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PonuIar Perfumes.

There was time when the fashionable woman
selected her perfume with view to individuality
Of fragrance. Such is no longer the case. There
are three perfumes which nine out OF every ten
fashionable women are using. The majority OF
them. selecting one Of the three scents, uses IT
on both dressing table and in the numerous sa-
chefs of her wardrobe while others select any or
all three unfortunately.
According to a well-known dealer, the most
popular of the favorite perfumes is an extract OF
violet, which cannot be distinguished from the
fresh flower itself. Though not lasting, this IS
undoubtedly the favorte The next in populari-
ty is crushed rose, which does not smee tho least
bit like the ordinary extract Of that flower, but
like the old fashioned rose-jar. tiny drop OF
The double extract on one woman's handkerchief
will give the whole room the subtle, spicy per-
fume for which the rose-ja was so much desired.
while the same perfume used as a sachet makes
ones clothes smell as though fresh rose-petals
had been strewn among them.
The third claimant for popularity is wild clo-
yer, and makes the girl whose fayorite II IS re-
mind one of a breath OF Spring itself This. 1t is
claimed is the most lasting OF the three, and q
few drops on ones handkerchief viii last as
long as the article itself neither washing nor eX
posure 10 the air appearing TO diminish IL.
The latest use OF the sachets Is for scented
clothes hooks The ordinary wire eXtender foi
bodice or skirt is padded with cotton batting
thckly sprinkled with sachet powder. Over then
is drawn silk or muslin bag, shirred full arount
the shank OF the eXtender or tied with ribbons
so that they may easily be removed when ther,
is necessity for renewing the powder Another
method employed by dressmakers in place o
the dainty bags OF sachet formerly stitched abou
in the bosom and sleeve OF a bodice, IS the new
cotton or wool.perfumed padding II b'
bought with any scent, and is much more endur
ing.
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volcanoes and Earthquakes.

(From the Cincinnati Commercial TribUne)
The earthquake in California a week
ago last Wednesday was the most Sc
we're seismic shock which has visited the
west coast of this country for a genera
ton. Casual interest in the phenomenon
was at first directed more to the losses
It entailed than to any other feature OF
the terrestrial disturbance. but an added
interest is now given to the event by the
information brought from Hawaii that
the great volcano of AIauna Loa, located
in those Islands. manifested signs OF re-
newed activity at time practically ST.
multaneous with the earthquake
1t has long been known that the entire
rim OF the Pacific ocean is more subject
to earthquakes than any other equal por-
tion of the earth,s surface. and it IS
equally well known that an overwhelming
preponderance of the active volcanoes OF
the world are located at or nsar the edges
of the Pacific. Science holds the belief
that an intimate relationship between vol
canic activity and earthquakes often ex-
lists, though an understanding of the pre-
else reasons governing that relationship
has not yet been reached
Il is possible that the same primal
cause underIies the renewed activity of
Mauna Lea and the recent California
earthquake.
Although the Western coast of the
United States has not in the memory of
man suffered from such terrific seismic
shocks as those which often affiict West
ern South Africa. Japan. and other 10
calities on the Asiatic coast of the Pa
cific, the earthquakes in California are
very numerous. No less than 250 have
been felt in San Francisco alone since
1850. and over 80 have occurred in other
portions of the State since the same year.
1t is to be hoped that a persistent study
of earthquake phenomena, carried on
simultaneously throughout the world,
will at last enable science TO explain
those terrestrial commissions which have
with good reason. inspired the human
race with apprehension since the dawn Of
recorded times.
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MATRIMONIAL CHANCES
Likely Ages for Men and Women
TO Marry.
Every American Woman Befween
10 and 10 Has Four Chances
in One to Wed.

That the average woman in any OF our
cities will marry at the age OF 25.4s years
can be demonstrated, as can the fact
that OF 100 who reach this ace u viii
never marry. 1t is strange but trus
that more women marry than do men
OF 100 men who reach the age OF 95
years. p will die single. From this It
Will be seen that about one-ffth Of the
people in this country are destined TO die
unmarried, whether they wish TO or not.
Leaving divorces out of the question,
and the possibility. which is very slight.
OF the husband and wife dying together.
1t is inevitable that in every case OF
marriage there will be left. sooner or
later, widow or a widower. More
widowers than widows remarry, and,
because of this fact. the number OF
women who marry must exceed the act
ual number of married men The rule
seems to be that one widower in three
and one widow in four try wedlock a sec
ond time OF 100 marriages about 10 OF
the men will be widowers, and II Of the
women viii be widows. This leaves 81
bachelors and SO spinsters to we'd
Old Weller's advice Beware of the
vidders." is more humorous than sound.
Statistics prove that the widows not
only do not monopoIize the eligible men.
but that they are not even dangerous
rivals to the maidens in the matrimonial
market Bachelors should make note
of the fact that there is more to be
feared from one spinster than from Is
widows; widowers. however. stand an
equal chance with bachelors in winning
wives.
No fortune teller or palm reader. no
boasttng Glendoner nor cOmmuner with
spirits can equal the statistician when II
comes TO the question of marriage. Out
OF every 100 weddings in any of our cities,
or, We might add. in any part of our
country. nineteen will be minors, and all
the minors but one will be a spinster in
her teens. The others will be men and
women; the average age of the former
viii be 29-5 and OF the latter % IS
This might prove that bachelors are
more cautious than spinsters, but II is.
no doubt, due to the fact that girls are
regarded as marriageable at sixteen or
seventeen, and men not till after twenty
one Forty-three out OF every hundred
spinsters that marry are between twenty
and twenty-five, twenty-five are between
twenty-five and thirty, and the remainder
seventeen. are between thirty and eighty.
But while women marry earlier than men
| they are also stricken from the eligible
list at an earlier age. though still feel
ing that while there is life there is hope.
| The number of women VINO marry under
twenty-five is twice as great as the num-
! Der of men who marry at that age: but,
after the age of forty-five, three times as
many men marry for the first time. Wild
ows remarry at an average age OF thirty
nine, and widoWerS at forty-one
The following table compiled from our
last census report, can be relied on. In
every 1000 marriages the ages of the
brides and groOms are as follows:
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not fit American feet, and 1t will be ad-
visable to have a change of easy walking
shoes among your luggage. In Paris, too,
at this season, you must look for mueh
rainy weather so that you will almost
live in your macintosh and goloshes
and felt travelling hat. In this rig you
may defy the elements and ride for a
3 sous fare on top of the busses from
which vantage point you will discover
that Paris in all weathers is delightful.
I do not pretend that all the sights of
Paris and its environs can be seen on an
average of PIP francs a day for cab
fares. but the Luxembourg, the Louvre.
the Trocadero, the Hotel de Vile, the
Palais de Justice Ste Chapelle, the Made
ieine, Notre Dame, the Hotel de Cluny.
and many another point of interest may
be seen by a good walker at no cost
whatever, but you must learn to take
your slight lunch at q bake shop or TO
carry your roll and bit of cheese to some
adjoining park or gardens and eat it,
under an umbrella, mayhap. but in
thankfulness of spirit. while you dream
of julius Caesar and Charlemagne, of the
kings and queens and writer's who have
made this bright gay city of Paris more
wonderful to you for it's past than for
its present.
Ten dollars will pay the cost of taking
your bicycle abroad with you, and then
Versailles and Fontainebleau and the
Bois de Boulogne and many another in
teresting enyirons viii be possible tc
you, and you may go, as l did, for q
three-days' trip TO the quaint little vii
lage of Plerrefonds with it's beautiful
grand, gray old castle. half palace anC
half fortress the most complete of the
seignorial constructions at present ex.
tant. The wheels of our party were tht
first that had ever entered its spaciou.
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AFTERNOON TOILETS.

nor swiftest, but are most comfortable
and cozy. If you are not victim of
NAL de mer. and you need not be, the
services which you demand of the
stewardness will be slight, and the fee
can be in accordance. There seems to
be a legend to the effect that one can
not go to Europe without expending
from So upwards on fees, and on the
fast lines this may be necessary to Sc
cure the best attention, but here you
may divide $3.50. between the stewardess,
waiter and deck hands with the COM
Portable feeling that many persons give
less.
For a short trip of this kind a large
sized linen telescope bag should hold
your wardrobe. The avoidance of un-
necessary luggage viii contribute largely
to your comfort. Two extra changes of
combination underwear, four pairs OF
| hose, pair of knitted bed slippers (al-
, though even these latter you may dis
pense with, as you will find a pair Of
French felt slippers for three francs at
the Bon Marche the very acme of COM
| forD, two outing flannel wrappers for
| night wear, plenty of handkerchiefs, n
pretty silk dinner waist toilet articles
and hot water bag will make a total
so light as to render you independent OF
| porters
In case of accident to your travelling
dress it may be well to add an extra skirt
of light weight. preferably an old black
silk. For constant wear in travelling there
is nothing better than a cheviot of mixed
gray or brown which win stand a bath of
fresh or salt water or dust and come out
Of the ordeal like u phoenix rising from
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new sailor hats are disported by these
pilgrims of pleasure.
Mourning Etiquette.

English mourning, considered by smart
mantua makers to be in the best taste,
is heavier than before, but is worn for
a shorter time. A widow should wear
her Grape, henrietta cloth, or bombazine
and her widows cap for one year Aft
er that time she Will assume all black
without Grape or cap, and at the end of
the second year put on whatever color
she may desire.
daughter wears "crape mourning
for six months, all black for six more
and then, if she wishes. puts on colors
The same rule applies to sister, while
a distant relative or friend wears "com-
plimentary mourning all black, for
three months.
The stiffiy-crimped net which at one
time was worn at the neck and wrists
by widows is no longer used. In its
stead fine lawn cuffs and collars, quite
deep. the cuffs having hens measuring
half an inch, while the hem Of the col
lar is a little less, are basted in the
sleeves and neck after the fashion of old
turnover" collars and cuffs. These, II
must be remembered, are worn exclu-
siveIy by widows and the three-eornered
cap is made TO match
OF course. the friends and acquaint
ances of the bereaved should leave cards
at the door with their coincidence writ
ten upon them, but only tnose connected
by ties OF blood or the most intimate
friends should ever ask TO see those in
grief. They are at home, and many wom-
en-, restrained by their scruples of truth
and courtesy, are forced to see thought
less callers when ii is far from pleasant,
If not absolutely painful.
All cards of inquiry are recognized by
a return card, black bordered, and should
be sent within ten days after the recep-
! ton of the card of inquiry Letters OF
coincidence have almost entirely given
| way to personal cards, and those in grief
are not expected to answer such letters
except by the return of pasteboard. Eng
| lish custom requires a special black-bor-
dered card for this purpose, engraved
somewhat as follows: Mrs. Blank wish
| es TO thank you for your kindness in
| making inquiries about her" The name,
| Of course, is to be filed in. The envel-
| ope used should be black bordered and
| fit the card.
| While Grape Is worn formal visits are
! never paid, invitations never accepted
| A woman cannot give evidence of worse
! taste than by wearing long Grape veil
| to place of amusement, while Grape on
| the dancing floor IS an abomination too
! great to be considered.
/ When Grape is laid aside, black-bor-
| dered paper goes with It. This paper
| has regular numbers that used by
| daughters and sisters is known to the
/ stationers as No /, by mother that
| known as No. 3, while n widow uses No.
a. All iewelry is out Of taste in mourn
! ing.
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hour, and this Eastern stone is sold in
the form of brooches. link buttons,
studs and rings. II comes in dull green,
pale green, and a flesh-white set in
gypsy bands of gold, sunk in beds of sill
yer, for belt clasps, carved into quaint
shapes of turtles, little dragons and
grinning heads OF Chinese demons, or
else splendidly encircled in wreaths of
flashing diamonds. Jade is scarcely in
Itself a very beautiful or a very unique
stone but Eastern tradition says it
brings good luck and health to its wear
eT. and il is in a measure decorative
Small side combs are daily giving place
TO larger combs, used only in the rear
OF the head, and to round-topped shell
hairpins. Green shell, the rarest and
most expensive kind. is the most modish
Tor The moment, and hairpins of the
purest ivory white are affected by bru-
nette women.
In the evening a couple or a group of
butterflies, made of white silk and fine
ly spangled, hover on almost invisible
wires over curly feminine heads. and
there is a fancy of wide-reaching in
1iuence for flesh-tinted evening gloves
a woman can now have the blushing
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the latter place from whence you can
wheel to Pierrefonds ten miles through
the charming forest of Compeigne, over
a road like marble fiOCf.
Leaving Paris at the expiration OF
month. s25 will cover fares alone to Lou
dun and give you stop over night,
with half of the next day spent in ex-
ploring at each of the five cities men
toned in the beginning of this article.
OF course, four or five hours Is all too
short to enjoy all there is of worth in
this delightful ex capital of Lorraine,
but you can gain good idea Qf you are
a good walker) of it's seven handsome
gates, its wonderful lace-like ironwork.
the hotel de Vile, the ducal palace. built
In the early part of the sixteenth cen
tury, and the old. old porte de la Giraffe,
a relic of the early part of the fourteenth
century.
Thence to ''Bingen, dear Bingen on the
Rhine" by noon train, reaching the
quaint little Hessian town, with its bat
tleground dating back a matter OF eiGn-
| teen centuries or so. again at night. The
next morning before taking the early
| afternoon boat down the Rhine, you will
| just have time to visit the castle of
| Rheinstein. nearly 800 feet above Its
| banks a very interesting and most
| thoroughly restored specimen or a
Rhenish medieval castle and fortress
| Provide yourself with your warmest
| jacket and rugs and a pair of field glasses
| for this sail down the Rhine, although
| you will get plenty of exercise in rush
| ing from side to side of the boat as one
| ruin or monastery or fortress after an
| other appears on either bank. Reaching
| Cologne at night, spend the next morn
| ing in this city founded by the mother OF
Nero where a few remains of the orig
| inal walls still are standing, and where
| the famous cathedral. the old Irish
| church of Gross st. Martin, the iron
| bridge across the Rhine and stroll OF
| an hour or two through the oldest and
| quaintest of streets will consume your
time until the train starts for Brussels.
| Here you can pass a most charming ana
| instructive half day Tin lieu of weeks,
| while you will give a whole day to Rot
/ terdam and Amsterdam before crossing
| the channel at night from the Hook OF
| Holland to London.
! Two and a half dollars day will cover
modest hotel bills, including one good
meal at three francs and two lighter ones,
| such as an economically disposed tramp
| abroad will manage to provide himself
| with. It isn't living on the fat of the
| land, but it is seeing Europe on $500
| Eminently respectable living in London
| may be managed for time at the rate
| of $3.50 a day, exclusive of the fees FOR
which the hand of the British public is
ever outstretched, which will, of course.
| so vary with the sentiments and purse oil
| the traveller that no allowances can be
| made for them.
| And now, if you would not exceed your
| allowance, you will return home on cat
| tie TRANSPORT boat, where spacious state
/ room and most excellent fare await you
for si5.
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Of the remaining nine men and five
women the marriages viii be between 60
and 50 years, by which time. it is gener-
ally believed the impulses and emotions
of youth are under the control OF the
reason. 1t viii be noted that after the
age OF 80. in both sexes. the desire, as
well as the opportunity, for marriage
falls off considerably.
1t is estimated that in any OF our older
settled States the number of manageable
but unmarried women between the ages
of IS and Is is about 90 per cent of the
women living between those ages. II this
estimate be correct the number of IN
married but marriageable women now
living in greater New York is about 165.-
600, while the number Of unmarried men
between the ages of p and 30 is f72000.
The truth is that every woman living in
this country. who is between the ages OF
- and 70, has four chances 70 one Of get
ting married; 25 out of every loo must go
through life husbandiess. Neither man
aging marnmas nor the right OF suffrage
can alter this There may be some COM
fort in the thought that there are so
many unfortunate men in the same con-
dition as to wives.
1t is q sad fact that in the United
States at this time the number of spin
sters between the ages of % and 90 out
number the bachelors of the same age as
6 to / \ brief survey Of any community
| in the northern or southern States Will
/ demonstrate the truth OF this statement.
/ The civil war is responsible for this
state of affairs OF the nearly 10000 SOL
| diers who died on both sides 90 Per cent.
were young. unmarried men, Had there
| been no war large majority OF these
/ men would have been married And so
/ IL comes about that the many old maids
/ over 10, and some of them under that age,
/ are the brevet widows-if we may be par
/ doned for the phrase-of the men who fell
in battle on both sides. or who. n greater
| numbers, perished in hospitals and pris-
| ons. To this noble array Of women every
true American must raise his hat in rec
/ spect.
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a couple of quiIls to one side are white
with black velvet centers.
The second maiden exhibits comely
suit of the taffeta that is without dress
ing and intricately figured in red and
black. Broad tabs of black satin, held
down by decorated buttons, extend on
the hips, while the waist of black taffeta
has a front of the figured silk. A light
blue straw, offset with black and white
plumes AMI a black velvet crown band,
aCcords with this suit
\ checked silk, relieved with white
lace and white satin and worn with a
wide leghorn hat, is the third pretty
spring suit, and the sunshade carried is
embroidered and completed with long
silk fringe.
Two linen gowns are worn by the but
terfiy chasers. The first, n rosy pink. is
! distinguished by a CAMP yoke of plated
white muslin, a sailors scarf of black
! silk and rows of black linen braid. The
! second is a serviceable dark blue linen
! has its skirt piped with white and its
| coat opening TO reveal a white pique
waistcoat and revers and a striped blue
and white ascot tie. Two specimens OF
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fare to Paris with all necessary fees to
porters and lunch on the way.
Reaching Paris, If you have not friends
to meet you as / did, depend upon your
guide book for a decent hotel where you
will pay not more than five francs for
room, and can get dinner and breakfast
for five francs additional for by noon of
the next day you must be established
either with friends on the cooperative
light housekeeping basis or at modest
pension. In any case $50 must cover your
four weeks in Paris, board, lodging, sight
seeing and all. My own share of four
weeks expenses in a pretty apartment au
troiseme in the Latin Quarter, including
rent, table supplies, fuel and femme du
menage was SIS, leaving $12 for cab and
bus fares, and sight seeing.
Sight seeing must be done on the free
days. and, cheap as are cab fares, they
must be INDUCED in only in cases of
emergency, while the amount of walking
which you will find it possible to do with
pleasure and profit to yourself as well as
| for the saving of your shekels, is some
! thing phenomenal Just one caution
! here for the uninitiated. French shoes dc
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court, and we looked with awe at the
tower of Alexander, 200 feet above us.
with minds wandering back among the
centuries.
Pierrefonds was not found in any itin-
erary of voyage until lately but there
are few spots within so short a distance
of Paris so well worth seeing. 1t is
possible for a good rider to make the
whole distance awheel, but the road
between Paris and Compeigne is none of
the best, and a train will take you to
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derstand the treatment is for their own
comfort, and will quietly submit after a
short while. Care must be taken to
guard against their bite however, as
the bite of a cat is always a serious
thing. For treatment, taking medicine.
etc, the sick animal should be snusly
rolled in n sheet. it's paws at It's side.
the mouth pressed open. and a oit CT
wood laid across the lower jaw, just be-
hind the eye teeth, win prove all that is
necessary"
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its ashes. The slightest ornamentation of
military braid will be sufficient for such
a costume, which should be severely tall
or-made, so that as little pinnng or hook
ing as possible will be required when
your stateroom Is at an angle of 45 de-
grees.
Landing at Rotterdam it viii be more
comfortable to spend, night at hotel
near the station. taking the train next
morning for Paris; hotel service with din
ner and breakfast, $l50; 81 will cover the
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A WOMAN TRAMP ABROAD
To Europe and Back for Two Hun
dred Dollars.
Spent Four Weeks in Paris en'!
One in London With Peeps
at Six Cities.

There are many women the mecca of
whose desires is Europe. who could af-
ford to spend the small sum of $780, but
are debarred by fear of its insufiiciency'
who may be helped by an account OF
what may be done and seen with this
stipend.
Forty-five to fffty-ive dollars will pay
for a first-class passage on certain lines
whose vessels are neither of the largest
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BAD FOR THE BUTTERFLIES
Tropical Specimens TO Be Sacri-
feed on Fashions Shrine.
FULL DRESS FRIV0IITIES

Miss McFiimsey-s FfcISie Fancy
Turns TO Swiss Muslin sunbOnneIs
eIry Popular Hecause OF the Luck
Ii BriBEs-The Coaching PuG.