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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02

CURING feathers of gold powdered with
diamonds curls over the hr;r, IT,
Strips OF ribbon are brought down from
the front and back to meet at the edpe
Ihese are of rubies The bonnet has
what the milliner would call a pining
OF gold around the edge.
The second bonnet is huge directoire
shape, made of alternate strips of black
enamel and gold. This is trimmed with
black enamel ribbon Topped and bowed
IN the true style, and tumbling over from
the back is group of three feathers of
diamonds curled gracefully. The third
is another directoire hat of black enamel
ana gold, but trimmed with large Or
nament of smoked quartz with branch
ing stems of gold. The effect is that of
a spray OF flowers made to rear it's head.
Elsie Bee in jewelers. Circular.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Lady Eorreys on Knickerbockers.

Lady Norreys in the London Tele-
graph gives her opinion on the great
knickerbocker question. She asserts that
the only lady cyclists who have any rude
remarks addressed to them are those
who wear what is sometimes called "ra-
tiOnal DRESS" and she adds: II hate it.
1 think it perfectly horrible, and l have
never met any one yet who either liked
or wore it. I hear a great many opin-
ions OH the subject, and think there is
a strong feeling against it. Lady Dud-
ley, Lady Wolverton, Lady Lurgan all
cycle, but [ am sure not one Of them
would appear Oh her machine without a
skirt over her knicl1erbockers.
'The skirt is not at all dangerous. |
wear mine short. It is not made full,
and have it stiffened with horsehair to
just above the knees, which keeps it out
of the way and prevents it clogging. It
is lined, but in order that it shall not
catch it is stitched in places all the way
round, and find it most successful and
have never experienced the slightest ac-
cident or inconvenience from it. | wear
no skirts underneath-only knickerbock-
ers and CATERS to the knees She con-
cludes, Though l believe all objec-
lions to cycling itself will gradually die
away, do not think English ladies will
ever quite reconcile themselves to the
divided skirt. Z"
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Animals and Speech.

The theory is advanced by Bayard
Taylor that animals remember and rec
ognize the speech of their native land.
Once, noticing i'll Barnum S museum a
hippopotamus which wore an unmistak
able look of detection, he spoke to it in
English. The beast did not move. Going
to another corner of the cage, he said in
Arabic:
81 know you. Come here to me.
The animal at once turned its head,
and when Taylor repeated the words it
came to him, rubbed its head against
the bars and looked up at him with evil
dent delight.
Calls for the came species of animals
differ in different parts of the world,
but each individual will undoubtedly
get used to his habitual call. Cab horses
have often been known to pay no atten-
tion to gentle coaxing, but to start off
promptly at the usual flow Of explosives.
Chicago News
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Oxford and Women.

The Oxford Association For the Edu-
cation of Women has decided to apply
to the university to open the door to
women for the B. A. degree. This de-
cision was come to by an overwhelming
majority, but only after considerable
tussle. Strange as it may appear, the
advocates at Oxford of the higher edu
cation of women are not at one on this
subject. 1t is a good omen, however,
that the main resolution was moved by
the president of Magdalen and seconded
by Miss Smith, the pioneer of the wom-
ans movement at Oxford. The proposal
to appeal to the university, although It
consequential resolution, was hOtly re-
sisted, but the majority for it was eight
to one. The battle, however, is not won
vet
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
The Dainty Null Gown.

The beauty Of null is something that
can never be denied, and while it is not
a particularly expensive material it be-
comes rather costly to make it up, mas
much as silk Or satin is required for its
Inning, writes Isabel A. Mallon in The
Ladies Home Journal. That girl who is
at once fond of pretty clothes and eco
nomlcal has saved the white silk or
white satin party dress that has served
It's time and utilities it, after it has been
thoroughly cleaned, as a foundation for
the null skirt, under which it looks so
we'll. 1t might be that instead of white
it was a pale pink or blue that did serv-
ice, for this would also be in good taste
and make very effective background
for the thin null
Instead Of being plated the null skirt
is carefully gathered and falls over it's
silky lining i'll fine curves. It's trimming
consists of three narrow fiounces care
fully hemmed by hand and headed by
guile, which is in reality a triple box
plat of very narrow pink satin ribbon.
Broad pink ribbon, that which is known
as the sash width, makes the yoke, and
the lower part of the bodice, which is of
the null, is fulled to it. This fullness is
evenly laid on the yoke edge, but at the
waist it is drawn to the center so that
pointed effect is achieved.
The yoke is OVERLAND with rather coarse
lace, white in color, and the collar,
which is of the folded null, has an edge
Of lace turned over on it as if it We're a
specially made rolling collar.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Girls In New York.

A correspondent of the New York
World asks:
Kindly inform me at what age girl
is marriagable in the state of New York
and whether a girls husband can pay
the girls parents so much month I'M
til she is Is years of age? j. &. K.
The New York World replied:
A girl is marriagable in this state at
10 years That is the only age for mar
rage that the law of this state knows
Between 10 and 16 the girl is the prop
ertv of the parents. What bargain the
man makes with the parents, whether
he BUYS her with lump sum or on the
,nstallment plan, is a private matter
between him and the girls parents. You
can doubtless buy wife on either plan
if YOU are not particular as to the girl
But a wife under 16 is hardly such a
one as any decent man would care TO
have. and parents who sell their daugh-
ters in marriage on the installment plan
are not looked upon with favor by socl-
ety. The law should forbid the marriage
and not make any marriage legal before
a girl is IS at least. While it remains as
if does of course you have the right to
buy girl under that age from her par
rents if YOU care to. But when she IS 10
ybe can have it set aside as invalid on
petition.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Woman, Religion and Law.

Among unused manuscripts accumu-
lated in the office Of The Woman S Trlb-
une is one by the late lamented DR..
Grace Danforth The following part of
it is still timely, and especially so IN
view Of the present comments by women
on the Bible:
Had the religious scientists or pollt1-
cal worthless Of 1000 years ago received
their education in a modern college,
their views would have been modified III
many respects. What could they know
Of woman s condition in an age OF IN
yention, where machinery has relieved
her in large measure from constant at
tendance upon household necessities?
Where she can pass alone with perfect
freedom around the globe? There would
be no freedom for man, if, like woman,
he persisted in wasting his time sitting
the religious ashes of the past. What
woman needs is not the study of the b.
bic and creed, but history and law. Law
does not teach that woman brought sin
into the world, but it does reflect the
consequences of such teaching. AS long
sSwoman has not self respect enough TO
spUrn such SANDER, she will never WIN
her freedom, neither is she worthy OF 1t.
We cannot advance with our faces to the
past The future contains hope for wom-
Ell, and all the inspiration needed to
grasp its possibilities is an earnest pur-
pose and confidence i'll her powers. Ihls
She can never acquire SO long as she
bows the knee to the opinions of an age
that regarded her merely as man S hand
maiden We refuse the opinions OF tnat
age on every other subject Why should
they still be used to enforce womlh s IN
/, ierlority, and most wonderful still, why
should woman hug the chains that BIND
her' and by every sophistry try to prove
they are not chains? Is it not the nat
araI outcome of the slavery in which she
mas been held for ages?''
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
THE SHREWD GRAY SQUIRREL.
Attending Strictly to Business, He Ge
tho Better Of n Wily Hunter.

Attending Strictly to Business, He Gets
the Better Of q Willy Hunter.
"Of course" said a hunter, every
body knows that when man with
gun comes along, the gray squirrel goes
around on the other side of the tree; he
doesn't get killed. if he can help it, and
he can help himself pretty we'll. re-
member once coming across a gray
squirrel up big oak; he was out on a
branch about 40 feet from the ground.
He saw me as quick as l did him
quicker, guess-and when was ready
to fire, he was around on the other side
of the branch. This branch was very
small, only mighty little bigger than
the squirrel, but he Rugged it so close
and he was in such perfect line with
me that you couldn't see anything Of
him at all except little bit of the tip
of his tail that was blown out by
strong wind. l blazed away at him and
never touched him. Then went around
on the other side of the tree, thinking
that possibly l could get shot at him
from there, but as went one way he
went the other, and by the time had
got over ON the other side he was Oh
the side l had come from, and in just
as perfect line with me as he was at
first, and just as safe. I tried him again
with just the same result.
"Then pulled stake ont Of rail
fence near by and planted it i'll the
ground on one side of the tree and hung
my coat on it, and went myself over Oh
the other side; thought that possibly
l might make the squirrel think there
were two men there, or put him in
doubt long enough to enable me to get
shot at him, but he never paid the
slightest attention to the coat. / don't
suppose it would have made any differ
ence to him if I'd opened clothing
store there; he knew the man with the
gun, and it was the gun that he was
looking out for.
''Well, we lodged around that tree
for quite spell longer. There wasn't
any other tree near by that the squirrel
could go to, and he knew his only safe
ty lay in sticking to the one he was in,
and the way he did stick to it and keep
around always Oh the other side of that
branch was something wonderful. fired
five or six shots at him altogether and
filled, the branch under him half full Of
shot, but never touched him, and when
thought had wasted time and ammu-
milton enough, left him. New York
Sun.
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teers from time to time, but the chief
credit of the great feat is due entirely
TO herself. -Margherita Arlina Hamm.
Courageous Resolutions.

The wheelwomen of Grand Rapids to
the number of 125 held an enthusiastic
meeting the other day and adopted the
following resolutions: Whereas, our
Heavenly Father, with divine love and
infinite wisdom in our creation, has
made us bipeds and endowed us with
wisdom. and, whereas, we believe the
most convenient and the most truly
modest dress is the one which clothes
each leg in separate coverings, and true
modesty requires reform in clothing
our legs; therefore, be it resolved that
IN all cases where, i'll our best judg-
ment, the regulation skirt is unhealth-
full, impracticable, uncleanly and incon-
venient, we will have the moral courage
to renounce our prejudices and adopt
such other costume as will eliminate
these objections as nearly as may be. -
New York Tribune.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
School Suffrage.

One Of the leading articles in recent
number Of The College Folio, monthly
edited and published by the students of
the Woman's college of the Western Re
serve university at Cleveland, is on
"School Suffrage as Privilege and a
Duty" The writer urges college girls of
legal age to take an interest in public
school matters and to vote at the school
election. In conclusion she says:
First of all, take pains to learn the
routine of your new duty, then do it.
Donot let college girls, who should stand
for advanced thought among women,
fail at the first test.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Curious Items of Paris Budget.

In the voluminous book which con-
stitutes the budget Of the city OF Paris
for 1896 are the following curious items
of expenses For winding up the clocks
of the city hall, 900 francs; for scrub
bling the encaustic tiles in the city hall,
1000 francs; for furnishing birth and
death registers, 500 francs; for children
employed in extracting numbers from
wheels in drawings of municipal loans,
400 francs; for breakfast OF clerks at
these drawings, 800 francs; for gifts to
janitors of the municipal playhouses'
$40 francs; for food to dogs. care OF re-
volvers and purchase Of cartridges, 800
francs; for carriage of human bones
found in diggings, 1900 francs; Tor
commemorative plates, 2,0O0 francs;
for numbering bouses, 1910 francs;
for feeding aquatic animals and destroy
ing noxious animals in public prone
nades, A, 200 francs journal des De-
hot
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
THE FASHION PLATE.

Vatican buttons, all roses and briers,
are one of the favorite styles.
White, pearl and cream tinted glace
gloves are still the correct thing for
evening wear except when the long
gloves are needed, and then they are
suede.
AS usual at this season of the year
felt hats prevail, and the French felt
models this season are as soft and fine
as velvet. These are fashioned in every
possible way.
The popularity of self colored cloth
dresses remains unimpaired, and 1t is
no wonder, since the material lends it
self to most kinds of trimming and is
always in excellent taste.
Buttons either very small or very
large are distinct feature of trimming
on the latest gowns, and Persian lamb
revers fastened down by glittering paste
buttons make gown look very smart.
A new way of making an effective
garniture for bonnet or hat is to place
q handsome shaded velvet flower IN the
center Of a soft loose rosette made OF
chiffon in corresponding or contrasting
colors.
Winter jacketings are shown in hand
some colors of moss green, plum color,
of a rich crimson shade or in blush
dyes, silver blue, deep Neapolitan blue
peacock tlue, Russian green, friars'
gray and many beautiful shades OF
brown.
Turquoise blue and the new geranlum
pink are the light colors most used for
collar bands, belts and touches OF color
on light gowns, with lace waists, and
on evening hats, which are larger than
they were last year and do not spread
out in such an exaggerated manner.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
x,,r,s Place In a Republic.

Mrs Annie L. Diggs of Kansas has
been giving lectures in New Jersey.
"Woman's Place In Republic was the
theme of a fine address that she deliver
nd before the Woman's club OF orange
She claimed that in the state, as IN the
home. woman's place was beside man |;
She thought it much more "womanly
70 oxnress silent opinion through the
ballot box than to circulate petitions anu
lobby and try to influence all sorts Oh
mon and it did not take women away
from their homes nearly as much. Elk
nerience in Kansas had shown that wo-
men did not care to hold office after they
had demonstrated that they were capable
nf doing so successfully. The only oillces
they continued to fill were those OF coun,
~ superintendent of education and schooi
commissioner, in which positions sney
had given general satisfaction. In TACT
All the objections urged against the en-,
trance of women into political life hao
disappeared in actual practice
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02

A careful study has been made of sill
yer bowl found some few years ago in Den
mark in the Gunderstrup bog. Supposedly
the bowl was not buried, but was dropped
on the surface of the ground, and the bog
grew up and in time covered it. The ques-
ton of it's origin is the one which interests
psychologists. Is it Danish or Gallo? Dr.
Muller considers it as made by Danish
workmen, who had learned their art in
Gaul. French psychologists claim it to be
of Gallo Roman origin. Embossed in the
surface are elephants, lions, hyenas, leop-
ards-animals all foreign to Denmark
One figure holds a severed head There Is
a hunter killing an aurochs. The bowl has
an inner decoration.-New York Times.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
wonderful Piece of Work.

D,ring the last suffrage campaign
81, ,1-ss sent from Brooklyn to the
beadouarters of the state organization
ao,,,niled list of the property owned by
.o in the city of Brooklyn ana
standing in their names upon the Tax a
lets of that city. The names were TO pe
.st;mated among the thousands ana the
property among the millions. 40
The task was a herculean one oe-
,and;ng iron patience and perseverance,
quickness at writing and no, n agd Tsgnla-
familiarity with the rules anu suo+-
tions of the city offices twas II was oo If the
ed by Miss Jessie }; Casey , ~
Kings County Political Equan'y yr lvn :
one Of the new champions OF %onaaa :
enfranchisement in the City OF Snu uolrn.
She was aided in har lahors " so'
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
A SONG OF THE THRUSH.
When greenly blooms the Bonded wheat,
Al L. L. L..

When greenly blooms the Bonded wheat,
And tiger lilies dot the vale.
And family scents the meadow sweet,
And kline do brim the flowing pail:
What time the pewee leaves his perch
And on the stonef1y tests his wings,
Where WHITLEY CLEANS the silver birch,
Then in dark woods the wood thrush sings.
When past the hay the meadows brown,
And stands the wheat in banded shocks,
And slow the streamlet tricklcs down,
And sunbeams bake the rifted rocks;
What time the dog days gin to wane
And skies are dun, and June is DER.
And sulks the high poised weather vanc.
The wood thrush sings in woods no more.
When asters fringe the woodland ways,
And wild grapes hang on fence and tree,
And hills are hid in ripening haze,
And down the gulch the streamlets flee;
What time the first soft maple turns,
And red shade the sumac filings,
And on stone walls the ivy burns,
Once more in woods the wood thrush sings
William Higgs in Youths Companion.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Novelties In Jewelry.

The desire to meet the tastes OF those
Who have gratified themselves with the
ordinary forms of jewelry has produced
some novel pieces. The taste for the odd.
ue bizarre, the interesting, instead OF
what has always been termed the beau
NluI, Is Characteristic of this era. Inc
Hllhd must be entertained as well as the
eye Some new and interesting pieces
VI JeWelry will illustrate this tendency.
"''4 all the splendor of jewels and en-
ollels three bonnets are made and trim
reu with flowers, ribbons and feathers.
lneSe are three brooches. One is an an
eIeht form-one may imagine Minerva
Wearing it, since it has something the
N 1Sape Of Greek helmet, having brlm.
LUIS Is Of solid diamonds. A bunch o.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
NAMING THE BABY.

They talked Of Medora, Aurora and Flora,
OF Mabel and Marcia and Mildred and May
Debated the question Of Helen, Honora,
Clarissa, Camilla and Phyllis and Fay.
They thought of Marcella, Estella and Bella,
Considered Cecilia, Jeanette and Pauline,
Alicia, Adela, Annette Arabella
And Ethel and Eunice Hortense and Irene.
One liked Theodore, another Leonora,
Some argued for Edith and some for Elaine
For Madeline, Adeline, Lily and Lora,
And then after all they decided on Jane.
London TitBits.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
That . ,aneo ..s naI.dg .,cHeine'

What has become of the planet signal
ing scheme suggested by me speculative
astronomers two or three years ago! II
we remember Alright. it was proposed 70
signal the planet Mars by mapping out
an immense right angled triangle on the
desert of Sahara, cover the same with
light combustibles and set fire 10 IL Oh
some rooonless night. 1t was hoped that
the Marsians would see such blazing
figure and answer with the Pythagorean
figure of three squares built on the side
of the triangle. The desert is still avail
able, and so are the light combustlbies.
st. Louis Republic.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02
Miss Frances willard.

Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens of Portland,
Me, vice president of the National Wo-
mans Christian Temperance union,
makes the following declaration: 1.-The
statement which is being extensively
circulated that Miss Willard is to be
married is without foundation. She is
with Lady Henry Somerset at the pres
ent time at Reigate, England, and they
are busily engaged in making prepare
lions for the convention for the World s
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
which is to be held in London June Il
d -
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-01-02

N know. Probably the unstable cos
tnmes Of London dressmakers, costumes
mt together in the late seventies, are
rnloaded upon trusting oriental palace
officials by some ingenious introducer of
civilization.
tits pity to so spoil the really charm
ing personality of the empress, who
used to be bewitching in the pretty
clothes Of her own land. This drawing
represents the sovereign and her ladies
engaged in preparing lint for the Japa-
nese wounded-a most womanly occupa
ZION. New York Tribune.