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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-25
Local Matters.

Fast day.
The notice OF sale at w. c. Il. U. head.
quarters.
Mrs. j. III. Pollard went to Lewiston.
yesterday morning.
Union services at thu Universalist
church, this forenoon.
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A Lowell Light Roadster bicycle 1894 model
IN good condition. Guy o. Vickery. apr22dtf
Wingat. & Simmons Concord wagon, in
good condition. W. g. Boothby, Augusta
aprlSdtf
One single dump-cart and one dou BILE dump
cart. Inquire OF g. A. Blodgett, Office opp.
m. y. II. H. Depot. apr15d2w
At "a bargain. A good sewing MACHINE in
snrst-class condition. Inquire at JOURNAL Of
nee. aprl3dtf
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MONEY TOLOAN!

MORE CUSTOMERS WANTED for pure
Jersey Milk, delivered at six cents per quart.
Address Lombard Farm, Hospital Street.
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Are You Going 10 Paint

or paper this spring? If so, call on F. W. Col
by and get prices. No. 6 Page st marlSdtiuli
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may two representative groups of gowns,
one English the other French.
Take the former first-a half dozen
trunks full just from London, of whose
contents, We can, Of course, note only
portion. An evening dress of pale pink
crepon with braces of lawn embroidery:
another of white satin, square cut at the
bosom, trimmed with feStuonS of pearls
across the loose front and plnkiSh roses
tuftng the huge chiffon sleeves;
walking gown of serge. severe. rather
nautical in tone, skirt perfectly plain,
the bodice trimmed with straps of white
secured each by three little gold buttons
at the end.
There are two short straps each side
Just above the waist, two just above the
cuff, two more under the collar, and long
straps reaching out from under the ap
plique collar to the point of the shoulder.
Then, there are white shirt fronts and
plenty of blouses, in which London delights,
though Paris begins TO frown on them,
mostly very simple pink and blues-and
there you are, not to catalogue quite
all the array A frequent fault of the
English gown is that the biggest part of
the sleeve is too low. When it comes near
the middle OF the upper arm the effect is
singularly ungraceful. If a sleeve must
be big, it should not droop.
And the French outfit: A CTepon cos
tune with bodice spangled in yoke fashion
and two spangled straps running down
ward from the shoulders with a narrow
spangled waistband with two spangled
points running up from it to threaten
those dropping from the shoulder: two
taffeta gowns, one glace, with guipure
panel in the skirt front; walking costume
with crimped crepon bodice, plain crepon
skirt and cuff, crmped Crepon shoulder
puffs; a visiting dress in silk, whose
bodice is blouse shaped on the sides, with
lace collar falling on the shoulder, form
ing a band carried down the front of the
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KING DAVID AS A GENERAL.
y French Scientist Comments on the
Tactics He Used.

y French Scientist Comments on the
Tactics He Used.
AT the last meeting of the Acade des
Inscriptions ct Belles-Lettrcs, NJ. Dieulafoy,
the well-known explorer in Persia, read
very interesting account OF his visit to the
scene OF the decisive encounter between
King David and the Philistines in the val
ley of Rephaim, says London Public Opin-
ion. NJ Dieulafoy described how, after
the capture OF Jerusalem by David and the
establishment OF the Israeite monarchy
the Philistines resolved to crush the mas
cent kingdom and how, after alterations
of success and failure, they occupied the
valley of Rcphaim, situated at the foot of
the slopes which led from the west Of
Jerusalem. 1t was then, according to NJ.
Dieulafoy, that David, constantly attacked
by his enemies, executed one of the finest
military maneuvers recorded in history.
NJ. Dieulafoy, while indicating the various
advances made by military art, and having
shown that before the wars of the Medes
no nation had any acquaintance with the
rules of higher tactics and strategy. dwelt
upon the fact that David was the first of
the Israelite leaders to form drilled and
disciplined troops, and pointed out what
good use the king made of his army in
the valley of Rephaim.
The plan of the battle, very clearly de-
scribed in the Bible, which ascribed the
conception of it to Jehovah, comprised
flank march, rapid change of front, the
rapid encompassing Of the left wing of
the PhilstincS and an attack from behind
on this wing. This was a complicated
and bold turning movement, very difficult
to execute, and something quite out of the
common for the ge in which ii was carried
out. NJ Dieulafoy, who had discovered the
theater of operations and had made use Of
the general topography OF the region in
order to reconstitute the principal phases of
the battle, pointed out that this movement
presented a striking analogy with those eX-
ecuted by Frederick ii at the battles of
Mollwitz and Rossbach and by Napoleon
at AusterlitZ. In the conduct of this oper-
alton David gave evidence of the highest
capacities, taking advantage of all the
inequalities of the ground forming his
troops afresh in the wood and chargiDg &
impetuously, and NJ. Dieulafoy insisted
very strongly upon the similarity OF his
military genius to that of Napoleon.
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not be exposed to rubbing and chatting on
the pavements; that it would be more
convenient, as necessitating fewer changes
of costume to suit the eXigencies OF the
weather; that it would require a less
bulky wardrobe: that 1t could more easily
be rendered cooling in summer and warm
ing in winter than the ordinary attire of
femininity, aud, finally, that it would be
conducive to health by the avoidance OF
damp skirts clinging about the feet and
ankles in wet weather.
The files of the Washington Telegraph,
the Lycoming Gazette, the Hartford Times,
the Rochester Daily Times, the Syracuse
Journal and newspapers OF the year 1851
record the public adoption OF the bloomers
in their respective localities. The general
opinion expressed was favorable to the
garb. II was pronounced elegant, conve-
nienr, and in no way open to the charge
of indelicacy. According 10 Robert Cham
bers, an American lady lectured on the
subject in London in the autumn of 1851,
and created something of sensation.
She wore, il seems, black satin jacket,
skirt and trousers, and urged upon Eng
lish ladies the adoption of the new cos
tune" But this reformer and her fol-
low ers succeeded only III raising laugh.
Even in America," declares Mr.. Cham
bers, 1.-The hoomer costume, as 1t was
called, speedily became thing of the
past AS by a sort OF reaction the mon
strosity of cumbrous skirts has since, in
all countries, become more monstrous,
until men are beginning TO ask what pro-
portion of the geographical area the ladies
mean TO occupy"
These lines, it should be remembered,
were penned over a generation ago. Neither
Mr.. Chambers, nor, for that matter, Mrs
Bloomer herself, even remotely dreamed
that steel steed would shortly be created,
and that 1t would revolutioniZe the situa-
tion. Mrs. Boomer herself clung TO her
idea more firmly as time passed by. She
always lived very quietly, and to the day
of her death many people were una ware
that boomers were named after an actual
woman.
The picture here shown of Mrs Boomer
is from a photograph taken in 1851 by
Mr.. T W Brown. OF Auburn, n. y. Mrs
Boomer never prescribed any particular
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Bailey's beach, where the aristOcrauc
bellies battle with no man near. And the old
town itself, with its narrow, shadeless
trees and weather-beaten painless houses,
is vision of grim Puritanical survivors that
i'll prepares one for the show OF attire and
the glitter OF crested harnesses, and the
Haunting plumes and tramp of proud hoofs
on the ridge beyond.
1t is a town OF contrasts and OF incon-
ceivabe luxuries, good 10 be in, good TO
look upon and listen to. Nor is there any
where in the world such gowning. British
women are dowdy looking in the average,
relieved OF course, by splendid exceptions,
Not in any watering place on the continent
is there such q show street as this Bellevue
avenue, down which to-day ISaw pass again
the finest imaginable pageant offair women
fairly dressed The show grows finer every
year. Newport is the only American water
ing place which has held high rank Tor thirty
years and has now no slightest mint OF
deCadenCe.
Earlier and gayer and brisker than usual
the season which revealed TO me those
startling gowns OF black. "A year ago-or,
was it two?-we had combinations OF black
and white in daring form. Now, your
black robe must be lined with silk in some
gay color, to show just flash oI req or
yellow or rale green, at muddy crossings.
The blouse front is very popular with THESE
black gowns, and as the front is iashlohedoI
white or cream or palest yellow, the gown
thus furnished is not, with its w hite collar
and its laces and its brilliant lining, par
ticulaTly demure.
Style can afford to be simple. The best
skirts are cut quite plain. and the sleeves
show no tendency 10 increase in dimensions.
Probably the limit was reached last winter
in this direction. Many of the seasons
dresses have immense falling collars OF lace
cfrn -fy,1r ont to 81
the shoulders, even to the utternost limits
thereof These epaulets accompany quite
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bodice, caught at the waist by a satin
ribbon band, whose skirt is full and plain,
whose sleeves end at the elbow with
revers in lace.
ThereI These will serve to show what
they" are wearing. 1t is more philo-
sophical, however, to discuss general prin-
ciples. Here / must revert to the pre-
vailing note of simplicity. Ribbon OF any
shade or width is used for waist belts,
simply tied in big bowknots. Some
times the ribbon is carried twice about
the waist. Light. round waists are COIN
mon; the blouse is almost as much favored
as in England, and simple gowns trimmed
only with collar, belt and bows, of rib
bon, give the owners an air OF almost
Quaker-like simplicity. Batiste trimmed
with linen passementene or embroidery,
or blazoned forth with bright plaids, is
fairly common. Fichus, Tadc with inor-
dinately long ends to cross in front, and,
passing under the belt behind, 10 fan half
way TO the ground, are a novelty of the
season. They always give the wearer
very demure look.
The seasons collar is fichu shaped fire.
quCntly, when it does not ray out over
the shoulder like the petals OF a daisy.
This petal arrangement, in dark Colors,
falling over light, and in heavy material
over flimsy tuff is a favorite London
effect. Some collars there are, too, which
are favorably initiative OF the peculiar
cut known as the sailor collar, except that
it is of course, wider than most real
sailors would consent 10 wear, and is often
cut with a deep lapel.
ELLEN OSBORN.
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letter from home telling her Of the gay
times the stay-at-hOme picniCkerS were
having in town.
Then these festive affairs were organized
at the hotels and farmhouses, aud since the
advent of July they have been the rage, so
much so that the proprietor 4 one very we'll
known hosiery was heard To say last week
that luncheon had become an unnecessary
function at his place, as the guests all
took themselves off with the entire contents
of his larder packed in hampers aud boxes
the de1euner.
Some of these up-to-date picniCs given
within thelast few weeks have beeumarveIs
of lavish expenditure aud eCcentriCity
Coaches have carried the party to their
destination, while a whole stage full Of
servants went along to prepare tn efeasta and
wait upon the guests. When the woodland
retrea wa srea ched some adventurous young
matTOn of the smart set would aStonish the
assembled guests by removing herShoeS aud
stockings aud wade in brook with Ieet
of true Trilby perfection.
The caterpillars aud ambitious bugs
which we have grown to associate with
picnics are not to be found at these fin de
steele junketiugs Rugs aud marquee tents
are brought along nd spread upon theETasS.
Wine bottles are placed in iCe-packed
coolers, and frozen fruits and creams are
protected from the heat amid branches aud
vines or ETecuS. AT some distant spot Il
fire is built and a kettle boiled in gypsy
style, so that Il cup of tea may be made for
any one wishing it
The menus served at some of these
''picnCs' are finer than anything seen
at the swagger luncheons OF the winter.
The fact that they have become a fad with
the smart" people, which oftenS means
the eccentric rich, makes larg outlay Of
money natural consequence. 1t is at an
unconventional entertainment OF the sort
that the average man feels happiest, and if
his wife is foremost in getting up one of
these suburban parties he foOts the bills
with far more grace than for the winter
events which are followed by such over
whelming statements from the caterer,
the florist, and the wine merchant.
But the society girls picnic, although a
very smart function indeed, is more in the
line of the old fashioned picnic. Ere
Quently the girls meet at one house and
| then start off in trains or street cars for
| the scene of their merry making Often
| they are laden with boxes, disdaining the
| aid of servants for the trip. The girls of
| the party arrange between themselves
| to divide the luncheon into parts, each girl
| providing one. Then, If men are invited,
| they bring bottled claret and white wines
also providing iced tea and coffee for the
| young ladies.
When the chosen spot is reached the men
of the party do the carrying and arranging
of camp stools, putting up of tents, and all
| work of this kind. Then the girls spread
| the clotn, get out the wooden pie plates that
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form for the upper garment to be worn
with the boomers. AS viii be seen. she
wore it with decolette affair, which
was her view of a ban dress The effect
created by Mrs. BloOmer when she danced
must have been thrilling. She was quite
young at the time and the personal courag ge
essential for such an experiment must have
been considerable.
The women who have charge Of the
project for a monument to her memory
are among the best known in the country.
Mrs. Ellen Battellc Dietrich is deeply in
terestcd. So, too, is Mrs. Potter Palmer.
The feminine bicyClists have gone in for
the plan enthusiastically. Mrs. Russell Sage
favors it also There has as yet been no
very definite plan formulated, but a call
has been issued for an assemblage Of ladies
at SorosiS late in July or early in August.
Mrs. BIoomer left a manuscript history
of feminine costumes, which is soon 10 be
DuhliShed
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Society Girls
Give Picnics
The 0Id-fashioned Entertainment
Not Obsolete.
This Fad Will Prove Particularly
Pleasant to the Stay
at-Homes.

This is the style of invitation that is GO
ing about nowadays. Its studied infor-
mality is one Of its stinguishing character
istics.
My Dear Miss Blank:
we are going to have a jolly little
picnic party out of town next Thursday
afternoon. Our destination is to be
secret until we start, but we are TO meet
at Miss C--'s house at 1 o'clock Wear
an old gown, for we expect TO knock about
among the trees and rocks and all that sort
Of thing. We shall depend on you for
some lettuce sandwiches, which you
can arrange to have sent from the station
from which we are TO start, l believe.
Send me line to say If we can hope for
your coming, and l am to Chaperone the
party. Yours lovingly, ALICE BLANK
II is a fact that the picnic of our child
hood is experiencing a revival. II Is
reappearing in an idealiZed form, but a
pichic still. II has become the fashion 70
organize parties for these informal iaunts
into the woods or by some quiet river
or lakeside, where tableclothes are spread
upon the grass and luncheon served IN the
most charming el fresco manner, with the
blue sky for a canopy and the summer
breezes making music sweeter than that
of all the Hungarian orchestras of the
season
1t said that the modern picnic was or
ganiZed by a lively little society woman
who was spending a few weeks III town
after her return from Europe and before
her departure for the family palace at
Newport. She found that all the nice
men We're in town, and a few Ct the most
entertaining women could be brought in
by telegraph from the seaside. II was
Impossible for her TO entertain at home
owing TO the fact that her draw ing
rooms were swathed in ghOstly Holland
draperieS.
Therefore she thought OF a picnic in the
suburbs, with the coolest and dairtiest OF
dishes served in gipsy fashion on the grass.
The year before she had given fetc on the
roof of her town house in midsummer for
charity, and the picnic she considered
an even more original idea.
The first picnic proved such an unmiS-
taxable success that society followed suit,
and the woman luxuriating a So a day
hotel at the seashOre sighed as she read
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Do the ladies have the last word? They
seldom fail III this instance they hint
that the men wished to be unobservcd for at
a clambake other masculine eyes are riv-
eted, each pair upon the plate in front,
while eating green corn and CLAIMS with the
fingers, even as the trOglodyte gnawed the
bone in a corner of his cave, ohlivious OF
other trogIodytes and of the great world
without.
That is what the women say.
But are we not, in Newport, all of us,
nearer natures ways? | fancy so. The
rude and artificial elbow each other The
unforgetting and unappeasable sea drones
at the door and spits the foam of its anger
high up Oh the lawn, where ma lady's fete
is ianguidly progressing. Down below the
cliff walk barrIegged children, heirs to
millions. paddle among the banacleS and
seaweed, as sloppy and disheveled DIS heart
of child could wish: the best of wild straw
berries grow on the point just north Of
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are the pretty and comfortable modes
The rumOrs of war between the Mar
BILE House OF Mrs Alva Vanderbilt, hu-
mOrously known as the walled off,"
and THE New Breakers" the palace
cottage OF Cornelius Vanderbilt bid the
veterans of many a social fight prick
up their ears; but there is dou btleSs
nothing in them. The Cornelius Wander
bits VIII not fight. The hu sbandleSs wife
in the big white palace behind the
fence cannot. She has many enemies,
not the least of them the Astors, whose
part in the memorable war about fencing
off the public from the cliff walk some
years ago is gratefully remembered by the
public.
While waiting for hostihties which
may never come Off as good topic as any
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this as ii may, there is probably no such
motive back of the project TO build a
monument to Mrs. Amelia Bloomcr, the
lady who became a saint, or at any rate
an angel in heaven, after years spent in
popularizing the quiet garb which will
forever bear her name. The women BIZ
cyclists Of the country have taken hold of
the matter very earnestly, as every one
knows, and the woman sulfragists have
Endorsed the project in the bargain Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady stanton has even gone to
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A Personally Conducted Tour TO Nj
anara Ealls and Watlsius Glen

The Royal Blue Line announces a second
select and personally conducted tour to
Niagara Falls, Watkins Glen, Mauch Chunk,
Glen Onoko, Rochester and Geneva Thurs
day, July IS, via the famous Lehigh Valley
route, giving tourists a daylight ride through
the Switzerland of America"
A special train of first-claSs day coaches
with Pullman parlor cars attached will
leave B. and o. r. R. Station, Washington,
81 o a. m.
Round trip tickets, good ten days, $40.
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frequently the high choker or stock collar,
which has held its own 80 long.
The leg % mutton sleeyes,tight from
the elbow down, loose. from the elbow
up, are appropriate for morning wear.
but upon evening gowns and even ON
afternoon ones for home use, elbow
sleeves edged with ribbon and with or
without fan of lace by way of finish
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N'N pOTU, July ..
HIS Summer City
by the sea has fe W
spots, few scenes,
few activities in
which women do not
role. The ne west is
the Rhode Island
Clam Bake Club,
formed by a number
OF gilded youth for
thcdestruction ofthe
famed clam ofLittle
Rhody innot pla ying
a leading masculine
pXcluSiVeupSS SS
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wronr in the Rtpht wav,

Roddster-I say, old fellow, can you lend
us pair of scales for few days?
Married Chum-We have pair, but sorry
to say they are out of order. They weigh
heavy.
Roadster (excitedly)-The very thing.
We're going fishing.-Boston Courier.
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Filial Consideration.

Court-You say, young man, that your
Incarceration would be the means of crush
ing q widowed mother?
Prisoner-Yes, your honor; with me
gone she would have nothing left to work
for-CIeveland Plain Dealer
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Machine wasworking Badly.

Observation-Disclosures womatakamy is a
word which, in the mouth of the amorous
Eskimo, means everything that is sweet and
nice The love sick Greenlander goes
a-wooing with this word.-Exchange
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LANDGRAF & KRUG,
1625-29 L St. NV.
Opposite Downey's Stables

serve as dishes, mix the salad dressing
and slice the cake; If a caterpillar or two
drops upon the improyiSed table, why it
only makes more fun for the guests.
Perhaps one reason why the picnic is
such q favOrite diversion with young peo-
pie is because it offers such unlimited OC-
casiOns for quiet Irritation. While SpOoning
in a conservatory is always sure 10 attract
the attention OF a number OF people, the
couple that strayS away TO gather daisies
or wild roses in the woodland grove is
never even remarked.
Ice is one OF the necessary COncomitants
of an up-to-date picnic, but, OF course, it
can ordinarily be obtained either at the
journeys end or near by. It can be carried
in pals which Will afterward serve as
wine coolers and to keep the ices If any
are brought. These, although delicious,
are hard to preserve in their frozen state.
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Mrs. winsIow's Soothing Syrup.

Mrs Wtnslow : Soothing Syrup
Has been used for ever fifty years by mil
lions of mothers for their children while
teething, with perfect success. 1t soothS
the child, sOftens the gums, alldys all pain,
cures wind cohc. and is the best remedy
for diarrhOea. Sold by druggists in every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing SYRUP and o
take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents q
bottle 1y2,tu,thu, ,Su-tf
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Land SmelIs
By Sea SmelIS
SEASON AT NEWPORT AND
THE DRESSES THERE.
Simplicity the Keynote of the
Season-Fichu Collars and
Sailor Collars.

Copyright, 1895, by Bachelor, johnson
& Bachcler)
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THE RUBENSTEIN
SPEEDING BUGGY.

Ball-bearing axles and fifth wheel
very Hght-mOst substantial intro.
duced at less than 3-5 regular price.
Vehicles Of all descriptions
Carriages lit, repaired and stored
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For a Monument
TO mrs. Bloomer
Prominent Women Interested in
the Project.
Ridicule to. Which the Reformer
Was Subjected in Days
Gone By.

marked that il was
possible to get a
monument built to
anything, not be-
cause people are
disposed to honor
things or persons in
particular, but be
cause the men who
deal in granite and
that sort OF thing
are such shrewd
business people. Be
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HOuSe-clSaFing Prices on
HamnOGkS and Travellers Outfits.

Cotton Woven Bed Ham
mOcks, with pillow and
spreader, worth SI.25.......... .S9c
Imitation Alligator Hand Bag,
nickel trimmings, worth 75c...49C
Canvas Telescopes, leathe
trimmed, worth .49c
Packing Trunks, full size,
worth Sl.-,....................
Metal Covered, Barrel Top
Trunks, covered tray and
hat box, worth So. 3.5O............S2. %
Canvas Covered Flat Top
Trunks, iron bottom, leather
handle, flat key lock, covered
tTaN and hat box
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Big, Fine
Apron Special.

265 Aprons, full size, finest
India Linen, Nainsook, and
Lawn, trimmed with the most
handsome embroidery and in
serting, with deep tucks. Every
style imaginable that's pretty.
Are only slightly soiled from
laying on our shelves. Marked
from So SO to Sl.OO. Choice,
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0e1,y small hOLe to keeb Out tie