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Table Linen.

Although fine, double damask, with serviettes to match, is never old fash toned, great many housewives who are replenishing their linen closets this fall are selecting Scotch and Irish lin en made just little larger than ths table and hanging down an equal dis tanee all around.
 The cloth is hemstitched, the hem be- ing an inch and half deep and some. times it is edged with torchon lace is flax thread Where the plaits are placed are two wide bands of drawn thread. work, one near the edge and the other about quarter of yard farther in. With these cloths no table center il used but trails of flowers are laid oH the white surface. The spaces left by the drawn work are sometimes lined with tinted silk, but if enes table is oi polished wood it is far prettier to leave them uniined. New York Commercial
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Now Details In Gowns.

There are some points of difference in the making of the skirts this season. To begin with, they are narrower. Very rarely is an exaggeratedly wide skirt seen, and then it is one that is cut in one piece, circular-a style only to be attempted by some genius in skirt hanging, fewer gores-never more than fve-the front and side breadths much straighter, still tight fitting over the hips and all fullness well to the back, where it is laid ill small box plaits. There is still used narrow facing of haireloth, and q stiff rutfled pettic0at is necessary as ever to keep the dress skirt from falling in around the feet. Sleeves are small to the shoulder In tailor gowns they are very pretty-a much modified coat sleeve, with just little fullness at the top. Almost all skirts arc trimmed or made of some figured material that gives the effect of trim ming. Braid is now sewed on at both sides instead of only one, like last win ter, and the narrow is preferred to the wide unless when the wide hraidA and very narrow soutache are combined. Street gowns arc short to clear the groundi house gowns are all long, while dinner gowns, etc, are made with trains. For street wear dark colors will be the most fashionable, but for reeep- tions and the house all tho light colors are in style, both for old and young. Buttons, buckles and brilliant trim mings will be greatly used, while lace, both black and white, will continue to be worn with every possible style of gown.-Harper' Bazar
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shows in this youngest scion ThS young lady is 25 years of age, mn only child, and has been carefully reared Her father is the Rev j. K Mclean. D. D., who has been in California fot 30 years and is known all over the west He is tho leading Congregati0nalist iii California. For % years he was pastor of the most powerful church of that de- nomination on tho coast and is now president of tho Pacific Theological seminary.
 From her father Miss Mclean in. herited penehant for book learning and the study of science and the Ian. guages She attended the public schools, the Oakland High school nnd later thd State University of California, at Berke. ley At Stamford B rival Miss Mclean took full classical course and graduat. ed with q good record.
 Three years ago she was graduated She went next to Cambridge, where she took postgraduate work at tho Harvard annex, and year ago went to Europe, partly for her health and partly td study. Mrs. Mclean went from Califor. mia and chaperoned her daughter Ii was while in New York, just beford sailing for Europe, that the offer of an instructorship i'll English at Stanford came to Miss Mclean 1t was secured for her by certain powerful friends, whg arranged to have it held open for her until her return from Europe. Up to that time Miss Mclean s tastes had led her in literary and classic paths, bui she had had DO definite aim in her preparation. She expected vaguely, td teach, but just what or where had moi entered into her calculations
 Miss Mclean went first to England, where she entered the Oxford college annex. Later she studied i'll Berlin and travelled extensively. Her health im- proved rapidly, and she paid close at- tention to the methods in the various foreign institutions where she was . special student At Stanford Miss Me Lean is to be an adjunct to the chair of English literature For the present her work will be confined to freshmen and sophomores, and she will do nothing but correct aud comment upon themes. Gradually she will have insuucting to do and So become full fedged assist ant professor. Miss Mclean is good Latin and Greek scholar aud proficient in modern languages She will intro duee a number of European methods, culled frosa the great colleges all of which she has visited, into her new de partment New York Herald
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working girls, working women relief, secret societies, Freemasonry, Jewish organization, Swedish organization. German organization, the American Revolution, the war of 1872, early New England, the Confederacy health pro. lection, the civil war, mutual tnsur. ance, sick benefit funds, accident funds, students aid, college societies. uniYer- sity settlements. social settlements, hos pital auxilries children s aid chil- dren s fresh air societies, woman s ref uges, social purity, temperance, tho Sabbath observance, physical culture, art education, music, ceramics, miner al painting, trained nurses, deaeoness- es cooperation, the Bible in schools, literary improvement, young woman g improvement scientific study, chess whist, lawn tennis, boating, cycling driving, riding, archery, cr0quet, golf gymnastics, skating and prc. strianism
 This seems to be large number, but even this roll call undercstimates rather than overestimates, the fact as, for example, the Woman Christian Tenn perance union has a national organiza- tion, 45 state and territorial unions and q separate union in nearly every county in every state and from to 20 unions in every city of every county, making the total of c1ut9 n1d unions federated for one purpose lar up i'll tho thousands the active, paying member ship of which is said to be nearly 900, : GOO.
 1t is to be hoped that the clubs and organizations of Che country will per ceiye tho importance of Commissioner Wright's enterprise, the vastness of the effort contemplated and tho necessity of cooperating with him in order to make his work a thorough success. New York Mail and Express.
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Cotton ReltRonte

National Prison Congress. Austin, Texas. Dec 2nd to 7th.
 For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Austin. Texas, at one and one third fare on the certificate plan, S20.50. Tickets on sale Nov. 30th to Dec. 5th. Return limit Dee. 10, 1897. South Arkansas A. NJ. E. Church Conference. Helena, Ark. Nov. 24th to Both.
 For this occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Clarendon and return at one and one third fare. Passengers are hereby notified that they can secure tickets Clarendon to Helena and return at one fare via Arkansas Midland Rv, Tickets on, sale Nov. 9 to 24. Re turn limit Dee I, 1897.
 II. BRINGMAN, Agent.
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A BRAVE GREEK LAD
Why He Was Much Braver Boy Than the Widely Advertised CasabianGa.


 There was a redheaded. freckled peas ant boy in dirty petticouts who guided Bass and myself to the trenches He was one of the few peasants who had not run away, and as he had driven sheep over every foot of the hills he elected to guide the soldiers through those places where they were best protected from the bullets of the enemy. He did this all day. and was always, whether coming or going, under heavy fire, but he enjoyed that fact, and he seemed ta regard the battle only as de- lightful change in the quiet routine of his life, as one of our own country boys at home would regard tho coming of the spring circus or the burning of q neigh bor's barn. He ran dancing ahead of us, pointing to where a ledge of rock offered 9 natural shelter, or showing us a steep gully where the bullets could not fall When they came very near him, he would jump high i'll tho air-not because he was startled, but out of pure animal joy in the excitement of it-and he would frown im- portantly and shako his red curls at us, as though to say; II told you to be careful Now you see Don't lot that happen again. H
 We met him many times during the two days, escerting different companies of soldiers from one point to another as though they were visitors to his estate When a shell broke, he would pick up q piece and present it to the officer in charge as though it were flower he had plucked from his own garden and which he wanted his guest to carry away with him as q sou yenir of his visit. Some one asked the boy If his father and mother knew where ho was, and he replied with amusement that they had run away and deserted him and that he had remained because be wished to look at 9 Turkish army.
 He was q much more plucky boy than the oyerrated Gasabisfnca who may have stood on the burning doell whence all but him had fled because he could not swim and because 1t was with him choice of being either burned CT drowned This boy stuck to tho burning deck when it was possible for him at any time to have walked away and left it burning But he staid on because he was amused and be- cause he was able to help the soldiers from tho city in safety across his native heath Richard Harding Davis in Harper s Magazine For November.
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Aglle Women In Sweden.

An American who has just returned from q trip to Sweden says that the custom in tho cool north country that impressed him most was the manner Ill which every one, young and old, leaps off of the street ears. There seems to be general understanding that passengers will get on or off the car while it is in motion, and q fall or an accident of any kind seldom, if ever, follows this origi- nal way of boarding or leaving a vehi- cle. ''Ehe manner in which the women junFF aboard. swinging on with all the agility of an American conductor, is quite astonishing, says this observing tourist "They do it as q matter of course, and do not appear to be at all proud of their accomplishment A car is rushing along at a good speed, and just ahead q pretty young Swedish wo- man is seen standing at the curb She makes no signals for a stop As he comes opposite her the driver pulls up a bit and she slides on as gracefully as if she were q freight brakeman on a west ern railway.
 The most astonishing thing about it Is the artistic manner i'll which the women alight at full speed. In doing so they face ahead holding on by the hand nearest the horses, throw the body backward when they jump, land lightly on their feet, take hop, skip or two, and there they are, safe and sound Really, they overturn one Of the laws of nature i'll performance of this feat woman s nature at least My rather ex- tensive observations in America have led me to the conclusion that woman is 90 constituted it is impossible for her to alight from a moving street car any other way than the wrong way-that is to say. by holding on with the hand which turns her face to the car and jumping or rather falling off backward. Ninety nine women out of 100 in Amer iea alight from street car in such manner that if the vehicle were to start while they were i'll the act they would be thrown to the ground. American women excel the women of all other
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LADY TENNYSON.
Of Her tho Poet Said, 'The Peace of God
 Came Into AIy Life."

Of Her tho Poet Said, '.Fhe Peace of God
 Came Into AIy Life.e
 In 1880, on path in q wood at Somers- by, Tennyson camo unexpectedly upon a slender, beautiful girl of F, and impul- siyely said to her. Are you n dryad OF an bread wandering here24 Six years later he met Emily Sel1wood again, on the oe- casion of the marriage of his brother Charles to her youngest sister The friendship ripened into love, but for lack of means the marriage did not take place until June, 1850, the month iii which "I In Memoriam was published. The cake and dresses came too late, and the wedding was so quiet that Tennyson declared it was the incest wedding he had ever at tended. Of his wife he said, many years later, The peace of God came into my life before the altar when l welded her. D
 Of this marriage the son writes: "It was she who became my fathers adviser in literary matters l am proud of her intellect, he wrote With her he always discussed what he was working at She transcribed his poems. To her, and to no one else, he referred for final criticism before publishing She, with her tender spiritual nature and instinctiye nobility of thought, was always by his side, a ready, cheerful, courageous, wise and sym pathetic counselor. It was she who shield ed his sensitive spirit from the annoyances and trials of life, answering Qor example1 the innumerable letters addressed to him from all parts of the world By her quiet sense of hunor, by her selness devotion, by her faith as clear as the heights of the June blue heaven, she helped him also to the utmost in the hours of his depression and his sorrow, and to her he wrote two of the most beautiful of his shorter lyrics, Dear, Near and True, and the dedicatory lines which prefaeod his last volume, The Death of Gnone. "-Hamilton w Mabie in November Atlantic
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To Reduce Crime and Pauperism.

That state or municipality will earn for itself high place in the civilization of to- morrow which adopts broad, liberal sys- tenn of public educational entertainments in large, eommodious and attractive re- sorts, thereby reducing crime, pauperism and animal cxcesscs, while stirring the imagination on the higher plane of sensa- tion, filling it with pure ideals and the sweet melody of lofty music, in which there should be no alloy of vulgarity or coarse suggestiveness.
 Give the people temples of entertainment which will be in the truest sense grand educational institutions, which will fill lifes leisure hours with q sweetness that will leave no bitter after taste, and which night by night will educate, purify, refine and uplift-B. O Flower in November Arena
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women.s Clubs and Societies.

A work of great interest and value has been undertaken by United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright and consists i'll the compilation of a thorough report upon the subject of women's s clubs and societies in the Unit ed States He has made public appeal to the presidents of every organization to forward him | full statement as to the purpose, programme and record of each body, with full statement as to the division and distribution of duties, the classifcations and the functions and all other details that may be of value in the matter.
 This is bold venture, as it involves an enormous amount of original work Since the compilation of the last census at least 10, 900 women's clubs and SO cieties have sprung into being i'll the United States. No one knows the exact number of their organization, but in- complete lists kept by those interested ill the movement show that more than 100 clubs each have been formed upon the following bases: Church work, church extension, home mission work, foreign mission work, the national council, woman suffrage, motherhood, domestic economy, public schools, rag ced schools, technical schools, kin dergartens. fruit and flower missions.
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Women Who Dress In Pairs.

The latest fad among women i'll Lon- don and Paris is dressing iii pairs-that is, two women when going out together dress alike in every particular. An American who has just returned from q trip abroad said in speaking of the craze:
 "I was much astonished on my first drive iii the park to notice SO many women gowned exactly alike. l had never heard of the fad, so of course quite naturally supposed the first pair to be sisters, possibly twins. Then, see ing the same sight so often, I began to notice that the women often appeared to be widely separated in point of age. l was puzzled and finally astonished when an acquaintance of former years drove by with her double i'll point of dress She was woman who had never had a sister, yet thero she sat with a woman, apparently about the same age and aI- most the same coloring, dressed exactly lile her
 You may be sure that before I sleps that night I learned the reason for the apparent frequency of twins in London. Bnt when l learned it WAS a fad my surprise was net ut all diminished. It seemed so contrary to the nature of woman to want another woman, q pos sible rival, to have identieally the same things l know that the women of my acquaintance always make an effort te have things quite different and never forgive modiste when she makes the mistake of turning out other gowns even resembling their own.
 "On my next drive i'll the park l made it my business to keep count and I noticed no fewer than 3G of these pairs. That evening, when talking with an old friend who has been abroad for quite awhile, l asked for an eXplana- tion of the fad
 The only way l can account for it, , said she, is that it takes two English women to have an idea and then they both have to dress on 1t.
 "In Paris noticed the same thing, though not nearly so frequently. saw. presume about l5 or 20 such couples during two months stay But, as they were Frenchwomen I suppose the fad has been taken up over there, and perhaps later ill the season New York will feel tho effects and on our own streets women will make themselves conspicuous by dressing as twins ''- Now York Sun
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
A YOUNG WOMAN IN THE FACULTY
 OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

 women's Clubs and Societies Women
 Who Dress In Pairs Agile Women In
 swedcn--New Details In gowns-Busi.
 ness Women Cooperate.
 Miss Mary Mclean of Oakland. Gal. who is one of the new assistant instruct ors in English literature at Stanford university, is not the only woman in he faculty of that institution Mrs
 ary Weldon Barnes tho historian ih d Mrs Mary Williams have preceded { 4r, bat Miss Mclean has the distinc. 3n of being the youngest woman in he faculty of any western college. Her 9wH alma mater, the University of California, has not yet seen fit to open it's faculty door to women, but Stan ford. being younger, is less conservative.
 Miss Mary Matilda Mclean is q yonng lady of interesting personality. She is of Scotch stock and has always been noted for her serious temperament. She is well endowed mentally, though not remarkable for a robust physique. She is quite ambitious aud decidedly earnest and thorough.
 Miss Mclean B family were New Englanders when they ceased to be Scotch, and the sturdiness of the raoa
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Tho Falso Prophet In Literature.

A writer of fiction who puts all his char actors in antagonism to beauty and prog ress, who belittlcs his fellow man in the eyes of the reader, who puts hopelessness into his little world instead of reasonable ambition is not going to give you any particular pleasure in your leisure hours or any consolation i'll the realities of every day existence This does not mean that tho best novel is one from which the dis agreeable facts of life are banished and only the sweets served as a eonfection at the feast. IL is the attitude of mind to- ward the bitter and the sweet, the evil and the good, the thing foreseen and the acci dental, that makes q novel uplifting or depressing -Droch in NoveanbaE Ladies Home Journal
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The New Jersey Vote.

Tho amendment to confer school sui hage on the women of New Jersey was defeated by q majority of over l2, 000 The antigambling amendment was de- feated by over 5000, and another amendment was lost by only 848. This vote shows two things-~frst, that the suffrage amendment was defeated by opposition and not by indifference mere ly; second. that it could not carry even the vote of the moral clement of the state. New Jersey needs T good deal of edncation.- Woman, s r-..-.-.,e 2. s.-.,e
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 She Helped Herself.

When the we'll known Stock Exchange broker Henry Knickerbocker died iB New York few weeks ago, his widow, instead of giving all her time and at. tention to new styles of mourning and demonstrating with Providence, prompt. ly set to work to establish herself at the head of her husbands business In less than weeks time she had formed & new company, H Knickerbocker 6 Co.,, the "Co. " representing q confden. tial clerk of the former office and mem. Der Of tue New York Stock Exchange
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Business Women Cooperate.

Last winter q business woman B ex- change was started i'll Chicago under the management of Miss Virginia Dix on. It is simply cooperation among business and working women to build up fraternity for mutual aid in secur- ing work and increasing ability of workers as well as opportunity The business woman g exchange also real izes the necessity of finding other lines of work for many now struggling in the business world who are not fitted for it. Many avenues for employment, as seamstresses, visiting milIiners, visiting governesses, care of brie-a-brac, etc, can be opened up where many now struggling in the ordinary trades could make a better livelihood All applicants at the exchange arc tested before being sent out, and if not competent urged to take up something else.
 The clubs backing this office are the 0gontz, the Wildwood, the Ursula, the National Association of Women Stenog- raphers, the Nassar Alumni association, the Progressive, tho Mutual Benefit, the Fellowship, the Jane, the Occident, the Mazzini and the Altura. When all the social clubs of the city open for winter, they will send ill much work, and mean while the vacation work of supplying substitutes is expected to support the exchange When one department is well established, another will be opened, un- til as many fields of work have been covered as possible The capital to start the enterprise was raised among tha clubs
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4 Prayer.

Teach me, Father how to go Softly as the grasses grow. Hush my soul to meet the shock Of the wild world is a rock But my spirit, propped with power Make as simple as flower Let the dry heart fill It's cup. Like a poppy locking up Let life lightly wear her crown Like poppy looking down When It's heart Is filled with dew And Its life begins anew. Teach me. Father. how to be Kind and patient as a tree Joyfuily the crlel,eta croon Under shady etk at noon Beetle. on hls mission bent. Iarrles m that cooling tent Let me also cheer a spot. Hidden field or garden grot. Place where passing souls can rest On the way and he their best --Clarles Edwin Markham Ill November SertA nerss-
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The woman sulfragists are holding conventions i'll Iowa, and will continue to hold them until Oct. l5, when the workers will go to South Dakota Thers are 92 counties in Iowa, and suffrage conventions, lasting two days, will be held i'll every county.
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The motto of the Michigan Woman E Press association is. Let Us as women learn to put down self and work for 2 cause Its flower is the field daisy, emblematical of many rays or indiyidu- alities converging to one center
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The Philadelphia Woman's Health Protective association has adopted a badge composed of tiny silver broom pinned on two ends of scarlet and gray ribbon, the eelers of the club
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Of the 16 young women who received diplomas this summer from the Wom- an $ Medical college of New York city three are now members of the medical staff of tho nfirmary For Women and Children.
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A Wellington (Australial firm was fined S32 for failing to provide Il dining room for it's women employees At Dunedin . merchant who employed a w-man on Saturday afternoon was fined slO
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countries in beauty, grace, refinement and lots of other things, but they could learn valuable lessons in getting on and off street cars by going to Sweden. ,