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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
HOW TO BE A BELLE.
Department Hints Which May BE Val
liable to the Society Fledglins.

Department Hints Which May BE VAL
liable to the Society FIedgling.
From the Baltimore Sun.
An older woman who has been through
that maelstrom called society offers the fol-
lowing hints to her younger sisters who
are about to make their first plunge into
the whirl.
ut takes some MONTHS she says, Sin
many cases years, of the worlds fine pol
ishing to soften the little roughnesses and
those thousand and one incompletenesses
that embitter extreme youth and turn every
want of attention. every slip of other peo-
pies tongues, into a perfect regiment of
sights.
I'm this manner many a girls first year
of social life is anything but the unalloyed
happiness of which she has dreamed.
1.-The first lesson for a debutante to learn
is that she is not the only debutante in the
ROOM and that every eye is by no means
fixed upon her. Remember that each little
debutante is just as much occupied with
herself as you are, and each mother who
sits ranged against the wall is thinking
very deeply of her own particular little
duckling that has turned so suddenly into
n swan. To realize this fact-that is that
every one Is not looking at you-may be a
shock to the vanity. but it will do more to
lessen that painful shyness so wisely called
by the French faux hante than anything
else in the world
mo one really knows or remembers
whether you were out in a certain figure
of the german or not, and If you are left
alone there is no use in worrying and feel
ing mortified until by the time some one
does turn up you have not the spirit left
to make yourself agreeable.
Being belle is often the merest acct
dent. girl may have lot of cousins and
brothers, who, with their friends, are de-
termined to make her a success. Then,
again, her parents may have asked lot of
people TO some entertainment, and from
decency, not snobbishness the men who
have been invited are bound to meet and
Show her some attention.
I'm all probability you are just as at
tractive as this particular girl who is hav-
ing the better time. and ten to one the very
men who are showing her attention for the
reasons | have menticsed know it, This is
most consolng thought If you happen to
be left alone
fayorite in every sense of the word Il;
sweetness. Not surface sweetness but that
genuine kindness of heart which makes us
considerable for all about us at home as
well as abroad, and which is just as sure
to make itself evident the tea rose is
bound to exhale its exquisite perfume.
Never say mean things about any one.
Your hearers may laugh at the time but
instinctiveIy they feel they may be the
next TO suffer, and one by one they will
drop away from you, for there is nothing
SO absolutely killing ridicule.
Never try to keep man with you
against his will. You may succeed very
feel more or less stuck and in the end will
avoid you. After ALL your belledom is not
for one or two years, but perhaps for a
good many, especially In America, where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

bows and ends IN front. The elbow sleeves
were tight and finished with Fittings.
Some Ele Rant Costumes.
At more stately affair a handsome
matron wore recently a rich white MORE
striped with blue A popularity of this
dress, and one needing careful handling to
make it thoroughly successful. was the
different coloring of the bodice and the
train, which were of white silk with broad
black stripings. The short sleeves were of
black and white lace. There were garni-
lures of roses.
Still third striped costume was of white
MORE, with pink bands. This dress was
noticeable for large revers covered with
pink and white embroidered chiffon, and
edged with white lace and sable fur. The
bow bodice was decked with lace and fur
epaulets and was finished with pale
pink velvet waistbard 1t had long. trans
parent pink and white chiffon sleeves.
A semi-train dinner dress was of tur-
quoise blue velvet, edged with silver en-
brcidery. The low velvet bodice was draped
in front and trimmed with silver and lace
frills. princess tunic of white mousseline
deliberately embroidered was draped over
the velvet and was bordered with deep
f1ounce of exquisite lace. There were short
pulled sleeves. Roses were fastened to the
left shoulder and in the hair.
ELLEN OSBORN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

the girls marry late, and you don't want
to make friends for only one season.
Accept attention with SO sweet a willing
ness that the other will be positively glad
he offered it, and if you have to decline do
1t as graciously and as kindly as you can.
Never be late for dinner or keep any
one waiting, and make a point of always
speaking as soon as possible, and most
deferentally, to the elderly people in a
room.
with these small hints as to the man
ners and the greater one as to sweetness
Which should be in our lives what the warp
is in some beautiful piece of tapestry. a
young girl can thoroughly enjoy life and
ind warm place in the hearts about her )"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
A PRETTY CHRISTMAS GIFT.

Ornamental Book Covers That Are
Dainty and Useful.
Mary ]. Stafford in Harper's Bazaar.
With Christmas drawing near. every one
is eager to enjoy the delight of giving
some tangible proof Of remembrance. but.
alas! the list of friends is often long and
the supply of money In the purse short.
How to make these two ends meet is a
problem confronting many a woman. Per-
haps the book cover" may solve 1t for
some who desire to have their tokens bear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
Royal Yearly Incomes.

From the Durham Observer.
The total annual income Of the imperial
family of Russia cannot be less than thret
and a half million pounds sterling. Prob
ably the nearest approach to this revenue
Is to be found in the combined incomes Of
the brothers Rockefeller, the Oil kings Of
America, which amount to two and half
million pounds. The Austrian imperial
family possesses an estimated annual ins
come of fl 800. 900. the German family onl
CT n,000.000. and the Italian house q
Savoy q revenue Of f600 900 year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
g to examine your
Justly Punished.

From the Chicago Post.
"And will he never be allowed out of
here?" asked the visitor. 4
Never" replied Satan. Ills crime was
one Of the objectionable ones"
What was it?'
He refused to get new coal hole cover
when the one In his walk became as
smooth and slippery rs glare ice."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

ELLOW CHR Y BAN
themums have sup
piled the decorations
at many of the fash
ionable dinners given
In New York thus
far this season. Or
chids and American
Beauty roses figure
also. Really effective
table designs Of vio-
let's are possible, now
that high decorations
are ruled absolutely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

Self-respect Is a good deal like ones an
pendix-you scarcely know you've got it
till it's gone.-Life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
Suitable for Wear at a Formal Dinner
Party.
HAVE A SEMBLANCE OF A TRAIN
Velvet is Popular Material Even
for Young Women.
DAINTY EVENING WAISTS

Special Correspondence of The Evening Stn-
NEW YORK, December 10, 1897
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11
From Life.

eve Who Have Died Salute Theew
From Life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-11

In preparing all fowls for the table, after
the pin feathers are removed scrub the
skin thoroughly with warm soapsuds then
rinse with clear cold water and wipe dry,
No one has any idea how dirty the skin of
fowl Is until 1t emerges from such a bath.
with complexion entirely altered.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22

THE GREATEST INVESTOR.
A Drummer Tells story About the
Wizard of MenI0 Park.


A Drummer Tells story About the
Wizard of MenIo Park.
A Blue line train was making blue
streak through the New Jersey air, with
the cowcatcher of the locomotive point
ed toward New York city, and drum
mer was talking right along ahead of
it as easy as the bird flies. says the New
York Sun.
Il want to say to you, gentlemen y
he was saying, that Thomas Edison
is the greatest inventor in the world,
not only in the quantity of his inyen-
tons, but in the quality of them, and
every new thirg he turns out he gets a
patent on il before it is dry. Sensible
man is Tom, and great snap is pat
ent when the monopoly in it is yours.
gentlemen. l know what I'm talking
about. for had one once that was loo
loo, only it wasn't big enough. But
Tn getting away from my tale. as the
dog remarked when he barely got his
hind legs from under the wheels. was
in Edison's town the other day and
heard a new story on him. New to me.
anyhow. Man over there that sell
goods to. and won't lie except when the
fishing season is on, told me. as an illus
tration of how absorbed Edison is in his
business. that one day Mrs. Edison came
to her husband in great glee and an
nounced that the baby had tooth.
".yery well. my dear" replied her
husband. never stopping minute from
his work I haven't got time to bother
with your affairs. Yon just run along
and get patent on i; and have il
charged TO my account"
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
THE TAME FAwh.
An old Dame Who Narrowly Escaped
with Her Life.


with Her Life.
Although it does not appreciate con-
inement in paddock. it is easy to
tame fa,vn and it makes delightful
pet until il attains TO years OF indiscre-
lion. says the Badminion Magazine. \
tame roe used to follow the children
everywhere round the old castle of
Duntroon and even up the stairs and
into the rooms One OF his little play
fellows had been obliged to give up his
room to gentleman who had come to
stay there and the surprise of the guest
was unbounded when the head and
neck of roe protruded through his
half-open door. Dear mel" ne said.
game must be extremely plentiful in
these parts"
Yet, Just as n kitten would be the most
delightful of pets except for its un-
fortunate habit of growing into cat.
SO a roe and especially buck, becomes
too much of a handful as a pet when il
grows up. Their beautiful little horns
are both sharp and dangerous and a
tame roebuck very nearly put an old
woman or the road and into the Crinan
canal by its obtrusive attentions. 1t
meant no harm; it really expected TO
get lump of rock aalt, with which it
had usually been rewarded for its
oaresses. but the old dame did not ap-
preciate its uncanny approaches and
narrowly escaped with her life.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
THEY HELPED jim.
He Was Only n Little BoofbIa~k and
Had Been fi1-

He Was Only n Little BoofbIa~k and
Had Becn fii-
The rich men who build hospitals are
not the only benevolent ones The shoe
black of whom DR. Talmage tells this
story showed spirit of sweet un-
selfishness:
"a reporter sat down on one of the
city hall benches and whistled to one of
the sinners. The boy came up to his
work provolingly slow. and had just
begun, when a larger boy showed him
aside and began the work. and the re-
porter reproved him as being bully.
and the boy replied: oh. that's all
right am going to do il for i'm. You
see. he's been sick in the hospital more'n
u month; so US boys turn in and give i'm
a lift
-'Do all the boys help him?' asked the
reporter.
".Yes. sir: when they amt got no
job themselves and Jim gets one, they
turn in and help i'm: for he amt strong
yet. you see
How much percentage does he give
yalsm asked the reporter.
The boy replied: I don't keep none
of It. l amt no such sneak as that
AL the boys give up what they get on
his job I'd like 10 catch any feiler
sncasing ON sick boy. l would
THE reporter gave him 25-cent
piece. and said: You keep ten cents for
yourself. and give the rest to jim
"'Can't do il. sir; it's his customer.
Here Jim
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
COULDN'T SPANK HER SON.
He Was Father Himself and Would
Have Beer Glad to ObltEe.

He Was Father Himself and Would
Have Been Glad to ObliEe.
People never get an encouragement
for doing the Good Samaritan act in the
interests of the public, the man de-
cided who offered to assist distracted
woman and ameliorate the sufferings
of lot of respectable people on a
suburban car.
The boy who howls was in evidence,
the curled darling of his only own
mother and the terror of everybody
else. and he had kept the car in a state
OF wild excitement and exhausted the
patience of everybody, including his
doting parent.
-.-ea., -e..sa.ss---s-~~..-s-- a.-.~. .,
she had said for the fiftieth time. as she
tried vainly TO restrain the bowling ter
ror.
At that he stopped bowling long
enough to beat the air with his small
shins. and the woman on the other side
of him remarked audibly that a cage
was the proper place for savages like
him.
Johnny, dear. asked his mother,
won't you be good bos?"
Roars and kicks from Master Johnny.
'-0h, l wish your father were here to
give you good trouneing this very
minute," she walled as she struggled
with him.
Then it was that the philanthropist
of the company asserted himself. He
had been trying in vain to read his
morning paper ever since he started
from home.
ALLOW nc, madam" he said, blandly;
Il am father myself. and viii be
happy to charsise your cherub in behalf
of his abscnt parent,
.'oh, 80 you won't, not il know i'll"
said .Johrny's mother, rising in her
wrath like a tigress. There amt that
man living dare hay n finger on that
boy--liis own father or any other ugly
old catamoont who thinks he tnovs it
ALL" and she effee;ually shut OF de-
bate By se;=.- into the next car and talk
ing the swee, infant with her.-Chieago
Times-Herald.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
woMAn.s SOPRANO VOICE.
Why she Can Reach Much Higher
Tone. Than II Possible for Man.

Tones Than Ii Possible for Man.
The scientist who discovered in the
human larynN the anatomical reason
why woman has soprano voice and a
man a bass one was a woman, Mrs
Emma Seller, says the Philadelphia
Times. She was a German, born in
Wurtzburg. Left a widow with two
children to support, she resolved to be-
come teacher of singing, but sudden
iy lost her voice. Then she determined
to find out why: also to discover the cor
rect method of singing, SO that others
might not lose their voices. For this
purpose she studied anatomy. She dis
sected larynx after larynx and spent
years in her search. trying to find for
one thing why women's head tones
could reach high c while men had no
'oprano tones AT length her search
Was rewarded She discovered under
the microscope one day two small.
wedre-shaped carriages whose acyIou
produces the highest tones of the hu-
man voice. She made her discovery
public. 1t excited great attention
among scientists Her own brother. a
ply sician. praised the treatise in the
highest terms till he found his own
lister had written it. Then he dashed
t down. saying in rage that she would
be better attending to her housework.
Nine. Sellers portrait. marble relief,
IS in possession of the American Phil
osonhical society of Philadelphia. OF
which she was n member. She wrote
among other books. "Thc Voice in Sing
ing" and The Voice in Speaking"
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
MY LAoY.s pARAsoL.
She Shoald Have Dosen-How she
Can Get Along with Three.

She ShoaId Have n Dosea-How She
Can Get Along with Three.
Parasols have blossomed out into a
variety apd fresh Importance in the
realm of fashion which is really dis
heartening to all women except the few
W ho are blessed with unlimited incomes
or a mind above the frivolous things of
life. Fashion DEGREES that the up-to-
date woman must have. from six to a
dozen of these expensive trifics TO har-
monize respectively with her various
costumes. but with three well selected
she can meet all the requirements of
fashionable dress. One should he of
ehangeabie or foulard silk. or ecru
hatistc. another of brocaded silk. and q
third one of chiffon or lace TO carry with
thin gowns
The chiffon parasol is thing of frills
and fluff. which is n puzzle to anyone
except the ingenious designer who
fashioned it. In this class OF parasols
there are various kinds similarly elab-
orate. made of net. lace and gauxe. and
the handles are of gold set with jewels,
with rock crystal and enameled heads
of tortoise shell or some choice wood.
Elegant brocaded and moire silks are
used for covering. but there are all sorts
of less expensive silk parasols in plain
colors. plaits and stripes without linn
il to the variety. Ecru batiste parasols
lined with a color and trimmed with
narrow ecru lace are extremely pretty
and useful as well us good style. and a
laequered wood handle is sure to be a
desirable choice.--N. Y. Sun.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
The Handy s Meoee Mercantile co.
The Family Fireside.
Practical Notes and General; Information.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A huge cypress tree in Tule, in the
state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is 154 feet in
circumference.
A five-cent stamp must adorn every
day book. ledger or other account book
kept by a business house in Mexico.
The cells in the Jail at Dover, n. H.,
are arranged in a circle and reyolve,
so that the inmates can successfully see
the country at all points of the com
pass.
"A bereaved widower in st. Joseph,
Mo-. took unto himself a second wife
before his first spouse was buried. The
body of No. / had been temporarily
placed in n receiving vault.
In Topeka there is a young mar
ried man who really loves his mother
il law-ioves her so much that her
daughter has brought suit for alienat-
ing her husbands affections.
IA can of boiling lard was on the
cool. stove. and Miss Stella Evans. of
Colorado Springs. put an egg into it to
boil. In an instant the egg exploded
ard the lady was spattered with flying
lard
"A citizen of Buckfeld. Me-. lost
his house and all his furniture by fire.
His neighbors came to his relief by
she presentation of various household
articles, and among them were 40 bed
steads.
A real estate agent in Newburg. \.
Y, engaged painter TO paint house.
inside and out. He gave him the wrong
number. ard the wrong house was com
pletely painted before the bluntler was
discovered.
An extraordinary railroad trip was
recently made over the Chicago. Bur-
lington & Quincy, from Chicago to Den
yer. The distance is I.025 miles. and the
trip was made in 1909 minutes actual
running time.
"A lady in Willsesbarre. Pa, who
died possessed of considerable proper
ty left it all to female friend who had
been very kind to her-aii except one
cent; and this she decreed should be
given tn her husband FIVE years after
her death.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
WINNING a WEE IN GREECE.
sponge Gasher~r- Engage In sub
aqueous Contests for Her Hand.

sponge Gather~r- Engage In sub
aaueou. Contents for Her Hand
In many of the Greek islands diving
for spongcs forms considerable part
Of the occupation of the Inhabitants.
A visitor to this unfrequented region
describes the following rather startling
custom. He says: "Himia, which is a
little island directly opposite Rhodes.
is worthy of notice on account of the
singular method by which the Greek
inhabitants OF the island get their liv-
ing. On the bottom of the sea in this
locality the common sponge is found in
greater abundance than in any other
part OF the Mediterranean. The natives
make Il n trade to gather these. and
their income from this source is far
from contemptible; their goods are al
ways in demand among the Turks, who
use an Incredible number of sponges in
the ablusions prescribed by the Mcham-
mctnn ritual a girl In this island is
not permitted TO marry until she has
brought up a certain number of sponges
and given proof of her skill by taking
them from certain depth. But in
certain of these islands this custom is
reversed. The father OF marriage
able daughter bcrtows her on the best
diver among her suitors. He who can
stay longees In the water and bring UP
the biggest cargo Of spongcs marries
the maid. -
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
THE coLoRED BROTHER.
Not = Good Tenant for the Southern
I.auAInrd.


The typical negro tenant arrives at a
with bundle of rags, frying pan and
!, coyey of children, and he stays with "A
landlord who may have saved him from
destitution by advancing provisions and
dry goods only SO long as the caprice of
the hour dictates, says Lippincott's.
Land owners who have sunk into finan-
oiai ruin by nortgaging their property
have nearly always been dragged into
The slough by the effort to help their
negroes out of it. The crop made by the
average negro farmer is subject to many
contingencies besides those of the
weather. He does not hesitate to leave
his field at the most critical season if
pleasure calls him; .'big meetings" he
never can resist and these take place
during the important agricultural
months of July and August, first at one
church and then at another. After the
mules have been working hard all the
week in this busy season they are often
driven ten to fifteen, miles on Sundays.
carrying wagonloads of men, women
and children, long bright ribbons fly
ing out from the heads of the female
members of the family, whose hair has
been tightly plated and bound with
cords during the week in order to pro-
duce holiday sensation in an ample
nsyche-knot at the back and bushel-
like roundness in front; they appear in
fancy waists and big sleeves and regale
themselves and their friends with
dinner of fried chicken. cake and water
melons after the meeting, rags being
coed enough to wear, hoe cake and
bacon good enough to eat during the
week Like his African ancestors, the
American negro is miserable without
jollifications and feastings; if he can
have them he will do a hard job of work
between times.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
DECAY OF ANIMAL MATTER.
u Is Something More Than a simple
Chemical Change.


n great many proofs. now more or
less familiar TO most people. show quite
clearly thu, the decay OF animal or veg
etable matter is not simple chemical
change. inevitable in the nature of
things. but a violent interference with
the natural course on the part OF hos
tile orga nisIas, says Longman's Maga-
zine. The bacteria, which produce de-
composition. are very minute plants,
which grow. like mushrooms or molds,
upon organic matter. and which repro
duce their like with incredible rapidity.
Tyndall showed long ago tina; the
spores of these plants exist in myriads
in the air, floating eser,where around
us; that they occupy all crannies and
empty places on the surface of the
earth. aud that they swarm in their
millions in all ponds and puddles. An
easy way of proving that these spores
alone, and the plant colonies which
spring from them. are the cause of
putrefaction may be obtained by boil
ing beef tea in a test tube. so as TO kill
the bacteria, and then. while the liquid
is still stcaming. closing up the mouth
of the tube with plug of cotton wool.
which admits the air but strains out
the germs of the putrefactive organ
isms Under these conditions the beef
tea will keep good for years. but il you
remove the plug IL will begin at once to
nutrefy
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22
Parrot Diseases.

Psittacosis, the peculiar form of bron-
chial pneumonia communicated by par
rots. has broken out in Genoa. IA cases,
eight of them fatal, being traced to a
single Importation of two sick Rra-
lillian parrots. The health board has
warned the citizens against harboring
parrots as pets. AT Berlin the veter-
mary school has found that out of i54
sick parrots s4 were suffering from
tuberculosis. The disease IL hereditary
in the birts. and il intensified by the
close confinement and discomfort of the
voyage to Europe.
Cañon City record., 1897-07-22

are
EA a smooth roadbed
nA freedom from accident
BeA fine equipment
nSA courteous testment
HSA trains on time