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flying through hole so far away, so a
little latitude is allowed The ball can
be bounded upon the ground, or tossed in the
air or otherwise knocked about until the
player has the aim true. And the target
50 held by some one on the friendly side
of the game who will move it slightly 10
assist the player. The game is counted
by points, fen points making a complete
number, anc each time the ball goes through
the hole in the target a point is scored.
This game is both pretty and scientific
And, strange 10 say, those accustomed to
the hard, uncertain batting OF a tennis ball,
make the poorest players at flower target.
Field ferfeits is another old game revived.
The society girl who introduced ii and sue
ceeded in getting lot OF dignified matrons
to play il thus describes her efforts:
"A number OF hollow rubber balls were
secured by us. There were fourteen in
all, and the balls were OF the sort that
wicked small boys squeeze and fill with
water and then squirt out We utilize the
hollowness or the balls but not in this way.
We squeezed them in eau decologne until
they were full. though not drop leaked out.
Then we planned the field.
I'VE chose the Sunniegt part OF The lawn
and had rugs spread down. Then we sta
toned our players about. Mamma stood
upon the first goal, a dear old lady visiting
from Boston was upon the next goal ten
feet further on; and so we placed them all
With a basket filled with the balls took
my place ten feet from mamma and threw
the first bah 10 her. She made q frantic
dive for il and-missed. But il was caught
by a cousin Of ours, a very athletic young
woman. at mammals right field" The
second bail went on TO a girl at the left and
finally all but one had been played, when
when mamma surprised us all by catching
q ball or course she was showered with
the fragrant eau de cologne, and she made a
Ensat fuss over itE refreshingness, and de-
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seven or eight yards around the bottom.
To graduate a skirt OF those dimensions
is a task that might engage the services
OF a civil engineer. 1t is the most exact
and the most ehgrossing OF sciences, fail
ure in which means financial ruin; sue
cess, shekels and the smiles of the clever
young woman.
The new skirt has cores past counting
It is scanned till it is all stitches, and
might as well be made without any cloth
at ALL 1t has three or four hoops run in
at the bottom, and it is faced up about
ten inches with silk and a stiff crinoiine.
The result is peculiar. One is a living
picture, or thereabouts, 10 the thighs;
below that one sweeps and sways and
tails
The clever girl had black jet to cover the
seams OF her green skirt in front, and, in
deed as the fashion is, all the way around.
She had black silk yoke to her bodice,
with black jet to edge 1t, and three black
Jet bands down the front and behind. She
had green straw hat with black feathers,
and IL she didn't sell all her manuscripts
she quite deserved TO do so.
There's nothing in this world that brings
in money like looking as If you didn't care
to bring it in.
Easter hats are of the coarsest, most
loosely woven stra W that have ever seen,
but light In weight and in color. They are
big, broad-brimmed low-crowned and
turned up behind / watched a young So
ciety girl ''trying on al fashionable shop
this morning She was a little thing,
brown-eyed, brown-haired, saucy-faced,
and most interesting. Her first love was a
picture hat of corn flower blue straw, with
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oMELETTE AU PAVE.
Farmer Ricketts, Wagon Struck by Grip
Car, Smashing All His Eggs.

Farmer Ricketts, Wagon Struck by Grip
Car, Smashing All His Eggs
A grip car struck the wagon, loaded with
eggs, OF Henson Ricketts,, Montgomery
county farmer, at the corner OF Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
about 4:3O O'Clock last evening completely
demolishingit. Ricketts,, who is sixty three
years Of age, was thrown forcibIy to ths
asphalt, striking on his side.
The ambulance carried the farmer to the
Emergency Hospital, where he was pro-
nOunced to be in very serious condition.
His chest, shoulder and left thigh were
badly confused and he was also severely
cut about the face.
The team and remnants OF the vehicle
were taken to No. 1 station and later
sent to the owners home. At the point
OF the mishap the street was painted a
vivid yellow by the yoIks OF the broken
eggs, for several yards
Some philanthropic sympathizer, who had
witnessed the affair, passsd his hat around
through the crowd, collected about the
corner and boy was dispatched to the
hospital later with the proceeds, about
$1.55, which was given the injured farmer.
The latter was thentaken home.
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and up at the Rockefellers It is a simple
though pretty game, and requires only
sweep for the ball TO fly through the air
and back.
First a target is made and covered
with flowers and leaves The target is
large wire pillow bought OF q florist and
kept for that purpose. The flowers can be
arranged at home or left to florist.
II done at home, be careful TO fasten The
stems in well, or the flowers viii fall out
and confuse the player. Before filling in
the frame cut hole in the center as big
as dinner plate. This forms the target
proper
The game now is to take solid rub
Der ball, and, after tossing it lightly in
the air, bat it with tennis racket until
it flies through the target. which is held
sloft twenty feet away.
As soon as the ball flies through the hole,
another player on The other side bats it
back, when il is again caught on the racket
of the first player. and sent back 10 be
played again and again as long as the skill
OF the player permits.
Now, it is not easy TO send small sphere
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olarcd herself vexed at hayil.< missed the
others.
"The next stage in the game was for
all to throw the ball to the aspirant upon
the second goal, who caughta as many asshe
could, letting the Others pass over her head
to the outfielders. And so on until the
game was played. This we found very
pretty and satisfactory sport for amateurs
who had not trained in the bowling alley,
and who have never touched tennis
racket"
There is new summer game called
lawn golf. 1t is for those who cannot
spare the necessary five miles OF ground
for golf links. In lawn golf the bali is
Knocked through wickets into small holes
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quet, though different in plan. The
wickets are arranged to extend all around
the ground, one after another, twenty five
in all, and the play is to send the ball
through the wicket and into the hole at
one shot If it fails the player goes back
again, being allowed three shots TO an
inning. Time rules the limit OF the game
In addition TO the pretty games here
given there is being planned one that will
have the net feature Of tennis, but light
weight bats will be used instead OF rackets,
and another that is only hand-ball, but is
played on the rebound from the side of a
wall constructed for that purpose far from
windows or foliage plants
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and the trimming wild roses wound with
pale green ribbons.
Now that there is far eastern ques
ton, ;" instead of merely an eastern Ques-
ton, dress feels the influence
Dress was never Influenced much by the
east, as we knew the term ten years ago,
because the dress of southern Asia is,
mostly, q negation. But Japan is differ
ent. The wives of two American p residents
have Joined in an appeal to the women
of Japan not TO allow their picturesque,
health full, and cheap native costumes
to be replaced by western ugliness.
Now we are taking our own medicine.
The Japanese dressing gown, the Japan
ese tea gown, has become a fact. Modi-
fled, of course. No mere Yankee could
hope to throw an obi about her waist with
the untaught grace of O-Hina-San. Nor
do We in our furnace or steam heated
houses need thirteen separate suits super
imposed like the Japanese maid, kneeling
red-nosed over her tiny pan of blazing char
coal in midwinter. It's sort of modified
Japanese, which buttons on
I don't know what's the correct milli-
merry in Formosa, or coiffure in Kam-
schatka Maybe we'll find out
The most purely decorative of the sum-
mer parasols are of white taffeta with
white enamelled ribs and lace flounces.
Ivory handles with gold finish make very
pretty pieces of brio "a brac out of
articles which ill-advised persons might
think was meant to be useful. There
are parasols veiled with mousseiine de
sole and dotted with lunches of violets,
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Gar and Colonel.

Upon his accession to the throne the
Emperor OF Russia was appointed colonel
dressing for dinner an enthusiastic CUB
altcrn communicated the information to.
his soldier servant
Donald" he said, ''have YOU heard that
6he new Emperor of Russia has been ap-
pointed colonel % the regiment?"
Indeed, sirl" replied Donald. 1T is
vera prood thing"
Then after pause, he inquired:
beg pardon, sir, but viii he be able to
keep both places?'-Tid- Bits.
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but women exist who, for prudential rea-
sons only, will choose simple cbangeable
silks in gray or brown tones, with tape
borders in dull red, blue or orange.
To wear with q pretty gingham gown
woman is supposed ewant pink chiffon
parasol, with an enormous quantity of the
stuff gathered in at the top with a big
bow Of ribbon, and with broad ruffle
frilled about the bottom. Such parasol,
not every woman has attained to know,
is wholly inappropriate with a tailor gown.
Spring capeS are very Short to cover
the shoulders. They are made in taffetas
or in moire and covered with lace and
ribbons.
More generally admired will be dress
OF cream -colored cloth, with bodice of mauve
velvet, whose wide epaulets are spangled
with silver.
ELLEN OSBORN.
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a flight of black-birds about the crown,
the broad wings expanding in front with
an effect that was most daring.
After this she tried huge black straw
with fleur-de-lis velvet folded in loose
band about tile crown, and with short black
ostrich plumes nodding over the edge of
the velvet in a dancing circle Over the
hair behind trooped two or three great
purple and yellow fleur-de-lis, with their
green lily flags accompanying.
A third effect was hat OF yellow wheat
straw just touched with brown. It's trim
mings were huge yellow roses with green
leaves shading in spots into crimson.
Ata wedding reception a day or two ago,
i saw the prettiest bonnet of this spring
1t was worn by little woman in O dark
blue dress sprayed with scarlet peoples.
and It was woven of green and brown poppy
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stepped in TO see if you were here. 1t is
so long since have seen you
Now, this was not strictly true, for she
had seen the good -natured editor the day
before; but, in point of fact, she had
new gown. The good-natured editor no.
ttced the dress and reflected incident
ally on the ways OF clever young women.
Or perhaps he reflected on the ways OF
clever young women and noticed the dress
incidentally. The distinction is not mate
rial. The dress is. For it was built with
one of the new skirts.
Do you appreciate the new skirts? Do
you realize what the clever young woman
and other young women have come to
this Easter? The young woman's dress
was constructed of leaf-green cloth, with
draperies glove-fitting at the hips and
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plants around. A party of young people
on the famous CroeSus slope OF the Hudson,
where New York's millionaires have their
country houses-had one OF these grace
hoop parties the other day II was TO be
held out OF doors, but the air was little
blowy, so the glass sashes Of the side
rerandas were drawn down and the game
held there.
Grace hoops must have a central pole.
A tall pine tree was used in this instance,
cut off about five feet from the ground so
that its top was stocky and its sides
luxurious. II looked like a Christmas
tree that had forgotten TO grow to point.
The side branches We're trimmed, and, when
ready for the game, a childs hoople would
have fallen over il easily.
In grace hoops, there must, OF course,
be hoops. These are rings about two
feet across and made Of good light wood
that keeps its shape yet is not heavy 10
handle. The hoops were covered with
flowers. One was tied with the earliest
OF the field vioIets. another with the last
remnants OF the wintergreen leaves and
berries, Others with the dull leavesthat have
withstood the winter: one had tiny purple
flowers put on in punches with whitley
green leaves.
And they were all very pretty, and the
young women looked exceedingly pictur-
esque as they stood with their gay gowns
and broad hats, ready TO throw the rings
upon the piney poles. One girl wore
dress OF dTied-leaf green cloth, trimmed
with grass green velvet, while her big
hat was a mass OF wild roses Another
was all in purple and so on through the
pretty colors of spring.
After all had thrown the floral hoops
upon the pine tree, letting them hang
there until the ''score" had been count
ed, there was a giving OF rewards. The
most exquisite wreath OF roses-paper,
to be sure, but artistic-went TO the
highest girl scorer, while the man who
threw the best received a very natural
bunch OF purple violets. Lettered rib
bons told the story of success. Then came
Q supper and dancing afterwards, with
many requests for a repetition Of the grace
hoops
Flower target is game much liked this
season. 1t is played upon the Gould place
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stems with the scarlet flowers nodding
all over 1T In welcome TO the smiling sun
shine and the smiling flower season. There
were budding ppppies, half-blown poppies,
and poppies full-spread TO the winds. 1t
was toque shaped, and in sssant lay two
mother poppies, big, with deep, soft crushed
petals, above which rose long loops of the
green stems.
At the same wedding festivities the
bridesmaids Wore pale violet silk dresses
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with low crowned, cream coiored, sailor
hats, about the crowns of which were full
wreaths of violets twisted with pale mauve
ribbons, The two attendants on the bride,
one q pale blonde, the other O clear
skinned, colorless brunette, seemed to
find the combination equally attractive
and becoming. IL ] were getting up hat
Of this sort would have the straw black
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NE or the prettlest
out door games is
a revival OF the
old game called
grace hoops.'' 1t
can be playedupon
an enclosed Veran-
da should the
ground t a
spring sogginess,
or even in a large
back room, or
c o n S e 7 V a
tory, where there
are not too many
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NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

Ellen Terry said In recent letter TO .
friend in this country: "At my age it is one
thing to be acceptable in the parts you have
long played, and quite another 70 win your
public in a new character. dread a little
playing any new parts TO you Americans
next year.
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Snriug Fever.

When man is in love he sometimes gets
his symptoms mixed up with that tired feel
ing.-Atchison Globe.
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New Sloeu6S
and N6W Skirks
PLENTY OF FOLDS AND FLATS
in THEIR CONSTRUCTION.
Ellen Osborn Also Adds a
Last Word About Easter
Gowns and Hats.

YOUNG woman
who is clever (she
paints with VIII
liam M. Chase and
does newspaper
work when the
light is not good, to
pay her biHs) came
into q newspaper
office yesterday.
She. sought the Of
flee of the most
od-natured edi-
tor. "Ah-I just
The Washington times., 1895-04-07
Too Much Sand.

He returned the pound OF sugar,
And sadly shook his head;
II do not want the earth, was ali
He to the grocer said
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BRIGHT BABIES.

''I'm going to be a lawyer when I
grow up" said walter I'm not"
said Jimmie. I'm going to keep candy
store and be rich enough to eat it all up
myself. "-Harper's Young People.
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Y6 0ld6n Gann6
Of Flower Hoops
1T is PLAYED ONCE MORE By
FASHIONABLES.
Field Forfeits Makes a Pretty
Amusement for an Out
of-Door Party.

1Gopyright, 1896, by Bachelor, johnson &
Rachpllar
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A writer says that the sense OF humor
very rarely exists in ch ildreu under
twelve years old. This writer evidently
has never seen five year-old child pry
ing open the eyes OF q four-day old kit
ten.-Texas Siftings.
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The Strike in Cuba.

The strike in Cuba is not OF gigantic
proportions. It viii be attended to by
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New York fashionable women don't follow
any strict fashion about their underclOthes
and their negligee costumes. Thst IS or all
others the field in which it is the thing TO
exercise an individual taste. The rich
women have gowns and toilette jackets
and petticoats the like OF which are not to
be found in any shop or pictured in any
journal of fashion. The only chance the
public has to see such things is in the
windows of the fashionable cleaners. There
you can see lovely things and also lots OF
women, who do not belong to the Four
Hundred, studying them, getting points for
their own wardrobes.
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Little Miss Mugg, proudly papa is
goin' to buy me bicycle.
Little Miss Frecklea. loftny-I've had
one for year.
Little Miss Mugg, disd 4infully-H HUH
I wouldn't be Seen ridin' a last years
bicycle.-Good News.
The Washington times., 1895-04-07

There is no better sofa pillow than can
be made by rolling up an elder down quilt
and tying it round with a ribbon 1t is
most useful addition to the usual supply;
it ismore adjustable than the regular thing,
and if your quilt is pretty. as it should be,
1t makes most ornamental pillow
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Little Jack prays every night for all the
different members of his family His
father had been away at one sime for q
short journey, and that night Jack was
praying for him as usual.
Bless papa and take care of him." he
was beginning as usual, when scddenly
he raised his head and listened. Never
mind about it now, Lord ended the
little fellow. 81 hear him DOWN in the
hall. New York Tribune.
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Mrs Ruth McEnery Stuart is as good .
story teller In talk as she is on paper. A
woman said the other day in speaking OF
her: ''I ate my dinner at the same table
with her every day for year at one time
sifee she has been in New York. and the way
once repeated herself, was simply one OF
the most marvellous things ever knew OF.
Her stories were always good, too. She
has a sense OF humor thatis a Joy forever"
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and the trimming wild roses wound with
pale green ribbons
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-04
DEATHS.

In this city. Nov 2. Joseph D. Deceie. aged
Sc years month
Notice of funeral hereafter.l
In this city Nov. 2, Martha A. widow OF the
late David King, aged II years II days;
Funeral Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from
her late residence. rear OF 528 Congress st.
Halifax papers please copy.
In this city. Nov. 2, Mrs. Martha A. H., Wld-
Ow of the late William Lindsey.
Funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2 O'Clock from
her late residence. No. At Brackett street; ,on
Libby of Deering, aged 70 years % Gays.
Funeral Monday afternoon att O'Clock from
the residence OF Franklin White, Bradley's Cor
In Windham. Nov 2, Alvin A. Elliot, aged 80
In In Gardiner Oct. 27. Miss Sarah Lawrence,
In Gardiner Oct. 27. Emerson McCausland,
In Camden, Oct. &c. Walter Hobbs aged "a
years.
in Bangor, Oct 26. BENZ. W. Andrews. aged
In China. Oct. %, Eva B. Wentworth, aged 8
In Bangor. Oc. 20, Mrs Sarah E. Blethen.
in Bangor. Oct. 20. Mrs. Jane Ellison. aged
In Dexter, Oct. %, Mrs Martha Blaisdeil,
aged so years. rr,,, crof+o,,
's in Bangor. Oct. %, Grace A. Sanborn, aged
- In Dover, Oct. %. J. Henry Vague. aged AZ
YIN In Dext.r, Oct. 2e. Mrs. Melinda Ellis aged
In Bucksport Oct. 49, Thomas E. Mooney
aged rs years. a oo x,aors
In Eden, Oct 10. Elyin Young. aged &c, ss years
In Richmond, Oct. "a. Mrs. Ellen WMthey.
In Bangor. Oct. 90, BENJAMIN f. Stetson, ageo
76 years.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-04
CAPT. M'DUFFlE HEARD FROM.
He Went Into Gloucester With the Edmund
Phfnney of Portland.

Thursday the tug L. A. Belknap. Capt.
McDuffie, left Boston with the schooner
Phinney, and was not heard
from until late yesterday afternoon, when
Captain Tenney received telegram from
the captain from Gloucester. He will
arrive with the schooner this
morning. He took the schooner to Boston
for portion of her cargo, and remained
there while she was loading. He left
Boston in time to catch the full pounding
of the storm, and his telegram set all
doubts concerning the safety OF the tug
and schooner at rest. They must have
had a hard time, and found the sea too
rough to venture out after the storm.
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An Awful Calamit v.

In the year 1901, remember seeing a
very dismal procession passing down the
street. 1t consisted of an elderly gentle.
man, we'll dressed-only his hat had
fallen off-walking hand-cuffed between
two policemen, while another policeman
marched behind.
The elderly gentlmean looked pitiably
conscious OF his disgraceful situation.
The boys ran after. The people in the
street looked on curiously.
'tWhat has he done?" asked one.
"He didn't go to see Lillian Kennedy
in the great comedy "A Midnight
Frolic. +"
Isn't it shameful.
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THE X. JOHN LITTLE STORE.
FUR CAPEE. S.

We argesF Manufacturers the
country.
h season tney
Portland morning ready with large display OF
Flu Capesfo
obb retail profits but you also get pene
it of the Manufact ure'D on Sample Garments
in
carefully selected ur
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Haydn Association.

Monday evening, November Goth has
been fixed as the date for thesfirs con-
cert of the season. The beautiful can
tata, "The Holy City," by Gaul, will
he given by full chorus and some of our
hest soloists Nearly 40 new members
have already joined :the association and
more are coming in. They should do SO
at once 1t is expected that all members
will be punctual at rehearsals every
Monday evening at Z. 40, at Kotzschmar
Hall.
Park Theatre
Portland's opera house hasn't materi-
alized. but neat colnmodious vaudeville
house has as will be noticed by all
those who attend the opening of the
PARK Theatre, this evening. A big COM
many Of speciality artists hasibeen engaged
and a rattling good performance is as
sured by Manager Stubs. Popular
prices will prevail, with 1O-cent admis-
sion to all parts of the house Wednesday
and Saturday aftern DON.
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Police Relief Ball.

The second annual hall of the Portla and
Police Relief Association will be held in
City Hall Tuesday evening, December 10.
Chambers complete orchestra will
furnish the music, and will introduce
selections composed especially for this
occasion. The officers in charge of the
arrangements are ThIasher. Palmer,
Quinn. Laschon, Phillips, Reilly, Keat-
ing, Moulton Chase and Jones. During
the past year one benefit has been paid
out by the association.
The directors of the Relief Association
of the Portland Police Department will
hold their regular meeting at the police
station this afternoon at five O'Clock.
The Portland daily press., 1895-11-04
THE FIRST.
sidewalks Were White and Then sloppy

The snow storm Saturday was remin-
der of what we are to have in the very
near future 1t seemed to come upon us
very suddenly and unlocked for as we
have had no cold weather to speak of as
yet. And coming upon us as it did
makes us look back to see if this is not
early, but the record for last year shows
that snow mixed with rain began fall
ing at 7.13 p. M, November 9th, and
stopped at 80 a. H., November 9th,
during which time two inches fell, and
wires suffered considerably. being down
during the 9Th and 9TH. There was no
more snow during November to speak
of, but rs inches falling..forsthe month.
The first severe snow storm last year
was on December 81.