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The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
COMING AND GOING

n. s. Bell of Richmond, was in the
city yesterday on business.
j. ii. Williams went East yesterday
afternoon on business.
Prof. ID. &. Humphreys, of Washington
AMI Lee University, WAS i'll the city yes.
terday
}. Kyle Montague and Henry S vii.
liams of Martiusvillc. were at the st.
james yesterday.
Miss Minnie Ankson, of Fayetteville,
w. Va, arrived in the city yesterday and
will attend Virginia College
Mrs II. j. Garland, who has been very
i'll with pneumonia for tho past three
weeks, is able to he out again
\. Finch, of Coyner $, II member of the
Democratic State committee for the
Tenth district, was in tho city yesterday
Elias Dean, who has been engineer AT
the Ponce de Leon liOtc, for seven years.
has left for the North to accept IL posi-
ton.
Capt. f. II. Lee, prominent coal mine
owner of Coo burn, who was in Roanoke
several days last week, has returned
home.
Among the guests at the Ponce de Leon
yesterday were u. w. Shultz, of Martins
Vile; =. II. billiard, Rocky Mount. and
w. J. Bell, Richmond.
J. T.. Rogers, of the Rogers Piano Com
pany. has returned from Front Royal,
where he was called by the death of his
mothcr.in.law
Mrs Emma Dillon, of Fayetteville, w.
Va, who has been some DAYS visiting the
family OF w. II. Ferguson, returned home
yesterday.
The Burns club has been called to meet
Mt Bowman's restaurant next Tuesday
night.
w. Il. Gilkeson, of Gilkeson & Taylor
returned yesterday from Il business trip
to New York. J.;
Luther Hammelsey. of Eighth avenue
$. w.,who has been I'll with inflammation
of the brain, is reported as much better.
" III. b. Loving. of the Crystal Spring
Soap Company, has just returned from II
very successful business trip through
Southwest Virginia and the coal fields Of
West Virginia.
Il. II. Lane and wife, of this city will
leave to-day for Montgomery county on IL
weeks visit to relatives.
George W. Clymer, general secretary
of the Y. NJ. C. A. ut East Radford, paid
The Times office ii pleasant call yestcr-
day. ~ 50 a.
w. j. Burke, of Baltimore, and s. l..
Smith, of Cleveland Ohio, We're among
the guests at Hotel Roanoke yesterday.
L. &. Woodson, chief clerk in United
states Marshal Lewis office ut Lynch
burg. was in the city Yesterday.
Mrs. j. w. Fowlkes is Mt the Ponce de
Leon.
The Behr Bros. piano has wide follow.
ing and Il high reputation. 1t is distinctly
high grade instrument Cou.
rier, May ~, 1896.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
SOMETHING no DEpEND OK

Mr.. james Jones, of the drug firm of
ZONES \. Son, 'Cowdcn. ILL.,, ip speaking
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, Saws that
last winter mis- wife was attacked with
LA Grippe, and her case crew so serious
that physicians ut Cowdcn and Pann
could do nothing for her 1t seemed to
develop into hasty consumption. Having
DIR. Kings New Discovery in store, and
selling lots of it, he took IL bottle home
and To the surprise of all she began to get
better from first dose. and half dozen
dollar bottles cured her sound and we'll
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
do this good work. Try it. Free trial
bottles at Massic's Pharmacy, 100 Jetlcr-
son street.
FOR POCAHONTAS NUT OR LUMP
COAL GO 70 w. X. ANDREWS q
Co, 3l9 SALEM AVENUE. Their
teams have bells.
We still receive our cream from the
Polytechnic Institute. Our ice cream
will satisfy yLu. Try it, j. j. Catogni.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
PREPARING FOR THE FIGHT.

Chicago, Jan. 30.-James j COrbett
has decided to close his theatrical season
ut Kansas City February j, and to start
at once for the Pacific coast, where he
will 20 into training for his battle with
titZsimmons March II. Corbett expects
to do his training ia California and if
his present plans are carried out, lac will
not 20 to the Nevada battle ground until
II few hours before the fight takes place.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
TIIE IrSTAI. END

@Gainesville, Fla, Jan. 3U-A +.
Thomas, II boy OF Is years, died ut his
home near Hague yesterday of hydro
phobia. He WAS bitten by IL mad dog
last September, and he WAS apparently
enjoying good health until last Thurs
day, when he was attacked with fits I'm.
til Friday, when he died
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
IN $1,000 BOND.

EditoroC II. Slack appeared before
Commissioner Raider Friday might, and
waived examination for sending obscene
literature through the mails, and was
bound over TO the next session of the Uni
ted States court. His bond was fixed ut
81 QUO, which was easily secured
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
ABOUT COMPLETED.

The new public building is now about
ready for occupancy. Messrs. Spungler
Bros. have finished their contract on the
interior work and Mr.. Boyer, their man
ager, has returned to his home in York.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
THANKS RETURNED.

Mr.. Is. L. Laing desires to return
thanks to his friends and neighbors for
the kindness and sympathy shown his
family and himself during the recent i'll.
ness of his wife
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-01-31
THE FACT THAT DocroRs

frequently advise change of air and eli
mate TO those suffering from catarrh is
proof that catarrh is II local and climatic
disease. Therefore, unless you can leave
home and business you should use Ely'S
Cream Balm. Applied directly to the
seat OF the disease, it effects instant relief
and II satisfactory cure after short contin-
uance No mercury or injurious drug is
contained in the Balm
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

only rivaled by the eloquence of their ap-
ance for elderly women. AS yet the prin-
cess bonnet is as little seen as the princess
dress; but solemn assurances are given
that it is only being 'held back' for the
time being.
The new shaded millinery il delicious.
There are crowns of violet velvet with
brims OF fancy mauve straw trimmed with
shaded stocks or feathery branches OF lilac.
The freshest of green's coquette with each
other in many Of the hats, toned by
gerbes OF shaking black velvet oats on
fine green stems. Rose. coral and poppy
reds would give fascinating effects if one
were only sure that they would not grow
common in time. Coarse yellow and
burnt" straws show quaint little Louis
Seize knots of wired narrow velvet ribbon
and clumps of field flowers, while the
Leghorn contiue to be resplendent with
nodding white plumes and half wrsaths
OF roses resting on the hair. In q more
sedate style might be mentioned an En-
pire Leghorn hat lined with black satin
and trimmed with black ostrich plumes
and variegated roses.
Black and white mixtures are promi-
nent, and many of the new tailor made
dresses have waistcoats of white vel
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

We hear daily about the charms of the
country and seaside, but until next
month the exodus will not be general.
Last week passed very pleasantly, the
young people having enjoyed the dance,
the gingerbread fete and the charity con-
cert, in which so many pretty girls took
part.
At each and every one of these affairs
were worn some charming frocks. remark
able for both their chic and beauty. | do
not wonder that many of our leading
dressmakers are being almost rushed to
death. for three of the trousseaux now in
their hands are most elaborate and ex-
quisite in all their details, besides an nm
usually large number of dainty confec-
tions will accompany most of our matrons
and maids TO various resorts. Indeed,
know of several cases where for a single
customer dressmaker has to design a
dozen gowns at once. 1t is an excellent
plan to leave with ones dre.smaker orders
for gowns 10 be sent at stated intervals all
through the summer, as if she fits the lin
ings and has made for you for some time,
she can complete them usually if you run
up for day occasionally. But what most
of you all want to know about concerning
fashions are
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
BOYS AND GIRLS A CENTURY AGO
Are Those of To-Day Better or Even
HapDier?

Are Those of To-Day Better or Even
Happier?
1t is the commonplace of the day to
congratulate our children on their singu-
lar good fortune in having been born some
sixty years later than their grandparents,
says the Quarterly Review. If compare
tive luxury with far greater indulgences
be an unmixed good there is no denying
the proposition. Whether they are bet
ter. or even happier, are questions less
easily answered. The old-fashioned ,;is-
cipline was one of Spartan severity-for
obvious reasons. Children were treated
neither better nor worse than their fathers
and mothers before them. 1t may be
worth while to glance at the contrasts be-
tween those ascetic times and the present.
Social and domestic England had changed
but little since Revolution. Commu.
cation, no doubt, had greatly i'm proved.
but it was still SLOW, costly and precarious
soiation, even in considerable towns. was
the prevailing rule, and the rem otter coun
try districts were shrouded in benighted
darkness.
The metropolis was a city sui gener,s.
and the Londoner was regarded with awe
by the rustics as foreigner of strange ex.
perlences. There were no railways to in
st;gate craving for perpetual movement.
The shortest journey was matter of seri-
Gus thought. and not to be undertaken
lightly. For days on the great roads the
intending traveller might have to wait for
the chance OF seat on a stage coach, or
the opportunity OF return postchaise.
The sovereign of those DAYS would nave
thought it an Ara biar Nights dream had
he been told that one of his proximate
successors would spend good part of the
wear at castle in the Scottish highlands.
Old Farmer George lived in peaceful con-
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
Cashmere.

For the past year this fabric has been
steadily gaining in favor among our best
d essed women, for it not only makes up
into excellent coats that fit and define the
figure far better than did ever face cloth
or any other sort of cloth, but, besides, it
hangs beautifully as a skirt, and can be
braided with great effectiveness. Numer-
Gus are the summer dresses OF this mate
rial, and the most elaborate have inser-
tions set jour OF lace designs.
A word about the sac jacket. At last
the tailors are learning how to cut it
properly, and now are to be seen those
that convey only a suggestion Of loose
ness, for in reality they fit the figure
closely, and are most becoming when
ts bbed round the waist.
The artistic little jacket at present being
worn by Ellen Terry in Mime. San Gene"
has created quite sensation. 1t is green
in color and has a glittering fringe that
Just reaches the waist line. This is worn
with an ample skirt of soft fine buff
cloth. The style is most becoming to
Miss Terry's figure, it being set in innum
merable gathers around the waist. Such
a skirt is especially suitable for tall,
slender women but the mum ber OF yards Of
material required for it's evolution is SIM
ply appalling. However, we can readily
understand the charms possessed by this
model when worn with a perfectly tight
bodice that is laced down the back. Such
a dress made of most superior quality of
cream white satin, worn with fchu OF
rare lace with sleeves that tit closely
edged with lace frills, furnishes a model
we would do well to contemplate.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

particular combination forming private
code can the lock be opened. and as the
figures may make an immense number Of
mbinations the ''open sesame" is well
nigh impossible of attainment except by
the owner.
The idea of this device is that the brace
let can be taken off and used to chain a
bicycle to the ratings while the rider is
in house or store, as a fastening to a
traveling-bag and for many other pur-
poses of the sort.
Most people would be apt to suffer
qualms of anxiety in leaving it as lock
to bicycle but for the makers assurance
that these bracelets. which are made in a
variety of designs, are so strong as to
render the length of time required for
filing them through risk which the
bicycle thief would not venture to incur
while it is impossible to break the lock or
to open it in any other way than by the
mysterious code
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
The Latest Facts.

1t is very noticeable this season that
many women show no inclination to have
their skirts ornamented with fiounces or
frills, but l must insist that the plain
skirt is distinctly out of fashion, and even
if we are short and plump. there is no use
in our disputing fashions edict. for in
some form or other trimmings must ap-
pear on our skirts, and if founces are not
to our liking we can have insertions, vel
vet, silk or satin ribbons employed. Some
of the prettiest of skirts are those having
gored pieces. guileless of fullness, hounced
10 the waist. Such models absorb enor
nous quantities of material, which should
be of the best organdy or muslin, and no
novice in the art of dressmaking should
attempt to handle them. Besides are
skirts which really have the appearance of
the coachman's capes, set one over the
other, with raw edges, and also much in
vogue is the triple skirt, and as it is
stitched round the laps. at the knees and
the hem it is far easier to make up success
fully and quite as becoming to some
figures as the other styles.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

veteen spotted with black. A practical
front" may be made of white accordion
China silk trim med with narrow Valen-
ciennes lace. Ii jeweled belt is worn
with this any colored ribbon may form a
"stock," or bow of cream lace may re-
place it when a change is desirable. Very
narrow black lace is often seen on the
white, pink or lemon accordion vests, and
very pretty they look. The jeweIed zones
must be really good TO look anything but
vulgar. The best way is to have special
design made and properly carried out by
a good firm of jewellers.
In Paris coats are much worn, while
here the 10 an,le struggles Tor supremacy.
As compromise between the two there
is the sacque, and one recently seen is well
worthy OF description in detail.
Red is so much in favor this year that
sets of lingerie are being prepared all in
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
Chit-Chat.

Several of our bellies who are buslly
preparing their trousseaux, worry not
little over the marking of their under
linen and napery. One who has but two
initials is having them worked on her
towels and napkins in plain raised satin
stitch; they stand side by side and are
quite small. Another has selected larger
letters that are interlaced in an artistic
but rather complicated manner; these are
worked with both solid and open-laced
stitches.
Some also like for their table-cloths,
sheets and piiiowcases extremely large
monograms; these are placed either in the
center OF the table-cloths. or IN one cor
ner. However, individual taste should be
exercised if satisfactory results are ex-
pected. One artistic tiancee has designed
all the models by which her linen is to be
marked, and very beautiful will be the re-
| suit.
The smart New York girls are having
either their crests or their initials embroid-
cred most exquisitely on their corset
covers, Just over their hearts, and on their
petticoats, just below the yoke, on the left
side.
Belts are richer than ever this season,
and some have two rows of ornamental
buttons. Black satin and black moire, as
well as the rich-looking fieur de sole. are
in vogue, as all realize that dark belt
reduces, apparently, the size OF the waist.
Belts of hand-carved leather arc used for
outing wear.
Very fetching are some OF the shirt
waists of null. over which is worn tiny
bolero, with large ruff1e at the shoulder.
This style of bolero is described as being
three storied-the ruffie counts as the
first, the second is of white lace and the
third of the figured null. One such dress
is creamy null sprayed with lovely
blue rose buds, with their foliage. Both
collar and sash were of blue and buff rib
bon, and had large loops and proportion
ate ends. This gown is owned by an ex-
tremely slender young girl, and built en-
tirely over buff satin, and is not an expen-
sive frock, although very fair satin is be :
ing sold for only 80 cents yard in this
City.
In spite OF the fact that we are con-
stantly informed that natural waist is
more fashionable than a wasp-like one, all
dressmakers and tailors continue to give
the long slender lines and as small a waist
as possible. The lines of braids in many
of the latest jackets drew my attention to
this fact, as they are cleveriy arranged to
taper in at the waist and broaden out
over the shoulder. Women should remem-
ber that 10 have jacket abnormally tight
at the waist will not make their figures
any smaller and a good filter always al
lows an abundance OF room above the
bust. MARcELLA.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
NEW YORK; NOTES.

We are going back TO the fashions of our
grand mothers in hats; that is, the fash
ions that were popular with them when
they were girls. The date of the particu-
lar style of headgear which we must culti-
vate is 1880. and really these arrangements
Of the olo-tme milliners are SO pretty it
quite reconciles us to forget that they are
not the latest ideas of the milliners of
Paris.
In modified forms these hats are being
made with colored straw, iampot crowns
and brims of white or black drawn tulle,
which affect the empire shape, and are
finished off with ruche ut the edge. The
quaintness they give to youthful faces is
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

red, such as independents for red surah
and overpetticoats of red taffetas or satin
cite. There also chemises and drawers OF
red corsl or surah. A pattern underskirt
is of red Surah with small pleats. the over
petticoat of taffetas plisse soleil, with four
small flounces scalloped. This, of course,
is fantastic novelty, as it Is difficult to
imagine any refined and elegant woman
discarding her fine baptiste and lace
garments.
At this season of the year. with the
merry twinkle OF wedding bells so close at
hand. the brides must not be forgotten.
very pretty idea for bridal costumes is
to have the wedding dress trim med with
festoons of beautiful flowers, which are
allowed to droop from the waist. like the
garlands of long ago, pansies and roses
and forget-me-nots being very often
blended together. Then the whole cos
tune is veiled with one OF the new gossa-
mers, so delicate and diaphanous as to
show the daintiness beneath. and the
effect is simply charming.
A novelty OF a more practical kind is
the puzzle lock bracelet. the chain of
which is secured by lock formed of three
revolving pieces engraved with figures or
letters. Only by arranging these in some
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
THE AIR OF BEDROOMS,

They Are Exceedingly Liable to Be
Overcnarged With Watery Vapor.
When there is too much water in the
atmo phere the person who breathes it Is
to certain limited extent deprived of his
due supply of oxygen. and sn elementary
beginning of suffocatlon is perceived in
his chest. Most middle-aged and all old
persons have telt this, and all persons
also who have weak hears or impaiI ed
lungs. Now the air OF bedrooms is ex-
ceedingly liable to be overcharged Win
watery yapor.
The most obvious reasons for this are
that many bedrooms are cever warmed
with fires, aud that their windows are
often left ouen all day until dusk, and
sometimes even 10 the very hour vi gong
10 ped in very damp air. A delicate or all
aged person leaves warm drawlng-room,
say. at half past IL, a drawlng-room i'll
which there was temperature OF % de-
grees; he enters a cold, damp bedroom,
say, at a temperature OF 30 degrees. Inc
air In the drawing-room was dry, perhaps
a little too dry.
The air In the bedroom is saturated with
cold watery vapor. The person we are
thinking OF, so soon as he enters the ped
room. chokes and gasps and coughs Tor
half an hour at least, ana sometimes
brings on such an attack OF asthma, OF, as
lie calls It, stiffness" OF The chest, that he
car hardly breathe at all. He may even
lose his nights sleep and be Ill Tor some
days after such an exposure. Now, COM
nonsense says, Make an effort to bring
The atmosphere of the bedroom nearer
in point both Of dryness ana wal mth
10 the atmosphere OF the drawing.room,
anu then not only Will man ieel as COM
fortab,e in the bedroom as in the drawing
room, but even moie comfortable. he
will neither gasp, nor choke, nor cough,
but Will go to sleep with ease ana COM
forI.' Common tells some plain
people all this But TO those who have no
special regard for common-sense science
tells the same tale, and she speaks with
voice whose authority not even the most
learned will quest!on.-TLe Hospital.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
The Use of Pique

Is on the increase by the great dress
makers, as you can readily judge when 1
tell you that it Is being used as founda
ton for the most elaborate embroideries
of Jet and colored silks. One correspon-
dent says, writing from Paris: II saw an
entire front of a bodice made of pique;
but it only appeared as the foundation, for
ii was worked all over a jour with jet and
gold thread, but intermixed, as far as
trimming was concerned, with white satin.
At the back this was literally trimmed
with bands of point lace, and the high
collar was supported by bows of green
ribbon, the sleeves having white satin
epaulettes and cuffs, turning back from
the hand, covered with lace, a row OF
white buttons fastening the bodice on
the left side"
bright girl could make something
quite unusually stylish and fetching by
acting on the suggestion given in these
few lines, and indeed those who are clever
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16

tent between the slopes of Windsor and
the beach at Weymouth, as the gayer re-
gent divided his time between Carlton
House and Brighton pavilion. George III
was an affectionate and indeed dotiner
ia her. but In Nine. d Arblay's memoT1
we hear much of the ceremonial reverenceN
with which he was treated by his daugh.
ters in the quiet domestic circle,
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
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so equally becoming that it is to be more
fashionable than ever. but the market will
he flooded with new devices and com bina-
tions, woven borders and edgines being
numerous. The veilings that are COM
posed of two colors one apparently woven
over the other, have arrived in this City.
They ahve many dots.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
i'm Evening Bonnet.

For a decided brunette imagine the
charms of an evening bonnet made OF
gold embroidery, very open, which shows
a rich crimson lining. A ruche of scarlet
tulle edges it, and at one side Of the
quaint crown are scarlet wings, fastened
with lovely diamond ornament.
The early Victorian fashion of wide
white ribbon bonnet-strings is said to be
most becoming. AS result an attempt is
being made to have them worn.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-16
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