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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
ME1BA's MARVELLOUS GOWN.

The gown which Nine. Melba wears
in the third act of "La Traviata" a"-the
ballroom scene-cost nearly fifteen
thousand dollars. The embroidery is
of seed pearls and OF small diamonds
applied by some wonderful French
process, and its construction occupied
over year. The ivory brocaded
satin of which it is composed was
specially woven for it, and is of such
body that it resembles a heavy cloth
in weight, requiring no lining in
either skirt or bodice. 1t is of an ex.
traordinary lustre, producing an
opalescent effect in certain lights, and,
combined with the fortune OF gems
which Nine. Melba will wear with it,
will give her the appearance of stand.
ing in robe of glimmering light.
The trained skirt is mass OF jeweled
embroidery. The pattern is outlined
in a spiral plume, the stem composed
Of small diamonds. The body of the
plume is of spuugles in virgin silver
beaded with seed pearls. The en-
broidery outlines tho seams of this
skirt, interspersed with an applied
etching representing the camelia, the
stems and leaves being in different
shales of green. The bodice is made
Of satin in folds that seem to drape
the form. 1t is without sleeves, being
upheld over tho shoulders by chains
of diamonds-three strands to each
side. On the left shoulder is a bunch
of real camellias fastened with mag
niicent diamond clasp. The slippers
are made of the same satin, aud are
embroidered to match with seed pearls
and diamonds, the instep being liter
ally studded with gems. Nine. Mclba
wears nearly one hundred Thousand
dollars worth of jewels in this net, and
will be a verltable blaze OF light from
head to foot. Upon her head will rest
tiara of diamonds and pearls-the
latter being the rare pear shaped
pearls, beautifully matched and per.
feet in color. In her hair, which will
be rolled in n Grecian knot, camellia
will be fastened by a dagger OF pearls
and diamonds. Close to her throat
will be worn seven.st stranded col
larette of pearls, fastened by three
diamond clasps. Below this will be n
pendant of pear-shaped pearls and
diamonds matching the tiara, said to
have cost fourteen thousand dollars.
There are two long necklaces reaching
below the waist-a string OF diamonds
and rope of pearls. There are five
hundred pearls in the string, each one
as big as pea and perfect in shape.
Their color is family tinged with rose.
and the lustre Is superb. This with
diamond ne cklace, representatives, fifty
thousand dollars. To tho diamond
necklace is attached curiously beau.
tiful little charm, which Nine. Melba
calls her talisman. 1t was presented
to the diva by the Baron de Roths.
child. 1t is little goat, made from
one large pearl, the horns and feet
being tipped with diamonds. Ar.
gonant.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
OUR DOMESTIC MACHINERY.

One of the things that surprise
foreign housekeepers, notably French
women, when they come over here is
our cumbrous domestic machinery.
Particularly are they amazed that it
should be such an almost universal
custom to have the family washing
done at home. 1t is bad enough in the
dwellings that shelter only one family
beneath their roofs, but laundry work
going on in the little sets of rooms in
the apartment houses fairly startles
the Is-Isian chatelaine. That this
custom must be changed sooner or
later seems inevitable. So much of
co cooperative Housekeeping could be
adopted with profit TO him or them
who would undertake it and with
enormous addition to the comfort and
convenience of living. The nearest
approach to this millennium at the
moment is the scheme of some of tho
laundries to take the family washing
by the pound. Five cents per pound
on nll bundles of five pounds or over
is charged, price which includes the
ironing Of certain flat pieces like
towels and bedlinen. The starched
pieces are returned, starched anl
dried, and ready to dampen and iron,
and the other pieces rough-drie1. If
such system will pay in isolated
establishments with necessarily limited
patronage it deserves n trial on u
wholesale plan. York Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
THE CATARRH REMEDY
That Has Made DIR. Hartman Famor

That Has Made DIR. Hartman Famous.
There are few towns in the United States
to which the fame OF Peru-na has not spread
as an unfailing remedy for catarrh. Those
people who have been cured by it, OF this
insidious and supposedly incurable disease,
spread the glad news to their friends, 1t has
Eeen nearly forty years since Pc. ru-na began
10 vanqush this dreadful disease and all
through these years its cures are unnum-
bered. II is now an undisputed fact that
Pe-ru-na will cure catarrh, and thousands OF
people are yearly adding their testimony to
tho truth of this assertion. Great is the Joy
OF that household, one of whose members
has been fading slowly before their eyes.
when Ps-ru na with its undertaking surety
brings back health to the weak body.
DIR. Hartman's latest book on catarrhal
diseases is now finished, and will be sent
free to any address for short time by the
Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company,
Columbus, Ohio.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
FASHION NOTES.

Vinaigrettes Of cut-glass and gold
set with gems are also very pretty, and
u number of salve boxes in similar de.
signs are to be seen,
A dainty accessory to simply.
made house gown Is fichu of pink or
blue null with insertions and edgings
of yellow Valenciennes lace.
Variety in girdles is welcome,
and one of the prettiest and most
dressy girdles on black gown is OF
miroir velvet in geIanium, coral aud
similar shades.
The novelty puff boxes shown for
Christmas are lovely. The jar itself
is of cut. glass, and the top, which
screws on, is of embossed gold in which
turquoises, rubies, etc, are quantity
set. These are comparatively mex.
pensive.
Since fashion DEGREES that we must
have boleros, variations in design are
very desirable. The slashed bolero
of black satin, with black silk cord
lacing and small fiat pearl buttons, is
new and exceedingly pretty.
Hercules braid, with coral edging,
is being used extensively on the inner
edge OF walking skirts, instead oi
velveteen binding. 1t is said to wear
far Better than its predecessor, and
bids fair to become very popular, al.
though it is slightly higher in price -
fifteen cents yard.
Cloth capes are triAe shorter than
those OF last season, and are decidedly
fuller. The newest, lined with bright
plaids or small, vivid-colored checks,
with hoods to match, and big shuggle
collars, are decidedly English, and
will, therefore, "obtain, as the French
say.
The newest glove is real novelty.
1t is of suede to about three inches
above the wrist, where it is of exquisite
lace, with, maybe, tiny colorel
spangles outlining the lace pattern.
At the top the lace has ribbon run
through it, ending in dainty bow.
Another novelty for evening gloves
shows little frills of lace running up
to the tops, where ribbon beading
and pretty little bows give stylish
! finish.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
e100 Reward. 61OO.

The readers of this paper will he pleased to
learn that there is a least one dreaded disea Sc
that science has been able 10 cure in all its
ltases, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to tho
medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitu.
donal disease, requires a constitutional treat
nent. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly on the blool and mucous sur.
aces of I he system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease, and giving the ia
iient strength by building M the nstitutlon
ana assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have SO much faith in its curative
powers that hey offer One Hundred Dollars
.or any case hat it fails to cure. Send Tor list
of -Stimnnials. Address
+. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
WHITE HOUSE ErIpUErrE.


When the President and his wife
drive out the President sits on the
right hand seat and his wife on the
left.
If there are others in the carriage,
whether ladies or gentlemen, they
must sit with their backs to the horses
When Mrs. Cleveland was first mar
ried she tried the experiment of plac-
ing her mother opposite the President
and herself in the Presidential landau,
but the people laughed at it so i'm
moderately and professsd to think
Mrs. Folsom las she was them, to be
the maid, that it was speedily dropped.
When the Presidents wife drives
alone she sits in the right hand cor
Nher-the place of honor.
The lady of the White House cannot
set foot within those splendid houses
in Washington whose fagstaffs mark
the foreign embassy or legation. She
could not go without the President,
and as an embassy or legation is tech
nically part OF the country it repre-
sents. the President could not go-so
1uat sne never sees Tue lnSiQe OF q
diplomatic house as long as she pre-
sides at the Executive Mansion. The
President dimes only at Cabinet
houses. and his wife cannot dine any,
where without him. President Arthur
dined with Judges OF the Su-
preme Court and with Senators but
as he had no wife the whole system
was v,ry much simplifed for him.
The Presidents wife may, If she
chooses, go to luncheons where there
are no gentlemen, or to teas, both be-
ing regarded as strictly informal but
the danger of giving offense by ac-
cepting ono invitation and declining
another is so gr eat that it is seldom or
never risked. ILLUSTRATED Amsrlcan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
The Meaning of 1t,

Very often we give the wrong meaning to
n word and thereby make serious mistakes.
For instance, the true and literal meaning OF
the word rheumatism is "aches or plins Of
the muscles, bones and Joints of tho human
body" 1t is general and not specific. Also
the word relief does net mean cure. Relief
may be but short cessation of pain. But
when we say ST. Jacobs Oil cures rheumatism
promptly and permanently, we mean it con-
quers pain quickly with no return of It. un-
less the sufferer gives cause for a new attack
and then it will cure again. 1t matters not
whetherit is chronic, acute or inflammatory
il will cure. That is sare. he sure OF it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
A Big Telescope,

The gigantic telescope which has been
erected at Treptow, near Berlin, has
caused no little str among astronomical
experts. The telescope has been
built for the Grunewald Observatory
and will be set up there early in the
coming year. 1t is said to be the larg-
est instrument of its kind in the world.
A large number of foreign astrono.
mers have visited the building where
the telescope has been erected, and
have displayed considerable interest
in the various parts of its coustruc
tion. and they are all unanimous in
praise of its powerful lenses and the
clearness with which the celestial oh.
jects are shown. Westminster Gu
Zette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
An Interrupted Dream.

Back TO the home where, as n boy,
Life to me was constant joy;
Standing alone in the bright white glow
or the wintry sun on the sparkling snow,
There seem to come through a filmy haze
Faces and forms of bygone days.
Faces and forms long since forgot,
Troop from the past TO that halowed spot;
Faces bright with the glow OF health,
Forms unbent by the race for wealth.
While grim aud gray with the frosts of life,
Melting thoughts in my heart are rife.
Here ii was in the long ago,
In the holiday time all white with snow,
That merry maid with a rougish eye
whispered, "Stay-say not goodby!"
And as fond memory stirs my heart,
I'm wide awake with a sudden start,
For here in my lap as | sit and doze,
Her daughters been tickling her old dads
nose!
New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Grains of Comfort.

If fortune doesn't smile on you,
And trouble seems to pile On you
For all it's worth;
Don't think that you're the only wight
For whom events don't come Just right
Upon this earth
There arc others!
If luck has naught to bring TO you,
And fate does not Il thing to you,
And you are blue;
Just ponder DER some other wreck
Who stopped a cyclone with his neck
Worse off than you-
There are others!
II some one doesn't come to you
To pay n certain sum to you,
Don't file kick;
For you are not the only guy
Who gets the dowh-to-zero eye
That makes ice thick
There are others
IF a maiden fair goes back on you,
And woe makes an attack on you
Till you're broke up;
Remember. many Il trusting lout
Has puffed the pi % till it went out,
And then woke up
There are others!
II she becomes isis" to you,
And blows Il farewell kiss to you,
Just hold your ground;
Console yourself by thinking that
Your voice still penetrates your hat,
And look around
There are others!
Baltimore News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
A Companion in Affection.

had been married a short time previous
to entering the college. and was led tC
fear that this fact might debar him
from enjoying some of tie privileges OF
the institution. Accordingly. IN great
state of perturbation. h" called to sec
President Hopkins. After some con.
versation the young man at last man.
aged to stammer, with crimson face
apropos of something entirely irrele.
want: II am married man "Ah.'
said President Hopkins, smiling a him
with great heniGnity, so am l." And
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
THE FARMERS DAUGHTER. I

The daughter of the farmer sits be.
fore the looking glass, with its tarn-
ished gilt and painted flowers. Her
bodice is unlocked. Her hair kisses
curves and hooks. She hardly notices
the smell of the kerosene lamp, SO
closely, SO proudly and so sorrowfully
does she look at herself in the glass.
No play actress or model shown in the
cheap picture magazines is her equal.
The farmers daughter does not suspect
this; she knows it. No summer city
boarder, in spite of skillfully con.
trived costume, could rival or ap-
proach her in enchantment of figure.
And the girl sits before the looking
glass with itstarnished gilt and painted
flowers.
She thinks of the artist who stopped
on the farm last summer. She remem.
bers his carless manners, his ease with
himself and the world, his trinkets,
his velveteen jacket, the smell of his
pipe, his paiamas thrown upon the
floor. He never wooed her in direct
speech, but she recollects the compli-
ments of his eyes.
The landscape chilled her all the
day. The wood pile smelled of NOR
tality. Mullen stalks shivered under
the leaden sky. The hills watched
her ironically. Thers was for her the
treadmill routine OF housework. At
supper she noticed the shriveled skin
oil her mother, the untidiness of her
mothers hair along the nape of the
neck. Her mother is not so very old
in years; and yet how tired she is !
Her father blew on his tea in saucer.
He complained of his daughter s
indifference to the storekeeper' son
and then he pulled off his boots and
dried his feet in the oven of the
kitchen stove. And now she sits with
unlocked bodice before the looking
glass with its tarnished gilt and
painted howeis.
1t is not 8 o'clock, and yet what is
there for her to do but go to bed
And what change or pleasure does she
see approaching her for weeks to
come? A whistle calls TO her far
down the valley. She starts up and
goes to the window. She peers into
the night, hoping to see the lights of
the express train as it hurries toward
the city. A mist enwraps the house.
The daughter Of the farmer undresses
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

sometimes Il horrible doubt comes
over me and | can't believe that you
love me more than you did your first
wife,
Yet in all of the four years that we
lived together she never wore a waist
that hooked up on the shoulder, because
she didn't dare to ask me to fastcn it
for her.
And he was never doubted again.
Cleveland Leader.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Well COddled Miss,

A fourteen-months.o old child of Read.
ing, Penn, rejoices in the rather
unique distinction of having four
great-grandmothers living. Only one
of these great. grandmothers wears
spectacles, and all live within short
distance of the home of this presuln.
ably well coddled miss. - Philadelphia
Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
SLEIGH BELLS.
With a tingle and a tangle,

With tingle and tangle,
All the sounds a seeming iangle,
And swinging backward, forward, to and
fro;
On the frosty morning breaking.
Clear their silvery notes outstanding,
The sleigh bells are ringing ser the snow
How they set the nerves a-thriling,
Through the heart a joy distilling,
music with the beauty of the day
As with slipping and with sliding,
Swiftly, softly, smoothly gliding,
With song DER tho snow we drift away.
Eliza A. Fletcher, in Outing.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Making Phrases.

The making of phrases has frequent
ly been the sole distinction of many II
prince. Perhaps the most remarkable
phrase uttered by modern sovereign
was spoken by King Humbert, of
Italy, few years, when cholera was
raging in Naples. He had been invit.
ed to a banquet by the municipality
OF Genoa, and declined in the follow.
ing words: ''Men are feasting ut
Genoa. Men are dying in Naples. ]
go to Naples"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Feathcred vcntriioouists.

Ornithologists assert that some birds.
especially sparrows, thrushes and rob.
ins, have ventriloquial powers. Birds,
when surprised in singing, will he ST.
lent, and then give forth faint song
that seems to come from a distance.
though the singer may be actually not
farther than ten feet away.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Love at Thy Door.

II at my door Love knock,
] hasten to unlock;
For haply, ye that part in pain
With Love, may meet him not again!
So be it May. or winter gray,
/ welcome Love that fares my way.
Not in princely guise
Love may unveil his eyes;
HAPPY, beggar he may kneel,
Scourged. and with wounds thy hand
must heal!
But prince or beggar, Love shall say
| welcome when he fares my way.
II. l.. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

herself slowly and puts out the light.
Ofwhat avail is her sumptuous beauty
Only the looking glass, with its tarn.
ished gilt and painted flowers, under.
stands her and appreciates her. -
Boston Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No
fits after iirst day Use ut DR.. kLINE'S GREAT
NRRv f REsToRER. Free 5! trial bottle and treat
Use. send TO DIR. Kline, 1871 Arch St, Phila, Pa.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
No-To-i,ac for Fifty Cents.

The proportion of blood to the total boy
weight is about one to ten.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

After PHYSICIANS had given me up, was
saved by piSn's Cure RALPn ERIEti. Will
iamsport Pa, Nov. -. lSHL
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

st. Nitus Dance. one bottle DR.. Fcnner',
spccilic cMcs. Circnlar EredOnin. y. y.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

lfaf1iictcd with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eyc-watrr. Druggists sell at per bottle
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Winter Rhymes.

The north winds ripping through the darl
Around the snowy ciif
The plumbers happy rs "a lark,
The plumbings frozen stiff.
The snow flakes through the garden fly
On light and airy wing,
The sleigh bell meath the starry sky
Go ding a-ling a-ling.
The buckwheat batter's at the bat
With Joy our dreams to fill
When topped with golden honey that
Halls from Hynietus Hill.
While quaint fantastic wreaths are hung
Upon the dreary yew
The rabbits fondest song is sung
Within the spicy stew.
Before the wind that wildly wall.
Tho woodpile melts peIl NELL
The coal man monkeys with the scales,
Not wisely, but too well.
In linked sweetness long drawn out
We see the sausage soar
When in our loudest tones we shout
The slogan: "Shut the door,
The sparrow's piping on the gate
For bread his crop 10 tll,
And we upon the bob elate
Go flying down the hill;
And when we tumble in the snow
That capers down our neck,
There is one b coming truth we know
The winter is on deck.
Then let the tea serenely steam
Our fondest hopes to raise,
Aud gild our lotos-eating dream,
Beside the logs a-blaze.
To fairy isles in ecsta-see
We'll sail In Fancy's skin
While all the blizzard leaps in CLEO
To freeze the plumbing stiff.
-R. X. Munkiitrick, in New York Journal
The House of the Silent Years.
The Silent House it standelh wide,-
Yea, open is the door:
The winds of Peace from every side
Blow round it evermore.
Unhewn of axe, unmade of hands,
Its walls SO broad and still;
Like to "A sea the pale gray lands
Flow up 10 the gray sill.
Candle We're vain, and sun but dim,
For here the dark doth cense;
Nor drink nor meat is spread for him
Who suppeih here with Peace.
Arrows speed not, nor hurtlng spear,
Nor plague cometh to siay:
Niol and rebec make no cheer,
For Song hath had his day.
Grief shattereth hera his weary cup;
No"watch the hours do keep
That they may call the red East up,
Or soothe the West to sleep.
Fashions. desires, dreams, swarming fear
Fade past the threshold gray;
One day is as thousand years,
thousand years one day.
-Lizette w. Reese in the Atlantic.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

CAsCARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never scken, weaken or gripe: l0c.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for Children
ieething. suftens the gums, .duCeS infainn,a-
tion, allays pain; cures wind collie PC q bottle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

Over 100000 curel. Why not let Nn-To- Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tohaccu?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed. 60 cents and S1.O0. at all
druggists.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

JUST try lec box OF Cascarets, candy ca.
thartic, finest liver and bowel regulator made.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
Innosaiblc.

He--They say there is a skeleton in
the Hamiltons' closet.
She-Bosh, They live in a fat
Brooklyn Life.
WREN bilious or costive, eat n Cascaret,
candy cathartlc; cure guarantee |; l0c 25c
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

4 single microbe can become the parent ol
1000, 900, 600 900 offspring in "a hours.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22
"SHE DRESSES WE'LL"
BUT HER CLOTHES OFTEN COVER
A LIVING DEATH.

Beauty Is the Shrine of Mems Worship,
and Women Vie with Each Other to
Make Themselves Attractive.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

Lnie improvements. All Money Makers.
LOOMS g. NIMAh. THIN, Ohio.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-22

The remark, "She dresses elegantly,
is a very common one in this age of
wealth and progress.
Women vie with each other in MAX