
tlon Is the belief that the practice is dan-
gerous on account of the probable trans
mission of dangerous bacilli.-New York
Times.
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valenciennes lace at cents the yard is
an effective trimming. The Indian dim
tiles make delightful midsummer frucks
for little maids and an adorably cool gown
in it, lately seen, WIS OF pale apple green
showing the delicate striped weave, rever
and sleeve flounces being edged with white
footing NINA FITCH.
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length. The lappels button on to make
them convenient for washing, and with the
MILDLY Jackets sweitger IrontS and Tam
O'Shanter sailors of white duck are to be
worn. The sailor, Which, with it's little
bobtail ribbon endA ~ nautical to de
gree, has L. ). n. els}nneidereti on the band;
the sweater front ha4y have the same or
perhaps n red or H9e anchor These lit
tie suits, especially becoming TO sturdy
youngsters, can he bought ready nIade for
So.
NOVELTIES FOR CHILDREN.
General items as 81 ehat small folks are
% wear this sunImef ne as follows.
Young geDuenlelE ffsal foar to eight are
to sport patent leateeg pumps with sailor
suits; also silk handkerchiefs in solid
;ints, red and blue. Big sailor collars,
with shield fronts. in fancy linens and
1Ucks are sold at SO cents and VIII he used
for Frightening up dark serges and flan-
nCls. Little girls at the country and
seashore viii be huch given TO aprons
and sun bonne;s. A popular ana bscpning
sun bonnet is FTeHehy affair called the
Miami; the crow4rpgffed up IN a bag and
The front, a large coal scuttie shape, is
shirTed over reeds, with full flounciDg
lace frIll at the edge that shaues .he face.
This sun bonnet is very charming, but a
more sensible and far less expensive one
is a little country shape with old fashioned
splits made in plain and striped diinItIes.
The shirred ginghanl and lawn hats. so
long popular, have high and low crowns
and large r0Settes edged with vaIenciennes.
Dinities are to be extensively worn
and never were they cheaper than now.
white dinity barred in tender pink
stripes sells at s cents the yard. One
in sky blue, sprinkled with tiny White
stars, is 8 cents, and with this pattern,
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Only sixteen days remain In which
to get "TiDes,' gift book with a
monthly subscription. Better sub
scribe now.
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The clothing bureau has even had O
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-11-22

Strange to say how our people really
miss the Items when they do not appear
for several days. Some people think they
are nearly played out. Well. II they are, I
the woman who has more than one beau?
Don't worry. All that is the mst tier with
sosne people, or at least one young lady,
10 that she would like everybody 10 know
whom she hns a new beaa. which Ia as
often as the fellows choose to call.
w. u. hawthorne. wife and Mamie have
returned from Waiting friends In Ches.
ter.
Mrs. Crookhsbn, who bas been sufferIux
from rhsumatlsm.sis IL conyalescoat.
We know OF q wilmington gent who
thinks that Proprietor Legg OF Btaatoa
Hotel can really Hk'up tue best dinner hS
has eaten for SOMA time. We eupposs
the ladies have senfething to do with II.
They uss the G. .. L., coffee and tea.
10 spend the holidays at Norristown IL his
good hearted brother would only tend the
Miss Mary Hamilton visited friends In
Wilmington this week. but shssdoesn,t
care to pay the saino parties many calls
The Stanton people always Nod out
what is beat for them. at least you would
think so Ii You bad seen those two ladies'
tugging those baskets from Groome's, at
Newport. The best and most goods for
Mics Bertha WIdoms Is indlsposed from
bilious attack.
Proprietor LegG is Improving In health.
He has hesn very much indisposed.
If boasting would only buy land some
people would soon own half Of the farms
In Delaware.
Smltby, the barber, will have an elegant
lot of canary birds Christmas.
How is 1t when children talk in school
that one child Ia punished and the other
one eDjoys the pleasure ofsthe day? This
Ia not right. but we only know of one
nun who would say It was. aud some.
their duties oyertnx their brain and their
minds become dellrivus. Don't you
think so?
II you have q cold take hoarse
medicine.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-11-22

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